BAPS Monks’ Approach Towards Eiffel Tower’s Women Staff is a Form of Untouchability
The Leafletby S.N. Sahu·25d ago
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA hailed by Americans as a cerebral Hindu monk following his spell binding address delivered at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago on September 11, 1893 was deeply...
From fighting fires to reading the weather: Can Nigeria learn to see the storm before it breaks?, By Crispin Oduobuk
Premium Timesby Premium Times·25d ago
A serious threat assessment should help the country establish a hierarchy of risks and make capabilities, spending and operational priorities follow that hierarchy.
Fiction: A college lecturer is caught in the machinery of state repression during the Emergency
Scroll.inby Ampassayya Naveen·25d ago
June 20, 1976 It is night, around 2 am I just can’t sleep. I could hear the sound of a drizzle outside, but it was sultry inside the house. I tossed about in bed.
FACT-CHECK: Is Peter Obi parading a fake university degree certificate? Here are our findings
Premium Timesby Abdulqudus Ogundapo·25d ago
The academic credentials of Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), have been a subject of controversy since 2023, when he contested the presidential...
Gujarat turns into a global hub for circular economy as 62 countries join India’s sustainability push
New Indian Expressby Dilip Singh Kshatriya·25d ago
AHMEDABAD: India’s circular economy push took centre stage in Gujarat on Tuesday as Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav and Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel inaugurated the World...
Managing crisis communication in the digital age, By Bodex Hungbo
Premium Timesby Premium Times·25d ago
The most effective crisis response is therefore not necessarily the one that produces the fastest statement.
Why is pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil suing Columbia University?
Al Jazeera·25d ago
Pro-Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil, whom the authorities attempted to deport from the United States after he led a 2024 encampment protest against Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, is suing...
When a dollar rain causes rupee flood
Business Lineby Prakash Balakrishnan·25d ago
Like everything about India these days, commentators are split in the middle about the pros and cons of the recently concluded FCNR juggernaut.
Alfredo Jaar’s America
Hyperallergicby Hyperallergic·25d ago
In April 1987, a message flashed across the screens of Times Square: “This Is Not America.” Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar’s A Logo for America has one very clear message at its center: “America”...
How the 1980s Permanently Shaped America
Timeby Jonathan Kaufman·25d ago
Like most Americans, I arrived at the election watch party on Nov. 4, 1980, expecting a long night. It was a little before 9:00 p.m. in Chicago.
Will A.I. Overwrite Our Sense of Shame?
The New Yorkerby Jay Caspian Kang·25d ago
This is part of a series of columns about the decline of shame in the age of social media. In the first installment of this series, I wrote about shame as one way that groups of people can mediate...
Italianness is a state of travelling in both directions | Aeon Essays
Aeonby Ben Faccini·25d ago
When he was a child growing up in Emilia-Romagna, my great-grandfather Marco once found an eagle fledgling that had fallen from its nest.
Nepal Cannot Stop the Floods. It Can Stop Them From Becoming Disasters.
Timeby Dan Haines·25d ago
The floods in Nepal and Tibet have been terrifying: some 1,386 people have died, and around 5,000 remain unaccounted for. The flood destroyed bridges, hydropower projects and entire towns.
Inspiring Irish and Irish American quotes
IrishCentral.comby Noel Jameson·25d ago
These Irish and Irish-American quotes perfectly illustrate the long, complex, and inspiring history of the Irish in America.
'Ask what you can contribute to nation, not what it can do for you': Sitharaman to Gen Z, Gen Alpha
New Indian Expressby TNIE online desk·25d ago
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday asked the Gen Z and Gen Alpha to take up leadership roles and put the nation’s interests first, asking young graduates to focus on what they...
More than 2 million Indigenous people lived in Australia in 1788: new research
The Conversation Australiaby Shane Ingrey, Postdoctoral research fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures (CIEHF) and Gujaga Foundation, UNSW·25d ago
Content warning: This article discusses mass death, epidemics, frontier violence, and the structural violence experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Responsibilities in close social relationships explain Eastern–Western cultural differences
Phys.orgby Arizona State University·25d ago
Responsibilities in close social relationships explain Eastern–Western cultural differences Do you think that a person who reorganizes their life so that their aging parents can live with them...
MORNING GLORY: Spare us the AI apocalypse rhetoric. Let Congress decide what comes next
FOX Newsby Hugh Hewitt·25d ago
Every morning brings a new warning about "artificial intelligence" (AI) along the lines of, "We are all going to die."
Did you know? Maulana Azad urged Muslims to be “extremely hard on Kafirs"
OpIndiaby Shraddha Pandey·25d ago
In Indian political parlance, keeping the dead alive in rhetoric is a necessity. However, this ritual of necessity becomes problematic when the invoked figure is glorified, and their utterly...
Trump brings US democracy to its lowest point in recent history
El País Englishby Ignacio Fariza·25d ago
A great deal would have to change in the next two years for Donald Trump’s second term not to go down in history as the period of greatest democratic decline in recent U.S. history.
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