Tier 2 cities drive 65% of retail orders on ONDC in April Namma Yatri, which is looking to raise its first funding round, saw the number of ride-hailing transactions fall 12 percent in April; retail orders on ONDC remain flat during the month due to Navratri ... 05/5/2024 - 7:32 pm | View Link
Two people charged as OPP recover stolen firearm in Orillla OPP have laid multiple firearm related charges against two individuals in Orillia. According to police, back in March officers executed a search warrant for controlled drugs and substances at a ... 05/4/2024 - 7:40 am | View Link
Vada pavs are up against momos, chole bhature in Delhi. One woman changed the game When Chandrika Gera set up her cart on Sainik Vihar Road 2 years ago, she was the only vada pav vendor. Today, it has at least 9 stalls earning the nickname ‘Vada Pav Mandi’. 05/3/2024 - 3:03 pm | View Link
Concerns rise among street vendors amid new ordinance going into effect in Clark County Local sidewalk vendors now have the opportunity to apply for Clark County business licensing permits to be able to legally sidewalk vend in unincorporated areas ... 05/1/2024 - 10:39 am | View Link
Street vendor rules go into effect as vendors fear minimum $1,500 licensing costs Street vendors in unincorporated Clark County are seemingly less visible than usual as rules to regulate them go into effect. Clark County Commissioners approved their own set of rules in mid-April. 04/30/2024 - 12:06 pm | View Link
Israel’s military has begun moving civilians out of Rafah, a possible prelude to a long-expected attack on the Gazan city.
The Israel Defense Forces “will act with extreme force against terrorist organizations in your areas of residence,” a spokesman said on X on Monday morning. He urged residents of eastern Rafah to go north to an “expanded humanitarian area” near Khan Younis, another city in Gaza.
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The move comes after cease-fire talks between Hamas and Israel in Cairo over the weekend seemingly stalled, the main sticking point being the Iran-backed militant group’s insistence that any truce is permanent.
Philippine journalist Maria Ressa, a 2021 Nobel Peace Prize recipient who has been recognized as one of TIME’s 2018 Persons of the Year as well as one of the most influential women of the century for her fight for press freedoms and against misinformation, was selected in March to deliver the principal address at Harvard University’s commencement on May 23.
Video footage of a student making racist gestures, seemingly imitating a monkey, toward a Black woman who was part of a scheduled pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Mississippi, colloquially known as Ole Miss, went viral last week, and on Sunday a fraternity announced that it had removed one member from its chapter at the school over the incident.
The Phi Delta Theta General Headquarters said in a statement that it was aware of the widely shared Ole Miss video and that “the racist actions in the video were those of an individual and are antithetical to the values of Phi Delta Theta and the Mississippi Alpha chapter.
Jack Dorsey has left the board of social networking service Bluesky, which he helped fund and popularize a year ago in the wake of regret over the sale of Twitter to Elon Musk.
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The Twitter co-founder took to the Musk-owned platform, now rebranded X, to tout his new philanthropic grants to open internet protocols, which he described as “freedom technology.” He also added X to that class of tech, elaborating only to say that corporations can build upon open protocols too.
Dorsey whittled down the list of people he follows on X to just three: Musk, Edward Snowden and Stella Assange, wife of the imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher.
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