More On This Topic: Financial Advisor Best Financial Advice Submitted by: Namans Shah Regarded as one of the major steps towards eradicating black money problem in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced Demonetization on 8th of November 2016. Demonetization or in simple words discontinuation of 500 and 1000 rupee note has been hailed as a…
Canada’s Don Valley West (Ward 26) city council candidates speak
This exclusive interview features first-hand journalism by a Wikinews reporter. See the collaboration page for more details. Friday, November 3, 2006 On November 13, Torontonians will be heading to the polls to vote for their ward’s councillor and for mayor. Among Toronto’s ridings is Don Valley West (Ward 26). Four candidates responded to Wikinews’ requests…
Colleges offering admission to displaced New Orleans students/LA-ND
See the discussion page for instructions on adding schools to this list and for an alphabetically arranged listing of schools. Due to the damage by Hurricane Katrina and subsequent flooding, a number of colleges and universities in the New Orleans metropolitan area will not be able to hold classes for the fall 2005 semester. It…
Paper Shredding Services Helps Businesses Secure Their Confidential Waste
More On This Topic: Div 7a Loan Agreement Credi By Adrianna Noton Recently, there has been a great increase in the risk of identity theft and fraud. Businesses store information about customers, employees, finances, business operations, and product details. These are sensitive documents that most businesses have readily available. Every level of government has passed…
Modern radio drama Paranoria, TX releases 100th episode
Thursday, February 16, 2017 Paranoria, TX, a modern radio drama hosted at internet-based AstroNet Radio, released its 100th episode. The episode is titled The People’s Choice and aired on Monday. The station’s web site describes the show as “old school radio theater with a new and outrageous geeky spin!” In its early days, the show…
PlayStation 3 will be used to help cure cancer and Alzheimer’s
Monday, August 28, 2006 The upcoming Sony PlayStation 3 game console is going to assist scientists in finding cures for cancer and Alzheimer’s disease using the Folding@home distributed computing program. Folding@home is run by the Pande group of Stanford University (America) to research protein folding, this is the process whereby proteins build themselves inside the…
Wikinews wanders the Referendum-year Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Wednesday, August 27, 2014 With many venues reporting sell-out shows, the 68th year of the Edinburgh Festival attracted visitors from around the globe. Wikinews’ Brian McNeil roamed the city for the four weeks of the event, capturing the colour, spectacle, and comedy, in photos. The image gallery below may take some time to load on…
Building collapse in Barbados traps family
Sunday, August 26, 2007Miami Dade Fire Rescue, Urban Search and Rescue Florida Task Force 1 Members were on the scene since last night. Search dogs worked the scene all night. According to current reports, sometime early this morning, an apartment building in Brittons Hill, Barbados fell into a cave below. Five family members are known…
Israeli Health minister Ya’akov Litzman resigns in protest after Jews made to work on Jewish rest day
Wednesday, November 29, 2017 On Sunday, Israeli health minister Ya’akov Litzman officially resigned, submitting his resignation letter after Jewish workers were made to work on Shabbat — the Jewish holy rest day, from sundown on Friday to sundown on Saturday — for installation of a signalling system on rail tracks in the Negev on Saturday….
Science minister visits Australia’s newest nuclear reactor, receives nuclear power report
Friday, May 26, 2006 Australian Minister for Education, Science and Training, Julie Bishop visited the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation in Lucas Heights, New South Wales today. The purpose of her visit was to inspect progress on Australia’s newest nuclear research reactor – OPAL. Whilst at the facility, she received a report on the…