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Monsoon brings freshness to the air and relief from the searing summer. The weather before and after the rain is priceless. However, as much as we love this beautiful season, the monsoon brings along several communicable diseases including mosquito-borne like dengue or food and waterborne illnesses like typhoid. In a recent interview with the Hindustan Times, Dr Vishal Parmar, who is a consultant and a paediatrician at Wockhardt Hospitals, shared certain things that people should be mindful of in order to prevent themselves from getting sick during this season. “Ensure that your drinking water is safe (use boiled water, especially for infants below one year). Avoid eating uncooked food like chutneys or salads and fresh juices/water from outside. Wash fruits and vegetables well before consumption,” he said. The health expert recommended people to take extra care of their hygiene and said, “Wash your hands and feet well after having stepped out. Nails to be always kept trimmed and … [Read more...] about Precautions You Must Take to Keep Monsoon Diseases at Bay

Sameer Wankhede, the former Mumbai zonal director of the Narcotics Control Bureau, has been booked by the Thane police for allegedly giving false information on oath, cheating and forgery in connection with a licence that he had procured for a bar and hotel owned by him in Navi Mumbai. The case registered at the Kopari police station is based on the complaint filed by Excise Inspector Satyawan Gogavale, who accused Wankhede of fraudulently obtaining license of Sadguru Beer Bar in Vashi as a 21-year-old, when he was actually 17. The former divisional director of IRS has been booked under IPC section 181 (related to false statement on oath or affirmation to public servant or person authorised to administer an oath or affirmation), 188 (related to disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant), 420 (Cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 465 (punishment for forgery), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating) and 471 (related to fraudulence). On February 2, … [Read more...] about Sameer Wankhede Booked for Alleged Fraud, Providing False Info on Oath to Obtain Illegal Bar License

Click here to read the full article. Alejandro Loayza Grisi ’s “ Utama ,” which won the grand jury prize in the World Cinema Dramatic competition at Sundance this year, took home top honors at the closing ceremony of the Transilvania Film Festival on Saturday night. Grisi’s feature debut tells the story of an elderly couple in the Bolivian highlands who refuse to relocate to the city despite the constant threat of drought. In a glowing review, Variety ’s Peter Debruge described the film as a “sublime, quietly elegiac” character study that “looks quite unlike anything else.” More from Variety Emerging Filmmakers Bring Genre Twists to Transilvania Co-Production Forum Patra Spanou Film Acquires Paul Negoescu's Study of Modern Masculinity 'Men of Deeds' (EXCLUSIVE) Ukrainian Filmmakers 'Distraught' By Russian Presence in Transilvania Film Festival Competition “By relying on the simplicity, purity and poetry of his cinematic approach, the director … [Read more...] about Sundance Winner ‘Utama’ Takes Top Prize at Transilvania Film Festival

TikTok is full of beauty tips designed to make users' daily lives easier while reducing their beauty budget. While some of them are surprising, others are verging on crazy. Take, for example, the "peanut butter nail", a new and totally unexpected trick that involves finishing false nails with peanut butter. It's the beauty hack you never knew you needed... Beauty and food often go hand in hand when it comes to drawing on nature's bounty to meet the needs of our skin. But TikTokers are taking the idea further, to a point where anything goes. Read more: Is the hot weather giving you a beauty meltdown? These tips may help The social network's users are now using a surprising foodstuff, peanut butter, to achieve the most original of manicures. Here, nail extensions are finished not with polish, but with this popular processed spread – and to surprising effect. The nail artist @ilysmnails, followed by nine million people on the Chinese social network, was among the first … [Read more...] about Weird ‘peanut butter nail’ beauty gimmick draws flak on TikTok

We should have been packing for our Easter trip to Mallorca about now. Having had a number of foreign holidays cancelled in 2020 and 2021, this was supposed to be the year that things began returning to normal. Instead, days before we were due to fly out from Gatwick, we received a notification from Thomas Cook that easyJet has cancelled our flight home. There is a flight available the next day, but as our resort won’t have rooms for the extra night we’d need to find accommodation at our own expense. Even if we were willing to fork out extra to solve a problem not of our own making, staying an extra day would mean my wife missing work and my son missing school, so we had to cancel. We are not alone. As Simon Calder describes , the scenes at Manchester airport are already chaotic, and Heathrow and Gatwick – our departure point – are almost as bad, and it’s still a week to Easter. Meanwhile, the RAC is advising motorists to avoid the M25 and A303 near Stonehenge, which … [Read more...] about Why didn’t airlines and holiday companies see the Easter travel chaos coming?

Google is taking part in International Women's Day by transforming its home page into a beautiful art display of quotes by inspiring women in the form of art also created by women. The Doodle slideshow featured on the home page Friday was made by women in honor of women and features quotes from 13 pioneering women around the world. The quotes come from architects, astronauts, novelists and more and were transformed into pieces of art by talented women around the globe. "Today's interactive, slideshow Doodle is told by and made by women," said Google. The guest Google artists who helped make the doodle are as unique as the women quoted in it. The doodles are even showcased in the native languages of the women who originally said the quotes. "The process of choosing the 13 quotes was extremely difficult, but we aimed to include a diverse representation of voices on a day which celebrates the past, present, and future community of diverse women around the world," said Google. … [Read more...] about Google Doodle honors women for International Women’s Day

A planned Women's March in California has been by canceled the organizers over fears about the lack of diversity from those taking part. The march in the town of Eureka, in Humboldt County, was due to take place on January 19. In the run-up to the event, the organizers described being "at a crossroads" as they sought to create an event that "represents all members of our community." Read more: Chicago Women's March has been called off amid 'anti-Semitic' Nation of Islam controversy In a statement posted on Facebook, the organizers have confirmed that the event will now no longer be going ahead, following "conversations between local social-change organizers and supporters of the march." "The local organizers are continuing to meet and discuss how to broaden representation in the organizing committee to create an event that represents and supports peoples who live here in Humboldt," the statement added. "Up to this point, the participants have been overwhelmingly white, … [Read more...] about A California Women’s March was cancelled over fears participants would be “overwhelmingly white”

The Group of 7 major economies will convene in the Bavarian Alps this weekend, bringing together the leaders of members Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the U.K. and the U.S. to discuss the world's most pressing political and economic issues. Since the 1970s, the countries of the world's largest developed economies have met regularly to address the time's most crucial global economic and political challenges, such as climate change , rising inflation and the Ukraine war . The G7 members last met in Brussels in March to discuss the conflict. Germany hosts the G7 this year, and the summit will take place between June 26 and June 28 at Schloss Elmau, a five-star hotel and castle near the Austrian border about 62 miles south of Munich. The summit this year will be hosted by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who in March warned that the Ukraine war "must not lead us as the G7 to neglect our responsibility for global challenges such as the climate crisis or the pandemic." He … [Read more...] about Who is at the G7 Summit 2022? Every leader attending

India logged 11,739 new coronavirus infections taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,33,89,973, while the active cases rose to 92,576, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on June 26. The death toll climbed to 5,24,999 with 25 new fatalities, the data updated at 8 a.m. stated. The active cases comprise 0.21% of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was 98.58%, the ministry said. An increase of 797 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours. The daily positivity rate was recorded at 2.59% and the weekly positivity rate at 3.25%, according to the ministry. The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 4,27,72,398 while the case fatality rate was recorded at 1.21%. According to the ministry, 197.08 crore doses of Covid vaccine have been administered in the country so far under the nationwide COVID-19 vaccination drive. India's COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh … [Read more...] about India reports 11,739 new COVID-19 cases, 25 deaths

A day after detaining social activist Teesta Setalvad in Mumbai, the Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) handed her over to the Ahmedabad crime branch early on June 26 in connection with a fresh case of forgery, criminal conspiracy and insulting criminal proceedings to cause injury registered against her. Ms. Setalvad was detained from her house in Juhu area of Mumbai on Saturday afternoon after an FIR was registered against her at the Ahmedabad crime branch earlier in the day based on a complaint lodged by a crime branch inspector D B Barad. "After being brought here, Ms. Setalvad was handed over to the city crime branch on Sunday morning. She will soon be placed under arrest," a crime branch source said. After her detention on Saturday, she had been taken to the Santacruz police station in Mumbai for informing the local police about her detention. From there, the Gujarat police squad brought her to Ahmedabad by road, where they reached in the early hours. The action against … [Read more...] about Gujarat ATS hands over Teesta Setalvad to Ahmedabad crime branch