Author: Dr Anand Mali

At the peak of the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic, India saw an unprecedented demand for medical oxygen. Scores of patients were gasping for breath and those attending them were running from pillar to post to get an oxygen cylinder. Covid-19 situation was not much different in Tamil Nadu, where Chennai resident Seetha Devi lost her mother due to oxygen shortage on May 1. She had Covid-19. To prevent others from struggling like her mother, Ms. Seetha Devi has now started an autorickshaw oxygen service outside the RGGGH where her mother waited for hours. My mother R. Vijaya, who was…

Lawyers of Muhammad Asif Hafeez have claimed that US’ Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agents met the Lahore-born gold and silver trader in Dubai between 2014 to 2017 and asked him about the whereabouts of India’s most wanted criminal Dawood Ibrahim, 1993 Mumbai bombings, Tora Bora, the Taliban, and Karachi businessman Jabir Motiwala. This may be noted that Hafeez is also known as ‘Sultan’ of the alleged drug selling network that extends from India, Pakistan, Afghanistan to the Middle East and African countries. American agents asked Muhammad Asif Hafeez to help them with information for…

In a heartbreaking incident, a man was forced to bring his daughter’s dead body from hospital by tying it to his car’s seat in Rajasthan’s Kota.The picture of the father taking his daughter’s dead body tied with the seat belt of his car has gone viral on social media. It is alleged that the father was asked for Rs. 20000-35000 by ambulance drivers for a distance of 85 kilometres in Rajasthan. Father was not in a condition to pay this much of the amount and decided to take the body in his car. It happened in Kota city on Monday…

Mallya has repeatedly sought access to funds to meet his mounting legal costs, both in Britain and India. Fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya on Wednesday lost an appeal to gain further access to court-held funds to cover his costs for legal proceedings in India. A High Court judge in London held that the 65-year-old had failed to provide sufficient evidence in support of the over 750,000 pounds (nearly Rs 7.7 crore) he sought. The judge said there was no breakdown and no invoices in support of the amounts being sought. “The banks have repeatedly asked for this information and Mallya has…

Flight ticket and travelled as the only passenger on board an Emirates flight from Mumbai to Dubai on May 19. Bhavesh Javeri, 40, thus enjoyed an exclusive flight on a 360-seater Boeing 777 aircraft. “I stepped into the aircraft and the airhostesses all clapped to welcome me aboard,” Bhavesh Javeri said. Bhavesh Javeri, who has boarded over 240 flights between Mumbai and Dubai so far, added, “I have flown so much, but this is the best flight ever.” On the flight, meanwhile, Bhavesh Javeri had a great time conversing with the crew as well as the commander, who also offered…

A viral message has been doing the rounds on WhatsApp claiming that French virologist and Nobel Prize winner Luc Montagnier has said that “all vaccinated people will die within two years” and that the COVID-19 vaccination drive is a “big blunder.” This message is FAKE. The fake message claims, “Nobel Prize Winner Luc Montagnier has confirmed that there is no chance of survival for people who have received any form of the vaccine. In the shocking interview, the world’s top virologist stated blankly.” The fake message was linked to a report in LifeSiteNews, which is a Canadian far-right anti-abortion advocacy…

The Telangana government cancelled a Hyderabad hospital’s license to treat COVID-19 patients and issued show-cause notices to three other hospitals on May 18. These stern measures come a day after the Telangana High Court directed the state government to seriously look into overcharging by hospitals in the state. Dr G Srinivas Rao, Director of Public Health and Family Welfare, announced the action taken on the private hospitals Dr Rao told the media that they received 26 complaints on the WhatsApp number that the department had provided, for citizens to lodge complaints against private hospitals that are overcharging them. “Three hospitals…

The Centre again revised the gap between the two doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca’s Covishield – a COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India (SII) last week. At the beginning of the vaccination drive in January, the two doses were meant to be administered with a gap of four-six weeks. Later, the Centre revised it to four-eight weeks. Last week, it said that the doses of the vaccine are to be administered 12-16 weeks apart, following a recommendation by a government panel, saying it was a “science-based decision”. The central government has lately come under a lot of criticism over…

A symbol of national pride and vital part of Japan’s transport infrastructure, the famed high-speed “bullet train” got some unwanted attention from regulators this month after the driver briefly abandoned his controls to take a bathroom break leaving the futuristic, aerodynamically elongated N700S and its 160 passengers to hurtle along the tracks at 93 miles-per-hour (150 kmph) A Japanese train driver faces possible punishment after he left the cockpit of a speeding bullet train for several minutes to go to the toilet. He had asked a conductor, who did not have a driver’s licence, to man the train which was…

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has launched an investigation into a case of 161 passengers on board a chartered SpiceJet flight flouting onboard Covid norms while attending a mid-air wedding ceremony on Sunday. Because of a brutal new coronavirus wave that saw India’s death toll pass 300,000 on Monday, most states only allow 50 guests at weddings but 161 friends and family of the newlyweds were on the jet on Sunday. The flight, operated by SpiceJet and chartered by a Madurai businessman, took off from Madurai and landed back in the city after a two-hour “joy ride” on…

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…

Cyclone Tauktae is likely to intensify into a “severe cyclonic storm” within six hours, and may hit the Gujarat coast by Tuesday, the weather office has warned. Over the next 12 hours, Cyclone Tauktae is likely to intensify further into a “very severe cyclonic storm” and is expected to cross the Gujarat coast between Porbandar and Naliya on Tuesday afternoon. This is the first cyclonic storm this year as India fights a deadly second wave of COVID-19, which has led to a surge in the country’s caseload and death count. But have you ever wondered how these cyclones are named?…

Biocon chief Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw has compared the COVID-19 vaccination situation in the country to an arranged marriage. Mazumdar-Shaw, the executive chairperson of biotechnology major Biocon, in a lighter vein, compared the two while bringing out the confusion that currently prevails regarding the entire vaccination process. Mazumdar-Shaw, the executive chairperson of biotechnology major Biocon, in a lighter vein compared the two while bringing out the confusion that currently prevails regarding the entire vaccination process. “The vaccine situation in India is like arranged marriage. First u r not ready, then u don’t like any, then u don’t get any!! Those who are…

SoftBank Group Corp CEO Masayoshi Son said on Thursday he is “afraid” of having the Olympics during the COVID-19 pandemic and expressed concern for both Japan and countries sending athletes to the Games in Tokyo. The intervention from one of Japan’s most prominent executives comes as the government has vowed to press ahead with Tokyo 2020 amid rising domestic virus cases and concern over the speed of the vaccination rollout. “I am very much afraid of having the Olympics, not just for Japan but for many countries. They are having a tough situation. I don’t know how they can support…

The Union government has accepted the recommendation for extension of the gap between the first and second doses of Covishield vaccine to 12-16 weeks. The present one is 6-8 weeks. However, no change has been suggested for the dosage interval of Covaxin. Earlier, the Covishied doses were given with a gap of 4-6 weeks and that was based on the data available then with the regulators. With more data becoming available, it was observed in the secondary analysis that if the duration was extended, it is more efficacious. The UK and the WHO also said there should be a lag…

Mark Cuban took to Twitter to share his take on Bitcoin after Elon Musk sent shares of the cryptocurrency plummeting upon his announcement that Tesla would no longer be accepting the coin as a payment option. Cuban, who owns the Dallas Mavericks, said that despite Musk’s opinion, the Mavs would still accept Bitcoin (as well as other crypto coins Ether and Dogecoin) as payment. Mark Cuban said that his Dallas Mavericks will keep accepting crypto as they are better for the environment than gold.Tesla previously announced it would stop bitcoin payments over environmental concerns. The environmental impact of cryptocurrencies is…

Russia’s plan to film a movie in space this year is moving full speed ahead as actress Yulia Peresild and filmmaker Klim Shipenko have been selected to star in and helm the project, respectively. Russia’s Roscosmos space agency has announced the two artists will travel to space October 5. The movie, which has the working title “Challenge,” tells “the story of a female surgeon’s mission to perform an operation on a cosmonaut too ill to return to Earth immediately.” The Russian space agency announced the film project after NASA confirmed last year it was teaming up with US action star Tom Cruise to make…

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Thursday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to bring the Goods and Services Tax for COVID-19 vaccines and drugs to zero level. Pending GST compensation and subsidy on rice should be released immediately and adhoc grants-in-aid must be provided as the Centre has not shared with states the revenue from additional levies on fuel, he said in a letter to Modi. Also, Stalin wanted the borrowing limit increased by one more per cent from the current three per cent of Gross State Domestic Product. In the wake of lower economic growth due to…

Elon Musk can shake things up, with just a tweet. You must have seen the recent doge-mania his tweets have created in the crypto space. On May 12, he had a change of heart when he tweeted about Tesla suspending vehicle purchases using the Bitcoin. Musk, one of bitcoin’s most ardent backers, tweeted a graph of bitcoin’s power consumption and said: “Energy usage trend over past few months is insane.” That followed his tweet from Wednesday saying Tesla would no longer accept the cryptocurrency as payment for its electric cars because it came at a great cost to the environment,…

Bollywood Actor Sonu Sood, who has been helping people from various sections of society during the COVID-19 pandemic, said on Monday that he is importing oxygen plants from France and other countries.He is planning to install at least four of the oxygen plants in the worst-hit COVID-19 states of India, including Delhi and Maharashtra. Sonu Sood said in his statement, “We are bringing in oxygen plants for the people in need. We have seen a lot of people suffering because of the unavailability of oxygen cylinders. We have got it now, and are already giving it to people. However, these…

Hyderabad-based pharmaceuticals company, Dr Reddy’s Laboratories, entered into a royalty-free, non-exclusive voluntary licensing agreement with Eli Lilly and Company for the manufacture and commercialisation of the drug, baricitinib, in India. The drug baricitinib has received restricted emergency use approval from the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO), Ministry of Health, India, for use in combination with remdesivir for the treatment of suspected or laboratory confirmed Covid-19 in hospitalised adults requiring supplemental oxygen, invasive mechanical ventilation, or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. “This partnership comes at a critical juncture in the fight against the pandemic in India, and adds to the company’s existing…

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday requesting the Centre to increase its allocation of liquid medical oxygen (LMO) for the state. He also asked for the government to direct Bharat Biotech and ICMR-NIV to transfer the Covaxin manufacturing technology and provide the viral strain to “whoever is interested and capable of manufacturing the vaccine” so that the production could be ramped up. The Chief Minister informed that, “the average count of cases per day over the last seven days stands at 20,300 and as of today we have 1,86,695 active…

Israel unleashed new airstrikes on Gaza early Tuesday, hitting a pair of high-rise buildings believed to be housing militants, as Hamas and other armed groups bombarded southern Israel with hundreds of rockets, killing two Israeli civilians and wounding 10 others. In response,Israeli airstrikes toppled most of a massive high-rise building in central Gaza City on Wednesday, in the latest escalation in Israel-Hamas fighting. The collapse was broadcast on Israeli TV channels, with commentators predicting Gaza militants would respond with a rocket barrage.Gaza health officials saying at least 20 people, including nine children, were killed by Israeli air strikes launched after…

Google on Monday said it is testing a new feature in Maps application that enables people to ask about and share local information on the availability of beds and medical oxygen in select locations amid massive coronavirus surge in the country. Google said its teams are focused on three priority areas – ensuring people can access the latest and most authoritative information; amplifying vital safety and vaccination messages; and providing financial backing for affected communities, health authorities and other organisations. “We know that some of the most crucial information people are searching for is the availability of hospital beds and…

Before Jeff Bezos became a multi-billionaire, he used to write product reviews for Amazon and over a period of six years between 2000 and 2006, he reviewed non-fiction books, a novel, a movie, binoculars and even milk. Unearthed by inc.com’s contributing editor Billy Murphy Jr, the old reviews by the world’s richest man are genuine and are given five stars, which is the highest score for a review on the e-commerce platform. Bezos is touted as Amazon`s 78,951,609th-ranked reviewer. “I love milk so much that I’ve been drinking it since the day I was born. I don’t.Think it was Tuscan…

The second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has caused a huge spike in the number of COVID-19 cases across the country. The union health ministry stated that the country has registered 3,66,161 new cases over the last 24 hours, on Monday morning. The total count of the number of COVID-19 cases has now gone up to 2,26,62,575. Amidst this time, to a relief to the people, the COVID-19 vaccination drive is taking place across the country. The COVID-19 vaccination drive for the adults between 18 and 44 years of age has started from May 1, 2021. The earlier phases for…

An anti-COVID-19 therapeutic drug developed by DRDO called drug2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG) has been given emergency approval by the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) for Coronavirus patients in the country. The anti-Covid-19 drug was developed by DRDO last year and has undergone three phases of clinical trials between April 2020 and March 2021. The drug was developed by the Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS), a lab of DRDO, in collaboration with Dr Reddy’s Laboratories, Hyderabad,has been found to be effective in controlling the viral growth, resulting in faster recovery of hospitalised patients, DCGI said. According to the report,…

Trump slammed Facebook, Google and Twitter and called them “corrupt”, saying these social media companies “must pay a political price, and must never again be allowed to destroy and decimate our Electoral Process.” Republican former President Donald Trump spent the first full day of his new blog slamming his Republican congressional critics and large social media companies. His attacks bore similarities to his previous “Twitterstorms” during his presidency. On Wednesday, US former commander-in-chief Trump launched his first communication on his own platform ‘From the Desk of Donald Trump.’ The Twitter-like board was added to Trump’s official website ‘Save America’ on…

The US Department of Defence has said it is tracking the Chinese Long March 5B-rocket that is out of control and set to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere this weekend. The core of the Chinese Long March 5B rocket carried the “core module” of the country’s space station into low Earth orbit last week. But after that mission was complete, the rocket appears to have fallen into an orbit that could see it plunge towards the Earth.Given the object’s orbit, the possible landing points are anywhere in a band of latitudes “a little farther north than New York, Madrid and Beijing and…

“The production process for this biologic medicine is very complex and Roche, as one of the largest biologics manufacturers in the world, was selected by its partner Regeneron to expand worldwide production capacity,” Roche said. Roche India on Wednesday announced that the Central Drugs Standards Control Organisation (CDSCO) has provided Emergency Use Authorisation (EUA) for Roche’s antibody cocktail in India for treatment of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19). The product will be used to treat mild to moderate Covid-19 in adults and paediatric patients (12 years of age or older, weighing at least 40 kg) who are confirmed to be infected…

South Korean video game developer Krafton has announced that the India version of its popular game PUBG will be called Battlegrounds Mobile India. The game, which will be available only in India, will provide a multiplayer gaming experience on the mobile phone. This comes after the original version of the game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) Mobile had been banned in India in September following a ban on Chinese apps. – PUBG was published by Chinese internet firm Tencent in India. Following this, PUBG Corporation had said it would no longer authorise the game to Tencent Games in India. Later in November…

Mali’s government flew 25-year-old Halima Cisse, a woman from the north of the poor West African state, to Morocco for better care on March 30. She was initially believed to have been carrying septuplets. The woman was expected to give birth to seven babies, according to ultrasounds conducted in Morocco and Mali that missed two of the siblings. A Malian woman gave birth to nonuplets in Morocco on Tuesday and all nine babies are “doing well”, her government said, although Moroccan authorities had yet to confirm what would be an extremely rare. Cases of women successfully carrying septuplets to term…

The govt has launched the MyGov Corona Helpdesk chatbot on WhatsApp– where users will be able to find all the information related to the vaccination centers WhatsApp users can easily access the information by sending a message and subsequent replies to automated messages. As the nation kicked off the phase-3 vaccination drive for all adults on May 1, WhatsApp had come forward to help users find the nearest COVID vaccine center. Users reported facing difficulty in finding the centres closest to them after they registered on the Indian government’s portal CoWIN, which showed vaccination centres based on pin codes and…

Bill and Melinda Gates said Monday that they are divorcing but would keep working together at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the largest charitable foundations in the world. In identical tweets, the Microsoft co-founder and his wife said they had made the decision to end their marriage of 27 years.He tweeted, Over the last 27 years, we have raised three incredible children and built a foundation that works all over the world to enable all people to lead healthy, productive lives,” it read. Gates foundation has spent billions fighting causes such as infectious diseases and encouraging vaccinations…

BCCI Vice-President Rajeev Shukla Clarifies IPL 2021 Not Cancelled, Just Postponed BCCI President Rajeev Shukla has clarified the stance on the status of IPL 2021. Earlier in the day, the BCCI had to postpone the 14th edition of the marquee T20 league indefinitely after 29 matches as COVID-19 positive cases emerged within the bubble. Meanwhile, Rajeev Shukla stated that IPL 2021 stands postponed for now and not cancelled. The crisis began unfolding when on Monday, Kolkata Knight Riders’ official Twitter handle announced that Varun Chakravarthy and Sandeep Warrier have tested positive for COVID-19. It forced the authorities to postpone their…

The AIIMS chief on Monday warned against rushing for CT scan in cases of mild COVID-19, saying it has side effects and can end up doing more harm than good. Stressing that there is no need for doing CT scans in mild COVID cases, AIIMS Director Dr Randeep Guleria at a press conference said that many people are opting for the test the moment they find out they are positive for COVID-19 and added that misuse of CT scans and biomarkers may cause damage “No point in conducting CT scans for mild cases; one may find patches in CT scan…

SpaceX safely returned four astronauts from the International Space Station on May 2, making the first US crew splashdown in darkness since the Apollo 8 moonshot. The Crew-1 astronauts, three American and one Japanese, landed near Panama City, Florida, just before 3 a.m. ET. It was the second time humans have returned to Earth on a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule “We welcome you back to planet Earth and thanks for flying SpaceX,” SpaceX’s Mission Control radioed moments after splashdown. “For those of you enrolled in our frequent flyer program, you’ve earned 68 million miles on this voyage.” “We’ll take those…

Do you have that special someone in your life? Did you ever think if she’s the one for you to spend the rest of your life with? In a relationship, there’s always ups and downs. Sometimes, both of you have the greatest time together but at other times, your relationship is marred with petty quarrels that just drives you mad. As the relationship passes the honeymoon phase, most people starts to take their other half for granted, and that’s when things break down. At that time, it’s easier to find fault than to appreciate your girlfriend, and you start to…

Work from home has proven to be a boon for a lot of employees. It has cut travel time, saved money, allowed one to dedicate more time to family and manage households better. Turns out not only employees, but Google too has also benefited from the work from home routine.  According to a new report, Google, specifically, managed to save up around $1 billion (roughly Rs.7400) because a large chunk of its workforce was working from home. As pointed out by Bloomberg, because of the pandemic, Google employees were not travelling as much as they would normally on the company’s…

Amid a rapid spread of Covid-19 cases, the Centre on Monday advised people to wear masks even inside homes, especially when using a common space and also said that it is best not to invite visitors.The government, however, added that unnecessary panic was causing more harm than good. Addressing a joint press conference with other senior functionaries, Dr VK Paul, Member (Health), Niti Aayog, said, “If there is Covid-19 positive case in the family, it is very important that the person wears a mask even indoors because the virus can spread to others in the home. I would rather go…

Rahul Dravid’s cred app video became an instant hit among the Indian cricket fans as soon as the ad was released by All India Bakchod’s Tanmay Bhatt. Bhatt and his crew were the makers of this ad which was about making people aware about the traffic rules. They made the former Indian skipper Rahul Dravid to feature in this ad and that turned out to be its USP. The expressions from Dravid perfectly matched the seriousness of this ad and all in all it turned to be a great success. The advertisement that became the talk of the town was…