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This came close on the heel of a series of such incidents in Hyderabad. (Representational) Banned Chinese manja claimed the life of a 35-year-old man in Telangana's Sangareddy district on Wednesday.

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Mother Nature had her say and disrupted the 125th annual Mummers Parade in 2026. Officials say high winds blew around the bands' props on Thursday. The Philadelphia Mummers Parade said the String Band ...

Abstract: Traditional LED drivers with multiple converters for powering up multiple strings in parallel suffer from high system volume and cost. The reported literature with single converter and ...

On the evening of March 29, the Slosberg Recital Hall at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. was filled with reflection, resonance and remembrance. The occasion was “Time’s Echo Live,” a live ...

Amazon and Philips Hue are offering steep discounts on the 65- and 130-foot strands for Black Friday. Amazon and Philips Hue are offering steep discounts on the 65- and 130-foot strands for Black ...

The Internal Revenue Service is going to get its piece of your hard-earned, tax-deferred retirement savings accounts — it’s just a matter of when. A harsh reality? Perhaps. A chance to think ...

Who doesn’t love tax-free income? When you retire with assets in a Roth IRA or Roth 401(k), you will be able to take retirement income from these accounts without getting hit with income taxes. That ...

One of the reasons for converting a string to a date data type is to make arithmetic and comparison operations easier to perform. This guide will discuss all available methods to convert string to ...