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Multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker Vimal Chandran’s perpetual muse is the picturesque Pattambi town in Palakkad. He describes poorams (temple festivals) as cultural comic cons filled with colourful elements that stoke his curiosity to this day. His mildly cold, sepia-tinted frames set in the rural setting feature what he calls a retro-futuristic spaceship, unblemished by any Hollywood influence. His sightings of poothams (a ritualistic dance) and other ritualistic figures bleed onto his interpretations of the extra-terrestrials, as recently witnessed in the music video Vimal directed of Sushin Shyam’s ‘Ray’. It is Sushin’s first independent solo and has garnered over one million…

‘Alpha males’ was never a norm. A new study seems to suggest that male dominance is rare in primate societies, as most species have females holding equal or more power. The study, ‘The evolution of male-female dominance relationships in primate societies’, seems to break long-standing assumptions about gender roles. Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), the groundbreaking study has changed our understanding of gender and power dynamics in the animal kingdom.  Talking about the study, evolutionary biologist and co-author Dieter Lukas said that the team wanted individual-level observations of who wins fights against whom and not…

US Attorney General Pam Bondi on Saturday dropped a case against a Utah doctor accused of falsifying Covid-19 vaccination certificates and destroying more than $28,000 worth of government-provided Covid-19 vaccines. Bondi, in a statement posted on X, said Michael Kirk Moore Jr., of Salt Lake County, Utah did not deserve the jail time he was facing. Moore was indicted by a federal grand jury in 2023 and his trial had begun earlier this month. “Dr. Moore gave his patients a choice when the federal government refused to do so. He did not deserve the years in prison he was facing.…

Air India on Saturday said it will take on board its pilot community by holding dedicated sessions in the coming days to review the preliminary investigation report of the Ahmedabad plane crash on June 12. The 15-page preliminary report by Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AIIB), released early on Saturday, has found that the fuel supply to both engines of Air India flight AI171 was cut off within a second of each other, causing confusion in the cockpit and the airplane plummeting back to ground almost immediately after taking off. On June 12, the London-bound Boeing 787 Dreamliner began to lose…

Madhuri Dixit was one of the most famous stars in the country when she decided to give it all up in 1999 and move to the US to be with her husband, Dr Shriram Nene. Back then, Madhuri decided to give up her work and live a life of domesticity, which also included waking up at the crack of dawn to make breakfast for her husband. She even carried a physical cookbook with her so she could prepare food for him, even though she didn’t succeed in being a good cook at once. In an earlier chat with Simi Garewal on…

On Thursday, the MSPS Bill, which seeks “effective prevention of certain unlawful activities of Left-wing extremist organisations”, was passed in the Assembly by a voice vote. The Bill sailed through the Lower House amid the Opposition’s concerns over the definition and interpretation of some of its terms and clauses. The only dissenting note came from lone CPI(M) MLA Vinod Nikole. With 235 MLAs in the 288-member Assembly, the BJP-led Mahayuti holds an absolute majority in the House. Yet, the 53 MLAs representing the MVA missed the opportunity to put up a spirited fight, failing even to express their dissent in…

Slovakia’s Mia Pohankova celebrates with the trophy after beating Julieta Pareja of the U.S. to win the final of the girls singles at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London. | Photo Credit: AP Mia Pohankova of Slovakia won the Wimbledon juniors title on Saturday by beating sixth-seeded Julieta Pareja of the United States 6-3, 6-1.The 16-year-old Pohankova broke her opponent six times on No. 1 Court to secure her first junior Grand Slam title.She is the second Slovakian in a row to win the title after Renata Jamrichova last year. Julieta Pareja of the U.S. returns to Slovakia’s Mia Pohankova…

U.S. President Donald Trump. File | Photo Credit: AP The story so far: U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to impose 10% tariffs on members of the BRICS grouping that held a summit in Rio de Janeiro this week is the latest in a series of similar threats.Why is BRICS in Mr. Trump’s cross-hairs? Even before he was sworn in as U.S. President for the second time, Donald Trump had made it clear that he saw the BRICS grouping as “anti-American” and a threat to the dollar that he needed to neutralise. On November 30 last year, Mr. Trump said the U.S.…

O’Donnell says the Republican US president hates her because she sees ‘him for who he is – a criminal con man’.United States President Donald Trump has said he might revoke talk-show host Rosie O’Donnell’s US citizenship after she criticised his administration’s handling of weather forecasting agencies in the wake of the deadly Texas floods. Trump’s threats are the latest salvo in a years-long feud the two have waged over social media. “Because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship,” the US…

NPR’s Scott Simon speaks with Vanderbilt University law professor Brian T. Fitzpatrick about class action lawsuits attempting to block Trump administration’s policies on birthright citizenship and other issues. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Another week and another legal challenge to President Trump’s domestic agenda. A federal judge in New Hampshire issued a ruling Thursday that temporarily blocked the president’s executive order that attempts to end birthright citizenship. The judge said he will allow a class action lawsuit that includes all the children that would be affected by the order to proceed. A White House spokesman accused the judge of abusing class action…