IT'S CHAI TIME
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November 2020 -
Some day in the future, if you find California Gold mangoes in your grocery store, you’ll have Rishi Kumar to thank. A self-described fruit fanatic, the 31-year-old farmer grows mangoes and many other fruit on his farm in Pomona, California.
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November 2020 -
Celebrities and others who want to appear popular have been known to pay for social media “likes” and views. For just a few dollars, they can get hundreds of people or bots to click on their Facebook posts or YouTube videos.
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October 2020 -
An internet outage during the final of the 163-nation Chess Olympiad prompted Fide, the international chess federation, to declare Russia and India as joint winners and gold medalists.
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October 2020 -
Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash,the Hyderabad man recently became the first Asian (and first non-European) to win gold at the Mental Calculation World Championship at the Mind Sports Olympiad (MSO) in London.
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October 2020 -
In Fresno County, California, artist Omar “Super” Huerta has created a mural for a hero: Manjit Singh, a 29-year-old immigrant from India who drowned while trying to save three Mexican children in the Kings River.
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October 2020 -
Quotes by Sudha Sundari Narayanan, a software developer from India / Nikki Haley, former South Carolina governor / Kamala Harris,Democratic vice-presidential nominee / Pranab Mukherjee, the former Indian president who died on Aug. 31 / Tweet from culture critic Soraya Nadia McDonald.
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October 2020 -
How much do you know about current events in India and the U.S.? Try this short quiz!
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October 2020 -
When I’m grocery shopping, I’m not always happy to see different sizes of the same food item. This means that I need to make a decision: should I buy the larger quantity or the smaller quantity—or perhaps even the medium quantity? There are several factors that go into this decision, but two of the most important ones are the rate of consumption within the household and the rate of decay of the food item (whether or not it is perishable).
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October 2020 -
Perhaps one day it will be standard policy for companies to allow female and transgender employees to take paid days off for menstrual pain. Until then, companies like Zomato will get a lot of credit for blazing a trail. The food delivery firm, which employs 4,000 people in India, has announced that they’ll be eligible for up to 10 days of period leave a year.
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October 2020 -
The polls look good for Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee for president, putting him as many as 12 points ahead of President Donald Trump nationally. But the polls also looked good for Hillary Clinton in 2016, yet Trump eked out a victory in the Electoral College, partly through razor-thin margins in Michigan and Wisconsin.
