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The Metropolitan Museum of Art is canceling its planned exhibit honoring British designer John Galliano – plans that had led to bitter backlash in the Jewish community and beyond because of the designer’s past antisemitic and racist statements.”John Galliano: Horizons,” the high-profile spring Costume Institute exhibit which was to be launched by the annual Met Gala next May, will be replaced by another exhibit, the museum said Monday.”Following thoughtful discussions with John Galliano, we have together decided not to proceed with the exhibition,” Max Hollein, director and CEO of the museum, announced in a statement.John Galliano issues statementThe designer joined…
India’s economy grows 7.8% in Q1, driven by manufacturing, services and robust domestic demand, moderating from 8.6% in previous quarter. NEW DELHI: The Indian economy grew 7.8% during April-June quarter (Q1) of the current financial year as strong growth sustained in the manufacturing and services sector along with robust domestic demand, offsetting the anticipated adverse impact of the conflict in West Asia and El Nino conditions. Exports and investment also gained momentum during the quarter.Official gross domestic product (GDP) data released by NSO on Monday showed that though growth moderated from the upwardly 8.6% recorded in the March quarter (7.8%…
Reacting to the ruling, Trump posted that he was “pleased” the “baseless” lawsuit had failed to halt construction.”We are living in the Golden Age of America, and this Building will be one of the Greatest ever constructed in Washington, DC,” he said.Trump has long argued that the White House needs a larger events space, and more recently, that it was important for his security.The Republican president emphasised the need for the ballroom after an alleged assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in April.But the National Trust for Historic Preservation argued that construction was causing irreversible damage to…
J&K HC has set aside the dismissal of a bank executive sacked without an inquiry into an alleged #TortureKashmir hashtag campaign on social media SRINAGAR: Jammu & Kashmir high court has set aside the dismissal of a J&K Bank executive sacked without an inquiry into an alleged #TortureKashmir hashtag campaign on social media, ruling that a financial institution’s managing director “cannot be trusted with the drastic power to dismiss an employee without investigation”.“The President and governor are high constitutional functionaries and, therefore, they can dispense with the services of an employee without holding an inquiry in appropriate cases. But the…
Mumbai: Four days after attempting suicide at Sion railway station, a 28-year-old medical officer serving in Satara’s Phaltan died at Sion Hospital on Monday. While the exact circumstances of the incident remain unclear, BMC Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (BMC-MARD) stated that Dr Rajendra Rupnavar (the deceased) faced alleged workplace harassment and undue external or political pressure.Dadar Govt Railway Police (GRP) is in the process of registering an FIR for ‘abetment of suicide’, based on a complaint given by Rupnavar’s family. The case will be transferred to Phaltan for further investigation.On Aug 27, Rupnavar had climbed a telecom tower and…
New Delhi: The names of nearly 48% of registered voters in southeast Delhi’s Tughlakabad assembly constituency are missing from draft rolls — the highest rate of deletion among the city’s 70 seats.It is followed by Okhla at 45.3%, while the deletion rates in R K Puram and Kasturba Nagar are around 44.4% and 44%, respectively.The constituency-level deletion figures are based on enumeration forms that were not filled and submitted by voters.At the other end of the spectrum, Rohini has the lowest deletion rate: 16.5%, followed by Shakur Basti at 18.7%. The contrast is striking: the deletion rate in Tughlakabad is…
City police have stepped up their crackdown on illegal foreign nationals, with 31 Bangladeshi nationals identified in Electronics City division sent for deportation Sunday. The deportees, traced and detained over the past few months, were sent by train from Bengaluru to Malda Town in West Bengal, following verification and deportation orders from the FRRO. A 20-member police team escorted them. The action is part of Operation Mukta, launched last month, during which police in Electronics City and Whitefield divisions detained 105 illegal Bangladeshi nationals. Deportation proceedings against the remaining detainees are under way, police said. P 4 Source link
Hyderabad: In a freak road accident, an unidentified person died in a road accident after he was hit by two different cars at Khajaguda on Monday. Police said two more persons suffered injuries in the accident.At 4.15 am, a 35-year-old pedestrian was crossing the road at Khajaguda when an SUV hit him. The car was moving from Nanakramguda towards Khajaguda.The car driver, Zaydshah Kadri, took the injured person into his car to shift him to a hospital. Meanwhile, another car hit the SUV, leading to the death of the unknown person already in distress. Kadri suffered injuries. The car driver…
Chennai: A total of 19 cobra hatchlings were rescued from beneath the concrete flooring of a house in Egmore by the forest department on Sunday.According to officials, a resident spotted eggs in the backyard and alerted the forest department. Anti-poaching guards from the Guindy forest range reached the house and identified them as cobra eggs. On inspection, officials found 39 hatched eggs beneath the ground.Officials said the eggs had hatched a day or two earlier and suspected that the hatchlings were still in the area. A team excavated gaps beneath the concrete flooring during a four-hour search operation and rescued…
Ahmedabad: For 17 years, Sangeeta Marwadi’s family was haunted by one agonising question: who had raped and killed the seven-year-old? The clue may have been lying in the child’s clothes all along, preserved as part of the evidence from the 2009 case. It took a fresh examination of the old evidence for cops to find four strands of hair that could change the course of the investigation.Police have now zeroed in on a man from Sangeeta’s neighbourhood. A DNA test will determine whether the lead becomes a breakthrough.The hair strands were found during a re-examination of the seized evidence in…