A large number of devotees had gathered for darshan at Khatu Shyam Ji
temple in Sikar in Rajasthan on Monday on the auspicious occasion of
‘Gyaras’ on Putrada Ekadashi. There was a one km long queue. At 5 am,
as one would have expected, when suddenly the gate was opened, there
was lot of sudden pushing and jostling at the entrance. When one woman
fell in the melee of people blindly rushing towards the sanctum sanctorum, a
few others also fell one upon other and a massive stampede followed. A
tragedy that was waiting to happen!
The plan for a second Chennai international airport has been hanging fire for over two decades. Finally, it has been approved and the airport will come up in Parandur, the Centre made an announcement early last week. Now the ball is in CM Stalin's court!
Take a look at Yogi Adityanath's Jewar project: The Noida International Airport in Jewar in UP, 72 km away, likewise, is being built mainly to decongest the Delhi IGI airport. The foundation stone was laid on November 25, 2021 and the land acquisition for the project was completed in record time, by July 2022. The testing of the airport would begin in March 2024 and it would be ready for use by October 2024, it has been officially stated! Will Stalin take a leaf out of this remarkable feat and fast track the Parandur green airport, to complete the project well within his current term!
While Vistara flying to Mumbai from Varanasi turned back, the Go Air
heading for Chandigarh returned to Ahmedabad. Bird hit is increasingly
becoming a major threat to aviation safety in the country. It has been
noticed that garbage around airports spawns insects drawing in birds
looking for prey. Vistara suffered a radome damage. What is a radome?
WHAT TO DO, WHEN... : IndiaTravelTimes does not guarantee the
authenticity of the video (above) of the episode of the flight turbulence at
Durgapur airport on May 1, yet this is being put out with a view to
familiarising the ordinary fliers with such probabilities lest they are
caught unawares and fail to react rationally to handle such terrible
situations. The 'eternity' can last up to 15 minutes. Tighten your belts,
believe in your pilot and shift your thoughts to reduce disabling anxieties!
Rest assured, the aircraft can rock and fall but not more than a hundred
feet anyway.
During the event, nearly 50 other people, including bull tamers and spectators,
were also injured. Jallikattu is a bull-taming sport, which has been part of the
festival of Pongal in Tamil Nadu.
Whole localities are sent into quarantine in China using force if someone is
symptomatic of covid. The quarantines are metal boxes set up in far away
camps. The authoritarian regime is resorting to draconian methods to check a
new wave of the epidemic in the country that has already locked down three
cities currently. On the other hand, the US presents a contrasting scenario
where in the name freedom large sections of people refuse vaccination and
assault health workers who mandate the covid restrictions.
Virgin Galactic's Richard Branson, who opened a new chapter in
space age last month by launching the first manned private flight
to the edge of space, flying in his own spaceplane, has
invited everyone to join his expedition of space travel and
experience the thrill of totally losing your weight (BMI = 0) and enjoy
the mind-blowing sight of the earth's curvatures from the orbit far above: Register Your Name Here
Can we ask the vaccinator, "Do you pull back the plunger and
then push the vaccine? Do you Aspirate?" When the vaccination
for covid started there were reports of worrisome incidents of
adverse events post immunisation, the serious complaints being
non-specific blood clots. These related to viral vector vaccines of
human and non-human source: AstraZeneca and Janssen. How
did it happen. There are various views. But here is a suggestion
how simply it can be prevented.
Marking a fierce but interesting competition among the
billionaires, adventure specialist Richard Branson launched
commercial space travel from his 'Spaceport America' on Sunday,
pipping the world's richest man, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, to the
post, becoming the early bird to fly to the edge of space as the
first private space tourist nine days earlier than his rival.
Although he did not cross the Karman line.
President Biden has signed the Juneteenth National
Independence Day Bill making June 19 a federal public holiday to
commemorate the symbolic end of chattel slavery in the US.
The Mars rover, a six-wheeled, SUV-sized robotic vehicle, sailed
through space for seven months to land on a prime spot for geo-biological study of the red planet for signs of ancient extraterrestrial life. It takes radio waves 11 minutes to reach Earth. (Listen to:- DAVID BOWIE: Life
On Mars?:)
While the rationalists debunk the episode as a ploy to make up for
the losses in offerings during the corona lockdown, the believers
stick to their claim, they have seen it after all! The claim of
Shankaralinga temple resembles the miracle of Ganesha drinking
milk in Delhi way back in 1995. Although they belong to two
different branches of science.
After his reappearance, Alibaba's Hong Kong-listed shares went up
by 8.5%. The Chinese billionaire made his public appearance on
Wednesday. (SEE Video: Davos 2015 - An Insight An Idea with
Jack Ma - A conversation with Jack Ma, Founder and the then Executive
Chairman of Alibaba Group, on leadership, entrepreneurship and
the future of commerce: Interviewed by Charlie Rose, Anchor, CBS
News, USA)
A pair of socks gifted to her by her niece displayed on her legs has done
the job for Gumball Poodle. The demand for 'Future is Female' is
skyrocketing indeed. What more could one ask for?
At that momentous event, "I will be thinking about my
mother (the late Shyamala Gopalan), who is looking down
from heaven," Harris said. The scaled back presidential
inauguration this time will have no precedent with a
devastating coronavirus locking down everything and a
heightened security bandobast with reports of armed Trump
protesters likely to re-enact the Capitol episode posing the
gravest threat to Biden, the President-elect, and others.
"We were taught to see a world beyond just ourselves. To be
conscious and compassionate about the struggles of all people."
- Kamala Harris, Vice-President-elect, United States of America.
She is releasing a series of her reminiscences of her early
period, of people and events that had deep influence on the
course of her life and thoughts, in the coming days leading up to
her inauguration as the Vice-President of America, the first
woman ever to occupy a position that high in the greatest
democracy yet.
OPINION: Byju’s to take over Aakash? If and when the deal comes through,
it would be one of the biggest edtech acquisitions in the world.
These are signs of the dawn of a new era facilitated by science and technology,
busting the Indian ubiquitous rackets one by one like the massive politician-British
clerk-NCERT-printer-newsprint-fake author racket, which led to a mushroom growth
of tuition centres like Aakash, which, of course, has done a yeaoman service
to the hapless victims of our Macaulay schools.
The first woman Vice-President has become an inspiration for girls
of colour, and for all girls. Kamala Harris is becoming an icon. Her
passionate speech had a great, lasting impact on the listeners,
when she said, “While I may be the first woman in this office, I will
not be the last, because every little girl watching tonight sees that
this is a country of possibilities.”
Yet another helpless Indian woman having had to go to Saudi Arabia in search of work as maid servant has reportedly died of physical and mental torture
by her employer, it has been alleged. However, the Indian Foreign Ministry has
said after an inquiry that she died of natural causes.
Unlimited excitement will be on offer in Dubai as Lionsgate Entertainment
and The 20th Century Fox are building theme parks to provide the audience an
illusion of experiences of timeless horror of the Titanic disaster and the death and rebellion of the dystopia.
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