For the past few weeks, the ‘Pawri Ho RI Hai’ trend is going viral everywhere on social media. Within days the internet was flooded with ‘Pawri’ memes and recreations including a video created by viral music genius Yashraj Mukhate who created a song out of ‘Pawri Ho Ri Hai’. Living up to the opportunity now UP police has also joined the meme party to raise awareness about loud night parties. Uttar Pradesh Police has shared a post on their social media that has a graphic image of a police car and has a message which says "Yeh hum hain aur humari car hai. Agar late night Pawri aapko disturb kar rahi hai toh yeh humara number hai 112 (In English it says ‘This is us and this is our car. If a late night Pawri is disturbing you, then this is our number 112’)." In the caption, they wrote, "Late ...
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‘My Room Is Shaking’: Rahul Gandhi’s Unmissable Reaction As Earthquake Strikes During Live Session
A short video clip of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has gone viral where he is seen all calm, cool, and collected as the massive earthquake hit parts of North India on Friday night. Rahul felt the tremors while attending a live virtual interaction with historian Dipesh Chakrabarty and political science students from the University of Chicago. While responding to a question about media censorship and social media trolling, the Congress leader paused for a second, and chuckled, "by the way, there's an earthquake going on...my whole room is shaking." Appearing unflustered, he calmly informed everyone about the earthquake, smiled, and continued speaking. #earthquake @RahulGandhi in between in a live interview when earthquake happened.#earthquake pic.twitter.com/GRp9sxHoMY — Rohit Ya...
Read MoreManya Singh, Daughter Of An Auto Driver Crowned As Miss India Runner Up; Read Her Inspiring story
On February 10, Manya Singh from Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh was crowned as the runner-up of Miss India Pageant 2020. Manya Singh’s childhood is rooted deep in the poverty of Uttar Pradesh, daughter of a Rickshaw driver she has struggled a lot to reach the podium of Miss India. While competing in the Femina Miss India pageant Manya Singh has opened up about the struggles of her early life and teen years. At a very early stage of her life, she had to give up her education and but she had to work to make ends meet and support her family. She said, “Being a rickshaw driver's daughter, I never had the opportunity to attend school as I had to start working in my teens”. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Femina Miss India (@missindiaorg)...
Read MoreBumble App Founder Just Became World’s Youngest Self-Made Billionaire At Age 31
Bumble, a dating app made by women for women has just made its founder the world’s youngest self-made billionaire. Recently, Whitney Wolf has made her company Bumble Inc. public since then the shares of the dating app has soared 67% while debuting in the trade market to $72 in New York. After that, the value of the Chief Executive officer Whitney Wolfe Herd has gone to $1.5 Billion. Whitney Wolf who was an executive at Tinder who left her job and started her own female-led dating app in 2014. The main objective of Herd was to create a platform where women are the ones in control of making commitments and building relationships. Whitney wrote in Bumble’s S-1 filing "The importance of a woman making the first move is not exclusive to the world of dating, romance, or love,". She also wrote ...
Read MoreThe Academy Awards 2021; ‘Bittu’ Shortlisted For Short Film Category, ‘Jalikattu’ Lost The Race
On February 10, 2021, The Academy of Motion Art & Sciences announced the shortlist of nine different categories for the upcoming Academy Awards, popularly known as ‘Oscars’. Malayalam film ‘Jalikattu’ directed by Lijo Jose Pellissery' was the official entry from India submitted for the International feature film category but unfortunately, the satirical thriller didn’t make it to the shortlist and was left out of the race. But on the brighter side ‘Bittu’ directed by Karishma Dev Dube was shortlisted for the Live-Action short film category by the Academy. ‘Bittu’ is inspired by a true story that tells a tale about a beautiful bond of friendship shared by two school friends. The film is aided by Indian Women rising a cinema collective created by Tahira Kashyap, Guneet Monga, and Ekta ...
Read MoreMahua Mohitra’s Fierce Remarks Cause Uproar In Lok Sabha; Read To Find Out More
While speaking in her address in the Lok Sabha, TMC MP Mahua Mohita made some strong and bold remarks on the government of India and its governance. But what shook the house most was her comment on a former CJI of India made during her fiery speech in the parliament. Mahua Mohitra was speaking on how the judiciary, a prominent pillar of democracy of India is not sacred anymore. She said, “Judiciary is not sacred anymore. Its stop being sacred the day a sitting CJI of India was accused of sexual harassment preceded over his trial, cleared himself and then proceeded over to accept a nomination to the upper house within three months of retirement”. In response, many MP’s from the treasury bench rose to hover her speech and started calling out to her for insulting the President and the dem...
Read MoreWe might not just be aware of it yet but a high rate of health risks are linked to climate change directly or indirectly. Regardless of your socioeconomic status, the danger to your health caused by climate change has the tendency to reach you in many ways. Global warming, bushfires, the rise of pollution, and heat waves are some of the major consequences caused by climate change. And these are going to impact not just our health but our children’s health and the generations coming after. As per a report published by Global Climate Index 2021, India was the seventh most affected country by climate change. We witnessed both extreme heat and extreme rainfall in the past few years which has affected the livelihoods and health of many people across the country. According to experts of Climat...
Read MoreAn Ad Featuring Farmer Protests Was Aired During Super Bowl In Fresno; More Details Inside
On February 7, a 30-second ad in the support of farmer protests going in India was aired during the Super Bowl. The ad featured some visuals and news clippings of the protest which is also called 'one of the biggest human protests in history'. Jerry Dyer, Mayor of Fresno, California The ad opens up with a famous quote by the visionary leader Martin Luther King Jr. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”. Tejivideo is a local production company that has produced this video. It also had a closing message which is addressed by the Mayor Jerry Dyer of Fresno, California where the Super Bowl was taking place. The message said, “We want you to know our brothers and sisters in India, that we stand with you”. The advertisement was funded by the Sikh Community of Fresno as ...
Read MoreCelebs On Farmer Protest: Never Ending Saga Of Online Abuse Faced By Female Celebs; Rape Threats, Slut Shaming And Harassments
Being a public figure on social media is not easy. And if you have an opinion on a political or on a social subject then it’s even harder. What makes its worse is when you are all those things and you are also a woman. We are no alien to the fact that women are more targeted on the internet when compared to men. Women are always under the radar of what they are doing, what are they wearing, who are they dating and what are they saying. In a nutshell, everything a woman does or says is calculated. And a woman with an opinion is always feared and highly abused in many ways. Cecilia Mwende Maundu, a broadcast journalist based in Kenya, also a specialist in gender-based digital safety said in an interview with UNWOMEN “Women are the main targets of online violence, especially women with...
Read MoreFor the past 58 days, many unemployed former government teachers in Tripura have been protesting.In 2014, Tripura High Court scrapped the appointments of 10,323 government teachers including those who were teaching postgraduate and graduate students as well after finding irregularity in their recruitment process. Later in 2017, the Supreme court upheld the orders which came in response to a petition submitted by the sacked teachers. After that, the state government inducted those teachers on ad-hoc basis. Once the BJP-IPFT government came into power in 2018 they made an appeal to the Apex court to grant some relief to the terminated teachers. In response, the Supreme Court gave an extension of two years to the teachers which continued till March 31st, 2020. As per the claims m...
Read MoreJack Dorsey ‘Liked’ Tweets Appreciating Rihanna’s Response On Farmer Protest; More detail Inside
A tweet made by Washington Post journalist Karren Attiah which praised Rihanna for her response on farmer protest has been liked by Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey. Karren Attiah wrote “Rihanna has raised her voice for social justice in Sudan, Nigeria and now in India and Myanmar. She is a Real one” in one of her tweets which was recently like by Jack Dorsey. He also like another tweet of her which says “Now is a good time as ever for @twitter and @Jack to add a Twitter emoji to the massive #FarmersProtest in India- like they did for historic international protests like #BlackLivesMatter and #EndSars”.Very recently the international pop star shared a Cnn Article which talked about the Indian government restricting the internet in the places where farmer protests are going on. Which...
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