Author: Dr Anand Mali
In a case that will go down in history as a first, an Indian-American student Randeep Hothi managed to win round one of his legal battles with millionaire Elon Musk. The Tesla CEO was recently unable to stay a defamation lawsuit filed by Hothi, an ardent critic of Tesla, against Musk after a California judge dismissed his pleas that the case was baseless and an attempt to silence the millionaire’s free speech. Hothi is a 2009 graduate of t University of California, Berkeley, and his parents live in Fremont, where Tesla also has its auto plant. Hothi is part of…
The discovery has been hailed as one of the “best examples” of a dinosaur footprint ever found in the UK. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Amgueddfa Cymru (@museumwales) A four-year-old girl has stunned paleontologists after finding an “internationally important” dinosaur footprint on a trip to the supermarket Lily Wilder was walking along the coast between Barry and Sully with her father Richard when she spotted what experts from Archaeology Cymru are calling “the finest impression of a 215 million-year-old dinosaur print found in Britain in a decade”. The perfect print, which her family initially thought may…
The RBI is exploring the possibility of launching a digital version of rupee, the central bank has said. “Private digital currencies (PDCs)/virtual currencies (VCs)/crypto currencies (CCs) have gained popularity in recent years,” the RBI in its report, Payment and Settlement System in India, has said. The report highlights steps taken by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), which have transformed India into a country riding high in the evolution of digital payments. “In India, the regulators and governments have been sceptical about these currencies and are apprehensive about the associated risks,” the RBI said. The RBI said to measure the…
Ahead of the Republic Day, the Union Home Ministry on Monday released the list of Padma Awards. Among the Padma Vibhushan awardees are former Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe; singer SP Balasubrahmanyam (posthumous); Belle Monappa Hegde, archaeologist BB Lal and Narinder Singh Kapany (posthumous). Sridhar Vembu, the Chief Executive Officer of software firm Zoho, and Rajini Bector, promoter of FMCG company Mrs Bectors Food Specialities are among the 102 Padma Shri awardees this year. Both are honoured for their outstanding achievements in the business field.Vembu tweeted- Business magnate Sridhar Vembu was born in a family of farmers in a small…
Some London locals tipped off the police complaining about a birthday party amid a lockdown in the UK Cops in London raided a Zoom birthday lockdown party of a rich socialite after some passers-by mistook cardboard cutouts as real people Millionaire Steve Varsano had organised a zoom party at his Mayfair offices in London to celebrate his girlfriend Lisa Tchenguiz’s 56th birthday. The 64-year-old had dozens of Lisa’s pals join in to celebrate over video phone. As part of the festivities he ordered 70 cardboard cut-outs of friends and placed them around the room while the real guests took part…
Amitabh Bachchan’s recent appeal to the Madhya Pradesh government to reunite a police couple living in different cities didn’t fall on deaf ears. While participating in Kaun Banega Crorepati(KBC), a traffic constable from Mandsaur had explained to the mega star about his plight that his wife was posted away in Gwalior and he was living alone in Mandsaur.who is also a constable in the same department, for over three years Bachchan appealed, “Whoever is looking after the transfers in the state, should make sure that this couple is posted in one place. Please unite them, it won’t cost you anything.”…
Getting one of the world’s richest persons’ attention is no easy task but relentless effort coupled with some bit of quirk has yielded results for a video game creator. Layabout Vladimirov, an independent game developer, tweeted SpaceX founder Musk more than 150 times over the past year, asking permission to use the company’s name and logos. On January 13, he finally got a response. “Dear Elon, I’m a game dev. And I am making a game about colonizing Mars with you and SpaceX in it. If you think it’s cool, all I need is the “Go ahead” to use your…
Bakcen George, Allwyn Joseph and Ratish Bhalerao decided to give a whole new meaning to Work-From-Home with their month-long cycling trip in the midst of the pandemic. To be more specific, there’s a trio of friends who have been working from their cycles.They cycled all the way from Mumbai to Kanyakumari while not missing office. The Covid-19 crisis also dampened plans of many as using public transport is discouraged during the pandemic and going outside also has its risks It was the idea of 31-year-old Bakcen who first thought of it in November. Although initially, he was the only one…
This is one New Year challenge announced by a Pune restaurateur that is driving foodies and bike-lovers crazy. A restaurant in the outskirts of Pune is offering a unique proposition to increase the flow of customers to his restaurant. The restaurant has announced that they will award a brand-new Royal Enfield Bullet 350 to any customer who can finish the Bullet Thali within 60 minutes Pune eatery ‘Hotel Shivraj’ which is offering a brand new Royal Enfield bullet bike if you finish their ‘Bullet Thali’. The bike touted to be worth 1.65 lakhs is almost every bike lovers’ dream come…
Lieutenant Colonel GYK Reddy, an Indian Army officer has indigenously developed a ‘microcopter’, report. The microcopter can be used by Indian army to carry out surveillance inside a terrorist hideout. It is particularly useful in Jammu and Kashmir where cases of terrorists hiding inside a building are common. Para Special Forces battalion in Jammu and Kashmir has successfully carried out the trials of the microcomputer and further improvements are being carried out. It was showcased at an event to showcase innovation by the Indian Army in Delhi. Also the Indian Army has selected SWITCH unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) made by…