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'Fight': Washington Post delivers urgent plea to Republican Senate
1 month, 1 week ago

'Fight': Washington Post delivers urgent plea to Republican Senate

Raw Story  

Senate Republicans received Tuesday morning an urgent word from the Washington Post editorial board as they face mounting bullying from MAGA commentators bent on delivering them to President-elect Donald Trump: "Fight." That's why the Supreme Court ruled unanimously against former President Barack Obama in 2014 when he made recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board under the rule the …

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Putin calls Nato a 'blatant anachronism', accuses US of dominating alliance for global influence
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Putin calls Nato a 'blatant anachronism', accuses US of dominating alliance for global influence

Firstpost  

In a speech to a conference of Russian experts, Putin argued that the Nato alliance operates under “the diktat of the older brother,” referring to the US Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during a plenary session as part of the 21st annual meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club titled 'Lasting peace on what basis? Reuters File Russian President …

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Letters to the Editor: Don’t think elections are ‘religious wars’? Look at abortion rights
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Letters to the Editor: Don’t think elections are ‘religious wars’? Look at abortion rights

LA Times  

To the editor: In defending his intent to vote for neither presidential candidate, Jonah Goldberg dismisses how crucial individual elections are. He indicates that it’s wrong to see them as “religious wars about the nature of reality.” However, that’s exactly what presidential and Senate elections have become. Such elections do become “religious wars about the nature of reality.” Edward Tabash, …

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Bringing the history back to the homes
8 months ago

Bringing the history back to the homes

China Daily  

LIU CHEN/YANG FEIYUE/CHINA DAILY Editor's note: A number of Chinese cities have maintained their cultural memory in the form of historical neighborhoods that have only added to their multilayered charm and vigor with the passage of time. In this installment, we wander about the Sanfang Qixiang neighborhood in downtown Fuzhou, sheltered by luxuriant banyan trees and immersed in a cultural …

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DC Edit | Let new criminal laws strengthen democracy
9 months, 4 weeks ago

DC Edit | Let new criminal laws strengthen democracy

Deccan Chronicle  

India will soon be witnessing an interesting transformation in an area that touches everyone’s lives — administration of criminal justice. The Union government has notified the three new criminal laws — the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, and Bharatiya Sakshya Act, 2023, which will replace Indian Penal Code, 1860, the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1974, …

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This week’s cellphone outage makes it clear: In the United States, landlines are languishing
10 months ago

This week’s cellphone outage makes it clear: In the United States, landlines are languishing

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — When her cellphone’s service went down this week because of an AT&T network outage, Bernice Hudson didn’t panic. “Don’t get me wrong, I like cellphones,” the 69-year-old Alexandria, Virginia, resident said Thursday, the day of the outage. Now, he said, “it’s become an afterthought,” replaced by services like broadband internet access and its multiple ways of making …

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PRS Oberoi: The man who reinvented a legacy
11 months, 4 weeks ago

PRS Oberoi: The man who reinvented a legacy

Live Mint  

Mumbai: It couldn’t have been easy to up the ante of his legendary father, who had risen from hotel coal clerk to forge the finest—and many firsts—of Indian hospitality. In the late 1960s, when Rai Bahadur had showed him his bid for the land yet to be reclaimed at Bombay’s Nariman Point, Biki had exclaimed, “Aren’t you overdoing things?" Biki …

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United Nations Security Council caught in 'concerning state of paralysis': UNGA president Dennis Francis
1 year ago

United Nations Security Council caught in 'concerning state of paralysis': UNGA president Dennis Francis

The Hindu  

The United Nations Security Council is caught in a "concerning state of paralysis" and aims to serve the predominance of Global North countries, United Nations General Assembly president Dennis Francis has said, underlining the need for representation and equitable participation of developing nations in decision-making in a reformed Council. As conflicts “seem to be spreading across the globe, the Security …

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Law Panel Backs Sedition Law; Says it Should Be Retained With Safeguards to Prevent Misuse
1 year, 6 months ago

Law Panel Backs Sedition Law; Says it Should Be Retained With Safeguards to Prevent Misuse

News 18  

The Law Commission has backed the penal provision for the offence of sedition, saying repealing it altogether can have serious adverse ramifications for the security and integrity of the country Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code dealing with sedition is at present under abeyance following directions of the Supreme Court issued in May, 2022. “In this context, it is …

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Law Commission asks to retain sedition law; proposes amendments for clarity
1 year, 6 months ago

Law Commission asks to retain sedition law; proposes amendments for clarity

Live Mint  

The Law Commission has expressed its opinion that Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code, which pertains to sedition laws, should be retained. "In this context, it is also alternatively suggested that a provision analogous to Section 196 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 may be incorporated as a proviso to Section 154 of CrPC, which would provide the …

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Sedition law can be retained but with safeguards: Law Commission
1 year, 6 months ago

Sedition law can be retained but with safeguards: Law Commission

The Hindu  

The Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code dealing with sedition needs to be retained but certain amendments could be made for greater clarity regarding its usage, the 22nd Law Commission has said in its report to the government. “In this context, it is also alternatively suggested that a provision analogous to Section 196 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, …

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The Great, one of TVs finest comedies, finally comes to India
1 year, 7 months ago

The Great, one of TVs finest comedies, finally comes to India

Live Mint  

The first thing many of us remember about Catherine The Great—the empress who brought the Age of Enlightenment to Russia and sparked a Soviet renaissance—is that she was known to have made love with a horse. This is obviously addressed in Tony McNamara’s dizzyingly brilliant series The Great—a Hulu series at long last available in India, streaming on Amazon Prime …

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Taking stock of India’s policy on Ukraine war
1 year, 8 months ago

Taking stock of India’s policy on Ukraine war

Hindustan Times  

It has been over a year since Russia invaded Ukraine and heralded the unmistakable return of geopolitics to the centre stage of international affairs. First, on the core question of taking a position on Russia’s invasion, New Delhi has made India sit on the fence. Many in India feel pride at New Delhi’s frequent use of sharp words that call …

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Second-choice Sean Dyche must prove he’s no anachronism
1 year, 10 months ago

Second-choice Sean Dyche must prove he’s no anachronism

The Independent  

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for free Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Farhad Moshiri has made Goodison Park the home of incoherent thinking: if …

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Terrorism Will Not Be Easily Wiped Out From Global Agenda, Says Envoy Kamboj
2 years ago

Terrorism Will Not Be Easily Wiped Out From Global Agenda, Says Envoy Kamboj

ABP News  

New Delhi: Terrorism continues to remain a priority for the international community even as the world’s focus has now shifted to the Russia-Ukraine War and other geopolitical developments, New Delhi has been able to bring it to the fore, India’s Ambassador to the UN Ruchira Kamboj said Tuesday. “While terrorism is very prevalent in South Asia, in our part of …

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Review: ‘Inu-oh’ is a psychedelic Japanese anime rock opera for the ages
2 years, 4 months ago

Review: ‘Inu-oh’ is a psychedelic Japanese anime rock opera for the ages

LA Times  

The phantom that haunts the eccentric Japanese rock opera “Inu-oh” is not the comeliest of creatures — not at first, anyway. Like most of the hallucinatory sights and transporting sounds in this feature-length anime, Inu-oh, as he comes to be known, tends to shapeshift in accordance with director Masaaki Yuasa’s whims. In the context of a relatively staid and strictly …

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Birmingham breathes fresh life into Commonwealth Games with ultimate sporting palate cleanser
2 years, 4 months ago

Birmingham breathes fresh life into Commonwealth Games with ultimate sporting palate cleanser

The Independent  

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A harrowing American moment, repackaged for prime time
2 years, 6 months ago

A harrowing American moment, repackaged for prime time

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Promised: New footage. I’m not sure how much sustained attention anyone has left at this point.” That’s why the hearings needed one key thing most legislative committees lack: a professional TV executive — someone who could arrange and curate violent amateur and surveillance video, 3D motion graphics, eyewitness testimony and depositions into a storyline built to echo. …

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A player of 60s vintage who showed us what 2020s might be like
2 years, 7 months ago

A player of 60s vintage who showed us what 2020s might be like

The Hindu  

It is impossible to be objective about death. Andrew Symonds was a cricketer of 1960s vintage who played in the 2000s and showed us what the 2020s might be like. Living life on his terms The fatal car accident also took away someone who lived life on his own terms, even if it meant a shorter career in cricket with …

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Rahul Dravid: The silent fulcrum around which Indian cricket is set to pivot
3 years ago

Rahul Dravid: The silent fulcrum around which Indian cricket is set to pivot

The Hindu  

In a world steeped in the meagre words of Twitter and WhatsApp status updates offering quick peeks into frenetic lives, Rahul Dravid is an anachronism. Dravid in the coach’s seat seemed pre-ordained ever since he moved away from the commentators’ box and chose mentorship, be it in the Indian Premier League or his eventual guiding role at the National Cricket …

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Israel, Morocco to normalize ties; US shifts W Sahara policy
4 years ago

Israel, Morocco to normalize ties; US shifts W Sahara policy

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Israel and Morocco have agreed to normalize relations as President Donald Trump, in his final weeks in office, announced the fourth Arab-Israeli agreement in four months on Thursday. In a related major policy shift, the United States agreed to recognize Morocco’s claim over the long-disputed Western Sahara region as part of the deal. Trump said Israel and Morocco …

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Op-Ed: Even the Founders hated the electoral college
4 years, 1 month ago

Op-Ed: Even the Founders hated the electoral college

LA Times  

The electoral college has been an anachronism for over a century. The electoral college replicated the Great Compromise reached in July that gave the nationalists popular representation in the House, and the confederationists representation in the Senate. James Madison, the preeminent nationalist, wrote to Thomas Jefferson in Paris, lamenting that the Great Compromise and the electoral college had finessed the …

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Weekend Watch: 'Rebecca', 'Little Women' & Other Adaptations
4 years, 1 month ago

Weekend Watch: 'Rebecca', 'Little Women' & Other Adaptations

The Quint  

Greta Gerwig's 2019 coming-of-age period drama film is the seventh film adaptation of the 1868 novel of the same name by Louisa May Alcott. Speaking about Little Women, The New York Times had written, "Written and directed by Greta Gerwig, this Little Women — the latest of many adaptations — embraces its source material with eager enthusiasm rather than timid …

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