Conceded defeat meaning

Or will the mountain be as it is today, and on top standing a much greyer Mr Bold promising to a press pack no more delays, this time for real a 2033 opening date - financed by a new round of investors, wait for it, from New Zealand. … [Read more...] about Mt Wellington cable car: Ups and downs of Hobart’s most controversial development proposal

“Cusp of a second wave, second wave, whatever people want to call this is entirely irrelevant. We have to be realistic about the circumstances that we confront. We have to be clear with each other that this is not over.” … [Read more...] about Coronavirus Victoria: Fears authorities have ‘lost control’ of COVID-19 in the state

“Tendulkar had a lot of confidence in him to attack from the beginning. This is not to suggest that Dravid didn’t have that but he used to play a different role. When India lost a couple of early wickets, he was the main man, that’s why he was called the Wall. … [Read more...] about Rahul Dravid one step ahead of all Indian batsmen in terms of technique: Former Pakistan captain Rashid Latif

As timeline shows clearly, three cases of pneumonia of unknown causes were first reported on 27th of December 2019 in Hubei Province of China. It was only two days later that relevant authorities carried out an epidemiological investigation. 4 days afterwards on 31st of December, 2019, WHO office in China was notified. The virus was separated on the 7th of January2020, and the whole genome sequence of the novel coronavirus was shared with WHO on the 12th of January. … [Read more...] about Virus is merciless, but love and kindness shall pass on

In Undercover, the 2019 Dutch crime-drama on Netflix, police agents infiltrate a drug lord’s gang in scenic Limburg on the Belgian-Netherlands border, and surreptitiously fix trackers on their fancy cars. This helps them monitor their movements, intercept their Ecstasy tablet deals, and uncover their network. In turn, when the gang smells infiltration, they use similar trackers on the SUV of key suspects. This cat and mouse game of suspicion and revelation is what holds the script, and the entire first season together. The mood in the show swings between one of fleeting trust and permanent distrust. When this was the context in which one understood the use of trackers, it was puzzling to learn that the Congress party in Karnataka was using trackers to monitor its workers. In the last fortnight of June, as a build-up to the virtual oath-taking of its new president DK Shivakumar, on July 2, trackers were attached to the identity badges of its nearly 400 workers, who were doubling … [Read more...] about The Congress worker and his tracker