Author: Rashi Singh

Image source: streetartutopia.com While efforts have been made to protect Ukraine’s art and artifacts from the Russian onslaught, its artists are also depicting the war and its impact in their works. “The Captured House” opened this week at Espace Vanderburgh in Brussels and features works by contemporary Ukrainian artists made after the February 24 Russian invasion. “Let this project become not a stream of “bad news from Ukraine,” but your personal conversation with every Ukrainian whose life is in danger in our common “Captured House,” says curator Kate Taylor. We look at exhibition works and 20th-century war paintings. The Ukraine…

Image source: indiatvnews.com Saturday saw the worst cross-border violence since last year’s 11-day Israel-Hamas war. Israeli airstrikes killed 11 people, including a senior commander from Iran-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Israel has launched several deadly airstrikes, including one that killed a senior commander from the Iran-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Militants have fired dozens of rockets at Israeli cities, displacing tens of thousands. The latest violence is shown. Under Hamas Islamic Jihad is the smaller of the two main Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip. It enjoys direct financial and military backing from Iran and is driving rocket attacks and other…

Canal Parade was a celebration held on Amsterdam’s historic canals on Saturday. The event featured a flotilla of 80 brightly decorated boats packed with partying and singing people waving rainbow flags, balloons, and umbrellas. Hundreds of thousands of spectators lined the canals to watch the event.  On August 6, 2022, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, hundreds of thousands of people lined the canals in the Dutch capital to watch the Canal Parade. This event took place in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The enormously popular LGBTQ Pride event was revived in the Netherlands after being postponed for two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The…

Commonwealth Games- In Birmingham, the Indian women’s hockey team was denied a significant opportunity due to a terrible mistake made by the officials. It was an opportunity to put the mighty Australians under the pump and enter the CWG final but the callousness of the officials denied the tenacious India team, which gave its all in pushing the most fearsome side in world hockey. It was an opportunity to put the mighty Australians under the pump and enter the CWG final.    For the first time in the competition, Australians were experiencing the sweltering heat. The first attempt by Rosie…

At the meeting in Glasgow last year, PM Narendra Modi said that India’s would do more to meet its climate goals. He made five promises, and that was what he called the “Panchamrit.” Two of these were changes to goals that had already been set but were now made official.    India’s NDC, or nationally determined commitments, have been updated with these two promises, both of which improve existing targets. The 2015 Paris Agreement requires every country to set self-determined climate targets that are updated every few years. India submitted its first NDC in 2015, before the Paris Agreement.  India’s…

China In response to US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory, China is holding live-fire military drills in six self-declared zones around Taiwan. China has told ships and planes to stay away from the areas where the drills are happening until Sunday. The drills look like practice for a possible blockade and invasion of the island, which would almost certainly involve the United States, which is Taiwan’s biggest supporter, as well as American allies like Japan and Australia.  China has the world’s largest army with 2 million people, and its navy has…

The Jodhpur railway station in Rajasthan is going to be redeveloped into a large modern infrastructure that is friendly to the environment and will feature the most recent technologies and services. This will give the station a brand-new appearance.      The Ministry of Railways has provided the company with an inexperienced sign so that it can begin operations. On Tuesday, the invitation to submit bids was published for this endeavor, which is to receive close to 500 crore Indian rupees.  A bird’s-eye view of the Jodhpur Railway station expansion and improvement project that is currently under way.   In…

Kansas holds the nation’s first test of voter sentiments regarding the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade on Tuesday, with statewide voters deciding whether to allow their conservative legislature to further restrict or ban abortion. The proposed anti-abortion amendment to the Kansas Constitution is being closely monitored as a barometer of liberal and moderate voters’ anger over the June ruling that overturned the national right to abortion. Given Kansas’s conservatism and the fact that twice as many Republicans as Democrats have voted in the state’s August primaries over the past decade, it’s possible that the outcome does not…

As the UK’s “most significant terror threat,” Islamist extremism will be a top priority for British-Indian prime ministerial candidate Rishi Sunak, who made the pledge during a speech in London on Wednesday. He called for a broader government definition of extremism and a tightening of existing anti-terrorism legislation. To combat the “failed” government’s “Prevent” anti-extremism campaign, 42-year-old ex-Chancellor George Osborne has also pledged to rid the United Kingdom of extremist organizations and refocus the “failing” Prevent program. With that in mind, Sunak remarked, “There is no more vital role for a Prime Minister than keeping our country and our people…

Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of Al Qaeda, was killed by an American drone strike in downtown Kabul. It took the Taliban security forces only a few hours to block off the area. Green tarps were put over windows that were broken. There were checkpoints set up, and shops were shut down.    But there was no way to hide the damage that had been done to the Taliban’s new government, which had tried to hide the world’s most wanted terrorist from the eyes of the American government.  The attack early on Sunday morning and the public’s discovery that the Taliban…