Long flights call for comfy airport outfits. Seems like actor Hina Khan believes the same.
On Saturday, Hina was spotted at the Mumbai airport leaving for the Cannes Film Festival. She was seen wearing a lavender coloured jumper and pants teamed up with minimal make-up.
She elevated her airport look with triangle-framed tinted sunglasses, rings, and white lace-up sneakers in silver, orange and black accents, perfectly blending comfort with style.
Hina dropped a string of images of her look on her Instagram Story.
Hina would be walking again in Cannes after 3 years. She will unveil the poster of her upcoming film ‘Country of Blind’ at the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival.
For the unversed, Hina made her debut at Cannes in 2019 and amazed people with her appearance in a fishtail gown.
This year’s Cannes Film Festival will take place between May 17 and May 28 and the organisers will be removing COVID-19 curbs ahead of its 75th edition. They won’t be testing attendees, as they did last year, and will not institute a mask mandate. (ANI)
Water crisis in Maharashtra’s Chandrapur district has pushed villagers into a distressful situation during the peak summer months.
There is a severe shortage of water in Gondpipri of Chandrapur. The pictures that are coming out from the Chandrapur district of Maharashtra are astonishing. Three villages– Heti Nandgaon, Chak Nandgaon and Tole Nandgaon situated in Gondpipri tehsil on the border of Maharashtra and Telangana– are currently struggling with the acute water problem.
Pits of seven to eight feet have been dug in the middle of the drain with the help of utensils. This pit is present about one kilometre outside the village. Women, men and children of the village come here to collect water.
During the summer, this drain has dried up completely. In such a situation, people have to collect water by digging a pit. First of all, the water containing the soil that has settled in the pit has to be thrown out, after that the clean water is filtered with a cloth. It is filled in the pitcher, later this water is boiled and used for drinking, it takes about 15 minutes to fill a pitcher, if the water in the pit is exhausted, then one has to wait for the water to freeze again.
As the heat rises, the level of water from the ground goes down, in the same way, the depth of the pit has to be increased, in the month of May, women have to dig a pit of about 8 feet for water, and this process has been going on continuously from generation to generation.
A resident of this village, Anjana Yermule told ANI that 60 years have passed since she lived there, but the water crisis remains as it is, they have to dig pits and collect water. Politicians promise to provide water but it is yet to happen.
“It has been 10 years since marriage but water scarcity persists to this day, whether it is rain or heat, we have to suffer like this, the water we take out from the pit is also red-coloured, which should be cleaned before drinking,” said Pooja, a local resident.
Avinash Raut, another local resident narrated a similar ordeal.
He said that complaints were made repeatedly from the Tehsildar to the leaders, but all the people are ignoring this problem.
As per data, a few years ago, taps were installed in the village. under the regional tap scheme, water is supplied to a total of seven villages. Water is given once a day but water does not reach these three villages. Many houses in the village have taps but water is not available, due to which people are forced to drink water by digging a hole in the drain. (ANI)
People in Delhi witnessed scorching heat, with the mercury soaring to 47.2 degrees Celsius in Mungeshpur and 47 degrees Celsius in Najafgarh areas of the national capital.
People in Delhi witnessed scorching heat, with the mercury soaring to 47.2 degrees Celsius in Mungeshpur and 47 degrees Celsius in Najafgarh areas of the national capital.
The minimum temperature at 12 noon today was recorded near the Salwan Public School area in Mayur Vihar where it was 43.4 degrees Celsius today.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued an orange alert, warning of a severe heatwave at many places in the capital on Saturday. A yellow alert has been issued to caution people about a heatwave on Sunday. The IMD uses four colour codes for weather warnings — green (no action needed), yellow (watch and stay updated), orange (be prepared) and red (take action).
The IMD, in its daily weather bulletin, said that from May 14 to May 15, “Heat wave conditions in most parts with severe heat wave conditions in many parts very likely over West Rajasthan; heat wave conditions in most parts with severe heat wave conditions in some parts over East Rajasthan; heat wave conditions in many parts with severe heat wave conditions in isolated pockets over Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana-Delhi; heat wave conditions in isolated pockets over Jammu Division, Jharkhand and Vidarbha.”
Cloudy sky may provide some relief from the intense heat next week. “On May 16, thunderstorm accompanied with lightning and hail/gusty winds (speed 30-40 kmph) at isolated places is likely over Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand; with lightning and hail/gusty winds (speed 40-50 kmph) at isolated places Kerala and Mahe; with lightning/gusty winds (speed 30-40 kmph) at isolated places over Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh and Delhi, Odisha, Gangetic West Bengal and Andaman-Nicobar Islands and with lightning at isolated places over East Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Lakshadweep and Tamilnadu-Puducherry-Karaikal,” read the bulletin.
The weather agency advised people with moderate health conditions residing in Northern India to avoid venturing outside their homes unless absolutely essential. “Heat wave could lead to moderate health concern for vulnerable people e.g. infants, elderly, people with chronic diseases. Increased likelihood of heat illness symptoms in people who are either exposed to sun for a prolonged period or doing heavy work,” the bulletin said.
“Avoid heat exposure- keep cool. Avoid dehydration. Drink sufficient water- even if not thirsty. Avoid heat exposure, wear lightweight, light-coloured, loose, cotton clothes and cover the head by use of cloth, hat or umbrella etc. Use ORS, homemade drinks like lassi, torani (rice water), lemon water, buttermilk, etc to keep yourself hydrated,” the central weather agency said. (ANI)
A BJP councillor has moved a resolution seeking the removal of illegal loudspeakers in Jammu, confirmed a local civic body official on Saturday.
While speaking to mediapersons today, Jammu Municipal Corporation Mayor Chander Mohan Gupta said, “Narottam Sharma, Councillor from Ward Number 3, (Mast Garh of Jammu) old city area has moved a resolution seeking the removal of illegal loudspeakers.” “We will hold discussions on it and will take a decision according to law,” said Chander Mohan Gupta.
The development has come two days after a Kashmiri Pandit named Rahul Bhat was killed by terrorists in broad daylight in Budgam district.
On Saturday, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut pointed out that reciting the Hanuman Chalisa or switching off loudspeakers will not solve the problems of the Kashmiri Pandits and that the central government must take tough decisions to end the “atmosphere of instability” in the Union Territory.
The killing of Rahul Bhatt attracted condemnation from the J-K Governor and the BJP leaders who have alleged Pakistan’s hand behind the targeted killing.
Speaking to the reporters in Mumbai, Raut said, “Don’t raise fingers at Pakistan time and again, what are we doing for the Kashmiri Pandits? Even after the revocation of Article 370, they are not safe and are not able to return to the Valley. Now the common people are not safe, it has no more remained limited to the Pandits,” he said.
“The atmosphere of instability that has been created in Kashmir once again will have to be finished by taking harsh decisions. Issues like Hanuman Chalisa and loudspeakers will solve the issue of neither Kashmiri pandits nor Kashmir,” the Shiv Sena leader said. (ANI)
Dr Manik Saha, a Rajya Sabha MP, will be the next chief minister of Tripura in place of Biplab Kumar Deb who resigned from the post hours earlier.
Saha, who is also chief of BJP in Tripura, was elected leader of the BJP legislature party on Saturday. Deb resigned from his post in fast-paced political developments in the state that will face polls early next year.
Deb said after submitting his resignation to State Governor Satyadeo Narain Arya that he had wholeheartedly served the people of the state.
“I thank Central leadership and people of Tripura for giving me the responsibility to serve Tripura as a Chief Minister. I have wholeheartedly served my State and will always work for the betterment of my State. Tripura shall definitely march ahead in the path of development. Jai Hind,” Deb said in a tweet.
Union Minister Bhupender Yadav and party general secretary Vinod Tawde were in Agartala as central observers.
“Many congratulations to Dr Manik Saha ji for being elected the leader of Tripura BJP Legislature Party. I am sure that Tripura will reach new heights of development under the guidance and leadership of respected Prime Minister Narendra Modi ji,” Bhupender Yadav said in a tweet.
Deb also extended his best wishes to Saha on his new role.
“Congratulations and best wishes to Dr Manik Saha ji on being elected as the legislature party leader. I believe under PM Narendra Modi Ji’s vision and leadership Tripura will prosper,” he said.
Dr Saha, a Professor of Dental Surgery, joined the BJP in 2016 from the Congress. He was appointed state BJP president in 2018. Dr Saha had been elected to the upper house in the biennial elections held earlier this year.
Sources in BJP said outgoing chief Minister Biplab Deb is likely to be brought to the Rajya Sabha. It is also being said that Biplab will be asked to take up the post of the party president of Tripura.
Deb had taken oath as the first Chief Minister of Bharatiya Janata Party in Tripura in 2018 ending the 25-year-rule of the Communist Party of India in Tripura.
Sources said that the BJP wanted to go with a fresh face in the assembly polls. (ANI)
Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan was elected as the president of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the UAE official WAM news agency reported on Saturday.
The Federal Supreme Council convened today to elect the president, who will hold office for a five-year term before being eligible for re-election. The new president was selected from among the members of the Federal Supreme Council, Khaleej Times reported. According to it, Sheikh Mohamed has also served as the Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces since January 2005. He is known for playing a key role in developing the UAE Armed Forces in terms of strategic planning, training, organisational structure and promoting defence capabilities.
Under his leadership, the UAE Armed Forces have emerged as a leading institution that is widely admired by international military organisations.
The rulers of the United Arab Emirates’ seven sheikhdoms made the decision at a meeting. It comes after the late President Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who had been in office since 2004, died at the age of 73 after a long illness on Friday.
The Ministry of Presidential Affairs announced that there will be 40 days of official mourning with flags at half-mast and three days of closure of ministries and official entities at the federal and local levels and the private sector,” the agency wrote on Twitter on Friday.
“The Ministry of Presidential Affairs condoles the people of the UAE, the Arab and Islamic nation and the world over the demise of His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the president of the UAE,” Emirates News Agency, also known as WAM, said in a statement. (ANI)
A day after the fire incident near the Mundka metro station in New Delhi, Deputy Commissioner of Police outer district Sameer Sharma on Saturday said that action would be taken against officers also if they are found guilty in the investigation.
“We’ve registered FIR under appropriate sections. Action will be taken against everyone who did anything wrong or didn’t follow rules. We will do a proper investigation, action will be taken against officers too if they’re found culpable,” the officer said. The DCP informed that the relatives of the 27 deceased whose bodies were recovered from the site of the incident are being called and proper slot-wise identification is being done.
Meanwhile, the police arrested company owners Harish Goel and Varun Goel in connection with the fire that broke out yesterday that claimed 27 lives.
The Delhi police registered an FIR against the company owners who were identified as Harish Goel and Varun Goel. The owner of the building who has been identified as Manish Lakra is still absconding.
“FIR registered u/s IPC 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), 308 (attempt to commit culpable homicide), 120 (concealing design to commit an offence punishable with imprisonment), 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention),” said the police on Saturday.
However, the rescue operation at the fire incident site is now over, said a fire official, who claimed that the death toll could rise to 30.
The death toll in the fire incident has officially touched 27 while 25 bodies are yet to be identified.
A massive fire had broken out on Friday evening that left 27 people dead and 12 injured in the tragic incident.
However, the blaze was brought under control, informed the fire officials. (ANI)
The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) issued a “severe heatwave” warning for the national capital over the weekend as Delhi reports temperatures ranging from 40-46 degrees Celsius.
“Heatwave to severe heatwave conditions in isolated pockets very likely over Punjab and Haryana Delhi on May 14 and 15; over Uttar Pradesh on May 14 with heatwave conditions in some/isolated parts on May 15,” the Met department said in its release. A severe heatwave condition warning has been issued for Punjab and Haryana too. Red and orange warnings have been issued for parts of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Haryana.
Speaking with ANI, IMD’s Director General of Meteorology Mrutyunjay Mohapatra said, the temperature is “much higher than normal these days”.
“Severe heatwave prevailing in Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Vidarbha. Temperatures are ranging from 40-46 degrees Celsius, which is above normal temperature,” he told ANI.
Mahapatra informed that the heatwave will continue for today and tomorrow, and will gradually decrease from May 16 onwards due to a western disturbance in northwest India on the night of May 15.
“Rainfall with thunderstorms are expected in Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, and Uttarakhand along with adjoining plains of north India. Thereafter, temperatures will decrease and heatwave will abate,” he added.
Meanwhile, amid the heatwave conditions, Delhi’s power demand touched 6,572 MW on Wednesday, the highest ever in the month of May for the city.
The city’s peak power demand not only clocked the season’s highest of 6,572 MW at 3:30 pm on May 11 but also the highest ever in the month of May.
On May 1, the Union Health Ministry issued an advisory to the States and Union Territories urging them to disseminate the guideline document ‘National Action Plan on Heat-Related Illnesses’ to all districts for effective management of heat-related issues amid the rising temperatures. (ANI)
It is not always a ‘trending’ phenomena that a top corporate honcho, at the peak of global success in a multinational company calling the shots all around amidst piles of money and raw talent, would choose to turn into a seeker of truth. And that too when the company is the shining star and dream-come-true of the post-modern galaxy of post-recession capitalism: Google.
Jacob Helberg did precisely that.
Helberg is a senior adviser at the Stanford University Center on Geopolitics and Technology and an adjunct fellow at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He is the co-chair of the Brookings Institution China Strategy Initiative. He studied international affairs at The George Washington University and received his master of science in cyber security risk and strategy from New York University.
From 2016 to 2020, Helberg led Google’s global internal product policy efforts to ‘combat disinformation and foreign interference’. In these four crucial years, he suddenly found himself trapped in a brand new Cold War – driven by technology – in what seemed a diabolical, full-fledged war between democracy and autocracy. Or, between the United States of America, and Russia and China. In the process, several cobwebs moved out of their camouflage across both ends of the spectrum, and it all seemed so terribly messy. In the final instance, no one seemed absolutely holy or clean.
In the apparent sense, the war revolves around software – news and information, breaking news, fake news, free for all social media platforms, which is indeed, not so free, trolls, truth, post-truth, normal and post-normal – which has both condemned and liberated the so-called global citizen of the world with its tablets, smart phones, computers and high-tech gadgets, and the compulsive dependence on them each moment of their alienated, allegedly modern lives.
In the unexpressed sense, the war works through revolving doors, back-door diplomacy, hackers and whiz kids, those who are trying to control and usurp the newest of the tech, both hardware and software, around the bitter reality of the virtual realm. This includes cellular phones, satellites, fiber-optic cables, and 5G networks, etc.
Helberg (inset) belives the newage war revolves around software and mainpulation
And this moves from the soliloquy of the Silicon Valley, into the surreal suspense stored inside the fortresses of the virtual world in China and Russia, especially China. This is what Helberg calls the ‘Gray War’, unseen, invisible, camouflaged. This is what he feels is the Second Cold War, the massive mafia-like operation which seeks to control the fate of humanity and individual minds and feelings, and, thereby, shape the balance of power in this ‘brave new world’.
In other words, you will be forced to shift your gaze, as John Berger said in that classical BBC series, ‘The Ways of Seeing’. And with the shift in your gaze, often without you even noticing it, your political and apolitical unconscious too will change. Indeed, as George Orwell would write in another classical, 1984, the entire galaxy of lies will turn into truth, or seem to appear like truth, and jingoistic injustice would therefore seem to have become compassion and justice.
Reported by Glen Greenwald in The Guardian of London, the first explosive disclosures by Edward Snowden, now forcibly exiled in Moscow, exemplified at once to the world how the systemic surveillance system of the new cyberspace of new capitalism controls this subconscious to the extent that you are yourself not aware of how your habits and tastes, sense and sensibilities, choices and desires, are shaped.
And where was the original epicenter of this organized apparatus of seduction? America.
In its dark irony, how far can Snowden go in terms of his critical commentary on Russia, in the context of the damned war in Ukraine, which Putin seems to have already lost? Not very far, surely, considering the totalitarian clampdown on the entire Russian media, with most of them singing odes to the greatness of the Tsar, while the dissenters are being hounded out.
In Russia, for instance, amidst a mindless war with thousands dead across the border, surveys point out that almost half of the population believe that the war is cool, that it boosts national pride, that Neo-Nazis have taken over Kiev, and that there were no massacres in Bucha. It’s like the Germans who made themselves ‘make-believe’ that there was no Holocaust happening in Hitler’s Germany and occupied Europe, and that the gas chambers and concentration camps were a figment of mythical imagination. This is exactly what mainland China, with absolutely no freedom, including a total control on internet, thinks about the slave camps of enslaved Uighurs in Xinjiang.
In his book, path-breaking, but loaded in favour of America, Helberg, who comes from a family of Holocaust victims and survivors, opens a can of worms, and academics and journalists, including whistleblowers, can read it eyes wide open or wide shut.
In the book, The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power, (Published by Avid Reader Press along with Simon and Schuster, 2021), Helberg writes: “This isn’t a hot war – at least not yet. As I write this in early 2021, this Gray War has not resulted in large, direct, military confrontations between the United States and Russia or China. But make no mistake, it’s a war nevertheless, one that will shape this century and beyond. The skirmishes of the coming years will be fought to defend network security, protect intellectual property, gain influence over information, and control critical infrastructure. The spoils of this war are power over every meaningful aspect of our society: poor economy, our infrastructure, our ability to compete and innovate, our personal privacy, our culture, and subtle daily decisions we make based on information we interact with online. And, in recent years, unfortunately, the world’s democracies have been losing ground.”
The manner in which Russia influenced and interfered in the US presidential polls in 2016, covertly backing Donald Trump, is an example. Or, the fake news that the Pope was supporting Trump. So much so, Julian Assange and Wikileaks were cited as playing the dubious Russian game in leaking emails of Hillary Clinton during a crucial time in the heat of the elections, which, finally, went against her.
So how does one combat disinformation? Among the ‘Dos’, Helberg writes:
Check the source. Is it truly independent? Does it have a track record of accuracy? Or, is it an anonymous Twitter account started a weak earlier?
Check the sources’ source. Sometime even friends or verified accounts credulously share disinformation. Take the time to see where they got their information before sharing it yourself.
Cross-check sources. Filter out fact from fiction.
Read and share authoritative sources. There is a reason the New York Times and the BBC are a lot more accurate than a blog with inconsistent grammar. Serious news organisations invest tremendous time and resources into getting the story right, and they can be held accountable when they fall short.
Crucially, check your own biases. Human beings seek out information that confirms what they already believe. Disinformation plays on that tendency.
Among the ‘Don’ts’, he points out:
Don’t click on the first link you see. Thanks to techniques like firehosing, the top-ranked search result isn’t necessarily from the most credible source.
Don’t share without reading. Headlines can be sensationalist or misleading.
Don’t trust something just because you see it repeated everywhere. Trolls and bots intentionally try to amplify disinformation as much as possible. ‘Trending’ doesn’t necessarily mean ‘truthful’.
Don’t believe your own eyes. Even images and video can be doctored.
When you retweeet and amplify adversaries, you are actually doing their work for them.
Legendary British and former world champion boxer Amir Khan announced his retirement from the sport on Friday.
Khan unified world titles at super-lightweight and faced pound-for-pound stars Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez and Terence Crawford during a 40-fight career. He ends his glittering career with 34 wins and six defeats. In his last fight, the 35-year-old Briton suffered a stoppage loss to Kell Brook in February.
He said on Twitter: “It’s time to hang up my gloves. I feel blessed to have had such an amazing career that has spanned over 27 years. I want to say a heartfelt thanks and to the incredible teams I have worked with and to my family, friends and fans for the love and support they have shown me.”
Khan won an Olympic silver medal at the 2004 Athens Games before going pro in 2005. He became a world champion in July 2009, defeating Andriy Kotelnik on points to secure the WBA super-lightweight title, and he then stopped Zab Judah to add the IBF belt two years later. (ANI)
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