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Trump picks former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee to be Ambassador to Israel

President-elect Donald Trump will nominate former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee as ambassador to Israel




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Bypoll candidates milk caste identity in western U.P.

Caste factor often cuts through the religious and social divide in the region’s politics




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Forensic report confirms presence of cocaine residue in NDPS case




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MP byelections: Last-minute tensions ahead of voting after firing in Vijaypur

The byelections, first since the Lok Sabha elections, have somethings at stake for both the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress




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Jharkhand first phase of polling LIVE updates: Voting begins for 43 seats

Former CM is contesting on a BJP ticket for the first time, while six State Cabinet Ministers are also among 683 candidates in the first phase




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Non-bailable warrant issued against former BJD MP in connection with 2010 murder case

BJD leader N. Bhaskar Rao and five others are linked to the murder of a tribal leader in 2010




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Morning Digest: British writer Samantha Harvey’s space-station novel ‘Orbital’ wins Booker Prize for fiction; Big names face test as Jharkhand votes in Phase I, and more

Here is a select list of stories to start the day




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FIR filed against producers of Yash-starrer Toxic 




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Assistant Commissioner is empowered to seek bank guarantee for release of vehicles seized in cow slaughter Act case, says court




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Parashuram statue case: Sculptor arrested in Puducherry




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It will be yakshagana all over the coastal belt for the next six months




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E-khatas can now be obtained at BangaloreOne centres




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Bypolls LIVE: Voting begins for 31 Assembly seats in 10 States

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is making her electoral debut in Wayanad




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Donald Trump names Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy to lead newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)

The U.S. President elect said their work would conclude by July 4, 2026, adding that a smaller and more efficient government would be a "gift" to the country on the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.





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The musical brilliance of Basu Chatterjee

'Songs are a commercial compromise.''I had to invent tricks to fit songs into my films.'



  • Basuda
  • Piya Ka Ghar
  • IMAGE
  • Basu Chatterjee
  • Lata Mangeshkar gem Oh Sham Ayee Rangon Bhari
  • Piya Maine Kya Kiya
  • Kabhi Kabhi Sapna Lagta Hai
  • Rajnigandha Phool Tumhare
  • Yeh Jab Se Hui
  • Yeh Din Kya Aaye
  • Rimjhim Gire Sawan
  • Hamari Bahu Alka
  • Balam Ka Karoon Sajni
  • Baaton Baaton Mein
  • Manoj Kumar
  • Amol Palekar




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Colour Blind Casting or Cultural Appropriation?

'Acting, by definition, is a portrayal of a character other than oneself.''If every role is to be played only by someone answering to that precise description, most professional actors -- of all ethnicities and genders -- would be out of a job,' observes Indira Kannan.









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How Can Shabana-Javed-Naseer Be In Tukde Tukde Gang?

'Javed Akhtar, Naseeruddin Shah and Shabana Azmi have collectively brought more pride and honour to our country than the entire film fraternity put together.''Sir, the names you have taken are institutions, pillars of India's popular art, symbolising the very essence of humanism and nationalism.'




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Why Didn't #BoycottBrahmastra Work?

Nobody else needs to boycott Bollywood, they are doing a pretty good job of digging up their own foundation, notes Deepa Gahlot.




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So, What Was It About Naatu Naatu?

RRR threw a lifeline, or so it seemed -- to a world that was down in the dumps. Keeravani and his Naatu Naatu just happened to be in the right place at the right time, notes Saibal Chatterjee.





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Curry Westerns Move To Rajasthan

Even as our tier-2 and tier-3 cities become increasingly well-mapped, and well-documented through myriad tech-driven data, the Indian film-maker's dominantly urban gaze turns to regions not crowded by data, area codes, or directions, observes Debarghya Sanyal.




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What Was Jawan All About?

There is no plot, no central story line or theme. It appears Atlee felt if he put a Shah Rukh Khan (there are two of them actually!) on screen doing just about anything, the film would sell, sighs Nitin Sathe.




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Tejas: Don't Get IAF Wrong!

'For god's sake, portray the armed forces in the correct manner,' asserts IAF veteran Air Commodore Nitin Sathe after watching Tejas.




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What Makes Tabu A National Treasure

She is superior to 90 percent of the performing fraternity and she knows it.Subhash K Jha salutes the actor who turns 52 on November 4.




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What Made Yesudas' Voice So Divine

As Yesudas turns 84 on January 10, Subhash K Jha salutes the legend.




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Merry Christmas: I Felt Shortchanged

If you have never seen Sriram Raghavan fly, you would hardly realise that this time, he is happy in his cage, this time he isn't reaching for the skies, notes Sreehari Nair.




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Why Aattam Is A Masterpiece

What follows is essentially a long scene set in a single location, and you watch in amazement as the scene grows into one of Indian cinema's funniest and most spectacular pieces of sustained craftsmanship, accumulating emotional power and subtext, growing wings and claws, becoming its own beast, applauds Sreehari Nair.




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Please Send Payal's Film To The Oscars!

How wonderful it would be for all of us to watch the Oscar ceremony on March 2, 2025 and watch AWIAL win an Oscar, notes Aseem Chhabra.




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URL as a Sass Variable

Do you ever find yourself trying to remember the URL path of you images directory? Well with Sass you can quickly add the path to the desired location and just use the variable throughout your code. Sass to the rescue. All you need to do is declare the variable and then use the interpolation syntax when you reference it. More ... Read more

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Sass Clearfix Mixin

There are a few ways to implement the clearfix hack but the following Sass Mixin has been in my toolbox for the last year thanks to this article on Nicolas Gallaghers blog. Usage:

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How to change the Input Font Size based on Text Length

Recently I had a great conversation with an outstanding User Experience designer about a few interactions on a project we were working on. One of the points we talked about was, what should happen when text within input fields are excessively long. The desired result we both agreed on was to change the font size of the html input field ... Read more

The post How to change the Input Font Size based on Text Length appeared first on Web Design Weekly.




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Add Class To Body If JavaScript Is Enabled

This snippet is super small but is super handy. It detects to see if JavaScript is enabled on the users browser. If yes, a class will be added to the <body> tag Adds the class yourClassName to <body> tag if Javascript is enabled.

The post Add Class To Body If JavaScript Is Enabled appeared first on Web Design Weekly.




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Songs for a Williamsburg Christmas

Carols, motets, hymns, songs, and madrigals reflect the enthusiastic joy and high spirits of Yuletide celebrations in Williamsburg.




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A Numerous and Brilliant Assembly: A Colonial Williamsburg Musical Sampler

Selected performances from nine of Colonial Williamsburg's recordings, including fife and drum marches, chamber music, slave chants, and tavern songs.





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Foundations of social ecological economics [electronic resource] : the fight for revolutionary change in economic thought / Clive L. Spash.

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2024.




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Coastal flooding harms different tree species differently: study

New findings could help researchers and governments decide which trees to prioritise for protection




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Inside the underground lab in China tasked with solving a physics mystery

China’s JUNO will soon start gathering data on neutrinos, a product of nuclear reactions, to help solve one of the biggest mysteries in particle physics




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Rain may have helped form the first cells, kick-starting life as we know it

How did the earliest, simplest cells hold it all together before elaborate membrane structures evolved?




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Science for All | What are Trojan asteroids?

The Hindu’s weekly Science for All newsletter explains all things Science, without the jargon.




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Canadian climate lawsuit by young people could sway global cases

The lawsuit, launched against Ontario by seven people aged 16 to 28 as of this summer, contends the province's greenhouse-gas-emissions target is inadequate and violates the young people's rights