Author: Purbasha Karmakar

Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha declare some of the most commonly used terms and words as unparliamentary. According to a new booklet by the Lok Sabha Secretariat, use of terms such as ‘jumlajeevi’, ‘baal buddhi’, ‘Covid spreader’ and ‘Snoopgate’ and even commonly used words like ‘ashamed’, ‘abused, ‘betrayed’, ‘corrupt’, ‘drama’, ‘hypocrisy’ and ‘incompetent’ will be considered unparliamentary or unprofessional. This booklet lists out unprofessional words and expressions for the Parliament’s Monsoon session that begins from July 18. This session might include words such as ‘anarchist’, ‘Shakuni’, ‘dictatorial’, ‘taanashah’, ‘taanashahi’, ‘Jaichand’, ‘vinash purush’, ‘Khalistani’ and ‘khoon se kheti’ in debates in…

Janhvi Kapoor is ready to set fire to the OTT platform. She will be playing the role of an innocent Bihari woman who turns into a fearless drug dealer due to lack of money in order to save her mother from lung cancer. The trailer started with Janhvi Kapoor showing her as a woman from Bihar. She at first is shown working as a masseuse to take care of her family. Her life takes a turn when she finds out her mother, played by Mita Vashisht, is diagnosed with stage 2 lung cancer. She in order to save her mother by…

Rates of Gold, Silver prices fall today on global markets. Therefore there is also a steady price decrease in India for a few days continuously. Gold today fell after nine months as per the US dollar. Spot gold was flat at $1,734.97 per ounce. Its lowest price was $1,722.36 on September 30. The euro was near parity to the dollar on concerns that an energy crisis could tip Europe into recession. In India, rates of gold and silver fall today. The price of ten grams of 24-carat gold declined over the trading price on Tuesday, and is selling at Rs…

The biggest tech giant has given up before the global economic meltdown. Microsoft to lay off employees as a “realignment” move. Microsoft to lay off employees of about 1,80,000 across its offices and product divisions. This cut off is said to be only a single percentage of its total workforce. Microsoft reported about its elimination process to Bloomberg in a statement late on Tuesday. It said that like every other company, they evaluate their business priorities on a regular basis, and make structural adjustments accordingly. Hence also eliminating off employees for now, they further promise that there will be a…

Ted Sarandos recently reported in an interview about Netflix’s degrading rate of subscriptions. Netflix co-CEO, Ted Sarandos in a recent interview with the French newspaper Le Journal du Deimanche argues that there is a slowdown in Netflix subscriptions. This is due to multiple factors such as supply chain constraints, drop in smart TV sales, inflation, and the loss of subscribers due to the Russia-Ukraine war crisis. “Every customer now asks themselves the question of the value of a subscription in relation to its cost,” said Sarandos. Netflix lost over 200,000 subscribers in the first quarter of this year. He said…

IMD’s latest alert showed several parts of Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, and Delhi are expected to receive heavy rain and thunderstorms. IMD said that today, July 12, there will be a lot of rain and thunderstorms with lightning. Chances are high in Delhi, UP, and a lot of other cities. Some parts of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, and Maharashtra are likely to get very heavy to very heavy rain. It will continue for the next four to five days. Heavy rain and gusty winds with a speed of 50 kmph had already accompanied Delhi, Noida, and Gurgaon on Monday evening. It…

A Pakistani journalist slaps a boy who was reporting for the festival of Eid al-Adha. She claimed that he was continuously heckling her.  A video of a Pakistani women journalist has been going viral all over the internet where she deliberately slaps a boy who was taunting and interrupting her in between her live reportation. She is claimed to be a journalist of Lahore Rang named Maira Hashmi. She was reporting for the festival of Eid al-Adha – a festival celebrated worldwide on Sunday, July 9. In this viral video, this journalist lost her cool while giving a piece to…

Several parts of south and central Gujarat, including Ahmedabad, received continuous heavy rainfall over the last 24 hours, resulting in a flood like situations in various low-lying areas. The Auranga river overflowed and a flood like situation was seen in low-lying areas in the Valsad district of Gujarat due to heavy rainfall. Parts of Gujarat and Ahmedabad were flooded and over 6,000 people have been evacuated from several low-lying areas in the affected districts as per reported on Monday by the Gujarat Disaster Management Minister Rajendra Trivedi. Several roads and bridges have been damaged. 13 dams have been put on…

Three women destroying a restaurant were arrested and charged for theft, criminal damages and attack on employees in an US restaurant. A video caught on CCTV camera shows three women destroying destroying a restaurant in the New York City and attacking workers in disputes at a cost of $ 1.75 for additional sauce that became viral on the internet. This recorded clip became famous after it was distributed in Tiktok – showing three women throwing glass bottles, metal benches and tables and anything in the reach of the arms to the restaurant staff and customers. It also shows two women…

From Delhi rape case to tax frauds, leaked documents of Uber showed how it broke laws and duped its passengers. Uber aggressively pushed into markets around the world. The ride company started from a scrappy Silicon Valley startup to a world-famous multi-billion-dollar company. Uber has been in the market for 13 long years. The company had already expanded over more than 80 countries and territories by the height of its international operations in 2017. Recently, a series of leaked documents of Uber shed light on Uber’s dark rise to success by winning favours from politicians, regulators, leaders, cashing in on…