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Indiana stage builder cited in state fair collapse
The State Labor Department says the company that built the stage ahead of last summer's deadly Indiana State Fair collapse showed "plain indifference" to safety standards.Commissioner Lori Torres said Wednesday that Mid-America Sound Corp. has been cited with three major safety violations in connection with the collapse of outdoor stage rigging in high winds that killed seven people Aug. 13. A crowd

Obama's inner geek: robots to flying marshmallows

For a president who promotes technology at every opportunity, Barack Obama often strikes an awed, self-effacing pose in the presence of technicians, scientists and high tech machinery.

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Mukherjee lays stress on food security challenge as means to improve agriculture productivity

Stating that for a country of 1.2 billion people it is imperative to build a certain self-sufficiency in meeting basic needs, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday said that for a nation

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Bookworms in a new avatar

Who says book reading is in the wane? It's alive and kicking though the reading itself may have morphed into a new format. Ritusmita Biswas takes a look at the changed world of book reading

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As colleges obsess over rankings, students shrug

& World Report debuted its list of "America's Best Colleges" nearly 30 years ago, the magazine hoped its college rankings would be a game-changer for students and families. But arguably,

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36th Kolkata Book Fair ends

The 36th Kolkata Book Fair that witnessed visits by some of the most famous people from the fields of literature, sports, media, silver screen besides the footfalls of lakhs of common people came to an end on Sunday.

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