Supreme Court could overturn Roe v Wade’s abortion protection

With the leak of the draft opinion striking down Roe v Wade’s abortion protections, the politicians and activists on the left and right had been bracing for the possibility of such a sweeping ruling. No one imagined that for the first time in modern American history the actual text of the court’s draft majority opinion…

Thrissur Pooram

https://youtu.be/avbcgQme2wM Thrissur Pooram is an annual Hindu temple festival held at the Vadakkunnathan (Shiva) temple in Trissur, the largest considered to be the mother of all poorams, is a grand assembly of Gods and Goddesses in and around Thrissur.  This year Thrissur Pooram is on the 11th of May. On the Pooram day, a cultural…

Eid Mubarak

Eid Mubarak. This year the new crescent Moon is sighted, Eid is confirmed as May 2nd, and around 3.3 million Muslims in the UK are celebrating Eid al- Fitr with the Salat al-Eid being recited in the congregation for the first time without Covid-19 restriction since the pandemic began. Muslims worldwide celebrate the end of…

Taylor edges Serrano on  points – split-decision

Irishwoman, Katie Taylor beats Amanda Serrano on points with a split-decision win in an instant classic at Madison Square Garden in New York and retained her undisputed lightweight title. No one ever envisioned selling out Madison Square Garden 19, 187 tickets to be exact. Two of the three judges saw it for Taylor, who got …

Brazen Financial Fraud in History

Two Bloomberg Businessweek journalists Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel, unravel the deception, expose a £77 million oil tanker insurance claim on the high seas and raise questions of the morality of London Shipping money. In July 2011, the oil tanker Brilliante Virtuoso was drifting through the treacherous Gulf of Aden when a crew of pirates…

How can we prevent the Next Pandemic?

Professor Devi Sridhar’s vital roles in communicating science to the public and speaking truth to power. In Preventable, she highlights lessons learned from outbreaks past and present in a narrative that traces the Covid-19 pandemic including her personal experience as a scientist, and set out a vision for how we can better protect ourselves from…

Nuclear disasters that revived fears about the safety of all reactors

An illuminating exploration of the atomic age through the history of six nuclear disasters by the best-selling historian, a Ukrainian now teaching at Harvard, Serhii Polkhy. In 2011, a 43-foot-high tsunami crashed into a nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan, the explosions would rip buildings apart three reactors would go into nuclear meltdown, and classified…