SEllING lottery ticket INDIAN GETS USD 100,000
Washington: An Indian-American beer shop owner in Pennsylvania will get a whopping USD 100,000 for selling a USD 131.5 million-winning lottery ticket. Gary Patel, 30, who immigrated to the US from India as a teenager, said he would give the amount as a bonus to the three employees of his shop. The winner of the lottery ticket has not been identified yet.
Koreas end talks without deal, schedule meeting
Paju: South Korea said talks with North Korea on reopening a jointly-run industrial estate ended without agreement on Wednesday, but the two sides agreed to meet again next week. The South’s chief delegate Suh Ho said talks on restarting the Kaesong industrial complex’s mothballed factories would continue on July 15, after about four hours of meetings that started on Wednesday morning. “We both agreed that the complex should be maintained and further developed,” Suh told reporters at the site just inside North Korea.
250 students GET training FROM Indian scientist
New York: Over 250 underprivileged students studying in eighth grade and above have been selected to undergo a one-year programme run by an Indian-origin scientist, aimed at providing hands on research in myriad fields in science, technology, math and engineering.The students drawn from 75 schools in New York City will work under mentors in leading Ivy league university research labs and centres such as Cornell and Columbia, institutes of higher learning such as Memorial Sloan Kettering and NASA to pursue careers in STEM (Science, Technology, Math and Engineering) stream after their graduation.
lankan nationalist protest over Bodh Gaya attack
Colombo: Two groups of Buddhist monks-led nationalist groups on Wednesday held a protest walk to the Indian mission here against a terror attack at Mahabodhi temple in Bihar. They protested against the Sunday’s terror attack at one of the holiest Buddhist sites at Bodh Gaya in which two monks were injured.
43 deaths in China due to bird flu
Beijing: The deadly H7N9 bird flu virus, which was first reported in humans in China this year, have left 43 people dead in the country so far.A total of 132 H7N9 avian flu cases have been reported on the Chinese mainland, including 43 that have ended in death, according to an update released today by health authorities. Of the total, 85 H7N9 patients have been discharged from hospitals after receiving treatment.