Specific plans have yet to be unveiled for the show, but the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is ‘determined to present an Oscars like none other’ Los Angeles Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre has been the home of the Oscars since 2001 and the organisers say the upcoming show will keep that tradition, but they will enlist a supporting cast of venues.An academy spokesperson said on Wednesday that the ceremony will broadcast live from multiple locations on April 25. The announcement comes as many cities that are important film hubs, including Los Angeles, New York and London, remain under strict…
Author: Mike Harrison
Loujain al-Hathloul, who pushed to end a ban on women driving in Saudi Arabia, was sentenced to almost six years in prison last December under a broad counterterrorism law. One of Saudi Arabia’s most prominent political activists was released from prison on Wednesday, her family said, after serving nearly three years on charges that have sparked an international uproar over the kingdom’s human rights record.Loujain al-Hathloul, who pushed to end a ban on women driving in Saudi Arabia, was sentenced to almost six years in prison last December under a broad counterterrorism law. Held for 1001 days, with stints in…
Govt. ‘deceiving’ people on allocations to health, defence sectors, says Cong. leader The Opposition targeted the Narendra Modi government in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday while debating the Budget proposals for 2021-22, with Congress leader Shashi Tharoor accusing the government of ‘deceiving’ the people about allocations to the health and defence sectors.Initiating the discussion, Mr. Tharoor said that soon there would be a time when banks would have to offer fuel loans because of the high taxes and charged the government with showing no sensitivity.“The aam aadmi has been let down totally in the last seven years … and the…
Biden said the new sanctions will allow his administration to freeze U.S. assets that benefit Myanmar’s military leaders while maintaining support for health care programs, civil society groups and other areas that benefit the country’s people US President Joe Biden on Wednesday ordered new sanctions against the military regime in Myanmar, taking action after the military this month staged a coup in the Southeast Asian country and arrested de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior politicians.Mr Biden said he was issuing an executive order that will prevent Myanmar’s generals from accessing $1 billion in assets in the…
At one dramatic moment, the video shows police shooting into the crowd through a broken window, killing a San Diego woman, Ashli Babbitt. Prosecutors unveiled chilling new security video in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial on Wednesday, showing the mob of rioters breaking into the Capitol, smashing windows and doors and searching menacingly for Vice President Mike Pence and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as overwhelmed police begged on their radios for help.In the previously unreleased recordings, the House prosecutors displayed gripping scenes of how close the rioters were to the country’s leaders, roaming the halls chanting “Hang Mike Pence,” some equipped…
Despite being outlawed, the dehumanising work of manual scavenging persists in India and has claimed the lives of 340 workers in the last five years, according to the Social Justice and Empowerment Ministry. Such deaths have increased over the last decade, with the toll in the last five years nearly 28% higher compared to the previous five years.As of January 2020, most of the identified manual scavengers worked in Uttar Pradesh, which also reported the most sewer cleaning deaths in the last five years. About 17% of sewer cleaning-related deaths did not result in the victim’s family being compensated.Identified workersNearly…
“Some of the carriers want us to open full capacity, 100 %, whereas others would like to go slow.” Emphasising that capping of airfares was an “extraordinary measure”, Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Wednesday said the price bands are expected to be done away with once flight services reach pre-COVID-19 levels. Replying to questions in the Rajya Sabha, the minister said the civil aviation sector was completely closed down on March 23, 2020, and was reopened on May 25 in a slow and calibrated manner by putting in place SOPs, provisions for seamless contactless travel and a large number…
Indian official says tanks, armoured elements being withdrawn, but troops remain. China’s military announced on Wednesday that front line troops of India and China had begun disengaging in a “synchronised and organised” manner from the north and southbanks of Pangong lake, where both sides have been locked in a stand-off for months which, an official source in Delhi said, was the first step in the long process of disengagement and de-escalation.This restarts the stalled process of disengagement in the most protracted military standoffs between India and China in decades that has resulted in the death of 20 Indian soldiers and…
Gold prices fell marginally by ₹ 38 to ₹ 47,576 per 10 grams in the national capital on Wednesday as rupee appreciation capped the price of the precious metal, according to HDFC Securities. The yellow metal had closed at ₹ 47,614 per 10 grams in the previous trade. In tandem, silver prices tumbled ₹ 783 to ₹ 68,884 per kg on Wednesday, compared to its previous close of ₹ 69,667. HDFC Securities Senior Analyst (Commodities) Tapan Patel said, “Spot gold prices for 24 carat gold at Delhi were trading marginally down by ₹ 38 pressured by rupee appreciation.” Meanwhile, the…
A five-member Bench headed by Justice Manzoor Ahmad Malik passed the order on the appeals of mentally ill death-row prisoners who have respectively served 30, 18 and 14 years on the death row. Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Wednesday barred the execution of inmates suffering from mental disorder, observing that carrying out the death sentence does not “meet the ends of justice” if a convict was unable to comprehend the rationale behind the punishment.A five-member Bench headed by Justice Manzoor Ahmad Malik passed the order on the appeals of mentally ill death-row prisoners – Kanizan Bibi, Imdad Ali and Ghulam Abbas…