Metaverse of Controversy: Charting FB’s Turbulent Ride from Cambridge Analytica Scandal to Whistleblowing

An installation showing Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, at a protest in London. (Image: Tolga Akmen/AFP)Critics are seeing Facebook’s rebranding as an effort to distract users amid rising controversy and waning popularity.News18.com New DelhiLast Updated:October 29, 2021, 11:16 ISTFOLLOW US ON:No, this is not an alternate section of the Marvel multiverse. In fact, it has nothing…Continue Reading

Successful test of Agni 5 and its strategic importance

The successful test of Agni-5, the long-range surface-to-surface Nuclear Capable Ballistic missile, on Wednesday is significant from two aspects — one, as strong strategic signalling to China amid ongoing stand-off in Eastern Ladakh sector and two, it was the first time that the missile was fired at night, thus proving the versatility of the already…Continue Reading

Welcome women cadets to NDA with same sense of fair play, professionalism: Army chief

Chief of Army Staff General M M Naravane Friday reviewed the Passing Out Parade of the National Defence Academy (NDA), which will soon induct women cadets, and said that 40 years down the line, women could be standing where he is standing. “I think 40 years down the line, women could be standing where I…Continue Reading

US, India urge Taliban to ensure Afghanistan is not used as safe haven for terrorists

India and the United States have called on the Taliban to ensure that Afghanistan is not used as a terrorist safe haven, as officials of the two countries concluded their joint dialogue on counterterrorism. Reaffirming counterterrorism cooperation as an important pillar under the US-India Comprehensive Global Strategic Partnership, both sides pledged to further expand cooperation…Continue Reading

We trust Indian industry, Bharat Biotech has been submitting data regularly, very quickly: WHO official on Covaxin EUL

India’s Bharat Biotech has been submitting data on the EUL of Covaxin regularly and very quickly to a technical committee which hopes to have a final recommendation to the WHO next week, a top official of the global health agency said on Thursday, stressing that the UN body “trusts” the Indian industry that manufactures high-quality…Continue Reading

‘Rust’ armorer has ‘no idea’ where live rounds came from, attorney says

The armorer on the movie set where actor Alec Baldwin fatally shot a cinematographer last week has “no idea” where any live ammunition came from, her lawyers said Thursday.”Rust” armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed “is devastated and completely beside herself over the events that have transpired,” a statement from her attorney said.Halyna Hutchins, director of photography, died…Continue Reading

Wyoming librarians won’t be charged for making sex ed, LGBTQ-themed books available

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — A prosecutor won’t charge library employees for making sex education and LGBTQ-themed books available to young people in a deeply conservative city in Wyoming coal-mining country, saying he wouldn’t have a case.The three books in the teenager section and one in the children’s section are among dozens contested at the library in…Continue Reading

Florida Panthers coach Quenneville resigns amid sex assault report fallout

Florida Panthers head coach Joel Quenneville resigned Thursday, days after he and others were named in an independent investigation into the Chicago Blackhawks’ mishandling of a 2010 sexual assault allegation.Quenneville was head coach of the Blackhawks when a player said he was sexually assaulted by then-video coach Brad Aldrich in 2010.Kyle Beach identified himself as…Continue Reading

‘What We Do in the Shadows’ Season 4: Release Date, Cast, Trailer and Plot

Everything has changed for the vampires of Staten Island in What We Do in the Shadows.Following the Season 3 finale, Nandor (Kayvan Novak), Laszlo (Matt Berry) and Nadja (Natasia Demetriou) have parted ways, with Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch) now a newborn baby after his first body expired at the age of 100.This isn’t the end…Continue Reading

‘What We Do in the Shadows’ Season 3 Ending Explained: Is Colin Robinson Really Dead?

What We Do in the Shadows rarely pulls its punches with its comedy or its shocking reveals, and Episode 9 of Season 3 was no exception.The penultimate episode of the series saw energy vampire Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch) expire after reaching his 100th birthday.Seemingly confirming his fate, the episode ended with Colin’s blood-sucking housemate Nandor…Continue Reading