Nursing homes

A husband and wife used a kitchen knife to fight off a bear that broke into their Wisconsin home as their children slept. Taylor County Sheriff's Office (TCSO) was alerted to the bear attack inside the home in Castle Road, near Medford, about 11 p.m. local time (midnight ET) on Friday. According to CBS affiliate WSAW, the couple first noticed a bear was outside their home eating from the bird feeder before they opened a window and yelled for it to go away. But the bear charged, broke through a window and entered the home. During the fight, one of the couple grabbed a kitchen knife and stabbed the bear before the husband was able to get a firearm and shoot the bear dead while it was still inside the house. Both the husband and wife sustained numerous injuries in the attack; they have been released following treatment. Their children, who were asleep at the time of the bear attack, were not harmed and the couple successfully fought off the animal. WSAW reported the bear … [Read more...] about Husband, wife use kitchen knife to fight off bear in their home

A day after taking oath as Bihar Chief Minister, Nitish Kumar on Tuesday allocated portfolios among the 14 Ministers, while keeping Home and General administration to himself. His two deputies in the Cabinet, Tarkishore Prasad and Renu Devi, were given charge of departments such as Finance, Forest & Environment, Backward Caste and EBC welfare along with Industry and Panchayati Raj. Also read: Congress panel meets to discuss Bihar election result However, a controversial induction into the Cabinet was that of two-time JD(U) MLA from Tarapur in Munger district Mewalal Choudhury. In 2017, he was accused in a recruitment scam of assistant professors and junior scientists. Mr. Choudhury, who has been given charge of Education, was the Vice Chancellor of the Sabour Agriculture University from 2010-15. An FIR was lodged against him by the Special Vigilance department at the Sabour Police Station in Bhagalpur under sections 409, 420, 467, 468, 471 and 120(B) of the IPC in … [Read more...] about Nitish Kumar allocates portfolios; keeps Home, Administration

A woman doctor hailing from Mettupalayam in Coimbatore district was found dead at her residence on Thursday. The police said that Rasi (27), wife of Abhishek from Cooperative Colony in Mettupalayam, was found dead in her study room. According to the police, Rasi and Abhishek got married in November 2021. She had been staying along with her parents to prepare for NEET (PG) for the past two months. The police said that Rasi’s parents Dr. Senthamarai and Dr. Rangaraj run Sakthi Hospital at Mettupalayam. Her brother Dr. Seran Rangaraj and her Dr. Abhishek also work at the hospital, they said. According to the police, Rasi went to her study room on Thursday noon. When she did not come out for lunch till 3 p.m., her sister-in-law went to her room and found it locked from inside. She checked through the window and found Rasi unconscious, the police said. Though Rasi was rushed to the Government Hospital, Mettupalayam, doctors declared her dead. The body was autopsied on Friday. … [Read more...] about Woman doctor found dead in home at Mettupalayam

A man in UK’s Poole town went on an unusual ride after drinking late at night. In a bid to reach home, he stole a double decker bus, crashed into railings, and drove three miles before abandoning the vehicle, reported Dorset Live. The 52-year-old man, Stephen McCartan, is a veteran soldier and had gone out that night with a friend. However, they both got separated and McCartan decided to head back home which was three miles from the place. An intoxicated McCartan managed to reach the Poole bus station in Dorset and stumbled into a blue and red double decker bus. He opened the door of the parked vehicle and reached the top deck before dosing off on a seat. McCartan then woke up an hour later and climbed down the stairs. He went to the driver’s seat and somehow started the ignition of the 12-tonne bus, as per Dorset Live. To get out of the parking, McCartan reversed the bus and ended up crashing into the railings and another car. He then gripped the steering wheel and drove off … [Read more...] about Drunk UK Man Steals Double-decker Bus and Takes it Home

Photographs by Tony Luong O n a Friday afternoon in mid-April, Gladys Vega received a disturbing message: A woman hospitalized with COVID-19 needed food for the 11-year-old daughter she’d left at home. Worried that the girl would go hungry, Vega rushed out of her office and into the tangle of downtown Chelsea, Massachusetts, a 1.8-square-mile city across the Mystic River from Boston. The 52-year-old Vega, wearing a black tracksuit, a highlighter-yellow T-shirt, and a little bit of matching eye glitter, jumped out of the car so quickly, I could barely keep up. She approached a narrow brick apartment building and asked the people on the stoop to open the front door. “You don’t have to worry; I’m not immigration,” Vega said in Spanish. “Let me in.” Vega was accustomed to convincing fearful Chelsea residents to trust her. More and more restrictive federal immigration measures had motivated some locals—day laborers, food-factory workers, janitors, and other employees now deemed … [Read more...] about How Fear Spreads the Coronavirus

China cut its benchmark reference rate for mortgages by an unexpectedly wide margin on May 20, its second reduction this year as Beijing seeks to revive the ailing housing sector to prop up the economy. Senior officials have pledged further measures to fight a slowdown in the world's second-biggest economy, hit by COVID-19 outbreaks that prompted stringent measures and mobility restrictions and causing huge disruptions to activity. Many market participants believe the move was also a response to Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's call to decisively step up policy adjustments and let the economy return to normal quickly. "Today's reduction to the five-year Loan Prime Rate should help drive a revival in housing sales, which have gone from bad to worse recently," Julian Evans-Pritchard at Capital Economics wrote in a note. "But the lack of any reduction to the one-year LPR suggests that the PBOC is trying to keep easing targeted and that we shouldn't expect large-scale stimulus of the … [Read more...] about China cuts borrowing rate more than expected to revive housing sector

Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday claimed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had ended the “corruption culture” prevalent in the northeast during the Congress rule to ensure the proper utilisation of every penny sent to the region. Addressing a public rally in eastern Arunachal Pradesh’s Namsai, he said development funds earmarked for the region used to be siphoned off by middlemen when the Congress reigned supreme. “The northeast saw fast-track development only after Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power in 2014. But Congress won’t see the development if their leaders keep their eyes closed,” Mr. Shah said after inaugurating a slew of projects and laying the foundation stone of others worth a total of ₹1,000-crore. “Rahul Gandhi, open your eyes and discard Italian glasses and wear Indian ones. You could then see what Modi has done for the region you neglected for 50 years,” he said. “The culture of corruption in the northeast ended under the Modi government. Every penny is … [Read more...] about BJP ended corruption culture in the northeast, says Amit Shah

To commemorate the 90th anniversary of the Hockenheimring, a racing circuit in southern Germany, Porsche is releasing a special edition of the 2022 Porsche Taycan electric sedan. The plug-in Porsche Taycan GTS Hockenheimring Edition is meant to mesh the company's commitment to its racing heritage and its electric future. "With this exclusive special edition, we are not only delighting fans of our all-electric sports car, but also highlighting our attachment to the Hockenheimring," Porsche Chairman Alexander Pollich said in a press release. "We congratulate the legendary racetrack on a rich, 90-year history. With the Porsche Experience Centre there, the Hockenheimring has become even more of a home for our brand since 2019." The Taycan features a lot of the sporty styling cues already present on the GTS variant, with some tweaks. The car is painted in Stone Grey with Bronzite accents that are available through the company's custom color program. Those accents are present on … [Read more...] about Special electric Porsche Taycan GTS celebrates 90 years of the Hockenheimring

H ow walking to school helped us learn important life lessons those days? Watching children commuting in jam-packed school vans, along with a rebuking ayah trying to calm them and a senseless driver trying to flout safety rules, takes me down memory lane to my school days more than four decades ago. School vans were not popular those days, and most children walked to schools, chatting with friends and having lots of fun all the way. Children of the current era, who live in a fast world, will never understand the real fun of school-going, as commuting on vehicles deprives them of opportunities to see the world, watch people and learn essential life lessons schools may not teach them. The first enemy to enjoying the morning walk to school was footwear. We mostly walked barefoot, and the scalding hot asphalt pavements strengthened our feet to walk fast. Sometimes we would dangle our way to school holding on to bullock carts laden with paddy stalks or other agricultural commodities. … [Read more...] about School trips

E very year, May 12 is celebrated as International Nurses Day. Nurses have always been the backbone of the healthcare sector. Their contribution to patient treatment outcome often goes unacknowledged as in the pandemic. Their services and placement in critical treatment areas are subject to flexible criteria and dynamics of prevalent situations. Nurses have helped and guided me immensely leading up to becoming a neurosurgeon. I had taken a couple of entrance examinations for neurosurgical training in 2001 after graduating as a general surgeon. The results invariably waitlisted me. Having qualified from a small town, I was initially overwhelmed by the weight of clinical exposure of the competition of big-town applicants. An institute in Thiruvananthapuram, where I had applied for neurosurgery residency, required a clinical examination as part of the entrance examination. Having completed the general surgery course in my hometown Mangalore a few months earlier, I had no medical … [Read more...] about Remembering the angels