Andria Derio sits in the gallery before the Placentia Yorba Linda School Board discusses a proposed resolution to ban teaching critical race theory in schools. She is opposed to teaching CRT in school, and wears a sign stating she will remove her children from the district should it not pass. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via…Continue Reading
A relative silence engulfs “The Book of Boba Fett.” Not the kind of that suddenly follows a million voices crying out, which would imply that it did something worth investigating. No, this is the silence one finds inside a dead mine’s depths, the result of relatively few people digging the latest “Star Wars” TV excursion.…Continue Reading
Asghar Farhadi (“The Salesman”) delivers another knotty morality tale with his superb new film, “A Hero.” Shortlisted for the Best International Film Oscar, and winner of the Grand Prize at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, this heartbreaking drama shows the ripple effect of a simple lie and how a good deed may not necessarily redeem…Continue Reading
Among the more physically nonsensical conspiracy theories that have emerged from the pandemic is one that connects the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus — a physical object comprising of millions of atoms — with fifth-generation broadband cellular technology (5G) currently being implemented in the form of towers broadcasting radio waves (massless photons). Despite having no basis in…Continue Reading
Indian freedom fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s proposed grand statue, which will be installed at India Gate, will be sculpted by the Director General of the National Modern Art Gallery Adwaita Gadanayak. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Friday that the statue of the nationalist leader will be installed as a symbol of…Continue Reading
India reported 3,37,704 new coronavirus cases with 448 deaths in 24 hours, the health ministry said. The daily positivity cases stands at over 17 per cent in the country with the number of active cases at over 2100000. The health ministry informed that 10,050 total Omicron cases were detected in the country. The number of…Continue Reading
Nestle on Friday said that it has withdrawn a special range of its KitKat chocolate bar wrappers featuring Hindu Gods following accusations of hurting religious sentiments. Nestle had recently released a limited range of chocolate wrappers globally which had photos of artwork by local artisans, reported The Guardian. The Indian version of the wrapper had…Continue Reading
India’s northern Jammu and Kashmir has recorded a steep rise in Covid positive cases, with 5,720 new infections being detected in a span of 24 hours. The Kashmir division recorded 3,830 Covid positive cases while the Jammu division reported 1,890. The total number of positive cases across the Union territory now stands at 3,84,381. The…Continue Reading
Nearly 80 years after it crashed, a missing World War II plane has been identified in India’s remote Himalayas. The discovery was made after a very dangerous search operation. The incident took place in the first week of 1945. The discovery was made after the team stumbled upon the plane on a snow-clad mountain top…Continue Reading
Former India cricketer Gautam Gambhir has been a strong critic of Virat Kohli. He had recently launched a volley of attacks on Kohli once again for the latter’s reaction to the controversial DRS decision during the recently concluded third Test against South Africa at Cape Town which India lost.The former Indian opening batter said that…Continue Reading