Author: Dr Anand Mali
Abbigail Bugenske, 22, had all but forgotten about her long-shot bid to become Ohio’s next millionaire. The first winner of Ohio’s first $1 million Vax-a-Million (Rs.7 crore) vaccination incentive prize was driving to her family’s home in suburban Cleveland when she received a call about the good news — from Gov. Mike DeWine. “I thought it was a prank call initially,” said Bugenske, who soon saw an explosion of messages on her phone that confirmed the news. A few minutes later Abbigail Bugenske was in her parents’ house screaming so loudly they thought she was crying. “A whirlwind,” Bugenske, 22,…
As the debate rages over the origins of the novel coronavirus—whether it jumped from bats to humans or leaked in a Wuhan lab—the nocturnal mammal was spotted on an Air India international flight. An Air India flight from Delhi to Newark returned midway on Thursday after the Pilot reported the presence of a bat onboard to Air Traffic Control (ATC). The Air India Flight left Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI) at 2:20 am as scheduled, but the bat was spotted onboard after about half an hour in mid-air. The flight captain then decided to take the plane back to…
As the country ramps up its vaccination drive in a bid to inoculate as many people as possible, the Russian Vaccine Sputnik V, which is India’s third vaccine, will be available from the second week of June for administration. At present, Apollo hospitals will be administering the rolled out vaccine shots and the dose will cost Rs. 1,195. “We will be charging Rs 995 for the vaccine and Rs 200 would be administration charges,” news agency ANI quoted an official of the Apollo Group as saying on May 28. A day earlier, the hospital chain’s executive vice-chairperson Shobana Kamineni said…
The internet is flooded with stories that are inspiring and heartwarming. Videos of grit, love, and kindness often transcend boundaries of language and culture thanks to social media platforms. One such tale is of a young girl with a prosthetic leg trying to climb over a ditch with some encouragement from her mother. A 58-second clip is going viral on social media showing the girl named Antonella looking at her mother while trying to climb over the ditch. She looks doubtful as to whether she’d be able to climb and she even puts out her hand for support After climbing…
An uncanny bust recently happened in England. A sign of the times, British police set out to find a cannabis farm but instead found a Bitcoin mining centre. Computer systems were found by the police, who claim that users were illegally siphoning electricity to mine Bitcoin. 100 computer units were seized by police officers in West Midlands, England. According to the police, the computers were attempting to bypass the local power grid. The warehouse was discovered using a drone after the device detected a heat source and followed its trail.Officers from West Midlands police raided a building in an industrial…
The anti-Covid drug developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has been priced at Rs 990 per sachet, However, the pharma company would provide the drug to the government hospitals, central and state governments at a discounted price. The second batch of anti-COVID drug 2-DG was released by the manufacturer on Thursday. On May 26, the DRDO officials said that the second batch of 10,000 sachets of 2DG drug would be issued tomorrow (May 27) by Dr Reddy’s Lab. 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2DG) is an oral anti-viral drug for Covid-19 patients. The drug has generated a lot of curiosity after it…
Victims of serial rapist Sello Abram Mapunya cheered in court when he was given one of South Africa’s longest-ever sentences, following a reign of terror that lasted more than four years. Some cried and hugged each other in Gauteng High Court, Pretoria, on Thursday when Judge Papi Mosopa handed down the 1,088-year term. Mapunya, 33, was given five life terms as well as 988 years imprisonment for the rape and robbery of 56 women between December 2014 and March 2019, when he was arrested. He committed the crimes while he lived with his girlfriend, 8-year-old son and 4-year-old daughter in…
A massive consignment of cocaine weighing 960kg was found off-shore Sussex coast in the United Kingdom on Monday and the National Crime Agency (NCA) estimates that the two huge consignments have a street value of 80 million pounds (Rs 820 crores). The drugs have been classified under Class A. The consignment washed up on shores in two batches, as reported by the Sussex Police.According to reports the packages were all in waterproof bags and attached to life jackets to make them float. The packages were first reported to be floating in the water off Hastings shortly in the early hours…
A Russian man was sentenced on Monday to the equivalent of the time he was already in prison under U.S. government control, and a Tesla employee to install computer malware in the company’s Nevada battery factory to steal company secrets. Will be deported after pleading guilty to trying to pay $ 500,000 for the ransom. Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov, 27, appeared before the court by videoconference from his holding cell. He apologized to the US District Judge Miranda Du in Reno who acknowledged that the attempted hack was not successful and the company network was not compromised. “I’m sorry for my…
After receiving an SOS call, a medical team from Puthur Domiciliary Care Centre (DCC) reached a tribal village, which is 20 km from Attapadi in Palakkad and comprises around 100 people of Irula, Mudugar and Kurumba tribes. Last week, three members from one family in the settlement had developed high fever and were in need of immediate medical attention. The journey to the Murugula village wasn’t, however, easy. The team realised they can use their vehicles only up to the bank of the Bhavani Puzha river and that they had to cross the river on foot thereafter. Murugula is one…