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Trump looks 'ready to touch the third rail' with politically toxic ideas: analysis

President-elect Donald Trump for years has differentiated himself from Republicans by ruling out cutting or privatizing popular programs such as Social Security and Medicare. But as Salon's Heather Parton writes, Trump's decision to empower X CEO Elon Musk to lead a "Department of Government Efficiency" leads her to believe that major cuts to these programs are firmly on the table …

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1 month ago

Donald Trump is ready to make Republicans touch the third rail

Salon

There are a thousand election hot takes and post-mortems floating around these days and I'm sure we'll soon come to some consensus about what drove the Trump victory But if there's one thing we do know it's that he won both of his elections at least in part by shedding some Republican Party orthodoxy that had been bringing the GOP …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Remembering Begum Razia Baig: 19th Qadir Ali Baig Theatre Festival Celebrates Motherhood

The Hindu

The 19th edition of the Qadir Ali Baig Theatre Festival will pay homage to the theatre doyen’s wife Begum Razia Baig, who passed in March this year. The festival will feature performances, workshops and masterclasses by actors, poets, writers and directors. The five-day fest at Taramati Baradari Cultural Complex will present a variety of performances, including satire, mature romance and …

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5 months ago

Jack Laugher and Anthony Harding win Olympic 3m synchro bronze to set new GB diving record

The Independent

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5 months, 1 week ago

Max Whitlock conquers anxiety to lead young GB team closer to Olympic gymnastics history

The Independent

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

West Indies spinner Kevin Sinclair celebrates wicket of England batter Harry Brook with his sensational signature BACKFLIP at Trent Bridge

Daily Mail

Kevin Sinclair sent Harry Brook back to the shed in some style on day one of the second Test at Trent Bridge, as the West Indies spinner pulled out a brilliant backflip. England had been going well at 201 for three after lunch, with Ollie Pope well set on 76 and Harry Brook looking comfortable on 36 after replacing Joe …

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10 months ago

PM Modi to unveil development projects worth more than ₹34,800 crore in Bihar

The Hindu

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will unveil development projects worth more than ₹34,800 crore in Bihar on March 2. “Besides, PM Modi will unveil multiple projects in the oil and gas sector, worth about ₹1.48 lakh crore, spread across various States, from Patna,” an official statement said. This will be PM Modi's first visit to Bihar since the BJP-led NDA got …

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1 year, 6 months ago

A sense of deja vu pervades the Maha muddle

Hindustan Times

Despite all the stunning twists and turns in Maharashtra this week, any story with Sharad Pawar as a key protagonist evokes a sense of deja vu. It has successfully hollowed out Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena and Sharad Pawar’s NCP. If Sharad Pawar really tricked them in 2019 by sending Ajit Pawar into enemy territory as a decoy, the BJP made …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is 'dazzling' but still a 'disappointment'

BBC

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is 'dazzling' but still a 'disappointment' Sony The sequel to the brilliant Into the Spider-Verse 'feels frantically busy and wheel-spinningly slow at the same time', writes Nicholas Barber. It feels as if a new Spider-Man film has come out every year for the past two decades, but 2018's Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse somersaults over the rest …

Film Miles

2 years, 1 month ago

Jagdanand Singh to continue as RJD's Bihar chief

India Today

In what appears to be Rashtriya Janata Dal supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav's successful attempt to mollify estranged party state president Jagdanand Singh, sources said, Singh will now continue as the party's Bihar president. Jagdanand Singh had stopped going to the RJD office in Patna since the day his son resigned, leading to speculation that Lalu might replace him with another …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Trade Talk: Low footfalls for Akshay Kumar's Ram Setu and Ajay Devgn's Thank God shock the trade

Firstpost

According to box-office figures, Ram Setu collected around Rs 8 crore on the third day as opposed to Thank God’s Rs 4 crores on Day 3. If you compare it with last year, Sooryavanshi clocked Rs 26 cr+ on Day 1, despite 50% occupancy in Maharashtra, while Ram Setu and Thank God could not collect Rs 26 crores combined on …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Nitish Kumar | The man who mastered political engineering

The Hindu

Nitish Kumar has a degree in electrical engineering, a profession that he never pursued. In March 1990, Mr. Kumar played a crucial role in getting support for Mr. Prasad in a keenly contested battle within the Janata Dal for the Chief Minister’s post. Mr. Kumar, whose Samata Party had allied with his former socialist colleagues Ram Vilas Paswan and Sharad …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Second medal for Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix with silver alongside Eden Cheng

The Independent

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Cheng Sirieix

2 years, 8 months ago

‘Russian Doll’ didn’t need a second season, but the series pulls it off beautifully

LA Times

Given how firmly it closed its circular plot, and the relatively peculiar particulars of its narrative — “relatively” since it ran on an engine oft-lifted from “Groundhog Day” — it’s somewhat surprising to see a second season of “Russian Doll,” the excellence of its 2019 first season notwithstanding. In that fairy tale of New York, described by Natasha Lyonne’s main …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Olympics Live: US wins to set up gold-medal game with Canada

Associated Press

BEIJING — The Latest on the Beijing Winter Olympics: ___ Hilary Knight had a goal and assist, Alex Cavallini stopped 25 shots and the defending Olympic champion United States defeated Finland 4-1 in a women’s hockey semifinal at the Beijing Games on Monday to set up the sixth gold-medal showdown between the Americans and Canada. ___ The International Olympic Committee …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics: List of all medals won on Monday, February 14

The Hindu

Here is a roundup of all medals on Monday, February 14, at the Beijing 2022 Games. BOBSLED WOMEN'S MONOBOB Former Canadian bobsledder Kaillie Humphries easily won the inaugural women’s monobob event. FIGURE SKATING ICE DANCE Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron of France broke their own ice dance world record to win the Olympic gold medal that narrowly eluded them four …

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3 years ago

Sanjay Subrahmanyam: Playing to his strengths

The Hindu

Musicians go through different phases of development, maturity and discovery. ‘Chintaye mahalinga murthim’ is a beautiful Paraj raga kriti by Dikshitar — Sanjay’s slower rendition with flat notes was delightful, as the lyrical and musical elements were in full view. His Kalyani alapana too brought out good facets of bhava singing, straight from Sanjay’s playbook, with ringing ‘ri’ ‘ga’ and …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Lakshmi Manchu excited for her Malayalam debut

Deccan Chronicle

Lakshmi Manchu has forayed into Malayalam cinema and that too with none other than one of the superstars of the Malayalam film industry — Mohanlal — with the film, Monster. I think for someone who’s such a big star, that was very kind of him.” In her excitement and surprise of having been offered the part, Lakshmi tells us she’d …

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3 years, 11 months ago

A specialist in her aria

China Daily

Wang Jing, veteran artist from China Pingju Opera Theater, performs a part of the classic piece, A Fairy Maiden Scatters Flowers, during a New Year countdown show on popular video site, Bilibili, on Dec 31, 2020. Wang Jing is among a dedicated group of theater performers determined to help the Pingju Opera art form thrive in the modern era. If …

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4 years ago

With Rank Opportunism, Somersaults on Farm Laws, Kumaraswamy Finds Himself Adrift in K'taka Politics

News 18

The political cartoonists in Karnataka are having a field day lampooning JDS chief HD Kumaraswamy after his recent U-turn on the controversial farm bills and farmers agitation. Some have even replaced JDS symbol “the woman with a haystack” with “Kumaraswamy carrying a haystack in a saffron colour saree”, aptly describing the current status of JDS. Within 48 hours of him …

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4 years, 4 months ago

How Kamala Harris found the political identity that had eluded her

Live Mint

WASHINGTON: Months after her presidential campaign collapsed amid questions over her political identity, Kamala Harris suddenly and forcefully found her voice – and at a fortuitous time. Harris, a 55-year-old U.S. senator from California, was chosen by Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden as his running mate on Tuesday, making history as the first Black woman and Asian-American on a major …

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4 years, 8 months ago

Actor Koel Mallick welcomes baby boy, shares first pic: ‘Our little one arrived this morning’

Hindustan Times

Bengali actor Koel Mallick welcomed her son on Tuesday and shared the news with her fans, along with a family picture in which she can be seen posing with her husband Nispal Singh and the newborn baby. Sharing the picture with the newborn, Koel posted a message on Twitter which said, “Our little one arrived this morning. We want to …

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5 years, 1 month ago

'Phone battery lasts longer': Twitter users express bewilderment at Ajit Pawar's oscillating act, Devendra Fadnavis' resignation

Firstpost

In the past few days, Maharashtra’s politics witnessed numerous somersaults, beginning with the swearing in of Devendra Fadnavis on 23 November. In the past few days, Maharashtra’s politics witnessed numerous somersaults, at the end of which Uddhav Thackeray looks set to become the chief minister, heading a Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress government. This was only three days after Devendra Fadnavis took oath …

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5 years, 4 months ago

Viral 'somersaulting' school kids to become full-time trainees at Sports Authority of India Eastern Centre

Firstpost

The video of Jashika Khan, 11, and Mohammad Azajuddin, 12, somersaulting and cartwheeling went viral on social media after the five-time Olympic gold medallist gymnast Comaneci tweeted This is awesome. Kolkata: The boy and girl in uniform, whose somersaults on their way to school, with bags on their backs, impressed none other than the great Nadia Comaneci, will now become …

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Trump looks 'ready to touch the third rail' with politically toxic ideas: analysis

Donald Trump is ready to make Republicans touch the third rail

Remembering Begum Razia Baig: 19th Qadir Ali Baig Theatre Festival Celebrates Motherhood

Jack Laugher and Anthony Harding win Olympic 3m synchro bronze to set new GB diving record

Max Whitlock conquers anxiety to lead young GB team closer to Olympic gymnastics history

West Indies spinner Kevin Sinclair celebrates wicket of England batter Harry Brook with his sensational signature BACKFLIP at Trent Bridge

PM Modi to unveil development projects worth more than ₹34,800 crore in Bihar

A sense of deja vu pervades the Maha muddle

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is 'dazzling' but still a 'disappointment'

Jagdanand Singh to continue as RJD's Bihar chief

Trade Talk: Low footfalls for Akshay Kumar's Ram Setu and Ajay Devgn's Thank God shock the trade

Nitish Kumar | The man who mastered political engineering

Second medal for Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix with silver alongside Eden Cheng

‘Russian Doll’ didn’t need a second season, but the series pulls it off beautifully

Olympics Live: US wins to set up gold-medal game with Canada

Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics: List of all medals won on Monday, February 14

Sanjay Subrahmanyam: Playing to his strengths

Lakshmi Manchu excited for her Malayalam debut

A specialist in her aria

With Rank Opportunism, Somersaults on Farm Laws, Kumaraswamy Finds Himself Adrift in K'taka Politics

How Kamala Harris found the political identity that had eluded her

Actor Koel Mallick welcomes baby boy, shares first pic: ‘Our little one arrived this morning’

'Phone battery lasts longer': Twitter users express bewilderment at Ajit Pawar's oscillating act, Devendra Fadnavis' resignation

Viral 'somersaulting' school kids to become full-time trainees at Sports Authority of India Eastern Centre