Author: Dr Anand Mali
Do you believe in destiny? Sometimes, it seems like things are predestined. Elon Musk, the CEO and co-founder of private space exploration company SpaceX, announced last October that his company hoped to send a manned spacecraft to Mars in 2024. The Red Planet has been a part of Musk’s dreams for a long time, given that Musk himself has argued that the only salvation for life on Earth lies in achieving space colonization. The SpaceX CEO has even said that he wants to be buried on Mars. It seems strange then that Musk’s ambitions were seemingly prophesized by someone back…
A lot of things are taken for granted in India but in most countries, one mistake intentional or unintentional could mean a huge penalty. The rules are strict and breaking rules is not an option.An Indian-origin man named Deepak Lal, who is also an Auckland homeowner, has been sued by a developer and asked to pay 1.6 crore in Indian rupees for building his home ‘in the wrong place’. His property has been built right on the neighbour’s boundary. It has become a nightmare for him as there is a difference of just one metre between the boundary of Lal’s…
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Friday ordered scientific tests on an ayurveda medicine that is being distributed by an ayurveda practitioner in the port town of Krishnapatnam in Nellore district as a “cure” for Covid-19.The ruling YSRCP MLA, K Govardhan Reddy, who is actively promoting the ayurveda medicine in the town, which is in his assembly constituency Medical practitioners and rationalists view Bonigi Anandaiah as just another charlatan out to fool COVID-19 patients and a gullible public, but to literally thousands of people, Bonigi Anandaiah has become a miracle man whose concoctions of herbs and…
The world-renowned tourists’ destination Darwin’s Arch of Galapagos of Island collapsed into the sea.Ecuador’s Environment Ministry has blamed natural erosion for the collapse. They posted pictures on social media that showed rubble from the top of the arch had crumbled into the ocean with the two supporting columns still standing. The ministry on their Facebook page said, “This event is a consequence of natural erosion. Darwin’s Arch is made of natural stone that at one time would have been part of Darwin Island, which is not open to visits by land.” Adding that the site is considered one of the…
Serum Institute of India on Tuesday said that owing to India’s large population, “We are amongst the two most populous countries in the world, a vaccination drive for such a large population cannot be completed within 2-3 months, as there are several factors and challenges involved. That said it would take 2-3 years for the entire world population to get fully vaccinated,” said Serum chief Adar Poonawalla. Pune-based Serum is one of the world’s largest vaccine manufacturing companies. It also said that it would continue to scale up its production of its locally produced AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate “Covishield” and…
The second wave of COVID-19 has taken a massive hit in India. The country has reported a shortage of oxygen and medical facilities across several states. At these hours of crisis, many citizens have stepped up to help people. Wrestler Labhanshu Sharma has turned his car into an ambulance with an oxygen facility in Rishikesh. “I have converted my car into a free temporary ambulance for the people in need. I have also written a helpline number on the car and have pasted stickers of ‘Free Ambulance’ on all four sides of the vehicle. The service can be availed by…
The value of popular cryptocurrencies Bitcoin and Ethereum have fallen sharply after Wednesday’s crash. This has left people divided as some investors are rushing to offload their holdings while others are in favour of ‘buying the dip’. Prices of popular cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Etherium and DogeCoin have dropped massively in the last 24 hours. At around 6.30 pm today (May 19, 2021), Bitcoin was trading at just Rs 28.5 lakh while Etherium was trading at Rs 1.8 lakh on cryptocurrency platforms. DogeCoin price has fallen to Rs 21 while Shiba Inu coin, which was in the news recently, had dropped…
According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, a man wearing a dark hoodie and a knit beanie pried the door locks open and helped himself to the cash drawer before making his escape. When Canfora’s owners, Eric and Karen Krieg, got over the shock of being burgled, they came up with a clever way to try to ID the subject. They scrolled through the footage from their security cameras, found the clearest image of the alleged burglar’s face, and then printed it out on edible paper. They then put his grayscale picture on almost 100 sugar cookies, frosted them with buttercream,…
A jury in a North Carolina federal civil rights case has awarded Rs.550 crore to two brothers, intellectually disabled half brothers who spent decades behind bars after being wrongfully convicted in the 1983 rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl. The eight-person jury on Friday decided Henry McCollum and Leon Brown should receive Rs.227 crore each in compensatory damages, Rs. 73 crore for every year spent in prison, The News & Observer reported. The jury also awarded them Rs. 95 crore in punitive damages. “The first jury to hear all of the evidence – including the wrongly suppressed evidence –…
On the morning of April 17, two brothers in Westchester, New York, woke up to learn that they had become millionaires overnight, thanks to an unlikely wager on a cryptocurrency that was originally created as a joke. Tommy, 38, and James, 42, who don’t want their last name revealed to protect their anonymity, had put a few hundred dollars into an odd digital asset called shiba inu coin — a spinoff of dogecoin, so basically a parody of a parody. One coin was worth a fraction of a cent, but a friend, who happened to be a crypto expert, told…