A dancer by profession, Dharmesh Yelande — also known as ‘Dharmesh sir’ — has had quite a career, first as a dancer and dance teacher, to now as a choreographer and reality show judge. He says dancing is a gift that he has received from God, and there is much […]
Month: February 2022
With a flick of his brush, Ghanaian painter Daniel Anum Jasper armed actor Paul Newman with a pair of revolvers. Unfinished paintings of a bell-bottomed John Travolta and nunchuck-spinning Bruce Lee adorned the walls of his crammed Accra studio. Jasper, a veteran movie poster designer, was finishing up one of […]
As Indian students from war-hit Ukraine have started to return, a batch of five, hailing from Punjab and Haryana, landed in Delhi and vowed to go back to Ukraine as soon as normalcy was restored. Gurkeerat Singh, a fourth-year student of Uzhhorod National University in Ukraine, was evacuated along with […]
Maha Shivratri 2022 date, puja timings: A day dedicated to Lord Shiva, the God of Destruction, the festival of Maha Shivratri is said to be the convergence of Lord Shiva and his consort Goddess Shakti, the masculine and feminine energies balancing the universe. This year, Maha Shivratri falls on March […]
Street fighting broke out early Sunday in Kharkiv as Russian troops pushed into Ukraine’s second-largest city, according to a regional official, following a wave of attacks elsewhere targeting airfields and fuel facilities that appeared to mark a new phase of an invasion that has been slowed by fierce resistance. The […]
Written by Lara Jakes Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has pushed tens of thousands of people out of their homes and fleeing across borders to escape violence. But unlike the refugees who have flooded Europe in crises over the past decade, they are being welcomed. Countries that have for years resisted […]
Written by Carl Zimmer and Benjamin Mueller Scientists released a pair of extensive studies Saturday that point to a market in Wuhan, China, as the origin of the coronavirus pandemic. Analyzing data from a variety of sources, they concluded that the coronavirus was very likely present in live mammals sold […]
The United States and European nations agreed Saturday to impose the most potentially crippling financial penalties yet on Russia over its unrelenting invasion of Ukraine, going after the central bank reserves that underpin the Russian economy and severing some Russian banks from a vital global financial network. The decision, announced […]
