IT'S CHAI TIME
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October 2020 -
Perhaps one day it will be standard policy for companies to allow female and transgender employees to take paid days off for menstrual pain. Until then, companies like Zomato will get a lot of credit for blazing a trail. The food delivery firm, which employs 4,000 people in India, has announced that they’ll be eligible for up to 10 days of period leave a year.
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October 2020 -
The polls look good for Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee for president, putting him as many as 12 points ahead of President Donald Trump nationally. But the polls also looked good for Hillary Clinton in 2016, yet Trump eked out a victory in the Electoral College, partly through razor-thin margins in Michigan and Wisconsin.
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September 2020 -
Princepal Singh, a 6-foot-10 forward from Punjab, has signed to play in the NBA G-League, the National Basketball Association’s official minor league, in 2020-21.
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September 2020 -
Shams Charania is only 26, but has already achieved the dream he had while growing up in Chicago.
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September 2020 -
A Kerala woman named Supriya has been rewarded with a new house after her act of kindness was captured in a video and shared on social media.
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September 2020 -
Quotes by Dr. Manny Sethi,Senate from Tennessee /Hiral Tipirneni, a former emergency room doctor and cancer researcher who won the Democratic nomination for Arizona’s 6th Congressional District /Sri Preston Kulkarni,the Democratic nominee for Texas’ 22nd congressional seat /Paul Joseph,Washington, D.C., attorney / Astronaut Sunita Williams.
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September 2020 -
How much do you know about current events in India and the U.S.? Try this short quiz!
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September 2020 -
What a year this has been. So many things seem to have gone wrong, mostly because of the coronaviruspandemic. If I were a scientist, I’d be hard at work,seeking a cure of some sort. But as a writer, there’s not much I can do, except write a letter to 2020.
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September 2020 -
Americans have shown their appreciation todoctors, nurses and other health workers in a variety of ways during the pandemic, but Dr. Nirav Shah of Maine may have received the “sweetest” honor.
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September 2020 -
Zohran Mamdani, after all, was once known as Mr. Cardamom, whose musical output includes a rap video called “Nani,” shot partly on Astoria Boulevard subway platform and featuring food writer Madhur Jaffrey as a foul-mouthed grandmother.
