Many years ago, Devendra Banhart slept nightly on a mattress in a dumpster in New York City. It was during a bedbug scare, when his neighbors had thrown their beds away, and Banhart was a homeless teenage busker, finding busboy jobs to finish customers’ uneaten food.
Category: Folk
7th Pay Commission: Delay in release of higher allowances irks…
New Delhi, Mar 3: About 47 lakh Central government employees and 53 lakh pensioners have been waiting for higher allowances under the 7th Pay Commission since July last year. The delay in release of higher allowances under the 7th Pay Commission has affected the daily life of central government employees and pensioners.
Liebenow, WW II hero, has died – 9:10 am updated:
Bud Liebenow prepares to flip the switch to light the city Christmas tree during a Dec. 1 ceremony in Mount Airy.
‘Inflame’ (‘Kaygi’): Film Review | Berlin 2017
Turkish director Ceylan Ozgun Ozcelik tackles the topical themes of fake news and freedom of expression in her debut feature, a Berlinale world premiere. A stylish but underpowered psychological thriller set in contemporary Turkey, Inflame is a local story with a timely universal message about fake news and Orwellian manipulation of history.
The big gigs: Dawes, Ladysmith Black Mambazo
The locally adored L.A. band that gave us such great soul-twang singalongs as “When My Time Comes” and “That Western Skyline” on its 2009 debut ditched the rootsier sound and piled on a lot of rock polish for its fifth album, “We’re All Gonna Die,” offering echoes of ’80s Don Henley and even Night Ranger. It’s not all as bad as the inane single “When the Tequila Runs Out,” but it does cast doubt on the quartet’s typically solid live show this time out.
Analysts feel Shiv Sena didn’t calculate risks involved in going solo for BMC election
The Thackeray cub’s move to fight the BMC polls solo has put Shiv Sena on the brink of another edgy contest. This time, the script demands a victory Leaders of the saffron alliance seen during a seat-sharing meet at BJP leader and state education minister Vinod Tawde’s official residence earlier this month A 25-year-old coalition witnessed another round of bad weather this week when Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray announced that his party was opting out of the alliance with old friend BJP for the upcoming BMC elections.
Northern Ireland sets March 2 election after government collapse
Northern Ireland’s former Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness leaves Assembly at Parliament Buildings in Stormont in Belfast, Northern Ireland, January 16, 2017. Britain’s Northern Ireland minister called an early election on Monday for March 2 following the collapse of the region’s power-sharing government that risks a lengthy period of political paralysis just as Britain prepares for talks to leave the EU.
CBSE Class 12th & 10th Exams 2017 Date Sheet: Exams to start from March 9th29 min ago
New Delhi, Jan 9: CBSE class 12th and class 10th board exams 2017 are scheduled to start from March 9, 2017. The schedule has been revised bearing in mind the assembly elections.