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Hitler and Che Guevara in frame together-- Here’s how Christmas in a parallel universe would look like

Christmas brings a sense of warmth during the cold December winter, inspiring moments of togetherness with loved ones. Who would you invite to your parallel Christmas?” Adolf Hitler and Che Guevara Adolf Hitler and Che Guevara were two highly influential figures in the 20th century, but their ideologies, actions, and legacies were radically different. Jawaharlal Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi Jawaharlal …

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6 days, 12 hours ago

PETER HITCHENS: Steve McQueen's blockbuster Blitz is propaganda dressed up as historical fact - with racism on every street corner and the Communist Party portrayed as heroes

Daily Mail

It is hard to beat a good nostalgic war film at this time of year. They will see that its star is the luminous Saoirse Ronan, and perhaps expect to be carried romantically back into those dangerous days when Britain stood alone and London could take it I confess that, though I know the London Blitz was a horror, I …

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1 week, 4 days ago

Harold Ball had a short but impressive football career before he died in WWII

ABC

"Don't worry there's not a bullet made that can travel as fast as I can," up-and-coming footballer Harold Ball wrote from his World War II posting to his brother George in regional Victoria. Harold Ball with Melbourne Football Club officials and teammates after the 1940 VFL Premiership. Harold's best game The 1940 preliminary final was played at the MCG on …

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2 weeks, 1 day ago

Exhibition unveiled to honor esteemed cultural scholar

China Daily

On December 8, an exhibition showcasing the profound cultural research journey of Xiao Yunru was inaugurated at the Jia Pingwa Literature and Art Museum located at Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology in Xi’an, Shaanxi province, in Northwest China. Featuring a diverse array of over a hundred exhibits, the exhibition offers a glimpse into the life and works of the …

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2 weeks, 1 day ago

Arbitration Weekly Round-Up [ 2nd December To 8th December, 2024]

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High Courts Allahabad High Court Case Title: Anoop Maheshwari v. Thomas T. Kurian While entertaining a revision petition related to a tenancy agreement, the Allahabad High Court has held that a clause for arbitration cannot be invoked for any disputes that arise after the contract has come to an end. Bombay High Court Case Title: Bks Galaxy Realtors LLP v. …

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2 weeks, 5 days ago

IIT Madras faces criticism over product test on students without parents' consent

India Today

A product testing exercise conducted at the Vana Vani Matriculation Higher Secondary School, located on the Indian Institute of Technology Madras campus, has sparked controversy after parents alleged that the test was carried out without their consent. The test, conducted on August 19, 2024, involved students wearing a “smart insole” placed inside their shoes and a smartwatch. Clarification on clinical …

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

150million people born before 1996 at risk of a mental breakdown caused by metal exposure

Daily Mail

Tens of millions of Americans born before 1996 suffered psychiatric disorders as a direct result of being exposed to toxic lead. Using national data on lead levels in children's blood and population statistics, researchers from Duke University estimated the amount of lead all Americans alive in 2015 had been exposed to. Mathew Hauer, the study co-author and sociologist at Florida …

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3 weeks ago

"Maintainability" And "Jurisdiction" Cannot Be Conflated While Deciding Application U/S 20 Of Arbitration Act, 1940: Bombay HC

Live Law

The Bombay High Court bench of Justice Amit Borkar has held that maintainability and jurisdiction cannot be used interchangeably as they connote different things. 321 of 2000 filed under Section 20 of the Arbitration Act, 1940, wherein it was held that the Court had no jurisdiction to entertain the application. This order was challenged by the respondent before the ADJ …

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3 weeks, 4 days ago

For first time, France's Macron calls 1944 killings of West African troops by French massacre

Deccan Chronicle

Dakar : French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday for the first time recognised the killing of West African soldiers by the French Army in 1944 as a massacre in a letter addressed to the Senegalese authorities. Macron's move, on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the World War II killings in Thiaroye - a fishing village on the outskirts …

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3 weeks, 5 days ago

For the first time, France’s Macron calls 1944 killings of West African troops by French as massacre

Associated Press

DAKAR, Senegal — French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday for the first time recognized the killing of West African soldiers by the French Army in 1944 as a massacre in a letter addressed to the Senegalese authorities. Macron’s move, on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the World War II killings in Thiaroye — a fishing village on the …

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4 weeks ago

Fake antibiotics worth Rs 1.33 crore seized in Telangana pharma raid

India Today

Telangana’s Drugs Control Administration seized spurious antibiotics worth Rs 1.33 crore during a raid on a pharmaceutical facility at Biotech Park in Siddipet district’s Karakapatla area. DCA officials, acting on credible information, raided the facility on November 26 and discovered large stocks of mislabelled antibiotics in the Finished Goods Warehouse. On February 20, the DCA seized 118 kg of illegal …

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1 month ago

Poor facilities plague Tamil Nadu's Sathanur Fossil Wood Park

New Indian Express

PERAMBALUR: Visitors to the National Fossil Wood Park at Sathanur village in the district are facing difficulties due to a lack of adequate facilities including a road, bus and signboards. G Parthiban, a resident of Sathanur, told TNIE, “The fossil wood park is very poorly maintained. A shop should be set up here through a women’s self-help group.” R Ravikumar, …

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1 month ago

Trump’s Cabinet: The real danger of Tulsi Gabbard.

Slate

President-elect Donald Trump has said he wants to give his senior defense and intelligence officials access to classified materials without first having them vetted by the FBI or some other federal agency. I asked a former senior intelligence officer whether, for instance, the National Security Agency—which handles the most highly classified information, including intercepts of foreign leaders’ communications—might be less …

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1 month ago

Deion Sanders honors 100-year-old Colorado Buffaloes superfan with ‘Peggy’ apparel line

CNN

CNN — Colorado Buffaloes head football coach Deion Sanders honored team superfan Peggy Coppom on her 100th birthday with a special apparel line. She is the rock that holds us all together.” A very special guest stopped by Coach Prime’s weekly press conference today 💛 pic.twitter.com/jZJl7DaT75 — Colorado Buffaloes November 19, 2024 Saturday, the Buffaloes’ faithful sang Coppom “Happy Birthday” …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Local to global: 14 nations keen to adopt India’s generic pharmacy model

Live Mint

New Delhi: Inspired by India's efforts to make affordable medicines accessible to the public, 14 countries from the Global South, including Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, are considering adopting India's generic pharmacy model, according to two people familiar with the development. While 11 countries, including Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Ghana, Suriname, Nicaragua, Mozambique, and the Solomon Islands, have recognized Indian standards for drugs …

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1 month, 1 week ago

The history of old age in America is all about reinvention. Too bad our political culture can’t keep up

LA Times

Book Review Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age By James Chappel Basic Books: 368 pages, $32 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. In his groundbreaking 1980 account of the baby boomers, “Great Expectations,” Landon Y. Jones predicted that this generation would pioneer …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Shaktimaan returns! But who rocked the red-and-gold suit first — Iron Man, Shazam, or Mukesh Khanna?

Hindustan Times

Shaktimaan, India’s beloved superhero from the '90s, is making a comeback, and fans are buzzing with excitement. 's costume Now, Stan Lee's Iron Man was released in 1963, and the superhero's iconic red and gold suit was more than just a superhero costume — it become a symbol of both Tony Stark’s genius and his larger-than-life persona. Evolution of the …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Apex drug regulator to more than double staff strength with 250 new positions in effort to help enforce quality norms

Live Mint

New Delhi: The government plans to more than double staffing at the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization by filling 250 new positions to strengthen enforcement of good manufacturing practices for medicines, vaccines and medical devices, two people aware of the development said. In addition, an additional drugs controller will be appointed for the first time at the country’s apex drug …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Fresh climate change warning ahead of COP29, 2024 will be hottest year on record

Firstpost

Barely days ahead of UN COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service has released a data in which it pointed out that the average global temperature from January to October had been so high that 2024 was sure to be the world’s hottest year The scientists said 2024 will also be the first year in …

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2024 will be world's hottest on record, EU scientists say

The Hindu

This year is "virtually certain" to eclipse 2023 as the world's warmest since records began, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Thursday. C3S said that from January to October, the average global temperature had been so high that 2024 was sure to be the world's hottest year — unless the temperature anomaly in the rest of the …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Vice presidents often run for president. Making it there has been a leap

NPR

Vice presidents often run for president. “Vice presidents are pretty successful at gaining their party’s nomination for president,” said John McGlennon, who teaches American politics at the College of William and Mary. “But they’re less successful at actually winning elections.” Only 15 of the 49 vice presidents in the country’s history have become president. The legacy of the previous administration …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Charles Fry, cricket executive who oversaw the introduction of women members to MCC

The Telegraph

Charles Fry, who has died aged 84, founded and ran two successful insurance companies while still finding the time to serve Marylebone Cricket Club for nearly three decades as committee member, president and chairman. MCC members who encountered Charles Fry might well have taken him to be a patrician in the mould of great cricketing figures such as Lord Harris, …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

In 1835, John Batman attempted to make a treaty with Melbourne's Aboriginal owners. Here's what happened

ABC

In 1835, a group of men led by a grazier from Tasmania, John Batman, met with Kulin leaders in an apparent attempt to lease – or purchase — an extraordinary area of land stretching from modern-day Melbourne to Geelong. The Kulin are an alliance of five distinct but strongly linked nations in the area of modern day Melbourne and surrounds, …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Blitz: Steve McQueen’s new WWII movie is a dud.

Slate

One thing you could never accuse the English filmmaker Steve McQueen of is making the same movie over and over. On his long and perilous journey home, George will encounter both friends, like Ife, a kindly Nigerian British soldier who helps the boy find his way to one of the many bomb shelters set up in the London Underground, and …

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Hitler and Che Guevara in frame together-- Here’s how Christmas in a parallel universe would look like

PETER HITCHENS: Steve McQueen's blockbuster Blitz is propaganda dressed up as historical fact - with racism on every street corner and the Communist Party portrayed as heroes

Harold Ball had a short but impressive football career before he died in WWII

Exhibition unveiled to honor esteemed cultural scholar

Arbitration Weekly Round-Up [ 2nd December To 8th December, 2024]

IIT Madras faces criticism over product test on students without parents' consent

150million people born before 1996 at risk of a mental breakdown caused by metal exposure

"Maintainability" And "Jurisdiction" Cannot Be Conflated While Deciding Application U/S 20 Of Arbitration Act, 1940: Bombay HC

For first time, France's Macron calls 1944 killings of West African troops by French massacre

For the first time, France’s Macron calls 1944 killings of West African troops by French as massacre

Fake antibiotics worth Rs 1.33 crore seized in Telangana pharma raid

Poor facilities plague Tamil Nadu's Sathanur Fossil Wood Park

Trump’s Cabinet: The real danger of Tulsi Gabbard.

Deion Sanders honors 100-year-old Colorado Buffaloes superfan with ‘Peggy’ apparel line

Local to global: 14 nations keen to adopt India’s generic pharmacy model

The history of old age in America is all about reinvention. Too bad our political culture can’t keep up

Shaktimaan returns! But who rocked the red-and-gold suit first — Iron Man, Shazam, or Mukesh Khanna?

Apex drug regulator to more than double staff strength with 250 new positions in effort to help enforce quality norms

Fresh climate change warning ahead of COP29, 2024 will be hottest year on record

2024 will be world's hottest on record, EU scientists say

Vice presidents often run for president. Making it there has been a leap

Charles Fry, cricket executive who oversaw the introduction of women members to MCC

In 1835, John Batman attempted to make a treaty with Melbourne's Aboriginal owners. Here's what happened

Blitz: Steve McQueen’s new WWII movie is a dud.