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A play on a famous line from the inaugural Star Wars movie, the origins of May 4 as Star Wars Day has an interesting cultural history, tied to, among other things, former British PM Margaret Thatcher.

The demand that the Meitei community be included in the list of the state’s Scheduled Tribes has recently received a boost from an order by the Manipur High Court. What is at the root of this issue?

Why choose May 6 for the new King's coronation? Who will be performing at the coronation concert? Will Prince Harry be there? And what's for lunch?

Central counterparties perform two main functions as the intermediary in a market transaction – clearing and settlement – and guarantee the terms of trade. With the withdrawal of recognition, they will no longer be able to provide services to clearing members and trading venues established in the EU, ESMA had said.

Writers are demanding compensation and other improvements such as a hike in minimum pay, residuals for streaming and more contributions to the Writers Guild of America (WGA) health and pension plan.

The proposal would ban all single-use, disposable vapes; stop the importation of nonprescription vapes; require “pharmaceutical-like packaging”; reduce nicotine concentrations and amounts; and restrict certain flavors, colors and ingredients.

In January this year, Lula’s government launched a crackdown on illegal mines located across the Portugal-sized Yanomami region. So far, around 80 per cent of the more than 20,000 miners that invaded the territory have been evicted.

President Vladimir Putin was not at the Kremlin at the time of the attack and will continue his work as scheduled.

A story by The New Yorker has brought renewed attention to the plight of Sheikha Latifa, daughter of Sheikh Mohammed, Dubai's Emir. Latifa had tried to escape the clutches of her father in 2018, but her attempt was foiled and she was recaptured off the coast of Goa

The Congress manifesto in Karnataka promising to ban the Bajrang Dal has caused a furore. However, the outfit has been banned before, and calls to ban it have been made several times, not always by Congress.