“Seismic”, “a socio-political earthquake”, “a watershed moment for Germany”. This was how political analysts and many media outlets described the stunning victory of the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in local elections in Germany on Sunday. Is that an exaggeration? Saxony-Anhalt is one of the smallest of massive Germany’s 16 regions. It boasts a…
Photo: @creative_doc_adyasha/ Instagram Ganesh Chaturthi is just around the corner, and just like every year, devotees wait with bated breath to welcome their beloved lord to their homes, picking and choosing which idol looks best.But there is also a flipside to this: right before Chaturthi, every year, the same pictures flash across the news, showing…
Australians would be able to switch off social media algorithms under draft legislation to be proposed this week. Communications Minister Anika Wells, who last year helmed the government’s world-first social media ban for under-16s, said the digital duty of care laws would ensure “some basic safety protections on an industry that hasn’t had to observe…
Sachan started Gurukulam-Khushiyon Wala School in 2019. For Uddeshya Sachan, the memory of being asked to leave school because his family could not pay the fees never really faded. His father was a tailor and his mother a homemaker. Growing up in a modest household in Kanpur, Sachan had seen his father struggle to keep…
A stressful lifestyle, busy schedule and lack of sleep are known to cause dark under-eye circles — but they aren’t the only possible reasons. Other factors such as genetics, dehydration and age, can also cause them to form, making them uniquely challenging to treat. “Dark circles result from under-eye puffiness, volume loss, hyperpigmentation and visibility…
Some teachers have expressed concerns about having to enforce the ban. The Green Party’s Sigi Maurer accused Education Minister Christoph Wiederkehr, from the liberal NEOS, of “creating new conflicts and offloading them onto the teachers”. She said teachers were “already under enormous strain” and that Wiederkehr wanted to “foist the role of police officers onto…
Quote of the day by Ram Dass (Photo: Ram Dass/ @BabaRamDass/ X) Ram Dass, who was born Richard Alpert, was a Harvard psychologist and a follower of Neem Karoli Baba, who became one of the most influential spiritual teachers of the modern era.In his discourses and talks, he encouraged people to move from an ego-driven…
DES MOINES, Iowa — Dawn Vogel, a Republican county supervisor in rural Buchanan County, Iowa, doesn’t have a lot in common with the leading democratic socialists in Congress. But on this bit of policy they agree: Data centers are proliferating across the American landscape too fast. Vogel voted earlier this year for a moratorium that…
An Amazon Air cargo plane overshot the runway while attempting to land at Miami International Airport, killing five people and seriously injuring five more. The Boeing 767-300 cargo aircraft crashed just before 14:00 local time (19:00 GMT) after departing from Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The flight also hit several…
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