Apple Inc's TV news drama The Morning Show scored three Golden Globe nominations, putting it in the running for its first major Hollywood awards as a new player in the crowded streaming market.
Digital video pioneer Netflix Inc dominated the field, landing 17 nominations in TV categories plus 17 more for movies, including leading contenders Marriage Story and The Irishman.
The Golden Globe winners, determined by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, will be announced at a red-carpet ceremony in Beverly Hills, California, on January 5, 2020.
Dec 08, 2019
Vienna Opera House Stages First Opera by Woman
In a historic moment, Olga Neuwirth's Orlando is all set to become the first Opera to be opened by a woman. Staged at the Vienna opera house was Olga's adaption of Virginia Woolf's Orlando.
The piece reportedly deals with duality and trans identity. Over its 150 years of existence, the Vienna State Opera has seen several star performers and has also experienced unique historic moments in its incredible musical journey.
However, the one significant accomplishment it was yet to fulfil is staging an opera that was written by a woman.
Ancient Site Older than Göbeklitepe Unearthed
The latest archeologic excavations in southeastern Turkey discovered an ancient site older than Göbeklitepe, known as the oldest temple in the world.
İbrahim Özcoşar, the rector of Mardin Artuklu University, said that the discoveries at Boncuklu Tarla (Beaded Field) in the southeastern province of Mardin resemble those unearthed in Göbeklitepe, an archeological site located in the southeastern Şanlıurfa province, and even 1,000 years older.
The excavation work began in 2012 at the Boncuklu Tarla in Dargeçit district that dates back to the Neolithic period.
The area is known to have been home throughout history to the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Hittites, Assyrians, Romans, Seljuks, and Ottomans, among others.
This area is important in terms of being one of the first settled areas of humanity and shows that the first people to have settled here were believers.
Dec 02, 2019
ORI Project to Digitise Manuscripts Regains Traction
The Oriental Research Institute (ORI) in the city which is a treasure trove of ancient palm leaf manuscripts enshrining a slice of ancient India's knowledge base will seek the assistance of National Mission for Manuscripts (NMM) for digitisation and preservation of the priceless heritage.
The University of Mysore under which the ORI functions, consented to ORI collaborating with the NMM for the digitisation and conservation project at a meeting. Hemantha Kumar, Vice-Chancellor, UoM, said that the project will not cost the varsity anything as the NMM was keen to fund it.
ORI said that the institute had an agreement with the NMM and used to receive funds for conservation. But once the agreement period lapsed, it was not renewed for almost 5 years. It will now be revived. A MoU will be signed with NMM but finer details as to the nature of NMM's assistance or collaboration will be spelt out later.
With this development, the ORI's long-pending project of digitization of manuscripts will receive fresh traction. The digitization of manuscripts is expected to give a fillip to Indological studies as the e-version of the manuscripts will be available online for reference.