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EU challenges a British government bid to scrap parts of post-Brexit trade arrangements in Northern Ireland. EU said the new proceedings target a series of violations including failure to implement the EU's custom rules. (Getty Images)…

Dear Reader,A thrilling event took place in the summer of my sixteenth year. It involved Nelson Mandela, whose birthday was celebrated earlier this week.On an early morning in 1986, a group of us got into our Delhi Public School R K Puram school bus, and drove to the residence of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi at 7, Race Course Road. We carried with us sheaves of paper — a signature campaign we had run, for the release of Nelson Mandela. Standing there, on the beautifully manicured lawns, in my school girl uniform, talking…

IPL 2019 - or the Indian Premier League - is well and truly underway, with all eight teams having played their opening games. IPL 2019 features the best cricket players from across the world who'll pit their skills against teams comprising stars and rookies alike. Like the previous year, in India, Star Sports and Hotstar will live telecast the IPL. Star had won global broadcasting rights for the tournament, but it's highly likely that it's been sub-licensed to other broadcasters in your region. Here's how to watch live…

Game of Thrones season 8 episode 1 is out now and available across the world. In India, the show is available on Hotstar, while the HBO original is available via the HBO Go app in the US. Game of Thrones is based on George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series of books, although the TV show has gone far ahead of the books at this point. While book fans are still waiting for Winds of Winter to be published, Game of Thrones season 8 is likely to feature most of the events of that will take place in the book titled A…

Cricket 22 will be the first cricket game on next-gen consoles, the PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series S/X. On Thursday, Melbourne-based developer Big Ant Studios announced Cricket 22: The Official Game of The Ashes, the third entry in that series following 2019's Cricket 19. Cricket 22 will be available November 25 on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series S/X, a couple of weeks ahead of the start of the Ashes. Cricket 22 for Nintendo Switch arrives January 2022. In addition to the Ashes, Cricket 22 also brings Big Bash…

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan and My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route by Sally Hayden have won the Orwell prizes for political fiction and writing.Keegan’s “beautifully written evocation of Ireland in the 1980s” has won the fiction prize, while Hayden’s “urgent and compassionate” book took the political writing prize. Both authors will be awarded £3,000.Jean Seaton, director of the Orwell Foundation, said the winners have, “in very different ways, written gripping…

Ireland Baldwin and her famously combative father, Alec, came at the issue of sexual abuse from two starkly different positions on social media Sunday. Ireland Baldwin, 26, used her sizable TikTok platform to open up about being raped as a teenager and her later decision to have an abortion, as a way to express her “love and support for other women” in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. In contrast to Ireland Baldwin’s timely and compassionate TikTok video, Alec Baldwin, 64  took to…

Van Morrison has issued legal proceedings against Northern Ireland’s Department of Health and its minister Robin Swann over an opinion piece written for Rolling Stone magazine.In September 2020, Morrison released three anti-lockdown songs, with lyrics that accused scientists of “making up crooked facts”.“The new normal is not normal,” he sang. “We were born to be free.”In response, Swann wrote for the US magazine describing Morrison’s songs as a “smear” on those involved in the public health response to the virus, and…

Air pollution has been one of the major factors leading to climate change and global warming. Despite countless efforts to put a curb on toxic pollutants, there has been no permanent or temporary solution to the growing harm. Recently, a group of scientists from the University of Limerick, Ireland, have come up with an idea that can control air pollution by soaking the pollutants. They team has developed a new material that can engulf in atmospheric pollutants and toxic components. The material, with its unique features,…

It seems a modest little story at first, a cinematic wallflower content to cling to the corners of its tight, boxed-in aspect ratio, rather than thrust itself on to the audience. But while The Quiet Girl, Colm Bairéad’s multi-award-winning Irish-language drama, might be small in scale, it’s one of the most exquisitely realised films of the year. There’s a kinship with Céline Sciamma’s Petite Maman in the crystalline delicacy of the storytelling and the way it plays on the heartstrings like a harp. It also calls to mind…