Author: Dr Anand Mali
Electronics City Police discovered on Tuesday, 16 March, that Hitesha Chandranee, the alleged victim who accused a Zomato delivery boy, Kamaraj of assault, has left Bengaluru. This comes a day after Kamaraj filed a counter FIR against Chandranee for allegedly hitting him with slippers and abusing him repeatedly for the delayed delivery of her food order The FIR has been filed in the Electronic City police station against Hitesha Chandranee under sections 341 (wrongful restraint), 355(assault or criminal force), 504 (intentional insult), and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC, News18 reported. Chandranee, a model and make-up artist, had on March…
The Indian government seeks to propose a law banning cryptocurrencies under which anyone involved in its trading or holding such assets could be fined, according to reports. Trading, mining and holding cryptocurrency could soon be illegal in India as the Indian government is proposing a new Bill that could ban all transactions related to cryptocurrencies. According to a report by Reuters, the new Bill proposes to criminalise possession, issuance, mining, trading and transferring crypto-assets including Bitcoin, Dogecoin and other cryptocurrencies. Instead, the bill would give holders of cryptocurrencies up to six months to liquidate, after which penalties will be believed,…
FACEBOOK’s smart glasses could be used to “teleport” people to their office or to see their friends. This is according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg who said the glasses could make you feel like you’re in the same room as someone even if you’re far apart. The billionaire made the comments to The Information. He told the publication: “Rather than calling someone or having a video chat, you just kind of snap your fingers and teleport, and you’re sitting there and they’re on their couch and it feels like you’re there together.” Zuckerberg thinks this tech could help reduce some of…
After Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s interview with Oprah Winfrey, Simi Garewal accused Markle of ‘playing the race card’ to make herself into a victim. Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey has created quite a stir all over the world. In the two-hour special CBS interview, Winfrey guided the two former senior royals as they discussed racism and dysfunction inside the royal family. Following the interview, many celebrities have reacted to the shocking revelations by the couple, while some have supported Meghan, some are unconvinced by the Suits actress’s claims. One of the first few Indian…
India has entered the second phase of immunization against novel coronavirus. Above 45-years-old are being administered homegrown vaccines against the virus Covaxin and Covishield. A senior citizen in West Bengal’’s Dhupguri area died allegedly after being administered the Covishield vaccine, prompting his family members to lodge a police complaint, an official said on Tuesday. Krishna Dutta (64), a businessman from the Jalpaiguri district, died at a local hospital, where he was rushed after he complained of breathlessness. According to the family members “Dutta was administered the vaccine on Monday. He was having breathing issues at night, and taken to hospital,…
Karina Oliani crossed a total distance of 100,58 m (329 ft 11.76 in), achieving the world’s longest tyrolean traverse over a lava lake,” reads a part of the caption shared by GWR. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Guinness World Records (@guinnessworldrecords) Guinness World Records (GWR) often takes to Instagram to share about such records which are both fascinating and scary, in equal parts. To celebrate the occasion of International Women’s Day 2021, they posted on such a record created by wildlife enthusiast and medical physician Karina Oliani. The post describes how this adventurer, hailing from Brazil,…
Covid-19 has blown the carefully knitted human civilization and gave us a herculean task to reshape the world. All Indians realized the gravity of the situation and were left with no alternative but for prolonged quarantine. Employees are upended by the impact and businesses have a huge responsibility to stand firm until the difficult phase passes. Companies couldn’t provide the same experience as before to customers as well as employees. Almost all companies had to prepare for remote working and tried to conduct a regular meeting to motivate the employees and keep the business ongoing. Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani said…
Indian crowdfunding platform GoFundMe has raised close to 46 lakh inr for Subhakar Khadka, An Uber driver of South-Asian origin Who assaulted by a woman in San Francisco. The female passenger Refused to wear a mask, verbally Assaulted the driver of Nepali Origin on March 6. 32-year-old Khadka said the assault was Racially motivated. He said that when he picked up the three women near San Bruno Ave. and Silver Ave., one of the passengers wasn’t wearing a mask and got angry when he asked her to put one on. Two of the three women in the vehicle started yelling…
The ‘most expensive drug in the world’ has Been approved by the United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS) to cure a rare genetic disorder. The one-off gene therapy Zolgensma, manufactured by Novartis Gene Therapies, has a reported list price of ₹18 crore (£1.79 million) per dose, NHS England said in a statement Monday. The life-changing drug ‘Zolgensma’, considered the world’s most expensive drug and approved by the United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS) to cure a rare genetic disorder has gone viral. But if you follow the news emerging out of India, you may have heard in the first week…
In a shocking incident in the US, an Uber driver was coughed on, pepper-sprayed and assaulted by passengers who ripped off his mask after he says he asked them to wear a face covering. According to a Daily Mail report, Subhakar Khadka, 32, says he was racially abused by the three women after picking them up in the Bayview area of San Francisco on Sunday. The footage filmed on Khadka’s car camera showed one of the women coughing in his direction before leaning forward to grab his phone and then rip off his mask. Khadka, from Nepal, said the trouble…