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Senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar has come under fire after he said that India should engage in dialogue with Pakistan or the country could end up paying a heavy price. Mr Aiyar said that Pakistan has nuclear bombs which they could drop on India if our governments irked them. “You should talk to them. But instead, we are flexing our military might. And this is just increasing the tensions. And they have atom bombs. What happens if a ‘madman’ decided to launch bombs (at India),” he said. “We have them too, but if a ‘madman’ decides to drop…
A video of Vikrant Massey engaging in a verbal altercation with a cab driver over the surge in fare created a lot of buzz on the Internet. Well, it turns out that the clip, shared on Thursday, was part of an advertisement campaign for the ride-hailing app inDrive. Vikrant has been appointed “the brand ambassador for inDrive for a year-long advertising campaign,” reported news agency PTI (more on that later). In case you missed the ad, it opens to a cab driver recording a selfie video. He says, “Mera naam Ashish hai. Mai ek cab driver hu. Maine apne passenger…
A New York City doctor has been found guilty of sexually abusing eight patients including minors, under the guise of medical treatment. According to the New York Post, Darius Paduch was a urologist, who specialized in infertility and male reproductive health. The outlet reported that he carried out the abuse from 2015 through 2019 when he was alone with his patients in the exam room. The indictment said he used to allegedly instruct his victims to masturbate themselves. He also used sex toys on them and carried out unnecessary rectal exams without wearing gloves. According to the Manhattan US Attorney’s Office, the…
Apple apologized on Thursday after an advertisement for its latest iPad Pro model sparked criticism by showing an animation of musical instruments and other symbols of creativity being crushed, Ad Age magazine reported. “Our goal is to always celebrate the myriad of ways users express themselves and bring their ideas to life through iPad. We missed the mark with this video, and we’re sorry,” Ad Age quoted the iPhone maker as saying. An Apple spokesperson declined to comment but directed inquiries to the Ad Age report. Meet the new iPad Pro: the thinnest product we’ve ever created, the most advanced…
Aided by an exquisitely skilful performance from Rajkummar Rao – this despite the fact that the actor has to push himself to the limits to come across as a teenager and a twentysomething – Srikanth isn’t an average Bollywood biopic. It seldom takes recourse to overt melodrama to showcase the magnitude of the visually impaired protagonist’s achievements. Directed by Tushar Hiranandani, who has two well received biographical works behind him (the sports drama Saand Ki Aankh and the web series Scam 2003), Srikanth narrates the incredible true story of industrialist Srikanth Bolla, who made his way out of poverty, went…
A Black airman in the US Air Force was shot and killed in an “excessive” use of force by a Florida sheriff’s deputy who burst into the wrong apartment, a lawyer retained by his family said Thursday. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who has represented the families of other African American victims of police violence, demanded a full investigation into the May 3 death of Roger Fortson. Sheriff Eric Aden of the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office said the deputy was responding to reports of a “disturbance in progress” when the shooting occurred. Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office releases bodycam footage of…
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, on Friday, said that subscribed users can post movies, TV series or podcasts on the platform and earn money via monetisation. Replying to his sister Tosca Musk who co-founded the streaming service Passionflix, the tech billionaire said that users can now post their full-length movies on X. “Post your movies, TV series or podcasts on this platform and monetise by turning on subscriptions,” said Elon. Tosca posted: “Love that people are watching my movies here on X.” A user even suggested that X should let them post films and charge a one-time fee. “This…
To address the problem of low voter turnout, officials in the Bhopal Lok Sabha constituency came up with an innovative solution. They declared that on polling day, a lucky draw would be held every two hours, giving attractive rewards to those who come out to vote. Four lucky winners were given diamond rings as the bumper prize. But the whole exercise turned out to be a series of comical errors. First, the rings came in small boxes labelled ‘Lucky Jewellers, Bairagarh’. When NDTV spoke to its owner, Mahesh Dadlani, he said they don’t sell diamonds. The winners confirmed they got…
US Space Agency NASA regularly shares stunning images from our universe, leaving the space lovers mesmerised. NASA’s social media handle is a treasure trove for those who love watching educational videos and fascinating images showcasing Earth and space. Now, in its recent post, the space agency delighted its Instagram followers with two GIFs (graphics interchange format) that captured the moment the Sun unleashed two powerful solar flares. These two energetic flashes erupted on May 7 and in the wee hours of May 8 from sunspots identified as AR3663 and AR3664. “You make a loop-de-loop and pull, and your Sun is…
In the wake of pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca admitting in a UK court that its Covid vaccine can cause blood clots in rare cases, a group of doctors on Thursday expressed deep concern over the safety of the Covishield vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India. At a press conference, the doctors, under the banner of the Awaken India Movement (AIM), urged the government to review the science behind all Covid vaccines and audit their commercialisation as well as implementation of active surveillance and monitoring mechanism to ensure vaccine adverse events are identified as early as possible. “The government has…