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  World Water Day: The Importance of Access to Clean Water Access to clean water is one of the fundamental human rights, yet millions of people around the world do not have access to it. World Water Day is celebrated annually on March 22nd to raise awareness about the importance of water and the need for sustainable management of water resources. The theme for World Water Day 2023 is “Water for a Sustainable World”. The United Nations recognizes the crucial role of water in achieving sustainable development, and the theme aims to promote the importance of sustainable water management in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the UN. Water is essential for life, and without it, we cannot survive. However, access to clean water remains a challenge for many people around the world. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), over 2.2 billion people do not have access to safe drinking water, and 4.2 billion people do not have access to safe sanitation facilitie...

  Mother’s Day is a special day that is dedicated to honoring and celebrating the most important women in our lives, our mothers. It is celebrated annually in many countries around the world, including the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom, among others. The holiday is typically celebrated on the second Sunday in May in the United States, but the date may vary depending on the country. The origins of Mother’s Day can be traced back to ancient Greece and Rome, where festivals were held to honor the mother goddesses Rhea and Cybele, respectively. However, the modern concept of Mother’s Day can be attributed to Anna Jarvis, an American woman who campaigned for the holiday after the death of her mother in 1905. Jarvis envisioned a day when people would take the time to express their gratitude and appreciation to their mothers, and she worked tirelessly to make her vision a reality. The first official Mother’s Day celebration was held in 1908 in Grafton, West Virg...

  Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Unless you’ve been living under the Blarney Stone you already know that March 17 is St. Patrick’s Day. Also affectionately known as St. Paddy’s Day, it’s the one day each year that everyone and anyone   can call   themselves Irish – if not by birthright, then in spirit. If you have been living under the Blarney Stone, lucky you! We bet you can share a thing or two about how a religious feast day commemorating the famed Irish patron saint who brought Christianity to Ireland ended up being a day celebrated almost globally, usually involving copious amounts of green beer and whisky shooters. St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated in more countries around the world than any other single-day national festival, largely due to America’s enthusiasm for what many consider a holiday, although it is not an official holiday in America. Parades are the heartbeat of St. Patrick Day festivities in America. This is not surprising, since the first parade held in St. Pa...

    Zwigato follows the story of a food delivery rider who grapples with the world of ratings and algorithms. This highly topical film delves into the lives of ‘ordinary people’. The texture of the story itself should have been very hard-hitting, and it promised so from its trailer. However, the delivery turned out to be excessively sermonising at times while you scratch your heads in scenes where unnecessary political and religious drama is thrown in. Sure, Zwigato shows the plight of delivery boys, but hardly any emotions are felt. However, in pure Nandita Das style, where the film really worked was the fact that there was no unnecessary melodrama. The struggles of a certain class of society were shown in a very subtle way. Based in the city of Bhubaneswar in Odisha, Zwigato follows the life of a delivery boy Manas, played by Kapil Sharma. He tries to make ends meet as a food delivery man after he loses his steady job at a factory floor supervisor during the Covid-19 pandemi...

  Wormholes are theoretical objects in spacetime that are hypothesized to connect two separate regions of the universe through a tunnel-like structure . These objects are predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity, and their existence remains a topic of active research in theoretical physics. At their most basic level, wormholes can be thought of as shortcuts through the fabric of spacetime. In order to understand how this works, it's helpful to first understand a little bit about the geometry of spacetime. In the theory of general relativity, the fabric of spacetime is not flat, as it is in the familiar Euclidean geometry we learn in school. Instead, it is curved and warped by the presence of matter and energy. One of the most famous predictions of general relativity is the existence of black holes - regions of space where the curvature of spacetime is so extreme that nothing, not even light, can escape its gravitational pull. Wormholes are, in a sense, the opposite ...

  The stock market is a system of buying and selling stocks or shares of publicly traded companies. The stock market provides investors and traders with a platform to buy and sell securities in a transparent and regulated environment. The stock market is also an important part of the economy as it helps companies raise capital and provides a means for people to invest in businesses and participate in their growth. There are two primary types of stock markets: the primary market and the secondary market. The primary market is where companies issue new stocks to the public for the first time. This is called an initial public offering (IPO) and allows companies to raise capital by selling shares of ownership to investors. The secondary market is where investors buy and sell previously issued shares of a company on a stock exchange. Stock exchanges are where the buying and selling of stocks take place. The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the Nasdaq are two of the most well-known st...

  The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, is an annual awards ceremony that honors excellence in the film industry. The awards are presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), and winners are selected by the academy's voting membership. The first Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929, and since then, the awards have been presented annually to recognize outstanding achievements in various categories, including acting, directing, screenwriting, cinematography, and more. Here is a brief chart of some of the major categories and the number of times they have won: Category Number of Times Won Best Picture 93 Best Director 94 Best Actor 93 Best Actress 93 Best Supporting Actor 76 Best Supporting Actress 76 Best Original Screenplay 72 Best Adapted Screenplay 70 Some notable films that have won multiple awards at the Academy Awards include "Ben-Hur" (1959), "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" (2003), and "Titanic" ...