As India enforces a nationwide lockdown due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, one police officer has found a creative way to get the message across.Rajesh Babu, a police inspector in the southern city of Chennai, wears a specially constructed coronavirus helmet while stopping vehicles and pedestrians at checkpoints.The helmet is covered in red spikes with bulbs on the end, just ... Read More »
Some devout Orthodox Jewish communities have been slow to follow lockdown orders in Israel, helping drive a surge in coronavirus cases that officials are struggling to contain.Known in Israel as Haredim, or God-fearers, ultra-Orthodox Jews make up about 12% of Israel’s population — but they account for as much as 60% of Israel’s COVID-19 cases, hospitals estimate. More than 6,000 ... Read More »
But what should be the rule when it comes to family members of politicians? What standard should be even-handedly applied to them all? Basically, families of politicians should be off-limits to criticism until such time as they do something political. The problem, though, is getting politicians to live up to that standard, because politicians routinely put their families up for ... Read More »
Abdolhossein Teymūrtāsh (1883–1933) was an influential statesman who served as the first Minister of Court of the Pahlavi Dynasty from 1925 to 1932, and is credited with playing a crucial role in laying the foundations of modern in the 20th century. Read More »
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialised agency of the United Nations that is concerned with world public health. It was established on 7 April 1948, and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. The WHO is a member of the United Nations Development Group. Its predecessor, the Health Organisation, was an agency of the League of Nations. Read More »
Saudi women have joined the Baloot Championship in Riyadh for the first time, playing the popular card game against men in the hope of winning a SR2 million ($533,333) prize. Read More »
In a valley in the Albanian countryside, a group of celibate Iranian dissidents have built a vast and tightly guarded barracks that few outsiders have ever entered. Read More »
An Army commander is a senior officer who has supervisory and decision-making responsibilities. The title of commander refers to duties and does not correspond to any one pay grade. Only the Navy and Coast Guard use “commander” as an official rank. All branches of the military group personnel according to ranks within the categories of enlisted, warrant officers and officers. ... Read More »
A museum is an institution that cares for a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. museums not only have a political dimension but that they are inescapably political. It is difficult, if not actually impossible, to deny the impact that forms of political engagement and activity have for the ways in which museums ... Read More »
Radicals in the country have created a permanent performance art display at the former US embassy. It depicts a make believe cemetery. What is the history of Performance Art The Angry Space, politics and activism? Read More »