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Restoration work supervised by conservation experts is expected to be completed by July 15

The weather was perfect in Amherst this week for a pair of art conservators from Ottawa brought in to fix up the soldiers memorial in downtown Amherst. The cenotaph was unveiled in 1921 to honour 336 Cumberland County soldiers who died in the First World War.

Looking back through my photos of 2021, the year was a bit more isolating than I realized. With no office to go to while working from home for the year, taking…

Looking back through my photos of 2021, the year was a bit more isolating than I realized. With no office to go to while working from home for the year, taking…

Peckham Rye Overground station This is how a major revamp of a busy station on the London Underground map  could look – if funding is secured. Southwark Council has applied for £25 million from the Government’s Levelling Up Fund to go towards revamping Peckham Rye Overground station.  Council bosses are planning a “long overdue” station upgrade that would give it step-free access.  The plans include wider platforms, larger passageways, new lifts and staircases, new accessible...

: Tuesday, December 15, 2020, 2:30 AM IST Do we really need a new Parliament building or is it a waste of public money? Shekhar Iyer examines. The Central Vista project has raised questions about its need and the spending of huge sums of public money. Former Finance Minister P Chidambaram went to the extent of saying that “the foundation for a new Parliament building was laid on the ruins of a liberal democracy”. Ultimately, everything will depend on the verdict of the Supreme Court....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of the new Parliament building on December 10, 2020. 2012 letter by an officer on special duty to Urban Development Ministry saying that the then Speaker Meira Kumar had accorded approval of the new Parliament building accessed by Times Now&nbsp | &nbspPhoto Credit:&nbspTimes Now New Delhi: Congress’ duplicity over the new Parliament complex under the Central Vista Project has been exposed. Times Now has accessed a letter of...