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SPG or Special Protection Group, which takes care of India’s most influential personalities like the Prime Minister and President, has recently stepped up the security. With an army of all imported vehicles, the motorcade looks very different from the ones in the yesteryears. This footage from the 1995 Republic Day parade shows the Prime Minister’s convoy with made-in-India cars like the Tata Sierra, Tata Estate and the Tata Sumo. The video by Bichu N.S. shows a lot of made-in-India cars including the Maruti Gypsy and…

Republic Day Parade 2023: This is where and when you can watch the parade live online. Today marks the 74th Republic Day of India and one of the most awaited spectacles on this day is the Republic Day Parade. Being a tradition since 1950, the Republic Day Parade is where all of Indian's armed forces show off their glory and valour in from of the entire country, and possibly the world. Additionally, all the Indian states participate in showing off their culture via beautiful tableaus.The Republic Day parade as sual…

When Microsoft announced this week that it was laying off 10,000 employees, it wasn’t exactly a shock. Other big companies, including Salesforce, Amazon and Meta, have already been down that road, and the news leaked far and wide before the official announcement on Wednesday. Alphabet joined in today, announcing another 12,000 job cuts. Like these other companies, Microsoft is facing a shifting economic landscape and making adjustments to a workforce that was pumped up after the early days of…

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Wednesday, Jan. 11. I’m Ryan Fonseca and much of California remains a wet mess this week. The latest barrage of stormy weather — part of what the National Weather Service called a “relentless parade of atmospheric rivers” moving through California — brought heavy rain, jaw-dropping flooding and mudslides. The storms downed trees and knocked out power to tens of thousands.In some parts of the state, rainfall totals have been 400% to 600% above average…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeOne of the organisers behind New Orleans’s annual Mardi Gras parade has removed actor Mel Gibson as its co-grand marshal, citing “significant feedback” and “threats”.Krewe of Endymion, one of the festival’s largest parade groups, received backlash after announcing Gibson as one of their celebrity guests.The actor has faced intense criticism in the past for making racist, anti-semitic…

Alan Copeland, the songwriter, Grammy-winning arranger and ultra-smooth vocalist known for his many years with The Modernaires and performances on Your Hit Parade and The Red Skelton Hour, has died. He was 96. Copeland died Dec. 28 in an assisted living facility in Sonora, California, his friend Bob Lehmann told The Hollywood Reporter. As recently as this fall, Copeland was still singing and playing keyboards in a quartet called Now You Hazz Jazz. “It was his dream to play in a small group until…

Unlike other favored elements in the horror genre such as slashers and zombie flicks, the found footage sub-genre is one of those less sought-after trivialities in the widespread catalog, if only for the simple fact that the aspect of this filmmaking style can often feel deflated and as if directors are grasping at straws. And while most of these found footage features have been dragged through the mud, 2007’s Paranormal Activity has stood the test of time as one of the most successful. Piggybacking on a low-budget value…

Did you miss the planet parade on January 2? It’s okay. There is another astronomy show coming for you this month. Know when you can see five planets together above the Earth. On January 2, the Earth witnessed a rare event where all the seven planets in the solar system were visible at the same time from the Earth. If you had access to a clear sky without pollution, you could just look at the sky without the need of binoculars and telescopes and see the planets shining brightly across the sky. But, if you missed out on…

NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day is a stunning snapshot of the planet parade lining up the sky after the sunset. The planets in our solar system are divided into two: Inner solar system, which consists of Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, and Outer solar system which includes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Although all these planets are located at a considerable distance from Earth, some of them can be seen during certain periods of the day. This includes Mars, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn. Every 1000 years, Earth…

Just before 6 a.m., Kelly and Nathan Alexander warmed themselves beside a roaring propane fire pit outside Total Wines & More on Colorado Boulevard as they waited for the Rose Parade to begin. The parade — started in 1890 as a promotional event by a local social club to show off Pasadena’s famously mild winter weather — was set to kick off under clear skies and temperatures in the 40s. It was downright balmy compared to the arctic blast that gripped much of the country the week before Christmas.Kelly, celebrating her…