At 75, India’s democracy is under pressure like never before
NEW DELHI (AP) — Demonstrations on Aug. 5 by India’s main opposition Congress party against rising food prices and unemployment began like any other recent protest: an electorally weak opposition that took to the streets of New Delhi against the massively popular government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The protests, however, quickly took a turn when key Congress lawmakers led by Rahul Gandhi, Modi’s main opponent in the last two general elections, arrived at Parliament, sparking fierce clashes with police. “Democracy is a memory (in India),” Gandhi tweeted later, describing dramatic photographs showing him and his party leaders being briefly…
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New CBD Store Sets up in India and Hopes to Expand the Local Underserved Market
CBD Store India is a new entrant in the exciting cannabidiol market in the country It is important that India is not left out of this industry. People elsewhere are enjoying life changes from CBD products.” – Sean NEW DELHI, DELHI, INDIA, August 11, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — CBD Store India is a new entrant to the exciting cannabidiol market in the country. The company has high hopes of providing its Indian customers with high-quality CBD products as well as quality information. “When we did feasibility studies on the availability of CBD Oil India products, we quickly realized that the market…
Read More »Lebanese gunman holds bank staff hostage to access his savings
A gunman who held 10 people hostage inside a Lebanese bank to gain access to his own savings turned himself into police Thursday after a seven-hour standoff. No one was injured during the ordeal. Bassam al-Sheikh Hussein, a food delivery driver, said he had to withdraw his money to pay his father’s medical bills. On Thursday, the 42-year-old man entered a Federal Bank branch in Beirut with a shotgun and a can of gasoline. About $210,000 (€204,000) had been deposited there, according to his family. Inside, Hussein held seven or eight employees, plus two customers, hostage and demanded access to…
Read More »‘CBD Investr’ receives Digital C Award and MENA Banking Excellence Award 2022
Dubai: Commercial Bank of Dubai, a leading bank in the United Arab Emirates, announced that its app ‘CBD Investr’ has been awarded ‘Outstanding Robo Advisory’ at the 2022 Digital CX Awards and ‘Most Effective Investment Service Offering’ in MENA Banking Excellence Awards 2022. Digital Banker’s Digital CX Awards recognize the world’s leading financial services organizations for pioneering innovation in the digital customer experience. The MENA Banking Excellence Awards celebrate the best banking and financial services institutions and individuals for their innovative offerings and commitment to customer excellence. The CBD Investr app allows users to automatically build a globally diversified and…
Read More »CT should use backup batteries to conserve power
“The big debate there,” said Gordon van Welie, CEO of ISO-New England, “is can you do it the way Texas does it, which is an energy-only market? Or do you need a capacity market? Capacity markets aim to ensure grid reliability by paying participants to commit generation to delivery years into the future. Power-only markets, on the other hand, pay generators only when they provide power on a daily basis. How about a third way: one where power companies incentivize their customers to maintain battery backup systems that fill in when there’s excess power on the grid and draw when…
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Full sturgeon Supermoon rises across the world
The full Sturgeon Supermoon put on a dazzling display around the world when it rose on Thursday night. The name comes from the Native Americans, as it occurs at the end of summer and the beginning of the harvest season, when tribes in certain regions would catch sturgeon fish in large numbers. Supermoons occur when the Moon is full as it coincides with its “perigee,” or the point at which its orbit brings Earth’s natural satellite closest to the planet, and appear nearly a third brighter than normal and more d ‘a bigger ten. The Sturgeon Moon is considered the…
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Medical Marijuana, Inc. Subsidiary HM Pharma Submits CBD
SAN DIEGO, CA, Aug. 11, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — via NewMediaWire – Medical Marijuana, Inc. (OTC: MJNA) (the “Company”), the first publicly traded cannabis company in the United States to launch The world’s first cannabis-derived nutraceutical products, brands and supply chain, today announced that its pharmaceutical subsidiary, HM Pharma, has submitted a product dossier for its cannabidiol (CBD) products after receiving health authorization from ANVISA, Brazil’s Health Regulatory Agency. According to ANVISA Regulation 327/2019, this registration allows companies like HM Pharma to import bulk crude extracts, isolated cannabinoids or finished products, as well as manufacture and distribute cannabis products to…
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Anne Heche not expected to survive fiery crash into home, her family says
LOS ANGELES – Actor Anne Heche suffered an “anoxic” brain injury and is not expected to survive, her spokesman said Thursday, nearly a week after she crashed her car into a Los Angeles home. “It has long been her choice to donate her organs and she is being kept on life support to determine if any are viable,” the spokesman said in a statement on behalf of her friends and family. On Monday, Heche, 53, was in a coma and in “extreme” condition, his representative said. The spokesman said Heche was “unconscious, going into a coma” after the crash. Anoxic…
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