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  • Groom’s mother beats him with chappal during wedding ceremony

    Groom’s mother beats him with chappal during wedding ceremony

    A groom’s mother beat him with a chappal during his wedding ceremony in India’s Uttar Pradesh.

    In a viral video clip, the bride and the groom can be seen exchanging garlands when the groom’s mother came on the stage. She pushed the photographer aside, removed her slippers and started beating her son.

    Her face was covered with a dupatta. A man wearing a yellow T-shirt stopped her and brought her down from the stage.

    The incident was reported from a guest house in Sumerpur in the Hamirpur district of Uttar Pradesh.

    As per reports, the groom’s mother beat him because he married a girl from another caste. His family was not in favour of this marriage. Thus he married the girl in court.

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    After the court marriage, the bride’s father organised a ceremony to celebrate the wedding at a district hall on July 3. He didn’t invite the groom’s family to the wedding.

    However, the groom’s mother reached the marriage venue and hit him on the stage in front of the wedding guests.

    The guests present there tried to stop her and sent her back home.

  • Woman pours boiling water on husband for berating son

    Woman pours boiling water on husband for berating son

    A woman in Egypt poured boiling water on her husband allegedly for ill-treating their son.

    As per reports, the 43-year-old man was rushed to a nearby hospital with burns sustained in different parts of the body allegedly due to the woman’s attack.

    The husband who is a mechanic accused his 32-year-old wife of throwing boiling water at him from a teapot in their house because he had berated their son for playing late outdoors.

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    The woman confessed to the crime after she was arrested by the police.

    She said it was in reaction of her husband’s physical punishment to their son. Local prosecutions has ordered an inquiry into the incident.

  • Dubai enters Guinness Book of Records by setting up world’s deepest swimming pool

    Dubai enters Guinness Book of Records by setting up world’s deepest swimming pool

    Dubai has opened the world’s deepest swimming pool and has entered the Guinness book of records.

    The pool, Deep Dive Dubai is located at Nad Al Sheba with the depth of 60.02 metres and contains 14 million litres of water in it.

    As per reports, public bookings are expected to start in late July with different courses and experiences offered for scuba divers and freedivers..

    Deep Dive Dubai is also an underwater film studio with an editing room, a video wall, 56 underwater cameras, and the ability to create different moods with 164 lights positioned throughout the pool.

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    Crown Prince of Dubai, Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum recently visited the place and dived into the pool. He posted a video on social media showing him in full diving gear. He is seen swimming back to the top of the pool from its dizzying depths.

    The Hollywood actor, Will Smith also posted a video on Instagram diving into the pool.

  • Muslim women for sale: Images uploaded to an auctioning app in India

    Muslim women for sale: Images uploaded to an auctioning app in India

    The Editors Guild of India on Wednesday said it was deeply concerned that images of Muslim women were put up “for auction” online and shared via social media in a derogatory manner, reports Scroll. in, a digital news platform in India.

    Images of hundreds of women were uploaded via an auctioning app called “Sulli Deals” on Sunday, The Quint reported.

    “Sulli” is a derogatory term used to refer to Muslim women in India.

    The app, which was uploaded on repository hosting service GitHub, has been taken down by the platform after outrage on social media.

    Journalist Fatima Khan, tweeted, “How is this acceptable? What will be the punishment, if any, meted out to the people who made this list?”

    “Muslim men are lynched, Muslim women are harassed and sold online. When will this end?” added Fatima.

    Meanwhile, Pilot Hana Mohsin Khan filed a first information report in the case for putting women “on-sale”.

    “I’m resolute and firm in getting these cowards to pay for what they have done,” she said in a tweet. “These repeat offenses will not be taken sitting down.”

    The Editors Guild raised concerns about the misuse of digital and social media platforms to harass women journalists. “This vile attack is symptomatic of underlying misogyny in some sections of the society, especially against Muslim women as well as those who have been outspoken critics of the current government,” it said.

  • China’s tourist attraction allows visitors to fly across the river

    A tourist attraction in China now allows visitors a chance to walk or fly over a river. 

    The Xiatianxia Tourist Area is a popular tourist spot in Fujian Province where people can wear different traditional costumes and enjoy an experience walking and flying across a river. 

    A video shared by South China Morning Post shows people flying in the air over a river and attempting stunts often seen in movies.

    As per details, tourists are lifted in the air using wires attached to their waists. They can either fly across the water, use prop weapons or even run on water. The wire is 600 meters long and 20 meters off the ground.

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    The experience costs 128 yuan (Rs3,186), which includes costume, props, make-up and hairstyling. 

  • Video: Ocean on fire

    Video: Ocean on fire

    A fire on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico erupted after a gas leak from an underwater pipeline sparked ablaze, according to Mexico’s state-owned Pemex petrol company.

    Footage of the fire – appearing to boil the ocean’s surface with bright orange flames – went viral on July 2 before the fire was extinguished roughly 150 yards from a drilling platform in Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula, the company reported.

    The company said that “no injuries or evacuations are reported”.

    In a statement, Greenpeace Mexico’s Gustavo Ampugnani said: “These are the risks we face on a daily basis and which call for a change in the energy model, as we have demanded.”

  • Apple Watch saves 78-year-old man’s life

    Apple Watch saves 78-year-old man’s life

    An Apple Watch saved the life of a 78-year-old man using a fall detection feature after he fell on his driveway. His watch sent an alert to the emergency services after he did not move for 45 seconds.

    Mike Yager, from Summerfield in North Carolina, United States fell  unconscious on his driveway. His watch detected the fall and automatically called 911.

    “The first thing I asked [the officer] was, ‘How did you guys know to get here?’ and he said, ‘Your watch sent us a message,’ and I said ‘What?’” Mike Yager told Fox8.

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    “The Summerfield Fire Department showed me his log thing and it said, if I remember correctly, male, possibly unconscious. Then it gave the location and then it said reported by Apple Watch. Whenever he showed that to me, I was speechless. I didn’t know what to say,” Mike’s wife Lori said.

    The feature in the Apple Watch detects a hard fall, it taps you on the wrist, sounds an alarm and displays an alert. The watch allows you to contact emergency services. If the watch detects movement, it waits for you to respond. However, if you don’t move for a minute, it alerts the emergency services.

  • Zulfi Bukhari to send defamation notice to Bilawal Bhutto

    Zulfi Bukhari to send defamation notice to Bilawal Bhutto

    Former Special Assistant to Prime Minister for Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development Zulfi Bukhari says he has decided to move ahead with defamation proceedings against Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari after consulting with his legal team.

    Bhukari tweeted, “His [Bilawal Bhutto’s] poor understanding about most things again made him blurt out things fed to him, provoking issues he knows nothing about.”

    Bilawal Bhutto had recently called on the government to bring “all the facts” about Bukhari’s alleged visit to Israel before the public.

    Speaking to reporters in the parliament, Bilawal Bhutto said it would be “very easy” for the government to make public the flight manifest and flight path of the airplane that allegedly carried Bukhari to Israel during those dates.

    “If the [airplane] did not pick up Zulfi Bukhari, then who was taken on board” he asked, adding that he felt “something is fishy.”

    After Bilawal Bhutto’s statement, Zulfi Bukhari shared a clip of Bilawal’s speech and asked: “Someone who called Jews ‘brothers’ is now asking me to answer rumours.”

    Earlier this week, an Israeli publication alleged that Bukhari paid a secret visit to Tel Aviv as a messenger of Pakistani leader, a claim that was instantly denied by the government and personally by Bukhari.

  • We accept the Chinese version on Uyghurs in Xinjiang: PM Khan

    We accept the Chinese version on Uyghurs in Xinjiang: PM Khan

    Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan on Thursday said that the relationship between Pakistan and China is very deep. “It’s not just the governments, but it’s a people-to-people relationship.”

    “Whatever will happen…[the] relationship between our two countries, no matter what pressure is put on us, is not going to change,” PM Khan said in response to a question.

    Speaking to Chinese journalists as Beijing marked the centenary of the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC), the premier said the Chinese version about the treatment of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang was completely different from what was being reported in the western media.

    “Because of our extreme proximity and relationship with China, we actually accept the Chinese version,” added PM Khan.

    He said that it was hypocritical that while the Uyghur situation and Hong Kong were being highlighted, attention was not being given to the human rights violations in Indian-Occupied Kashmir.

    “It is hypocritical. There are much worse human rights violations taking place in other parts of the world such as in occupied Kashmir. But western media hardly comments on this,” he said.

    PM Khan praised the Communist Party. He said that until now, it was believed that electoral democracy is the best way to bring leaders on merit and hold them accountable.

    “But China’s process to hunt talent and then polish it is better than any electoral democracy.”

    PM Khan also praised President Xi for his success in the fight against poverty and corruption in China.

    “China has lifted 700 million people out of poverty in a few years, which is a great achievement. We want to further develop political, economic and trade relations between the two countries.”

    PM Khan said that Pakistanis are impressed by the Chinese president’s fight against corruption and consider him “a great politician of modern times”.

    “President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign is effective and successful.”

    PM Khan said that it is unfair of the US and western powers to expect countries like Pakistan to take sides. “Pakistan will not downgrade its relations with China.“

    “The United States expects Pakistan to choose a side. This is not appropriate,” he added.

  • VIDEO: Groom carries bride on shoulders across a flooded river

    VIDEO: Groom carries bride on shoulders across a flooded river

    A groom in Bihar, India carried his new bride on his shoulder to carry her across a monsoon river in spate.

    As per reports, the incident happened in Sindgmari Ghat in Dighalbank block in Bihar’s Kishanganj district. The entire area has been flooded by the overflowing Kankai river.

    The groom, Shiv Kumar Singh and his relatives were returning from a village located on the other side of the river. After the marriage ceremony, the couple and all the guests were travelling on a boat. After travelling some distance, the boat got stuck in the sand.

    “We had no option but to travel by boat to dry place on the bank of river. So I immediately decided to travel the distance carrying her on my shoulder,” Singh said.

    “The bridge on Kankai river near Singhmari was proposed some 10 years ago. The people of Kishanganj and adjoining districts are forced to use boat to cross the river. The state government is callous,” the groom’s relative Rahul Singh said.

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    “This incident is an example of development of Bihar claimed by the Nitish Kumar government. Road connectivity to most of the villages adjoining rivers is cut off from the rest of the state. Hence, boat is the only option for us. Such a situation is arising in almost every place affected by the monsoon flood,” Rahul Singh said.