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  • ‘I was dead’; Shreyas Talpade on harrowing health scare

    ‘I was dead’; Shreyas Talpade on harrowing health scare

    Indian actor Shreyas Talpade has opened up about the harrowing health scare he recently went through.

    The actor had a heart attack after which he was shifted to the hospital where he had an angioplasty. He says that for a short time, he was clinically dead, but he has recovered now.

    “I was short of breath and pain started in my left hand. I hurriedly walked to the vanity van and changed my clothes,” he said, adding that initially, he thought he had strained a muscle during an action scene.
    “I have never faced such a dangerous situation, however as I was sitting I thought that I should go to the hospital immediately, but then I thought that I should go home first.”

    When his wife Deepti saw him in this condition, they left for the hospital within 10 minutes.

    The actor said that he collapsed as soon as he reached the hospital gate, suffering a heart attack.

    “I was clinically dead for a few minutes,” Shreyas Talpade said.
    Clinical death means the cessation of blood flow and respiration when the heart stops beating normally.

    Shreyas said, “I have never entered the hospital, I have never seen this situation.”
    He advised fans not to take their health for granted.

    “Jaan hai toh jahan hai. Such an experience changes your outlook on life,” he firmly stated.

  • ‘Parasite’ actor Lee Sun-kyun found dead

    ‘Parasite’ actor Lee Sun-kyun found dead

    South Korean actor Lee Sun-kyun, best known for his role in the Oscar-winning film “Parasite”, was found dead Wednesday, police said. He was 48.

    The actor was found inside a vehicle parked on the street in Seoul’s mid-northern Seongbuk district, an official from the Seongbuk police station told AFP.

    “We believe his body has now been transferred to the Seoul National University Hospital,” he added.

    South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported, citing police, that Lee had left a “note that reads like a will”.

    Lee had been under police investigation over his alleged use of marijuana and other drugs.

    Once celebrated for his wholesome image, local news outlets reported that the actor was being dropped from television and commercial projects following the scandal.

    A graduate of South Korea’s prestigious Korea National University of Arts, Lee made his acting debut in 2001 in a television sitcom titled “Lovers”.

    He later won acclaim for his performances in a variety of roles, including a charismatic chef and a genius neuroscientist who is incapable of empathy.

    Lee received widespread critical acclaim for his performance in the 2018 TV drama series “My Mister”, for his portrayal of a diligent architectural engineer who, despite facing personal turmoil, steadfastly upheld his sense of responsibility as both an adult and a professional.

    Globally, he is best known for his portrayal of the wealthy and shallow patriarch in director Bong Joon-ho’s 2019 Oscar-winning film “Parasite”.

    He was also recognised for his performances in romance flicks, such as 2007 TV drama “Coffee Prince” and the 2012 film “All About My Wife”.

    His last film, this year’s horror flick “Sleep” — in which he played a husband whose sleepwalking eventually leads to terrifying circumstances — was well-received and featured in the Critics’ Week section at the Cannes festival.

    Devastated fans expressed their grief on social media, with one user writing on X: “I laughed and cried a lot while watching your acting. Thank you.”

    Renowned Korean-American writer Min Jin Lee joined others in expressing their condolences.

    “Lee was praiseworthy in ‘Parasite’ and exceptional in ‘My Mister,’” she wrote on Instagram.

    “May he be remembered for his excellent work and creative gifts.”

    • ‘Great disappointment’ –

    Lee’s reputation suffered a significant blow when South Korean authorities launched an investigation into his alleged drug use in October.

    He had been suspected of using illicit drugs at the residence of a hostess employed at a high-end bar in Seoul’s glamorous Gangnam district.

    According to Yonhap, the actor asserted that he was “tricked” by the hostess into consuming the drugs and was unaware of their illegal nature.

    From December 23 to 24, he attended his third police investigation session, which lasted 19 hours, Yonhap reported.

    He briefly spoke to reporters in late October before entering a police station in Incheon to meet with investigators.

    “I sincerely apologise for causing great disappointment to many people by being involved in such an unpleasant incident,” he said at the time.

    “I feel sorry for my family, which is enduring such difficult pain at this moment.

    “Once again, I sincerely apologise to everyone.”

    South Korea has extremely tough laws on illegal drugs, with Koreans who take drugs such as marijuana legally abroad risking prosecution upon returning to their home country.

    Lee is survived by his wife, actress Jeon Hye-jin and two sons.

  • Death by celebration

    Death by celebration

    In Pakistan, it is a common practice to come out on the roads in groups to celebrate sports wins, new years, and of course, Independence Day. It is also often customary to celebrate these feats by firing guns into the air and lighting up firecrackers. 

    But flirting with danger has its consequences that many innocent people fall victim to every year.

    Ten years back, in 2013, aerial firing resulted in the death of at least one person and more than 30 were wounded in Karachi. Jinnah Hospital alone received 33 wounded people, one of whom died shortly after. 

    In 2018, three people were killed and more than 35 were injured including children and women. Apart from aerial firing, a 22-year-old man was struck by firecrackers in Nazimabad.

    In 2022, one man died while 23 were wounded in Karachi.

    This year, as the public celebrated the 76th year of Independence, two people were killed and 85 were injured as a result of aerial firing carried out in Karachi.

    According to Jamshed Quarters Station House Officer (SHO) Gul Baig, a 25-year-old woman was crossing the People’s Chowrangi on a motorbike with her family when a stray bullet hit her. Simultaneously, a seven-month-old baby was also hit at People’s Square.

    Baghdadi SHO Ghulam Yasin said that a man sleeping on the roof of his house in Lyari’s Aath Chowk passed away as a random bullet hit him.

    A police surgeon, Dr Summaiya Syed has claimed that Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) and Abbasi Shaheed Hospital received 32 injured people each. These cases include a critical case of a head injury, children, teenagers, and women.

    What Does the Law Say?

    As per statements issued by City police and Central district police, eight people in total have been arrested in Kalakot, Kharadar, and Liaquatabad Bridge whereas seven pistols have been seized. The culprits have been charged with attempted murder, possessing illegal weapons and aerial firing.

    Under Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), the district administration can issue a ban on an activity “for a specific period of time”. Such a ban is often enforced by the police and any violation of the ban can be tried under section 188 of the Pakistan Penal Code which carries “a maximum penalty of six months in prison or fine or both”.

    Similarly, cases of aerial firing can be registered under Section 337 (H) (II) of the Pakistan Penal Code for a negligent act of endangering lives. 

    337-H. (2) states: 

    Whoever does any act so rashly or negligently as to endanger human life or the

    personal safety of other, shall be punished with imprisonment of either-description for a

    term which may extend to three months, or with fine, or with both.

  • 78 people die in Afghanistan after temperature drops to -34 degrees

    According to a Taliban official, at least 78 individuals have died in Afghanistan’s frigid temperatures during the past nine days.

    According to Shafiullah Rahimi, a spokesperson for the Taliban’s Ministry of Disaster Management, over 77,000 animals have also perished in recent days after temperatures fell to record lows.

    The frigid weather has turned into the country’s coldest winter in 15 years, with temperatures dipping as low as -34 degrees Celsius (-29.2 degrees Fahrenheit), Reuters has reported.

    “The weather will get colder in the next few days, therefore it is necessary to consider humanitarian aid for affected people,” said Abdullah Ahmadi, the head of the operations centre for emergency conditions at the Ministry of Disaster Management has said.

    Health professionals noted a substantial rise in the number of small children with severe pneumonia and other respiratory illnesses even in the early days of winter. Rising poverty that prevents people from adequately heating their homes is partly to blame for the illnesses.

  • Four dead in attack on polio team in North Waziristan

    Four dead in attack on polio team in North Waziristan

    One polio worker and three others have been killed as a result of an attack on the polio team in North Waziristan.

    According to North Waziristan DSP Traffic Sher Wali Khan, during a polio vaccination drive in the Dand Kali neighbourhood of Tehsil Datta Khel, unknown assailants opened fire on the polio team, killing two police officers, one polio worker, and a passerby. The incident happened as the polio worker was giving a young patient the oral polio vaccine (OPV).

    Pakistan has reported at least six cases of polio this year, As per the World Health Organisation (WHO), Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only two polio-endemic nations in the world.

    Prime Minister (PM) Shehbaz Sharif has expressed his grief over the incident and has ordered an inquiry.

  • Man kills newborn, injures wife trying to deliver baby at home with YouTube videos

    Man kills newborn, injures wife trying to deliver baby at home with YouTube videos

    The Health Department in Tamil Nadu’s Ranipet district has registered a complaint after a man allegedly tried to help his wife deliver a baby at home with the help of YouTube videos, as a result of which the woman gave birth to a stillborn.

    Lokanathan (32), who runs a small store at Panapakkam near Nemili in the district, allegedly relied on YouTube videos to help his wife Gomathi (28) deliver their baby.

    The Nemili police said they are conducting inquiries, but no one has been booked yet. “The family members said the delivery was done with Gomathi’s permission and that there was nothing wrong on the part of Lokanathan, so we have not booked anyone yet. We are conducting the inquiry, further action will be taken based on its outcome,” said a police official from Nemili station.

    Police said that the woman was due to give birth on December 13. On December 18, she experienced labour pain, but instead of visiting the hospital, Lokanathan decided to help her deliver the baby at home. He sought the help of his sister Geetha and they also watched YouTube videos. After a long struggle, Gomathi delivered a stillborn male. Since she was bleeding profusely, her husband took her to a Primary Health Centre nearby, from where they were sent to the Vellore Government Hospital.

  • Imagine the horror

    Imagine the horror

    Imagine a mob so ruthless, so violent, so remorseless that first, they kill an innocent man for tearing down a poster with religious text on it, then they burn the body in front of hundreds of people and several cameras because somehow their thirst for blood was not enough so now they had to humiliate a dead body. And then some of them had the audacity to take selfies with the burning body. All because he did something without even realising that he could be lynched to death for it. 

    Imagine that this man was a foreign national — a Sri Lankan — working as a factory manager in Sialkot, and whose wife heard about this most tragic incident from news and the internet. Imagine his wife’s shock and horror. Imagine the bereaved widow looking at those videos, those gruesome images, those murderers taking pride in killing her husband. Imagine her helplessness. Imagine that this man has two young children, nine and 14 respectively, who will have to live with this fact for the rest of their lives that their father was killed, nay lynched, by a frenzied mob in Pakistan. 

    Imagine that we live in a country where every other day is a ‘black day’, where every other incident is bone-chilling, where no one is safe, where so many horrors unfold that we move on from one terrifying incident to another and forget about the previous one. What have we become? How have we come to this point? Will our state introspect that our society has become so intolerant that it cannot even protect anyone? Will our state realise how extremism has permeated our society because it has been officially sanctioned through our policies? It is the responsibility of the state to protect the lives of every human being. The misuse of religion for political benefit, the misuse of religion for some vested interest, or allowing the misuse of religion for some external policy will eventually have consequences. And those are the consequences that we are facing every day. There are no words to express what this country is going through — those at the helm of the affairs have to now challenge this extremist ideology or the path ahead is very dark. And every second will then be dark and there will be no turning back. Let people live without fear. A society that has to look over its shoulders all the time cannot progress.

  • Girl dies after gang-rape in Gujrat

    Girl dies after gang-rape in Gujrat

    A girl in Gujrat died after three men allegedly kidnapped and gang-raped her, ARY News reported.

    Three men abducted a girl from Chak Ghazi in Gujrat district on September 1. The accused gave a tranquilliser to the girl and then raped her.

    Later, the accused fled the scene leaving the victim in a critical condition.

    The victim died soon after the incident as the culprits dumped her after her condition worsened and fled the scene, said the police.

    Saddar Police Station Gujrat filed an FIR against the prime suspect Suleman, and his two accomplices, on the complaint of the victim’s mother.

    According to the police, the prime suspect has been arrested and an investigation is underway. Police have also sent samples for forensic tests.

  • Jeweller makes necklaces, rings from teeth of dead loved ones

    Jeweller makes necklaces, rings from teeth of dead loved ones

    A jeweller in Australia is using the remains of dead people including teeth and hair to make rings and necklaces for their grieving families. 

    The 29,-year-old Jacqui Williams, owns Grave Metallum Jewellery which sells handcrafted commemorative pieces to help people deal with the loss of loved ones. 

    As per reports, all pieces are created in her Melbourne studio. Williams, who said she had always been drawn to the ‘morbid’ side of life even as a child, shared some of the stranger requests her customers had made. 

    ‘I [was asked to use] an IUD (intrauterine device) in a piece of jewellery which I did decline due to it being plastic, and turning the bullet casing, from the bullet that a client’s grandfather shot himself with into a piece of jewellery,’ Williams said.

    Jacqui Williams

    The jeweller started taking interest in the grieving process when she lost her best friend a few years ago.

    Williams is a strong believer that loss is easier to deal with when shared.

    ‘I do this work because I want to help people deal with their grief and loss as it’s something that is guaranteed for every living thing,’ Williams said. 

    The custom pieces are made in almost eight weeks and prices range from $350(Rs 55,657) to more than $10,000 (Rs 1,590,201).

  • Woman who came ‘back to life’ in Karachi passes away

    Woman who came ‘back to life’ in Karachi passes away

    A woman who was pronounced dead by doctors on Wednesday and later found to be alive has now passed away.

    According to latest reports, 50-year-old Rashida Bibi passed away a few hours after she was found to be alive.

    Rashida Bibi had been pronounced medically dead by doctors at Karachi’s Abbasi Shaheed healthcare facility but came back to life as she was being bathed before her burial.

    A formal death certificate had been issued and the her body was shifted to the cold storage for remaining rituals before her burial. However, when the women were bathing her, she came back to life.

    The occurence had sent waves of shock and horror and the women designated with bathing Rashid Bibi’s corpse ran out of the mortuary in fear.

    After recovering from their shock, Rashida Bibi’s family had shifted her back to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.

    KMC health director Dr Salma Kausar said strict action will be taken against the doctors who declared her dead.