[ad_1] Some writers discover a territory and mine its riches: think Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead, Elizabeth Strout’s Maine, Colin Barrett’s small-town Mayo. Paul Harding is one such novelist. His first two books, Tinkers, which won a Pulitzer prize, and Enon, were both set in New England, and within the same family:Continue Reading
[ad_1] CS Santhi Kumari [File photo] Hyderabad: Chief Secretary Santhi Kumari on Wednesday held a meeting with officials and reviewed the progress achieved in realization of States own tax and non tax revenues. Officials from commercial tax, excise, stamps and registration, transport, mining and other departments attended the meeting. TheContinue Reading
[ad_1] Since its inception two decades ago, Prevent, part of the UK government’s counter-terrorism strategy, has attracted controversy. Its aim is to ensure that those at risk of radicalisation can be stopped and turned away from extremist ideologies, reducing terrorist attacks. For many years there have been criticisms that PreventContinue Reading
[ad_1] Law Minister Kiren Rijiju New Delhi: Amid protests in Sikkim over a reported observation of the Supreme Court referring to Sikkimese Nepalis as “immigrants”, Law Minister Kiren Rijiju on Sunday said the Centre is filing a review petition in the apex court to support the state government. The stateContinue Reading
[ad_1] Islamabad: An international Monetary Fund (IMF) delegation will visit Pakistan next week to discuss the ninth review of the USD 7 billion Extended Fund Facility, Dawn reported citing the official. According to the statement released by the IMF, the international fund organization Resident Representative for Pakistan Esther Perez RuizContinue Reading
[ad_1] Pathan Movie Review: Hit or Flop? Critics Tweets, Pathaan Box Office Collection Day 2 – Details Here Pathaan box office collection day 2: It has been just two days since its release and the Shah Rukh Khan film is already dominating at the box office. Following a tremendous openingContinue Reading
[ad_1] There’s almost no hip-hop in the first episode of BBC Two’s new four-part documentary about the genre, a series that labours under the vanilla title Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five only drop The Message in the last five minutes.Continue Reading
[ad_1] The Starling Girl, the feature debut from writer-director Laurel Parmet, sets forth two difficult, easily muddled tasks. First, striking the correct tonal balance for a sexual relationship separated by age and authority – in this case, an intoxicating, transgressive romance between 17-year-old Jem Starling (Eliza Scanlen) and her brusquelyContinue Reading
[ad_1] Two top Tennessee officials have been fired by the corrections department after an independent report revealed striking errors in the state’s lethal injection execution protocol. According to official documents reviewed by the Tennessean newspaper, the deputy commissioner and general counsel, Debra Inglis, was fired, as well as inspector generalContinue Reading
[ad_1] Cinema has traditionally had a rather dubious relationship with the subject of terminal disease. Imminent death is dressed up in a decorative swirl of romance; patients tend to remain photogenically asymptomatic until the last possible moment. But director and co-writer Emily Atef’s More Than Ever is different. This FrenchContinue Reading