India’s Paralympians will look back at their campaign in Paris with pride, as they glittered on the big stage with a record-smashing 29 medals. In doing so, they bettered their performance at the Tokyo Games three years ago, when they bagged an impressive haul of 19 medals. While the upswing in … Read more
Once again, the nation is coping with the disastrous consequences of a dysfunctional state and a corresponding public philosophy – one that states that deregulated markets work better than public initiative. Under this bleak worldview, public regulation is, a priori, bad. It was this state and philosophy that together delivered a building safety ecosystem – … Read more
Fans of Oasis received a lesson in how capitalism works when the first tickets for the band’s reunion concerts went on sale. People queued for hours only to find that the price had rocketed from what they imagined would be £148.50 to £355.20 by the time it came to pay. This was due to dynamic … Read more
Some of the “searchers” were skilled at inspecting the clothes, hair and genitals of Victorian women and finding stolen money and pawn tickets for stolen goods. Others undertook risky sting operations, catching thieves and criminals red-handed and successfully testifying against them in court. Yet for nearly 200 years, the vital role 19th-century female detectives played … Read more
10:42 PM Cong releases 2nd list of nine candidates for Haryana polls Congress releases list of 9 candidates, fields Brijendra Singh from Uchana Kalan, Mohit Grover from Gurugram 10:30 PM BJP conducts membership drive in Himachal’s Manali The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) commenced the membership drive in Manali assembly constituency of Kullu district … Read more
The helicopter swooped into one of the most inaccessible corners of the Amazon rainforest. Brazilian special forces commandos leaped from its metal skids into the caiman-inhabited waters below. Their target, lurking in the woodland along Brazil’s Bóia River, was a hulking steel mining dredge, caught red-handed as it drilled into the riverbed, pulverising it in … Read more
It sounds like the dream gig: working as a personal assistant to a Hollywood celebrity, becoming immersed in a rarefied world of movie sets and production meetings and A-list parties and, who knows, climbing the ladder to an entertainment career to call your own. Sometimes, it works out exactly that way. Winona Ryder’s former assistant, … Read more
In September 2022, a few days after Russian forces retreated from the Ukrainian town of Izium, I was standing outside an apartment block that had been split apart by a missile. Fifty-four residents had been killed in the Russian attack, which had taken place six months earlier. Purple and yellow wild flowers were growing in … Read more
Great Britain are celebrating another stellar performance at the Paralympic Games with more golds and more medals in total than in Tokyo three years ago, amid a warning “not to take our eyes off the ball” as the global level of competition continues to rise. Paris 2024 has raised the bar for disability sport both … Read more
In Trump in Exile, her recent book on the former president’s life after losing power, the reporter Meridith McGraw describes how aides to Donald Trump set about destroying Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor who threatened to lure Republican voters away. “One Trump adviser referred to Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals,” McGraw writes. “Rule number five: … Read more