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Robert De Niro to get honour of Lifetime Achievement Award
Robert De Niro will be presented the honour of Lifetime Achievement Award at the Screen Actors Guild‐American Federation of Television and Radio Artists ceremony on January 19, 2020. The actor has been named the 56th recipient of SAG-AFTRA’s highest tribute: the SAG Life Achievement Award for career achievement and humanitarian accomplishment. The SAG-AFTRA awards are ..
Topics: Academy Awards • Actors • American Federation of Television and Radio Artists • California • SAG • SAG-AFTRA • Screen Actors Guild • States of the United States • Trade Unions
One Year after the Decriminalisation of Article 377
The Supreme Court’s decision in Navtej Johar v. Union of India decriminalized section 377. Section 377 of IPC Section 377 of IPC which criminalises homosexuality was introduced in the ear 1861 during the colonial rule. It refers to unnatural offences’ and says whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman ..
Topics: Critical thinking • Discrimination • Genderqueer • LGBT rights in India • LGBT rights in Kerala • Social issues • States of the United States • Transgender
Mexicans are stealing border wall materials
The fencing was installed in November 2018 in the US – Mexican border. The fencing is made of concertina wire. Recently the mexican officials reported to the San Diego’s KUSI – TV that people are stealing the border materials and selling it to the Mexicans for their home security. The fencing extends to about 700 ..
Topics: Current Affairs – February, 2020 • Geography of New Mexico • Geography of Texas • Geography of the United States • Mexico • Regions of the United States • San Diego • States of the United States
Emergency declared in California anticipating wild fires
Following the burning of more than 1.8 hectares of forest land in 2018, precautionary steps are being done in California. California receives its rainfall during winter. The vegetation dries in summer kindling fires. Forest fires also occur during the months of October in California. This is driven by the Santa Ana winds that bring dry ..
Topics: California • Ecological succession • Occupational safety and health • Rain • Santa Ana winds • States of the United States • Wildfire
France’s highest honour ‘Legion d’ Honneur’ for John Kerry
US Secretary of State John Kerry has been conferred the greatest French honour ‘Legion d’ Honneur’. He was addressed by his French counterpart as “most French of American officials” i.e. Francophone or Francophile. French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault also called him “tireless champion of peace”. It was Kerry’s French heritage and fondness of France which ..
Topics: Ayrault • Forbes family • Francophile • Jean-Marc Ayrault • John Kerry • Massachusetts • Nationalism • Skull and Bones Society • States of the United States
Native Americans from Cahokia brewed and consumed first type of Tea 1000 Years Ago
As per scientists, Native Americans were first to prepare the first type of primitive form of tea some 1000 years back. It has been discovered that inhabitants of Cahokia, a massive pre-Columbus settlement near the meeting point of Missouri and Mississippi rivers in Illinois, consumed a ‘Black Drink’. Cahokia was a city with as many ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2012
Topics: Black drink • Cahokia • Current Affairs – September, 2014 • Geography of the United States • Illinois • Illinois Confederation • Middle Mississippian culture • Mississippi River • National Register of Historic Places in Madison County, Illinois • National Register of Historic Places in St. Clair County, Illinois • Regions of the United States • States of the United States