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► Date bait With her date diary suddenly blank, Tara Sutaria took herself off on a date in her living room. And made up for the lack of ambience by going for full make-up, perfectly set curls and the never-out-of-fashion LBD. Wonder just how missed beau Adaar Jain felt looking at the click... View this post on Instagram … [Read more...] about Priyanka Chopra, Ananya Panday, Nushrratt Bharucha, Disha Patani’s lockdown fashion diaries

How coronavirus might change farming Factory farming on the out While scientists don't yet know exactly how COVID-19 originated, recent pandemic virus threats such as swine flu and bird flu almost certainly evolved at pig and chicken factory farms. With a link already established between intensive animal agriculture and an increased pandemic risk, it might be the moment to rethink factory farming at its current scale. … [Read more...] about Coronavirus latest: Officials estimate over 6% of US population are infected

There is some scepticism about how FDR’s New Deal is applicable to 2020. Julia Jacobs recently wrote an article for the New York Times that was given the headline: “The virus won’t revive FDR’s arts jobs program. Here’s why.” Jacobs said that few “defenders of the arts are optimistic that a programme as sprawling and generous as the New Deal initiative could happen now”. Certainly there is little political will stateside: President Trump has in each of his budget proposals called for the elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. … [Read more...] about From no deal to New Deal: how Boris Johnson could follow FDR and save the arts