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डिजिटल डेस्क, नई दिल्ली। देश में कोरोनावायरस महामारी की दूसरी लहर चरम सीमा का पार करती नजर आ रही है। कोरोना अब खतरनाक स्तर पर पहुंचा चुका है। केन्द्रीय स्वास्थ्य मंत्रालय की रिपोर्ट के मुताबिक देश में बीते 24 घंटे के भीतर 4 लाख 1 हजार 993 नए मरीज मिले हैं। वहीं, 3 हजार 523 मरीजों की इलाज के दौरान मौत हो गई। राहत की बात है कि इस दौरान 2 लाख 99 हजार 988 मरीज ठीक हुए हैं। यही नहीं, यह आंकड़ा सबसे ज्यादा संक्रमित अमेरिका में मिले नए मरीजों से सात गुना है। वहां शुक्रवार को 58,700 केस आए। पूरी दुनिया में 8.66 लाख नए मरीजों की पहचान हुई है। इनमें से लगभग आधे (46%) भारत में ही पाए गए। भारतीय स्वास्थ्य मंत्रालय की रिपोर्ट के मुताबिक, देश में अब तक 1 करोड़ 91 लाख 64 हजार 969 नए मरीज सामने आ चुके हैं। वहीं, 1 करोड़ 56 लाख 84 हजार 406 मरीजों स्वस्थ हो चुके हैं। कोरोना संक्रमण ने भारत में 2 लाख 11 हजार 853 लोगों की जान ले ली है। 32 लाख 68 हजार 710 मरीज ऐसे हैं जिनका इलाज देश की अलग-अलग अस्पतालों में किया जा रहा है। वहीं, अब तक 15 करोड़ 49 लाख 89 हजार 635 लोगों को वैक्सीन लगाई जा चुकी है। India ...

डिजिटल डेस्क, मुंबई। बॉलीवुड एक्ट्रेस अनुष्का शर्मा आज अपना 33वां बर्थडे सेलिब्रेट कर रही है। उत्तरप्रदेश के अयोध्या में जन्मी अनुष्का ने अपने करियर की शुरुआत तेल, शैंपू, सैनिटरी पैड और जूलरी के विज्ञापनों से की थी और साल 2008 में रिलीज हुई फिल्म 'रब ने बना दी जोड़ी' से उनकी किस्मत बदल गई और आज वो बॉलीवुड की टॉप अभिनेत्रियों में से एक है। इतना ही नहीं अनुष्का ने इंडियन क्रिकेट टीम के कप्तान विराट कोहली से शादी की और उनकी एक बेटी भी है। अनुष्का और विराट की जोड़ी बॉलीवुड में काफी मशहूर है। अनुष्का से जुड़ी कुछ खास बातें अनुष्का शर्मा का जन्म 1 मई 1988 को उत्तरप्रदेश के अयोध्या में हुआ था। अनुष्का की शुरुआती पढ़ाई कर्नाटक के बेंगलुरू में हुई।  अनुष्का ने अपने करियर के लिए मायानगरी मुंबई का रुख किया। अनुष्का ने मॉडलिंग से अपने करियर की शुरुआत की। साल 2007 में अनुष्का ने लैक्मे फैशन वीक में वेंडेल रोड्रिक्स के लेस वंप्स शो में रोड्रिक्स के स्प्रिंग समर 07 कलेक्शन के लिए रैम्प वॉक किया।  इसके बाद अनुष्का तेल,शैंपू, सैनिटरी पैड और जूलरी के एडवरटाइसमेंट्स में नजर आईं।  ...

A small bipartisan group of lawmakers in Washington are making an urgent push to get a police reform bill passed in Congress in the wake of a Minneapolis jury finding Derek Chauvin, a white former police officer, guilty of murdering George Floyd, a Black man, last May. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle say they are optimistic that renewed bipartisan talks will result in a deal that can pass both of the closely split chambers of Congress. President Joe Biden has given lawmakers a deadline to get it done by the anniversary of Floyd’s death on May 25. “Congress should act,” said Biden during his joint address on Wednesday. “We have a giant opportunity to bend the arc of the moral universe toward justice.” The way forward in reforming America’s police force must now be found in a legislative body regularly paralyzed by partisanship and disagreement, on an issue that has become so divisive that compromise can translate to losing support from members on either side. The ...

In discussions about race relations today, the works of James Baldwin continue to speak to the present, even decades after they were written. So it is worth remembering that, at the very height of his influence, Baldwin experienced the same frustration that some Black activists, particularly on campus, feel about white liberals today: their refusal to acknowledge their complicity in the regime of white supremacy. In Baldwin’s case, the liberal backlash was widespread, and effectively marginalized him for a time. The very first piece on the front page of the very first issue of The New York Review of Books , Feb. 1, 1963, was a review of Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time by F. W. Dupee of the Columbia English department. Dupee (a former Communist Party organizer) took exception to Baldwin’s apocalyptic tone. “Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?” Baldwin had written. The answer, Dupee wrote, is that “[s]ince you have no other, yes; and the better-disposed fire...

More than 30 years after President George H.W. Bush signed a law that designated May 1990 as the first Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month , much of Asian American history remains unknown to many Americans—including many Asian Americans themselves. Often the Asian-American history taught in classrooms is limited to a few milestones like the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the incarceration of people of Japanese descent during World War II, and that abridged version rarely includes the nearly 50 other ethnic groups that make up the fastest-growing racial and ethnic group in the U.S. in the first two decades of the 21st century . To many, the resulting lack of awareness was highlighted after the March 16 Atlanta spa shootings that left six women of Asian descent dead. The killings fit into a larger trend of violence against Asians failing to be seen or charged as a hate crime , even as leaders lamented that “racist attacks [are]… not who we are ” as Ameri...

Though some filmmakers might insist you can make a film about a hot-button issue like the refugee crisis, in the end you can only make films about people. Limbo, the second feature from Scottish director Ben Sharrock, is about people who happen to be refugees, a group of young men from various nations who have been given temporary shelter on a remote Scottish island as they wait to see if they’ve been granted asylum. Their housing, a nest of nondescript little cottages, bears a handmade sign that reads REFUGEES WELCOME with a heart appended. Some of the locals do welcome them with well-meaning but misguided enthusiasm (by offering, for instance, a clumsy “cultural awareness” course that’s designed to indoctrinate the newcomers to western ways but succeeds only in bewildering them), while others, particularly the local teenagers, inflict indifferent hostility. To the islanders, all of the men are outsiders, strangers from other lands. But they’re also outsiders to one another,...

The third season of The Girlfriend Experience begins with a job interview in virtual space. In a bare, glowing white room, Iris (a supple yet self-possessed Julia Goldani Telles of The Affair ) explains to a glamorous older woman that she’s abandoning an elite undergraduate education in the States for a new life in London. Beyond a few unnerving details—sometimes the women speak without moving their lips—the meeting only seems remarkable, after a year when more people than ever were communicating mostly via technology, in the context of a show about high-end sex workers. What the protagonists of this Steven Soderbergh movie turned Starz anthology, whose alternately enthralling, stimulating and sluggish first new episodes since 2017 premiere on May 2, have in common is that each exchanges intimate physical contact for money. Just before she clinches the gig with an exclusive escort service, Iris explains what she has to offer along with her milky skin and wide sapphire eye...

A few Saturdays ago, a charming teacher asked Katherine Palmer, 64, on a date at a local tavern. After a year of staying six feet apart from others, meeting up outside and wearing face masks, spending time with someone in person made her nervous at first. However, as she she started to relax into the date, she began to realize something else: they were hitting it off. Now that she’s fully vaccinated, she says, she’s ready to put her worries aside and put herself out there. Palmer says the pandemic made her recognize that, when it comes to finding love again, there’s no time to waste. “When your husband dies, you realize life is short,” she says. “That part was definitely missing: to have somebody by your side during a pandemic that you could talk to and, you know, tell them, ‘I’m afraid about what happened today,’ and they would console you. I missed all that with my husband not being here…So maybe I want another one.” Pandemic-era dating has been hard for pretty much eve...

Paula wakes up in her bus around 4:30 a.m. most days. She can usually still see the stars. She works for a few hours, often on freelance projects using her training as a biologist, and makes breakfast when her 12-year-old son Max gets up around 7:00. (TIME has agreed to grant Paula and Max pseudonyms out of concerns for their safety.) She feeds their dog and cat, and then she and Max, who is on the autism spectrum, begin homeschooling. They follow specialized, skills-based lesson plans to keep his work short and consistent—at least two to three hours a day, seven days a week. By 10:00, they usually “hit the ground running” on renovating their bus, she says. They try to complete one project a day, big or small. Paula, 39, and Max have lived in their 35-foot skoolie—a term for school buses which have been renovated into small mobile homes—for nearly a year, often traveling across public Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land in Arizona, California, Nevada and Utah. BLM land ma...