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Think or blink!!!

So women can be sold, bought and used to pay off pending loans - even in the 21st Century!!! :shocked:



U.S.
[h=3]A Pakistani girl is snatched away, payment for a family debt[/h]The mother rummages through a large metal trunk, searching for a picture of her young daughter taken away in the night to be the bride of a man who says the family owed him $1,000. Beneath the blankets, clothes and silver ornaments that she wears with her sari, Ameri Kashi Kohli finds two photos, carefully wrapped in plastic, of her smiling daughters.
Associated Press

 
Time to make it NO Cigarettes instead of E Cigarettes!!! :moony:


 
It is high time to dump those persons rather their 'pee' and 'poop'!!! :rolleyes:

Who would want to get drenched in this heavenly shower??? :rain:




  • World
    Flights dumping excreta midair will be fined, says India's green court

    A recent order by India’s green court says that a fine would be imposed on all airlines that are found emptying toilet tanks midair. The move comes after the hearing of a petition filed by a retired army officer, who claimed that the “walls and floors” of his house in the capital city of Delhi had been repeatedly spattered with human waste dropping from airplanes. SEE ALSO: Indian airlines SpiceJet gets a Rs 1 million fine for offloading disabled passenger Consequently, the National Green Tribunal has directed the country’s aviation regulator, Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), to impose a fine of Rs. 50,000 ($736) on carriers caught indulging in the practice. “DGCA shall also
    Mashable



 
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Massive gravity which will not allow even light rays to pas through ??? :wacko:



Science
[h=3]Most images of black holes are illustrations. Here’s what our telescopes actually capture.[/h]Instead, they look for evidence of the effects of a black hole's massive gravity and radiation. Impossibly dense, deep, and powerful, black holes reveal the limits of physics. "There’s really strong evidence for them, and by now every astronomer believes confidently there are black holes," Peter Edmonds, a NASA astrophysicist, told me.
Vox.com

 
An Interesting discovery... if not already known to our seers and sages!!!



Health
[h=3]Scientists say your “mind” isn’t confined to your brain, or even your body[/h]You might wonder, at some point today, what’s going on in another person’s mind. You may compliment someone’s great mind, or say they are out of their mind. You may even try to expand or free your own mind. But what is a mind? Defining the concept is a surprisingly slippery task. The mind is the seat of consciousness, the essence of your being. Without a mind, you cannot be considered meaningfully alive. So what exactly, and where precisely, is it? Traditionally, scientists have tried to define the mind as the product of brain activity: The brain is the physical substance, and the mind is the conscious product of those firing neurons, according to the classic argument. But growing evidence shows
Quartz

 
Are the Aliens responding to our calls or they sending out their own calls???



Science
[h=3]Six more fast radio bursts have been discovered coming from the same mystery cosmic source[/h]Six additional repeating fast radio bursts have been discovered coming the same unknown source in space. The FRBs came from the same region beyond the Milky Way where 10 bursts had previously been detected - and their discovery should give a greater insight into what caused them. FRBs are radio signals from deep space that last just a few milliseconds. The first FRB was detected in 2001 and since then over a dozen have been found in telescope data. However, these all appeared to be one-off events, with no two bursts coming from the same location. This means follow-up observations were not possible, keeping their source a mystery. Current theories as to their cause involve a cataclysmic event
International Business Times UK

 
Is the backyard of Earth large enough to hide a galaxy??? :shocked:

In space their is no back/ front/ up/down!!! Right???



Science
[h=3]Scientists just discovered a huge cluster of galaxies hidden in Earth’s backyard[/h]A team of astronomers from several corners of the globe just discovered a massive collection of galaxies that they didn't even know was there. That wouldn't normally be anything out of the ordinary - after all, scientists find new things in space all the time - but what makes this discovery particularly special is that the the giant cluster is actually pretty close to us, relatively speaking. It's called the Vela supercluster, and it might be the largest structure in the known universe, measuring a massive 370 million light years across, and up until now it was hidden from the view of scientists. Our view was obscured by the huge clouds of dust and gas that exist in our home galaxy of the Milky Way, and its existence came as a surprise to even the most seasoned star gazers. "This is one of the biggest concentrations of galaxies in the Universe - possibly the biggest in the neighbourhood of our Galaxy, but that will need to be confirmed by further study," said Matthew Colless, Professor at ANU Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics said of the discovery . “I could not believe such a major structure would pop up so prominently,” Professor Renée Kraan-Korteweg, who has spent over a decade studying this particular region of space, noted. But aside from just being there, the existence of the Vela supercluster could help to explain the behavior of our own Milky Way. Our galaxy's has always moved slightly different than scientists would predict based on the arrangement of known nearby galaxies and clusters. Now, adding Vela into the mix might be the missing piece researchers didn't even know they were looking for.
BGR News

 


Science
Why gravitational waves truly are the “scientific breakthrough of the year”

In February, and then again in June, physicists announced they heard the subtle rumbling of a ripple in spacetime, the result of two black holes colliding into one another. The waves were picked up by two huge science experiments - one in Louisiana and one in Washington state - called LIGO, or the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. The accolades for LIGO have been copious: A few days ago, the journal Nature named Gabriela Gonzales, one of the scientific leaders of the project, one of its 10 people “who mattered” in 2016.
Vox.com


We all know about the Gravitational force but Gravitational waves??? :confused:



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Visalakshi Ramani said:
An Interesting discovery... if not already known to our seers and sages!!!



Health
Scientists say your “mind” isn’t confined to your brain, or even your body

You might wonder, at some point today, what’s going on in another person’s mind. You may compliment someone’s great mind, or say they are out of their mind. You may even try to expand or free your own mind. But what is a mind? Defining the concept is a surprisingly slippery task. The mind is the seat of consciousness, the essence of your being. Without a mind, you cannot be considered meaningfully alive. So what exactly, and where precisely, is it? Traditionally, scientists have tried to define the mind as the product of brain activity: The brain is the physical substance, and the mind is the conscious product of those firing neurons, according to the classic argument. But growing evidence shows
Quartz
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An illuminating article which MUST be read by every one! :thumb:

Take a look at the concluding paragraphs!

When Siegel was asked in return whether he belonged in America, his answer was less upbeat: “I thought how isolated we all are and how disconnected we feel,” he says. “In our modern society we have this belief that mind is brain activity and this means the self, which comes from the mind, is separate and we don’t really belong. But we’re all part of each others’ lives. The mind is not just brain activity. When we realize it’s this relational process, there’s this huge shift in this sense of belonging.”
In other words, even perceiving our mind as simply a product of our brain, rather than relations, can make us feel more isolated. And to appreciate the benefits of interrelations, you simply have to open your mind.
 
Am I happy we managed to avoid this sudden hike!!!


For the first time since 2010, the Department of Homeland Security hiked a range of administrative fees for citizenship applications - in a few cases more than doubling the costs of key services. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency charged with handling immigrant applications, said in a statement the proceeds will help cover detecting fraud, processing cases and a range of other administrative costs, in what USCIS called a "weighted average" price hike of 21 percent. Experts say the stiffer bureaucratic costs means the path to becoming an American could become a heavier burden for many cash-strapped would-be citizens.


 
ithu ippo rombath thevai than!!! :(


 
iLamaiyil vaRumaiyum muthumaiyil thanimaiyum!!! :tsk:








When Sol Moran, 63, left her home in Puerto Rico to move to Minneapolis, things initially went well. She enjoyed being closer to her son, who lived in a nearby suburb, and she had a job she enjoyed. Then Moran got hit with a constellation of serious illnesses. She wasn’t able to keep up her work as an interpreter and home health aide and didn’t have the energy to get out of her apartment for anything other than medical visits. Her world became very small. “I had given up on life,” Moran said last week. “I was wondering sometimes why I had a phone,” since the only calls she received were about doctors’ appointments. ‘A Potent Killer’ Loneliness and social isolation are not merely a source of sadness
Forbes
 
A Good Samaritan indeed!!! :clap2:



U.S.
[h=3]Tragedy drives man to give 'haven' to thousands of babies[/h]Nearly 3,300 babies across the country who otherwise might have been abandoned and perhaps died have found homes in the past 17 years, thanks in part to the efforts of Tim Jaccard, a retired New York police ambulance medic who grew weary of responding to calls of dead infants abandoned in trash cans and alleys. "To hold a newborn infant in your arms and have to pronounce that child dead is heart-wrenching," said the 66-year-old father and grandfather from Long Island. Not only did he help spearhead a movement in all 50 states to enact "safe haven" laws that give mothers in crisis the option of leaving their newborns at police stations, hospitals or firehouses without fear of prosecution, he also founded the national Baby Safe Haven organization that acts as a go-between to make such drop-offs as safe as possible.
Fox News



 
When I became the President of Our Lioness Club, the outgoing president had managed

to collect and spend the next year's subscription also - leaving me and the club below poverty line! :(

Politics
[h=3]Obama just made it harder for Trump to create a Muslim registry[/h]Outgoing President Barack Obama has made no secret of the fact that he thinks Donald Trump’s on-again-off-again plan to create a database of Muslims in the United States is a bad idea, but once the president-elect takes office, there won’t be anything he can do to stop him. On his way out the door, however, Obama did put an obstacle in Trump’s way. The Department of Homeland Security on Thursday officially shut down the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System, a leftover program put in place in 2002 following the 9/11 terror attacks a year earlier. The controversial program required males aged 16 and older who enter the U.S. from specified countries to be fingerprinted, photographed, and interviewed about their plans.
Business Insider
 
I know people whose finger prints have got worn out with the
tons of vessels they have washed during their life time!!!
Oh woe to them!!! How will they pay with their finger prints???



Technology
[h=3]Inside India's plan to substitute cash with its citizen's fingerprints[/h]India just took its next major step in becoming a cashless society. SEE ALSO: Inside UPI: How India is bringing mobile banking to 1.3 billion people IDFC Bank has launched an app called Aadhaar Pay that aims to help millions of its citizens without a smartphone to pay for their purchases digitally with just their fingerprint. Merchants will be able to download the app on their Android smartphones and attach a fingerprint scanner device. To make payments, buyers will only have to choose their bank name, input their unique Aadhaar number and scan their fingerprint, which acts as a password to make the payment directly from their bank account linked to their Aadhaar card. Over one billion people
Mashable

 
An ideal example for the saying
"Nekhi karO! Joothe khavO!" :rolleyes:
Only the juthe got replaced by knives!!! :(



U.S.
[h=3]Transgender black man slashed after offering his seat[/h]A transgendered black man was slashed multiple times on a subway train Christmas Day after he offered his seat to a woman who refused to sit next to him because he was black, police said. The 44-year-old victim was headed home on a northbound 4 train in Harlem on Sunday night when two female cousins entered the train car and one took a seat next to the victim, sources said. The victim then offered his seat to 30-year-old Stephanie Pazmino, the cousin who was left standing, so that she could sit next to her relative, according to cops. “I don’t want your seat,” snapped Pazmino, who then turned to her cousin and stated in Spanish, “I don’t want to sit next to a black person,” sources said. A verbal
New York Post

 

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