MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Alabama’s port city danced and squealed to the prime event of its Carnival season on Sunday, a quirky bash honoring the man credited with helping make the nation’s first Mardi Gras celebration what it is — a smaller, toned-down version of New Orleans’ mega-party.Joe Cain Day, named for a clerk who…Continue Reading
SALINAS, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday ordered flags at the state capitol to be flown at half-staff in honor of a central California police officer who was shot and killed during a traffic stop. Salinas Police Department Officer Jorge David Alvarado died during a shootout that erupted after he pulled over a…Continue Reading
WASHINGTON (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin’s implied threat to turn the Ukraine war into a broader nuclear conflict presents President Joe Biden with choices rarely contemplated in the atomic age, including whether to raise the alert level of U.S. nuclear forces.This turn of events is all the more remarkable for the fact that less…Continue Reading
Written by Gargi Verma , Manoj C G | New Delhi, Raipur | February 28, 2022 3:17:18 am Ashok Gehlot and Bhupesh Baghel (right). (File) Ten days to go for counting of votes in five states, senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday held a surprise meeting with Ashok Gehlot and Bhupesh Baghel, Rajasthan and…Continue Reading
At around 3 am Sunday, a flight from Bucharest landed at Delhi’s IGI Airport. Around 250 passengers who got off breathed a sigh of relief. These were the first of the students from war-torn Ukraine to land on Sunday, the second day of the evacuation. On Sunday, 688 Indian nationals returned in three Air India…Continue Reading
By: Express News Service | New Delhi | February 28, 2022 2:50:42 am A Ukrainian soldier walks past debris of a burning military truck, on a street in Kyiv. (AP) India believes it should be in touch with all stakeholders in the Ukraine crisis but the loss of human lives is “not acceptable”, Foreign Secretary…Continue Reading
The Supreme Court has quashed a 2016 Bihar government notification, through which the government had given people from Lohar caste the status of Scheduled Tribes (ST) — from the earlier Extremely Backward Classes (EBC). The court ruled that Bihar’s Lohar or Lohaar community is not the same as “Lohra or Lohra”, which are ST communities…Continue Reading
Elizabeth Devasia, a medical student from Kerala who studies at Karazin National University in Kharkiv, has been sleeping in a metro station for four nights since the war broke out in Ukraine. With the city being the centre of clashes between the Russian army and Ukrainians, she along with 18 other Indian students at the…Continue Reading
Jeremy Renner Fan Cast to Play Zelenskyy in Biopic But, Like, Too Soon, No??? 2/27/2022 11:42 AM PT The Ukraine crisis is still very much underway, and yet … some are already opining about who could play Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a movie — and Jeremy Renner seems to be it. Twitter users are up in…Continue Reading
Ukraine Crisis Racism Claims Start to Emerge … Africans Can’t Flee??? 2/27/2022 10:50 AM PT As millions of people attempt to leave Ukraine and seek refuge in neighboring countries, a disturbing trend has surfaced … namely, Africans, allegedly, being discriminated against. Several videos and accounts have emerged over the past 24 hours or so from…Continue Reading
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