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GOP’s House map overhaul: Texas governer Greg Abbott orders arrest of Democratic lawmakers who fled state; session remains halted

Texas Republican governor Greg Abbott (Image credits: AP) Texas Republican governor Greg Abbott on Monday ordered state authorities to arrest dozens of Democratic lawmakers who fled to Illinois in an effort to block a Republican-led congressional redistricting vote, intensifying a political standoff that has brought the legislative session to a halt.“To ensure compliance, I ordered […]

Since 2004: How Bahrain’s International Circuit put Middle East on global F1 map with its first race | World News

In April 2004, Bahrain became the first nation in the Middle East to host a Formula 1 race/Image: Instagram TL;DR: In April 2004, Bahrain became the first nation in the Middle East to host a Formula 1 race. The Bahrain International Circuit was designed and built in under 18 months at a cost of around […]

Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill: How much money will people in each state save? WH releases interactive map to explore

The White House on Tuesday unveiled an interactive map showing how much Americans across all 50 states are expected to save from US President Donald Trump’s newly signed legislation, the One Big, Beautiful Bill ActThe MAGA supremo’s ambitious bill was signed into law on the Fourth of July after lots of scrutiny.The legislation was championed […]

‘You started it, we will end it’: Iran media warns Donald Trump after strikes on nuclear sites; airs map of US military bases in Middle East

Iranian State TV aired a bold warning to US President Donald Trump, displaying a map of US military bases in the Middle East alongside the message: “Mr. Trump, you started it, and we will end it.” The message comes as tensions soar following Trump’s confirmation that the US military carried out strikes on three of […]

IDF shares wrong India map, omits NE, Nepal & Bhutan; Israeli spokesperson thanks Indians for pointing it out

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) faced criticism on social media after its international spokesperson, Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani, shared a world map that omitted India’s northeastern region, along with Nepal and Bhutan.In a post on X, Lt Col Shoshani acknowledged the error, writing: “While focusing on neutralizing the nuclear threat, we mistakenly used the wrong […]

An exhibition of textile labels at MAP-Bengaluru reveals the history of branding and advertising in India

The collection, on display at the exhibition, takes you back in time | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement During the Indo-British textile trade, between the late 19th and mid-20th centuries, a few unique textile labels emerged. They were were known as tikats, tikas or chaaps. They were not simple tags attached to fabric, they carried imaginative […]

What ails the Indian museum today?

What is a museum, really? A building that houses objects? A temple of knowledge? A vault of the past? Or a theatre of the present? The answers are as complex as the institution’s foundational contradiction. Museums claim to preserve and protect, but they also curate and construct. The question of publicness is key. For most […]