KYIV/KHARKIV — Ukrainian forces endured heavy artillery barrages on Sunday as Russian forces intensified their attacks to capture a city in the eastern region of Luhansk, which President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said was now Moscow’s top target. Read More
Ukraine’s Kalush Orchestra, which won the Eurovision Song Contest earlier this month, raised $900,000 for the country’s military battling the Russian invasion by selling the contest’s trophy. Read More
Ronnie ‘The Hawk’ Hawkins, a musician and impresario who helped discover and develop The Band and numerous other musical acts that emerged out of Toronto in the 1960s and 1970s, died around mid-day on Sunday. He was 87. Read More
The “liberation” of Ukraine’s Donbas region is an “unconditional priority” for Moscow, while other Ukrainian territories should decide their future on their own, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Sunday. Read More
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, May 29, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Today at Halifax Shipyard, shipbuilders, members of the Royal Canadian Navy, the federal and provincial governments as well as the families of two Canadian naval heroes marked another shipbuilding milestone with the official naming of HMCS Margaret Brooke and HMCS Max Bernays. Read More
(Bloomberg) — The European Union proposed banning seaborne oil from Russia while delaying restrictions on imports from a key pipeline in an effort to satisfy Hungarian objections and clinch an agreement on a stalled sanctions package that would target Moscow for its war in Ukraine. Read More
By Dr Vigyan Jain How safe are cosmetic procedures offered by salons and wellness centres for obesity control? There are no invasive procedures which should be offered by salons and wellness centres for obesity control. How safe are medical procedures like liposuction? They are high-risk procedures and should be done in a well regulated set-up […]
(Bloomberg) — The upcoming US jobs report is projected to show the labor market, while still tight, may be starting to transition to more moderate payrolls growth from out-sized monthly advances. Read More
There’s something that stays with the audience when they watch the emotional coming-out scene of Rajkummar Rao in the film, Badhaai Do. He remarks, ‘Gay hai hum’, as he supports his wife’s sexuality and explains to his shocked family members how this was not a disease but a natural choice for many. Similarly, in Chandigarh […]
By Rudranath Sanyal In his seminal book, The Great Mutiny: India 1857, popular historian Christopher Hibbert had reproduced a startling observation of Lady Charlotte Canning, the first Vicereine of British India. She said English families that had settled in India before the Mutiny of 1857, were “more insipid and dull than words can explain…and generally […]