The US on Thursday returned 248 antiquities, including a 12th century bronze Shiva Nataraja, valued at an estimated USD 15 million to India, the “largest” such transfer of antiquities to the country. “This extraordinary assemblage of artifacts, recovered from five different criminal investigations over the past decade, embodies the timeless cultural and cosmic bridge between … Read more
Facebook Inc CEO Mark Zuckerberg said privacy and safety would need to be built into the metaverse, as he opened the company’s annual conference on virtual and augmented reality on Thursday. Facebook continues to battle criticism over its market power, its content moderation practices and harms linked to its social media platforms. The tech giant, … Read more
Suck it up he has — and how. If this politics thing doesn’t work out for him, he has a potentially huge career as a vacuum. Words Worth Scrutiny When this feature of the newsletter last appeared, four weeks ago, I questioned the persistence and sexism of the phrase “maiden name” and digressed to mention … Read more
The rest of the country is due to join Moscow in taking so-called ‘non-working’ days from Saturday until November 7. The restrictions came into effect as Russia reported 40,096 cases and 1,159 deaths on Thursday, the highest daily figures yet. Restaurants, cafes, entertainment venues, clothing stores, fitness clubs, libraries and many other establishments in Moscow … Read more
Oct. 28, 2021 — Last year, on a trip to Disney Springs, the shopping complex at Walt Disney World in Orlando, FL, Brianna Watson, a wife and motherhood blogger, and her then-3-year-old daughter, Ari, walked by the Lego Store, where Mickey Mouse, Maleficent, and other characters were featured in Lego form. “I want some!” … Read more
Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi met former Congress president Rahul Gandhi here on Thursday and the two leaders are learnt to have discussed the political situation in the state and the party’s prospects in next year’s Assembly polls. Channi is also learnt to have apprised Gandhi of the pro-people measures taken by his government … Read more
Timothy Garton Ash writes that it “should be a pleasure to take the train” (Why we need a new golden age of European rail, 27 October). Given that more than two years have passed since parliament declared an environment and climate emergency, one might imagine that the Department for Transport would prioritise initiatives which would … Read more
After the US treasury labeled India as a currency manipulator on and off, now IMF has also given a word of advice to the RBI on its intervention policy in the foreign exchange market. Lauding India’s policy efforts to push reserves and strengthen its external position, the multilateral agency has advised the central bank against … Read more
Australian shoppers know that every October, retailers roll out their Halloween merchandise and pumpkins. But they might be a bit perplexed to see pineapples joining the ranks of “spooky” food in major grocery stores. This pairing is part harvest timing, and part marketing by the growers. Australia produces approximately 35m pineapples a year and most … Read more
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