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  • Doctor on Indian TV soap uses bathroom scrubbers as defibrillators

    A scene from an Indian soap Krishnakoli has left the Internet in shock where a doctor is seen using bathroom scrubbers brush instead of a real defibrillator. 

    A video clip of Krishnakoli was shared on August 19, where a doctor is struggling to save the life of a patient, while the patient’s wife is praying in one corner.

     However, what caught everyone’s attention was not the patient or the doctor but the green scrubber brush that the doctor is using on the show.

    The doctor is seen rubbing the brushes together and putting them on another actor, who jumps up in ‘shock’.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=45&v=Rluh4iMfCag&feature=emb_title

    The screenshots of the scene are doing rounds on social media and people can’t stop trolling it.

    https://twitter.com/r_bhaduri/status/1296500367715262464?s=20
    https://twitter.com/r_bhaduri/status/1296500367715262464?s=20

  • Did you know Indians made desi version of ‘FRIENDS’?

    We just found out that there exists a desi version of FRIENDS made by ZeeTv. Episodes of the desi version titled ‘HELLO FRIENDS‘ are on YouTube and it is not only unfunny but also unoriginal because the makers copied each and every scene and the exact dialogues from the original. Needless to Friends fans were outraged with this and some even called it a bigger pandemic than COVID-19.

    A Twitter user posted a video of its opening scene on the microblogging site and people think it was not a good idea to make a desi version of the super hit show.

    https://twitter.com/PancholiRudri/status/1293949864879902722?s=20

  • VIDEO: Balochistan Government offers financial assistance to Wasu

    VIDEO: Balochistan Government offers financial assistance to Wasu

    Wasu Khan, whose appeal for financial assistance went viral on social media, has caught the attention of Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Kamal who has taken notice of his situation and has decided to offer him financial help. Wasu, who hails from the Jaffarabad district of Balochistan has appeared in several songs of acclaimed singer Shehzad Roy.

    According to Government of Balochistan’s spokesperson Liaquat Shahwani, the government will help Wasu in his treatement and provide him other other financial assistance. Shahwani also shared a video of himself meeting Wasu.

    In an interview, Wasu has said that he is not only unable to pay his house rent, but he is also unable to provide his family with two meals a day. He had hoped that his message will reach the authorities and they will help him.

  • Three men sentenced to jail for killing rare snow leopard in Gilgit Baltistan

    Three men sentenced to jail for killing rare snow leopard in Gilgit Baltistan

    The authorities have detained five persons for killing a snow leopard in Hoper Valley, Gilgit-Baltistan. Three of them have been sentenced to jail by the wildlife magistrate.

    As per reports, a female snow leopard was killed in Hoper while her two cubs lost. The wildlife team was able to recover the skin of the slain leopard and a search operation to find the missing cubs is underway.

    The wildlife department arrested a man with the help of law enforcement agencies on Tuesday after getting information about the killing of the snow leopard. 25-year old Mohammad Saleem, a resident of Hoper valley confessed to his crime and told the authorities that he along with his friends killed a female snow leopard near Hoper glacier almost 12 days ago. He said that the leopard was living with her two cubs in the mountain near the glacier and they set the cubs free after killing the leopard.

    Later the police also arrested four more culprits involved in the crime. They were identified as Mohammad and Jaffar Ali, residents of Hoper and Mohammad Amin and Jan Alam, residents of Hunza.

    Mohammad Saleem and Mohammad were sentenced to one year jail with a fine of Rs5,000,000 on each of them while another accused man was sentenced to one-month imprisonment.

    According to details, Mohammad Saleem posted the pictures of the snow leopard on social media after killing it.

  • WhatsApp launches new feature to tackle ‘fake information’ on its platform

    WhatsApp has recently announced a new feature ‘search the web’ that would allow the user to gather information on the internet about all the sent links and images.

    Not only WhatsApp but most of the social media platforms have turned into a hub of fake videos and news, since the beginning of COVID-19 pandemic.

    In a statement, the spokesperson of WhatsApp said: “Today, we’re piloting a simple way to double-check these messages by tapping a magnifying glass button in the chat. Providing a simple way to search messages that have been forwarded many times may help people find news results or other sources of information about the content they have received.”

    WhatsApp has also included double arrows to let users know that messages have not originated from their close contact. The update also informed about the authenticity of the chain messages.

    Search the web is being rolled out in Brazil, Italy, Ireland, Mexico, Spain, the United Kingdom (UK), and the United States (US) for those on the latest versions of WhatsApp for Android, iOS and WhatsApp Web.

  • 6-year-old girl chokes on ‘face mask cooked inside McDonald’s chicken nuggets’

    6-year-old girl chokes on ‘face mask cooked inside McDonald’s chicken nuggets’

    A six-year-old girl choked on pieces of a face mask found inside McDonald’s chicken nuggets, her mother claims. 

    Laura Arber said she discovered this in at least two of the 20 nuggets she had bought for her children from the fast food branch in Aldershot, Hampshire, yesterday.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zOpS7CXHFw

    According to details, the 32-year-old had taken three of her four children to the restaurant to pick up the order. Laura says she saw her daughter having difficulty eating before claiming to find parts of a blue disposal face mask.

    She said: “My little daughter just started choking and I put my fingers down her throat to loop it out there was just blue with the sick. I thought what on earth is this? I didn’t even think it could be the chicken nugget but looked over at the box and all you could see was this blue coming out of another chicken nugget in the box of 20.”

    “And the mask is cooked into it, like a part of the mixture and it’s clearly a mask. You can see the seam and how solid it is in there.”

    She spoke to the manager and claims she was told that the nuggets were not cooked on site.

    Laura claimed she did not receive an apology and was shocked that the restaurant did not stop serving nuggets.

    The mother added: “And the worst thing was that they carried on serving them. Before I left I said: ‘Are you going to keep serving them?’”

    “And they were carrying on serving them and that was the big thing for me. I just couldn’t believe the way the management were handling it.”

    “What if I had walked out of the room and my daughter had choked?,” asked the mother. “She could have died. It’s a split second thing. And I am just thinking, we have just come out of a pandemic and there is a face mask in my child’s chicken nugget.”

    Laura’s son was born in intensive care and she stayed in accommodation provided by Ronald McDonald House Charities UK for families whose children are very ill in hospital.

    She said she had always held the company in high esteem because of the way they helped her but said her experience yesterday left her feeling a disappointed.

    A McDonald’s spokesperson said: “We are very sorry to hear about this customer’s experience. Food safety is of the utmost importance to us and we place great emphasis on quality control, following rigorous standards to avoid any imperfections.”

    “When the matter was brought to the attention of our staff, we apologised, offered a full refund and asked the customer to return the item so we could further investigate the matter and isolate the affected product.”

  • Indian court orders man to get Rakhi tied from woman he molested, sparks outrage on Twitter

    Indian court orders man to get Rakhi tied from woman he molested, sparks outrage on Twitter

    The Madhya Pradesh High Court ruled that an accused molester who forced entry into a woman’s house could be granted bail on grounds that he agrees to get a rakhi tied by her on the day of Rakshabandhan. The court also asked the man to give Rs 11,000 to the woman as part of a customary offering made by brothers to sisters on the occasion and seek her blessings.

    Rakshabandhan is an Indian ceremony during which a sister ties a bracelet to her brother’s wrist to honour the relationship between brother and sister.

    In the order, the court said, “The applicant, along with his wife, shall visit the house of the complainant with a rakhi (thread/band) on August 3 at 11 am with a box of sweets and request the complainant to tie the rakhi band to him with the promise to protect her to the best of his ability for all times to come.”

    The man named Vikram Bagri is accused of entering the 30-year-old woman’s house in Ujjain on April 20. Bagri has also been ordered to give Rs 5,000 to the complainant’s son to buy clothes and sweets.

    The bizarre order sparked outrage on social media.

    https://twitter.com/mobeenrb/status/1289992785697705984?s=20

  • Information Ministry gets six top officials from PTI’s digital media cell, reports claim

    Information Ministry gets six top officials from PTI’s digital media cell, reports claim

    Six members of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) digital media cell have been appointed at top positions in the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, a notification issued on Monday by the Establishment Division confirmed.

    According to the Establishment Division’s notification, one officer would be appointed at the Management Pay-II (MP-II) pay scale and five at the MP-III level. The MP-II and MP-III appointments would be equivalent to Grade-21 and Grade-20 civil servant jobs, it added.

    Imran Haider Ghazali was hired at the MP-II scale, whereas Shahbaz Khan, Muhammad Muzammil Hassan, Usman bin Zaheer, Naeem Ahmed Yasin, and Syeda Dhanak Hashmi at the MP-III scale.

    According to reports, following months of candidate assessments and interviews, Imran Ghazali was appointed the general manager of the Digital Media Wing (DMW).

    This March, the federal cabinet approved a supplementary grant of Rs42.791 million ($256,000) for the creation of a DMW, which aims to ostensibly counter fake news that damages the federal government’s repute among social media users. The DMW is meant to help the government formulate its policies on digital media and be helpful in countering the criticism the government is facing due to inflation and high electricity tariff.

    Sources told Profit that the DMW will work as a strategic unit of the Government of Pakistan to provide results-oriented media content, digital public relations, and will give authentic government updates on digital media. As the general manager of the DMW, Ghazali has been tasked with leading a data-driven, growth-oriented team to further the interests of the State of Pakistan locally and internationally.

    “DMW will also be responsible for curating the digital content for official social media assets of the government,” said a source. “It will also be organising and verifying social media accounts of all federal government ministries and will be enhancing their digital media presence.”

    As the founding member of the PTI’s social media team, Ghazali is credited with creating the online presence of Prime Minister Imran Khan and led social media for the political party during the 2013 elections, while working with Starcom Pakistan. The Publicis agency went on to lead the 2018 media strategy that won PTI the elections on a $4.7 million media budget.

    According to an Information Ministry statement in response to media reports that the appointments had been approved without any competition, the recruitment was done according to a procedure approved by Prime Minister Imran Khan for its ‘Digital Media Wing’ back in April 2020. The latest job vacancies, the ministry added, were also advertised in the newspapers as per law.

    It said a total of 76 applications were received for the position of ‘General Manager’, whereas 67 for the ‘Digital Media Consultant’ vacancy. All in all, some 461 people applied to the jobs across seven MP scales, it added.

    The recruitment in the digital media wing were made by a special selection board after it conducted interviews, the ministry noted, adding that a summary of the selected individuals was approved by the Prime Minister on July 20.

    Those who have been hired would be paid Rs75,000 a month, it said. The candidates for the remaining 16 posts had been shortlisted, it added further.

    Meanwhile, Focal Person to PM on Digital Media Dr Arsla Khalid said all successful candidates were top names from digital media industry.

    He went on to say that no other successful candidate than Imran Ghazali was affiliated with the PTI, and even Ghazali, like others was a professional.

    According to sources, Imran Ghazali has 14 years of experience in the industry. He is also one of the pioneers of social media campaigning in Pakistan with over 120,000 followers on his personal accounts. He has been speaking as a social media strategist at various public events and has been consulting various global organisations on digital media.

  • Zobia Meer Case: Mother forgives son who physically, verbally abused her

    Arsalan Qureshi’s mother, whom he physically and verbally tortured, has forgiven him for his doings. In a video posted to social media, she said that she has forgiven her son and does not want any legal action to be taken against him.

    In another video, Arsalan along with his wife apologised to his mother for his actions, adding that depression and stress was the reason behind his actions because he had faced loss in his business.

    A few days ago, a video posted by a girl, Zobia Meer went viral on social media in which her brother Arsalan Meer, could be seen verbally and physically abusing his mother.

    The incident sparked outrage on social media and many people including celebrities, journalists and social activists demanded justice for Zobia Meer and her mother. Later, Arsalan was arrested for thrashing his mother and sought forgiveness for his wrongdoings.

  • Teenage boy, friends allegedly gang rape kitten in Lahore

    Teenage boy, friends allegedly gang rape kitten in Lahore

    A kitten died after a 15-year-old boy along with his friends allegedly gang-raped it repeatedly for over a week. 

    According to a viral social media post by an animal shelter, which has also widely been shared by other animal organisations and the general public, the kitten was adopted by the family of the boy who abused it many times until she died after suffering from crushed internal organs.

    The posts revealed that the kitten couldn’t sit, walk, eat or sleep due to the pain and trauma. “The culprits used shopping bags for the act which were left inside the poor cat,” the posts claimed.

    The vet confirmed that the cat was abused but refused to write it on paper to avoid involvement in the case. 

    Upon inquiry, one of the culprits’ mother refuted the allegations and said, “My son hasn’t done this.”

    Meanwhile, the incident has sparked outrage and many people, including celebrities and journalists, have strongly condemned the incident, urging the authorities concerned to take action against the culprits.

    https://twitter.com/SQurien/status/1288208100256874496?s=20
    https://twitter.com/AminJingoist/status/1288360192418156545?s=20

    Meanwhile, government officials say no formal complaint has so far been lodged.

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