Mother Teresa is now Saint Teresa
By Juliet Perry, Tim Hume and Livia Borghese, CNN From NewsOK Mother Teresa, a Catholic nun who devoted her life to helping India’s poor, has been declared a saint in a canonization Mass held by Pope Francis in the Vatican….
Cricket: WICB chief executive officer to quit in October
From Guyana Chronicle WEST Indies Cricket Board’s chief executive Michael Muirhead will step down from his position after a four-year stint in the role.Muirhead’s contract was up for renewal on October 14, but he has opted to quit the WICB….
Cricket: West Indies win Twenty20 International Series against India 1-0
From Caribbean News Now FORT LAUDERDALE, USA — World twenty20 champions West Indies claimed the Paytm Twenty20 International Series against India 1-0, when rain ruined the second match on Sunday in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. India had reached 15 without loss…
Meticulosity SEZC Receives HubSpot Impact Award
Zone Company Wins Partner Award for Innovative Website Using Growth-Driven Design Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands – Meticulosity SEZC, a company established in Cayman Enterprise City’s (CEC) Cayman Media Park, part of Cayman’s Special Economic Zone, was awarded an Impact Award…
India record biggest Test series win on Caribbean soil but lose No. 1 spot to Pakistan
From dna India Rain gods spoiled India’s party at the top of ICC Test rankings. Indian cricket team on Monday recorded their biggest Test series win on the Caribbean soil with a 2-0 victory over the West Indies following a…
Dubai crash-landing survivor wins $1 million lottery prize 6 days later
A Dubai-based Indian man got lucky twice in one week. First, he survived the crash-landing or an airliner, and then he won a $1 million lottery prize, CNN reports. Mohammad Basheer Abdul Khadar, 62, was on board Emirates flight EK521…
Cricket: Bhuvneshwar’s five-for changed things for India: Virat Kohli
From Caribbean Herald St. Lucia, Aug 14 (IANS) India’s Test skipper Virat Kohli heaped praise on Bhuvneshwar Kumar, saying that the seam bowler’s impressive five-wicket haul in the first innings changed things around for the visitors against the West Indies…
New drug may prevent vaginal, oral transmission of HIV
IANS From The Times of India NEW YORK: Researchers have demonstrated the effectiveness of a new anti-HIV drug that has the potential to prevent vaginal and oral transmission of HIV, in pre-clinical animal models. The findings showed that 4′-Ethynyl-2-fluoro-2’deoxyadenosine or EFdA,…
The woman who cut off her breasts to protest a tax
From BBC An artist is behind a project to revive the story of Nangeli The story of a lower caste woman who cut her breasts to protest against a discriminatory “breast tax” in British ruled India is being revived by…
Air conditioning has a huge environmental impact — and it’s getting bigger
By Lucas Davis, The Conversation From Business Insider With a heat wave pushing the heat index well above 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 Celsius) through much of the U.S., most of us are happy to stay indoors and crank the air conditioning….
