The new FASTag concessional local pass launches on 1 November for non-commercial vehicle owners living within 20 km of a toll plaza. Costing ₹1,500 or ₹3,000 annually, it differs from the ₹3,075 FASTag Annual Pass in coverage, eligibility and usage rules.
Calls to continue Dolores Huerta’s advocacy for workers – and her promotion of voting – follow her death.
FUKUSHIMA, Japan — For years, Chung Hyun-suk, a Korean living in Fukushima, Japan, devoted herself to teaching Korean language and culture, building ties between local residents and her home country. But the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck northeastern Japan in 2011 transformed her mission from cultural exchange to disaster relief and, eventually, community welfare.
Chung, 65, founded Fukukan Net, a nonprofit organization promoting cultural exchanges, between Korea and Japan in 2001, when opportunities to learn Korean language and culture in Fukushima were limited. The organization thrived amid the first Korean wave in the early 2000s, buoyed by the popularity of the hit drama "Winter Sonata."
At its peak, its Korean language program attracted some 400 students, while Chung continued funding much of its activities out of her own pocket alongside her work as a university lecturer. But everything changed on March 11, 2011, when the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami devastated the region.
"Every day, refugees flooded in and people were dying from the tsunami, includin
Former Liverpool midfielder Xabi Alonso returns to Anfield but can his Chelsea side cause an upset in the league cup?
Damian Lillard had been in this situation many times before. With 43.1 seconds remaining and the Trail Blazers up, 132-129, his teammates wanted the ball in his hands. It was Dame Time. It was the type of moment he lives for. Deni Avdija passed the ball to Lillard, who made a pump-fake, shaking Matisse Thybulle....
⚽ Latest updates from Anfield, 8pm (GMT) kick-off⚽ Live scores | Football Daily | And email Scott hereBasque pals Andoni and Xabi embrace warmly … but so much for friendship, because Chelsea turn Liverpool around, so the home side are kicking towards the Kop in this first half.
They’re not huge fans of that. They kick off.The teams are out! Liverpool in red, Chelsea in blue. These lads always look good when they play each other. We’ll be off in a couple of minutes! Continue reading...
Josh Inglis scored an unbeaten 85 as Australia reached 330 for four at the close of the second day of the decisive third test against South Africa.
ESPN analyst Dan Orlovsky apparently didn't pay attention in math class.
Tracking the same adults from 2020 to 2025 shows most Americans' religious affiliation, prayer frequency and service attendance remained steady.
Two trains travelling in opposite directions have collided in southern Spain, on the route between Madrid and Seville. At least 10 deaths have been confirmed, although some media reports put the toll as high as 39. The crash brings back painful memories of a deadly train accident in Córdoba in January.
The cause of the collision remains unknown. France 24 correspondent Sarah Morris joins us live from Madrid with the latest.
The Waorani leader says millennia of living in harmony with their surroundings give Indigenous groups unique insights into the consumerist westEvery Waorani child knows the story of the boa’s mouth. How the snake inches forward, watching, its movements almost imperceptible, before it strikes, swallowing its victim whole.Nemonte Nenquimo knows the boa’s bite.
Beguiled as a young girl by the blue eyes and bright dresses of an American missionary child in her Amazon village in Ecuador, she consented to be baptised and left home to study at a church school. Continue reading...
In California, fuel prices often are higher than anywhere else in the country, a reflection of the state's high cost of living that voters want their next governor to address.
Jean Kaseya, of the Africa CDC, warns of the illness spreading like Covid unless more funding is secured to increase preparedness and possible treatmentThe “unprecedented” spread of the Ebola outbreak means it could reach the UK and other countries, according to one of Africa’s top health officials.As the current outbreak reached 10,000 cases, with almost 5,000 deaths, Dr Jean Kaseya, director general of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), compared the outbreak to the Covid pandemic, which first took hold in China before spreading to countries across the world, claiming millions of lives, and ravaging health systems and economies.
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This audacious portrait of the French author through the eyes of his women is Shafak’s love letter to literature in dark timesIn Frantumaglia, her collection of essays on writing and reading, Elena Ferrante writes that she has sometimes dismissed Gustave Flaubert as a “misogynist”, angered by his invention of as callous a mother as Emma Bovary.
In other moods, however, she has wondered whether Flaubert allows his female characters to say what “women truly think and say and live but do not dare write”.Ferrante’s ambivalence is, I think, the most fitting feminist response to Flaubert’s novel. It’s tempting to castigate him as a male writer who kills his female character because he can’t imagine any other end for a transgressive woman; to reproach him for not giving Emma Bovary the profundity of emotion with which Tolstoy imbues Anna Karenina.
But this isn’t the whole story, because Flaubert was so complex a figure: restlessly self-doubting even as he more than held his own in an age of cocksure egos; ecstatically happy in his solitary states of aesthetic creation precisely because they could throw him outwards into other people’s stories and minds.
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An elderly woman cleans a piano she cannot play and a car she cannot drive every day. The woman, Chun-hee (played by Kim Hye-ok), moves into a small apartment on her own after her husband dies. Cleaning her late husband’s piano and car seems to be Chun-hee’s way of mourning, as well as a kind of ritual that reminds her she is still alive.
What appears to be a pointless daily chore leads to unexpected connections. When she meets Min-jun (Justin H. Min), a conductor who has come to Germany in search of his birth mother, and Seong-chan (Park Dae-ho), a teenage boy who dreams of becoming a pianist, a gentle new rhythm enters Chun-hee’s quiet life.
The film “A Flowing Journey,” which was released Wednesday, follows people with seemingly nothing in common as they meet by chance and gradually find their way into one another’s lives. It portrays their individual stories and struggles without exaggeration, focusing instead on ordinary moments spent sharing meals and asking after one another.
The lyrical piano melodies that run throughout the film create subtle ripples, adding depth
It involves the fracturing of a patient’s ribs, before they spend three months laced into a corset. Some of those who have had this cosmetic procedure say it is like being ‘hit by a bus’. Why is it becoming more popular?Daniela Cesin was 14 when she began thinking about her looks.
“I was a little bit chubby and I started to work out at home and lose weight. I saw the difference in my body: my abs, the muscles in my arms, and I started liking it,” she says. By 31, she had the slim, toned body she had hoped for, but something was still missing.
“I wanted to have that guitar hourglass shape.”In August, Cesin travelled from Miami, where she has lived for the past 15 years, to her native Venezuela for liposuction and a fat transfer to her hips. She met her cosmetic surgeon for the first time the day before the procedure, and he realised she didn’t have enough fat to go ahead with it.
Instead, he offered to perform RibXcar: a rib remodelling surgery that would involve fracturing three of her lower ribs on each side and binding them in a corset for three months, to set the ribs in a new position and give her a wasplike waist. Continue reading...
Manager Matt Lawlor, born and raised in area, reflects on celebrating win with ‘people that I knew and grew up with’Fleetwood’s manager, Matt Lawlor, hailed the club’s victory as one for all football after his side shocked the Premier League champions, Arsenal, on penalties in the Carabao Cup.
The side 18th in League Two held their nerve in the shootout, Conor Haughey hitting the winner to reach the quarter-finals.The goalkeeper, Jay Lynch, was Fleetwood’s other hero, saving from Bruno Guimarães to set up the chance for victory. Aaron Loupalo‑Bi and Viktor Gyökeres ensured it finished 1-1 in normal time, but Arsenal ended up a man light after Max Dowman was shown a red card for reacting to a challenge.
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During halftime of the Philadelphia Eagles vs. Dallas Cowboys matchup on Monday Night Football, the NFL announced that Jay-Z would be performing the halftime show for Super Bowl 61 at SoFi Stadium. With the pressure of playing one of the biggest live televised performances on national TV, the 25-time Grammy Award-winning artist isn’t phased by...
Fleetwood 1-1 Arsenal (Fleetwood win 5-3 on pens): The Premier League champions lost to the side currently in 18th in League Two in the fourth round of the Carabao Cup
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⚽ League Cup updates from the 8pm GMT kick-off⚽ Cod Army welcome Gunners to Highbury | Mail NiallHere’s the Fleetwood head coach, Matt Lawlor: “We’ve had to make changes, with the champions in town. But we’ve got a plan with substitutions to manage the game.
Arsenal have paid us a lot of respect by naming such a strong team … it’s a very difficult challenge, but one we should enjoy, and not be overawed.”“I was just thinking, with the two Highburys – I can only think of the St James(’) Parks (Exeter and Newcastle), but are there any other grounds with very similar names?” asks Shaun T. Continue reading...
Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi and Joey Camasta stopped by “Virtual Reali-Tea” ahead of their Halloween podcast event, “It’s Happening: Spooktacular Live,” and co-hosts Danny Murphy and Evan Real had the time of their lives with them! The two sounded off on “Real Housewives of New Jersey” news and dished on Snooki’s latest TV project, “Snooki: The...
Bungles, cost-of-living pressures and sperm shortages are only some of the reasons Australians are fleeing the regulated system. But what awaits them in the “Wild West”?
The Premier League champions face the side currently in 18th in League Two in the fourth round of the Carabao Cup
A Test series with so much on the line, with ramifications across the cricket world, will conclude with the third and final Test in Cape Town. After the first two Tests, anything is possible. Follow it LIVE.
Madison Beer can’t escape the winless Chargers. The pop artist is spending two days at Disneyland on Monday and Tuesday to tape a holiday segment for the Disney Parks Holiday Special. Madison Beer performed a Christmas song at Disneyland in front of a live audience.
On Monday night, Beer performed a beautiful rendition of “Please...
A father-and-son team from Southern California are accused by federal prosecutors of using their facilities to commit a shocking fraud, including drugging patients, preventing them from accessing their belongings and holding them against their will.
Updates from the final match of the series at Newlands Any thoughts? Get in touch with an emailAmong the Australia’s four changes for this Test, there’s still no proven replacement opener for Usman Khawaja, who has been on media street lately with his book coming out to coincide with an Australian Story episode.Aiden Markram, Marques Ackerman, David Bedingham, Temba Bavuma (capt), Matthew Breetzke, Ryan Rickelton (wk), Wiaan Mulder, Marco Jansen, Simon Harmer, Gerald Coetzee, Kagiso Rabada.
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