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Malayalam film director Naranipuzha Shanavas declared brain dead in Coimbatore hospital - Times of India Malayalam film director Naranipuzha Shanavas declared brain dead in Coimbatore hospital - Times of India Posted: 23 Dec 2020 12:00 AM PST COIMBATORE: Malayalam film director Naranipuzha Shanavas was declared brain dead in a Coimbatore hospital on Wednesday. The director suffered a massive heart attack while shooting for upcoming film "Gandhirajan," at Attapadi in Palakkad district on Sunday. KG Hospital officials said he was already critical when he was admitted. However, his family and crew decided to shift him to Amrita Institute of Medical Science in Kochi on Wednesday evening for a second opinion. The 40-year-old film director was brought to KG Hospital on Sunday evening in a state of cardiogenic shock which stops the heart from pumping blood to the body. His kidney and brain functions were already affected. "We put him o...

Los Angeles Chargers QB Justin Herbert, a former 4.0 student, ready to study whole new offense - USA TODAY Los Angeles Chargers QB Justin Herbert, a former 4.0 student, ready to study whole new offense - USA TODAY Posted: 28 Feb 2021 11:54 AM PST CLOSE SportsPulse: Mike Jones connected with Chargers QB, and rookie of the year, Justin Herbert to discuss how quickly he was able to adapt to the NFL. Herbert revealed his love for one particular school subject helps him on the football field. USA TODAY Justin Herbert always wanted to know the why and how about the world around him.  It ran in the family. Both his grandfather and father were biologists, so the young Herbert felt drawn to natural-science studies throughout his formative years and academic career. "It just explained how everything worked," Herbert, coming off his first season as quarterback of the Los Angeles Chargers, told USA TODAY...

Top & Flop of the Week: KPMG chair's infamous grouse and Daily Express 'green' drive - PR Week Top & Flop of the Week: KPMG chair's infamous grouse and Daily Express 'green' drive - PR Week Over 20 shops in Gaya Street closed - Daily Express Pandikar confident Usno will be accepted into GRS - Daily Express Top & Flop of the Week: KPMG chair's infamous grouse and Daily Express 'green' drive - PR Week Posted: 12 Feb 2021 12:00 AM PST Top: Daily Express and 'green entrepreneur' environmental drive We were tempted to go for the Weetabix/baked beans triumph this week, but that's been (bean?) covered in our Creative Hits & Misses column, so we'll go for this unexpected tabloid tie-in instead. The Daily Express isn't the most obvious newspaper to rally to an environmental cause. But its Green Britain campaign ...

New York Daily News and three NJ papers unionize their newsrooms - New York Post New York Daily News and three NJ papers unionize their newsrooms - New York Post Nomination papers for election now available - Athol Daily News John Catsimatidis ponders another run at New York Daily News - New York Post Tribune Publishing, owner of New York Daily News, sold to hedge fund - New York Post New York Daily News and three NJ papers unionize their newsrooms - New York Post Posted: 11 Feb 2021 12:00 AM PST The New York Daily News owned by Tribune Publishing and three local dailies in New Jersey owned by the Gannett chain have unionized their newsrooms with the News Guild of New York. The three Gannett-owned papers include The Record of Bergen County, the Daily Record in Morris County and the NJ Herald in Sussex County. All three are banding together to form one bargaining unit, the Record Guild. "In fewer than five y...

Brexit LIVE: Fury as Brussels 'plays hardball' in new export revenge plot – firms crippled - Daily Express Brexit LIVE: Fury as Brussels 'plays hardball' in new export revenge plot – firms crippled - Daily Express Posted: 28 Feb 2021 08:19 PM PST Brexit: Expert discusses 'success' for the UK government The EU is said to have banned the import of plants that have grown in British soil in what is likely to be a devastating hit to the British horticulture industry that is now facing losing millions of pounds. This is due to prices rising in UK garden centres by 20 percent and also jobs being at risk as businesses now face harsh inspection fees for even shipping packets of seeds or tree saplings. Joe Sharman, a man known simply as "Mr Snowdrop" and is one of the biggest growers in the UK, shared his devastation at his business being almost destroyed by the new EU regulations. ...