Breaking the 99-year history, inherent artist Vincent Namatjira received the annual Archibald Prize on Friday, which is the most prestigious art prize in Australia. This is for the very first time, an Aboriginal painter wins the portraiture competition after 99 years. The winning painting “Stand strong for who are” curated by Vincent is a caricature…
In a strong protest against amendments for Land Revenue Act and APMC Act passed in Parliament, hundreds of farmers are collectively protesting on the blocked highways in and around Bengaluru blocking the city. A joint union together of 35 farmers – Ryot, Dalit, Labourers Aikya Horata Samithi and Dalit and trade unions have initiated the…
US motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson declared on Thursday its decision to exit India, thereby ceasing the sales and manufacturing operations in the country. The company further announced that it expects to report $75 million with respect the add-on restructuring charges for “The Rewire”. The official company statement quoted, “Between August 6, 2020 and September 23, 2020,…
A count of 380 whales died stranding off the coast of Tasmania which experts have termed as largest mass stranding event in Australia. The officials have planned the task of disposing the cadavers of the whales on Thursday as hopes faded regarding the survivors. In a long gruelling attempt, the rescuers team had freed 70…
Saudi Arabia to now slowly resume the proceedings for Umrah pilgrimage from October 4 following a seven month halt due to Coronavirus pandemic according to the Saudi Press Agency. SPA reported that Saudi Arabia will give allowance to a count of 6,000 citizens and residents on a daily basis which is nearly only 30 %…
The Karnataka High Court has instructed BBMP for conducting a survey pertaining to the Civic Amenity (CA) sites which are based in the Narayan Nagar area in South Bengaluru in order to identify the enroachments. The residents from Narayan Nagar 1st and 3rd phase lodged a PIL petition regarding the enroachment of the CA sites…
The Union Health Ministry has released the most recent updates about India’s Covid-19 testing capacity, which has increased to over 12 lakh people daily. Till now, the country has completed testing over 6.5 crore people. The Ministry of Health tweeted, “India’s testing capacity has surged to more than 12L daily tests. Higher than 6.5 cr…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will be declaring fresh and tough authorization standards for a Coronavirus vaccine. The trigger is to reduce the probability regarding the clearance for utilization before the November 3 election as per the information given by Washington Post on Tuesday. The objective is to build transparency and gain the…
The Rajya Sabha on Tuesday had one of its best productive days as it approved for seven chief bills in a time-frame of just three and a half hours. One of those bills also includes removal of cereals, pulses and onion as a part from essential commodities and another also includes abolishing penalty for some…
INS Viraat has reached the Alang coast in Gujarat for dismantling, according to the statement given by an official on Tuesday. The aircraft carrier, which has been the world’s longest serving warship started its last journey from Naval dockyard in Mumbai on Saturday and arrived at the Alang Coast in Bhavnagar district of Gujarat on…
