Author: Dr Anand Mali
In a chilling video, which has gone viral on social media, Two Russians almost fell to their deaths after a precariously positioned cliff-edge swing broke. The duo was taking a ride on the swing, which hung about 6,300 feet above sea level. The swing, which hung from the overhead precipice of the cliff, suddenly tumbled after one of its chains snapped. The incident was captured on video and occurred in the Sulak Canyon in the Russian Republic of Dagestan, on the western shores of the Caspian Sea. As the chains snapped, the swing tilted completely to one side. The women,…
Odisha’s Puri has become the first city in the state to have a drink-from-tap facility. This means that the city now has safe drinking water that can be used directly from tap for cooking and drinking, without requiring further filtration. Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik inaugurated the ‘Sujal’ or drink-from-tap mission on Monday. The water we provide in Puri is doubly safe as there is no fear of contamination from the reservoir to the households through pipelines or in the storage tanks on the roofs of the houses,says a top official in Odisha. Executive engineer Sarat Mishra says a multi-layer…
Data from the Swiss National Bank shows that funds parked by Indian individuals and firms in Swiss banks rose to its highest level in 13 years in 2020. The government has no official estimate of black money stashed in the Swiss Bank over the last 10 years, Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary told the Lok Sabha in a written reply on Monday. The Centre’s response came a month after annual data from Switzerland’s central bank, the Swiss National Bank, showed that funds parked by Indian individuals and firms in Swiss banks rose to 2.55 billion Swiss francs (over…
Female weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz will be bringing home the first-ever Olympic gold for the Philippines, after ending the nation’s near 100-year wait for the top medal. The 30-year-old lifted a combined weight of 224kg in the 55kg category at Tokyo 2020 on July 26, 2021, setting an Olympic record and tying the world record in the process. Philippines President Duterte spoke to the athlete in a Zoom call broadcast live on state television shortly after she arrived in Manila from Tokyo where she made history Monday winning the country’s first Olympic gold medal. Congratulating Diaz on her performance, the president…
With the Tokyo Olympics around, all the countries are striving to win. However, a recent incident where the German coach Claudiu Pusa’s pep talk didn’t include much talking has left people bewildered. In a video, a German athlete, Martyna Trajdos, is violently shaken and slapped by her coach before an Olympic event.This clip has gone viral on Twitter.In this clip, Martyna stops and turns towards her coach Claudiu Pusa. He shakes her back and forth before slapping her on both sides of the cheeks. The clip gives a look of Pusa trying to motivate Martyna before she took to the…
American electric vehicle maker Tesla may set up a manufacturing unit in India if it first succeeds with imported vehicles in the country, according to company CEO Elon Musk. He, however, said at present import duties in India are “the highest in the world” and is hoping for “at least a temporary tariff relief for electric vehicles”. Interacting on twitter with followers who asked him to launch Tesla cars in India Musk said, “We want to do so, but import duties are the highest in the world by far of any large country!” Moreover, clean energy vehicles are treated the…
Mirabai Chanu on Monday received a warm welcome in India following her return from the Japanese capital after a successful campaign in the 2020 Tokyo Games. Despite suffering from menstrual cramps a night before her summit clash, Chanu made her countrymen proud by winning the silver medal in the 49kg category in weightlifting. Chanu, who ended India’s 21-year long medal drought in weightlifting in Tokyo on Saturday, July 24, has been on a strict diet in the past few months to prepare for the showpiece event. After her historic performance, the Manipur star had revealed that she was craving pizza.…
Oliver Daemen, The Dutch teenager who became the world’s youngest space traveller surprised billionaire Jeff Bezos on the flight by telling him he’d never purchased anything on Amazon.com. Let us tell you that an 18-year-old physics student, accompanied Bezos, his brother Mark Bezos and 82-year-old female aviator Wally Funk – the oldest person to go to space – on a 10-minute trip beyond Earth’s atmosphere Bezos founded the exploration company Blue Origin by selling billions of dollars worth of stock in his online delivery business Amazon. “I told Jeff, like, I’ve actually never bought something from Amazon,” he said in…
A woman and her two daughters in Kadali village in Andhra Pradesh’s East Godavari district confined themselves within their house for 15 months consecutively during the pandemic to avoid exposing themselves, and have, now, been taken to hospital in a weakened state, police said. “Ruthamma, and her daughters, Kanthamani (30) and Rani (32), have confined themselves since the first lockdown, announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in March 2020,” a police official told IANS on Wednesday. The two men in the family stepped out sometimes for work but the women were totally confined to the hut. As a result of…
Former US President Bill Clinton declined offers of tea with Queen Elizabeth and dinner at the British Prime Minister’s official country house because he wanted to “be a tourist,” go shopping and eat Indian food during his first official visit to the UK with Tony Blair as leader in 1997, according to formerly classified documents. Downing Street was “pulling out all the stops” to ensure Clinton’s May 1997 visit – made between trips to summits in The Hague and Paris – was a “public relations success,” according to memos between Dominick Chilcott, assistant private secretary to the foreign secretary, and…