The drive from Ranchi to Hazaribagh in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand is only 65 miles, but it takes nearly three hours. We swerve to avoid schoolchildren chatting with friends and meandering down the highway, honk at cows to get out of the way, and accelerate past pickups reconfigured as makeshift transport vehicles overflowing with workers. Men in sandals push bicycles overloaded with bags of coal down the highway, while on the back roads close to Hazaribagh, women carry buckets of the stuff on their heads.
Coal is what brought me to Jharkhand, one of India’s poorest and most polluted states. The pedestrian colliers, illegal miners trying to make ends meet, are just the start. All along the route to our destination, the Topa Open Coal Mine, a caravan of large, color…
Crouching on all fours, wearing hard hats and knee pads, we shuffle and drag ourselves one by one through the small earthy hollow. When we reach the other side, a large cavern spreads out before us: countless stalactites hang suspended like icicles from the roof and mineral draperies dress large chalk columns. The floor beneath our feet is uneven, rising and falling like waves, before disappearing into a body of water at the other end.
There is no known public record of the enormous limestone cave we’re in, which is at least 100 meters (about 330 ft.) long, and somewhere underneath Tulum, a municipality in the Yucatan Peninsula known for its tourist beaches and Mayan ruins. It is one of an estimated 10,000 cenotes, water-filled sinkholes formed by the collapse of li…
Moderna reported on Dec. 20 that its currently authorized booster dose raises the level of antibodies able to neutralize the Omicron variant.
The company performed preliminary tests to determine how well blood sera from people who had received its booster dose could neutralize a version of the Omicron variant in the lab. Researchers collected sera from 20 people who had received the currently authorized booster—50 µg, which is half the dose authorized in the original two-dose regimen—and from 20 people who had received a full-dose booster of 100 µg. After about a month, the half dose increased antibodies that can neutralize Omicron by 37-fold compared to levels before the booster, while the full dose raised antibodies 83-fold.คำพู…
The initiative, which is focused on brands aged three years or under, had competing designers participate in a 23-week virtual residency, culminating in a final presentation by five finalists that outlined the future of their ventures. In a tie for first place, the grand prize of $55,000 was awarded to designers Angela Luna and Loulwa Al Saad of Adiff and Morganne Leigh of Tyche + Isetคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง. In addition, Tyche + Iset was awarded an additional $5,000 by Hilldun Corp’s Gary Wassner, while Adiff’s Luna was gifted a yearlong office suit by Glen Siegel, founder of Belvedere Industry City.
Jewelry designer Leila Dumond of Cyril Studio, accessory designer…
What Goes Around Comes Around is the online extension of a New York store founded in 1993, famous for its range of second-hand luxury goods, while The RealReal is one of the USA’s most popular sites in the field. In both cases, Chanel is accusing the sites of lack of transparency, notably for having sold Chanel handbags both sites claimed were authenticคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง. Chanel accused them of misleading customers, inducing them to believe that such products were sold with some sort of authorisation on the part of Chanel.“What Goes Around Comes Around and The RealReal are neither authorised distributors nor retailers of Chanel products, and have gone out of the…
Nassar spoke to the media after his meeting with a delegation from the Huajian Group, led by Zhang Huarong, the group’s founder and president, in the presence of the economic affairs adviser with the People’s Republic of China’s embassy in Cairo.“Huajian’s goal is to increase investment in the new Roubiki Leather City, especially with regards to premium leather products,” said Nassar.คำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง
The Minister underlined that the Chinese footwear group is planning the construction of a new industrial complex close to Cairo’s international airport, designed to promote the development of manufacturing facilities for textiles, electronics and home…
Meanwhile, Prada’s raffia tote bag was the product of the quarter for women while Adidas Yeezy foam runner shoes took the prize for men.The July to September period was a crucial three months in fashion as in-person runway shows made a comeback, while star-studded events including the Met Gala, the Emmys and the VMAs generated buzz.
Consumers also attended more social gatherings “and sought dressier styles, as well as resortwear”. That was despite the Delta variant rising and travel remaining constrained and meant “demand for fashion was strong”. In fact, Lyst said that “revenue surpassed pre-pandemic levels at major luxury brands, and the ongoing shift to e-commerce continued apace”.The global fashion shopping platform is used by more than 150 million people each …
A third of people who have managed to save money during lockdowns aren’t planning to spend it, according to a survey by comparethemarket.com.Its survey of more than 2,000 people in the UK this month found that 56% have managed to save during the year-long pandemic restrictions, but 33% plan to save the money. And another third say they will spend less than half of what they saved.คำพูดจาก ทดลองใช้ สูตรสล็อต
The reason for the caution is that nearly 10% are worried that members of their family could be furloughed, made redundant or see their income fall in the coming months.Also, around 52% of families with children at home believe the pandemic will have a long-term negative im…
The women are among tens of thousands of workers in Tamil Nadu state – the largest hub in India’s $40 billion-a-year textile and garment industry – who are seeking millions of dollars in compensation following a landmark court ruling last year that declared they had long been grossly underpaid.The Madras High Court ordered that the garment workers should receive a pay rise of up to 30 percent – the first minimum wage hike for 12 years – and that they could claim arrears going back to 2014.
But 12 months on, many factory bosses have failed to pay up.Squeezed into a corner at the back of the stuffy Chennai courtroom, a middle-aged woman leans against the blue walls, clutching polythene bags full of documents to prove her claim.Normally she spends her days hunched over a sewing machi…