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Sunday View: The Best Weekend Opinion Reads, Curated Just for You

"It is my view that the Home Minister spoke carelessly about Dr Ambedkar. But it is true that it had become fashionable to chant Ambedkar’s name by those who only sought to use it as a political tool at election time," says senior journalist Tavleen Singh in her weekly column for The Indian Express. "In the Home Minister’s speech in …

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3 days, 6 hours ago

Work on Gangaikonda Cholapuram museum set to begin by Pongal

The Hindu

Work to construct the Gangaikondacholapuram museum near the Arulmigu Peruvudaiyar temple, a world heritage site in Ariyalur district, is set to begin by mid-January next year. The ₹22.10-crore museum would be constructed with joint efforts of the Public Works, Tourism, Culture, Religious Endowment and Archaeology departments. A large central display hall would display antiques unearthed from excavation sites in Maligaimedu …

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3 days, 12 hours ago

The dynasty behind Walmart passes some control to the next generation of heirs

Live Mint

The Walton family—one of the richest clans in America—is passing some of its control in Walmart to the next generation, giving all the grandchildren of Walmart’s founder voting rights over their inheritance. Eight grandchildren of founder Sam Walton will gain voting rights over the family’s holdings, bringing the total number of voting members to 11, Walmart disclosed on Thursday. The …

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Popular TV drama transforms into a bold yet challenging stage production

China Daily

The new Chinese opera A Dream of Splendor, created jointly by the Shanghai Opera House and Tencent Video, will have its global premiere at the Shanghai Grand Theatre from March 28 to 30. "The adaptation and creation of our new classical Chinese-style opera is a bold, fresh attempt to establish a foundation rooted in Song Dynasty culture and aesthetics," says …

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Popular TV drama transforms into a bold yet challenging stage production

China Daily

The new Chinese opera A Dream of Splendor, created jointly by the Shanghai Opera House and Tencent Video, will have its global premiere at the Shanghai Grand Theatre in March. The new Chinese opera A Dream of Splendor, created jointly by the Shanghai Opera House and Tencent Video, will have its global premiere at the Shanghai Grand Theatre from March …

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6 days, 1 hour ago

Congress' lies cannot hide its insults to Ambedkar, our reverence for him absolute: PM Modi

New Indian Express

In a searing attack on the Congress, Modi said if the party and its "rotten ecosystem" think their "malicious lies" can hide their misdeeds of several years, especially their insults towards Ambedkar, they are gravely mistaken. He said people of India have seen time and again how one party, led by one dynasty, a reference to the Nehru-Gandhi family, has …

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6 days, 15 hours ago

With Assad gone in Syria, is Russia turning to Libya for new base in West Asia & Africa?

Firstpost

Following the fall of the Assad dynasty in Syria, there are increasing signs that Russia is looking at Libya as the next hub in West Asia and North Africa region This handout satellite image released by Maxar Technologies on Friday shows an Antonov An-124 heavy transport aircraft preparing to load equipment at Khmeimim airbase in Syria. While Russia cannot recreate …

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1 week ago

Lebanon’s political families: The Gemayel dynasty

Al Jazeera

This film takes us inside another of the most prominent and influential political dynasties in Lebanon in recent history. Lebanon’s complex politics have often been controlled by the country’s leading families, divided along sectarian lines. The Gemayel family has dominated Lebanon’s Maronite Christian population for generations. Their leaders have faced political infighting, involvement in the country’s civil war, negotiated a …

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Guarding lacquerware's lustrous legacy

China Daily

Gan Erke, a master of Chinese lacquerware and inheritor of the Huizhou lacquerware decoration technique, a national-level intangible cultural heritage. It is the workshop of Gan Erke, a master of Chinese lacquerware and inheritor of the Huizhou lacquerware decoration technique — a national-level intangible cultural heritage. "Looking at these lacquerware pieces, we see not only the inheritance of China's traditions, …

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1 week ago

Search for missing trekker uncovers two skeletons near Harishchandra Fort

Hindustan Times

THANE: What began as a search for a missing trekker last week at Harishchandra Fort, 180 km from Mumbai, unearthed a darker mystery when rescuers stumbled upon two skeletons in a perilous, densely forested valley. The operation, resumed months later at the insistence of his family, led rescuers, involving police, villagers and trekkers, to the discovery of skeletal remains belonging …

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1 week, 1 day ago

Beijing opens 2 more mausoleums of Ming emperors to public

China Daily

BEIJING -- Two emperors' mausoleums in Beijing have recently opened to the public, meaning that six out of the 13 tombs in the Changping district belonging to the Ming Dynasty emperors are now accessible to the public, according to the management organization of the tombs. According to Yuan Jiangyu, vice director of the management center of the Ming Tombs in …

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1 week, 1 day ago

Nirmala Sitharaman invokes Balraj Sahni's arrest to slam Nehru over Constitution

India Today

Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday referred to the arrests of poet and lyricist Majrooh Sultanpuri and actor Balraj Sahni to slam former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru over freedom of speech. Keeping up the attack on the Gandhi family after the Prime Minister's explosive speech in the Lok Sabha last week, Sitharaman said the first Constitutional amendment was brought by …

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1 week, 1 day ago

DNA helps uncover ancient ordinary families linked through marriage

China Daily

Remains of a buried dog from a newly excavated tomb at the site. DNA technology has decoded information about a newly discovered cemetery and the intriguing relationship between two extended families living nearly 3,000 years ago in what is now Beijing. The cemetery at the Liulihe Site in the capital's Fangshan district is a large-scale tomb area in the presumed …

Beijing Dynasty Yan Site Tomb Tombs

1 week, 2 days ago

Modi blames Congress for stifling Constitution across 7 decades

Hindustan Times

The Congress never respected the Constitution and five generations of leaders tried to insult and undermine the sacred document for political gain and appeasement politics, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday, lashing out at the biggest Opposition party for what he called the indelible sin of imposing the Emergency and damaging constitutional freedoms. Modi blames Congress for stifling Constitution …

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1 week, 3 days ago

RFK Jr. brings JFK conspiracies to heart of Trump team

Raw Story

Conspiracy theories about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy have floated around the fringes of US politics for decades. It's a move that has reportedly angered some US lawmakers -- but which also shows the extraordinary influence that the man dubbed RFK Jr. already has in Trump's transition team. After the November 5 election, he was photographed on Trump's …

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1 week, 4 days ago

'We're preventing jihadists from reaching us': Israeli commander on why military moved into Syria

Firstpost

Following the ouster of the Assad regime in Syria, the Israeli military has moved into southern Syria to control the demilitarised buffer zone along the Israel-Syria border, with a commander saying the move was necessitated to ensure jihadists don’t enter Israel Israeli soldiers patrol the perimeter of the agricultural settlement of Avivim, next to the Lebanese border in upper Galilee, …

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1 week, 6 days ago

Intl students explore charm of traditional tea culture in Qingdao

China Daily

An intangible cultural heritage workshop in Qingdao's Licang district hosts a themed event highlighting the tea of the Song Dynasty on Dec 10. An intangible cultural heritage workshop in Qingdao's Licang district hosted an event on the tea of the Song Dynasty on Dec 10. During the event, participants delved into tea culture through activities such as diancha, which is …

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1 week, 6 days ago

Intl students explore charm of traditional tea culture in Qingdao

China Daily

An intangible cultural heritage workshop in Qingdao's Licang district hosts a themed event highlighting the tea of the Song Dynasty on Dec 10. An intangible cultural heritage workshop in Qingdao's Licang district hosted an event on the tea of the Song Dynasty on Dec 10. During the event, participants delved into tea culture through activities such as diancha, which is …

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1 week, 6 days ago

Assad's feared dungeons give up their secrets

Raw Story

Syrians lived in terror for decades of what went on behind the concrete walls of Damascus's security compound. Rebel fighters stand guard at the entrances to the forbidden city in the capital's Kafr Sousa district, where the feared security services had their headquarters alongside government offices. Thousands of intelligence files lay abandoned, many of them scattered on the floor, detailing …

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2 weeks ago

Ancient Zhongzhou Alley given modern makeover

China Daily

Zhongzhou Alley in Zhongxian county of Chongqing takes on a new look and becomes a popular travel destination after a recent urban renewal project. YU HONG/FOR CHINA DAILY An ancient street in southwestern China's Chongqing municipality has been given a new lease of life after years of slowly falling into disrepair, thanks to local government efforts to renovate the area …

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HBO show ‘Succession’ sparked real-life Murdoch legal drama: report

Raw Story

A real-life legal drama involving Rupert Murdoch’s trust was reportedly sparked by the hit HBO series "Succession," which gave audiences a glimpse inside the fictional world of a family dynasty and the ensuing power struggle among its members. Murdoch’s plan to change his family’s trust to give full control of the Fox News empire to his son Lachlan, who is …

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2 weeks, 1 day ago

Assad's reign collapses: What the fall of Damascus means for Syria

India Today

Syria is making global headlines with a historical twist — over five decades of Assad family rule has come to an abrupt end. Rebel forces have taken Damascus, and Bashar al-Assad, who has dominated Syrian politics since 2000, is nowhere to be found. Reports suggest Assad fled the capital, possibly via Damascus International Airport, but his whereabouts remain unknown. Bashar …

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2 weeks, 1 day ago

Assad dynasty maintained grip on Syria through fear, surveillance and murder

ABC

If not for his handsome older brother's appetite for risk, Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad might still be a bookish ophthalmologist living in London. "His father wanted to build up Bashar al-Assad's legitimacy inside the government, give him positions of authority inside the government, enough so that … he'd be able to take over." The Assad family is part of the …

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2 weeks, 1 day ago

The key moments in Syria that led to the collapse of Bashar al-Assad's dynasty

ABC

The end of Bashar Al-Assad and his family's half-century-long regime in Syria came gradually, then all at once. The following day, the rebels entered Aleppo, Syria's largest city, for the first time since they were pushed out in 2016 after a bloody military campaign by Syrian government forces backed by Russia and Iran. Capitalising on the government's diminished position, the …

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Sunday View: The Best Weekend Opinion Reads, Curated Just for You

Work on Gangaikonda Cholapuram museum set to begin by Pongal

The dynasty behind Walmart passes some control to the next generation of heirs

Popular TV drama transforms into a bold yet challenging stage production

Popular TV drama transforms into a bold yet challenging stage production

Congress' lies cannot hide its insults to Ambedkar, our reverence for him absolute: PM Modi

With Assad gone in Syria, is Russia turning to Libya for new base in West Asia & Africa?

Lebanon’s political families: The Gemayel dynasty

Guarding lacquerware's lustrous legacy

Search for missing trekker uncovers two skeletons near Harishchandra Fort

Beijing opens 2 more mausoleums of Ming emperors to public

Nirmala Sitharaman invokes Balraj Sahni's arrest to slam Nehru over Constitution

DNA helps uncover ancient ordinary families linked through marriage

Modi blames Congress for stifling Constitution across 7 decades

RFK Jr. brings JFK conspiracies to heart of Trump team

'We're preventing jihadists from reaching us': Israeli commander on why military moved into Syria

Intl students explore charm of traditional tea culture in Qingdao

Intl students explore charm of traditional tea culture in Qingdao

Assad's feared dungeons give up their secrets

Ancient Zhongzhou Alley given modern makeover

HBO show ‘Succession’ sparked real-life Murdoch legal drama: report

Assad's reign collapses: What the fall of Damascus means for Syria

Assad dynasty maintained grip on Syria through fear, surveillance and murder

The key moments in Syria that led to the collapse of Bashar al-Assad's dynasty