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The Oprah interview proved that the duchess won’t be silenced.
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After the trial separation, here comes the messy divorce. And a vital question: Who gets custody of the narrative?
It has been less than a month since Prince Harry and Meghan Markle finalized their split from the British Royal Family, renouncing their patronages and honorary appointments as well as their income. The fallout between the couple and Buckingham Palace has been painful and public. “There is a lot that has been lost already,” Meghan told Oprah Winfrey in a two-hour interview broadcast last night on CBS her relationship with her father, the baby she miscarried last year, even her surname. Halfway through, she compared herself to the Little Mermaid, who falls in love with a prince and loses her voice.
The economy may have emerged from the woods, but challenges loom
After two quarters of a sharp contraction, India’s economy is estimated to have rebounded out of a ‘technical recession’ to record feeble growth in the October-December 2020 period, with GDP rising by 0.4% and GVA by 1%. The overall numbers are not surprising. Just as the short-notice pandemic lockdown and the subsequent case surge took the wind out of mobility and economic activity in the first half of the fiscal year, the ‘unlocking phase’ that was largely complete by late September, brought back a semblance of normalcy, with pent-up and festival demand spurring spending, and helping reboot production lines. Agriculture remained the resilient bulwark in the third quarter as well, with farm GVA rising by 3.9% after being the sole sector to clock growth in the preceding two quarters. Manufacturing and construction resurfaced from a collapse to expand 1.2% and 6%, respectively. Both these sectors had been und
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Guston, a new book about her father’s life and work, Musa Mayer reflects on the controversial postponement of a major Guston retrospective at four museums. She maintains the institutions pushed back the show out of fear, and that it was a mistake. The “paintings are essentially about white culpability the culpability of all of us, including himself,” Mayer says. “That is why he referred to some of them as self-portraits. He wasn’t just pointing the finger at others, he was pointing it at himself. What hope is there if artists cannot examine theirselves?” (
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We are running short on shipping containers. And this is great news for India
We are running short on shipping containers. And this is great news for India
ByYogesh NaikYogesh Naik / Updated: Feb 21, 2021, 06:00 IST
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With exports picking up and imports coming down, India is facing an acute shortage of containers that are used for transhipment of goods. Goods are placed in containers before being shipped to foreign shores, and the perishables are packed in refrigerated containers, which are placed on large ships before being sent off.
The change in export-import scenario is being attributed to revival of global growth and partly due to the momentum gained by
India News: 67 lakh case hearings conducted via video conferencing during pandemic across India NEW DELHI: The Indian judiciary achieved a record of conducting 66.