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Washington DC

Playing with colour and keeping up with culture

When my two boys were growing up in the suburbs of Virginia, near Washington DC, where both my husband and I worked, we decided that we did not want to deprive them of the joys of playing Holi on Dol Purnima.

Washington D.C. reinstates indoor mask mandate

The new mask requirement came a day after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) classified the nation's capital into the category of "substantial" Covid-19 transmission localities, up from the "medium" category.

US House passes bill granting Washington, DC statehood

The Democrats, thanks to whose majority in the House the bill was passed in the lower chamber last year, have framed the long unresolved and controversial issue from the perspective of equal representation and voting rights, arguing that the status of "taxation without representation" for the total of over 700,000 Washingtonians should end.