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  • VIDEO: Bride wears crown made of golgappas

    VIDEO: Bride wears crown made of golgappas

    A South-Indian bride wore a crown and garland made of golgappas on her wedding day to profess her love for her favourite street snack. The video that has gone viral with 4.8 million views was shared by the bride’s make-up artist.

    PEARLS Beauty Lounge & Academy posted a video on Instagram with the caption: “Many congratulations to my pretty bride Akshaya and my groom Abhishek. This make-up was done at 3 AM and this video was shot at 3 PM. Looks pleasant and flawless finish without any patches on her skin.”

    “Indian marriage games are truly a traditional and essential part of the Indian wedding extravaganza,” the caption further reads.

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    The video also shows a tray full of golgappas in front of the bride.

  • Meet Nora Al-Matrooshi, first Arab woman astronaut in training

    Meet Nora Al-Matrooshi, first Arab woman astronaut in training

    The UAE’s Nora al-Matrooshi is the first Arab woman to start training to be an astronaut, one of two Emiratis picked from thousands of applicants as the Gulf nation looks to the stars.

    According to details, the 28-year-old mechanical engineer from Sharjah has dreamt about space since she was a little girl, learning about planets and stars at school.

    She hoped since childhood to go into space one day. Her sailor ancestors explored the oceans that encouraged her to explore space one day.

    “My mum’s side of the family are sailors. I’d say they explored the ocean. The term ‘astronaut’ means ‘star sailor’ in Greek,” said the softly-spoken Matrooshi.

    Matrooshi and her 33-year-old fellow countryman, Mohammad al-Mulla will later this year go to the United States for the training at NASA’s Johnson Space Center.

    They now join Sultan al-Neyadi and Hazza al-Mansoori in the Emirati fellowship of astronauts.

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    The two Emiratis are currently training in-house in the emirate of Dubai, from learning to speak Russian to flying lessons.

    The UAE is a newcomer to the world of space exploration but is rapidly making its mark.

    In September 2019, the oil-rich country sent the first Emirati into space as part of a three-member crew that blasted off on a Soyuz rocket from Kazakhstan for an eight-day mission.

    Then in February, its “Hope” probe successfully entered Mars’ orbit on a journey to reveal the secrets of Martian weather, making history as the Arab world’s first interplanetary mission.

    More recently in September 2020, Abu Dhabi said it planned to launch an unmanned rover to the moon by 2024 which would be the first trip to Earth’s satellite by an Arab country.

    “If I can do it, then you can do it. If no one has done it before you, then just go ahead and be the first,” said Matrooshi.

    “If you’re really passionate about what you’re doing, then you should just work hard for it and look for opportunities.”

  • Giant 3D cat installed in Tokyo to ‘cheer people up during the pandemic’

    Giant 3D cat installed in Tokyo to ‘cheer people up during the pandemic’

    A gigantic 3D cat has been installed on a billboard at Tokyo’s busiest railway stations. The 1,664-square-foot curved LED screen shows a giant 3D calico cat in a 4K display between the hours of 7 am to 1 am. The 3D cat behaves like an actual cat.

     It is first startled awake in the morning, by afternoon it stands and meows at people who pass by and then, in the evening, it lies down to fall asleep and rests its head on its paws.

    It also greets pedestrians with “nyannichiwa” – a combination of “konnichiwa” for hello, and “nyan” for meow.

    The display will officially launch next week. Test broadcasts have been going on since last month and many social media users have seen and shared how awestruck they are.

    Japan is currently closed to tourists so the company behind the display has posted a live-streaming view of the billboard on YouTube. However, they said that specific angles can affect how the 3D effect is viewed.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ-Cg5c0CD4

    Takayuki Ohkawa is a spokesman for Unika, one of the two companies behind the feline display. He told The New York Times that the cat does not have an official name yet, although fans have been calling it “Shinjuku east exit cat”. He explained the reason behind creating the 3D cat was to help cheer people up during the current pandemic.

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    “There are many reasons we decided to display the cat, but one of the big reasons is that with corona, the world became very dark. Through the cat display, we wanted to revive Shinjuku and make it brighter,” said Ohkawa.

  • IN PICTURES: Transgenders attend first day at school

    Education Minister Punjab, Murad Raas took to Twitter to share pictures of the transgender community attending the first day of school. “First Day of School for Transgenders by School Education Department Punjab,” the minister wrote in a Tweet.

    “We have provided them everything that is required for Schooling. Dr Aithesham Secretary School South Punjab and his team have done a great job. TransEducation is the program,” he added.

    Have a look at the pictures:

    On July 6, Raas announced the Punjab government will establish separate schools for the transgender community.

  • Woman stripped to pay for husband’s ‘love affair’

    Woman stripped to pay for husband’s ‘love affair’

    Three men allegedly stripped a woman in Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) to take revenge for her husband’s alleged affair with their sister.

    As per reports, the incident happened on June 6 when the victim was coming back from a wedding ceremony. Armed men captured her, assaulted her in a “revenge attack” and ran away, leaving the woman naked in the middle of a street.

    A local resident told The Express Tribune that they attacked the victim after rumours of the alleged affair between the victim’s husband, Imdad Hussain, and the sister of the accused “spread like a wildfire in the village enraging the girl’s family”.

    However, the resident said the police at first did not file an FIR, but relented a day later, registering the case under Section 354 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) without mentioning stripping.

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    Police claim that the woman was not stripped, contradicting the statement of the local residents.

    “The woman had not been stripped but her clothes were torn apart by the accused who managed to escape and even threatened her of dire consequences,” police official Saddar Muhammad Adnan told The Express Tribune.

    DPO DI Khan Najamul Hasnain confirmed that an FIR has been registered against the three men but one of the accused managed to secure pre-arrest bail from the court. The DPO added that he was personally looking into the matter.

  • An alcoholic concoction takes over KPK, becoming a new cause of death

    After the General Atomics US ‘Predators’ and ‘Reapers’, the unmanned aerial vehicles that caused death in the tribal regions, now an alcoholic concoction is becoming a new cause of death in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KPK).

    The alcoholic drink is aptly named, ‘Drone’, concocted by moonshiners in the remote Tirah Valley of the Khyber tribal district, which was once infamous for militancy and poppy cultivation. “The ingredients of this alcoholic drink are easily available over-the-counter drugs, syrups, and cold drinks,” reports The Express Tribune.

    A Tirah-based doctor confirmed that the brew originated in Tirah and escalated quickly to the settled districts of KP. “It has been given this funny name because it instantly makes you high and you start feeling light,” the doctor said, while speaking to The Express Tribune on the condition that he would not be identified.

    Economic depression and instability have reportedly led to an increase in the use of ‘Drone’ – a cure-all elixir – by the youth in the area.

    “Several kinds of sleeping tablets are dissolved in a popular soft-drink along with two types of sedative cough syrups, along with easily available cheap drugs to make this drink, which is sold for a few hundred rupees,” the doctor said.

    However, the explosive flooding of the drink prompted distress among members of the local Aman Committee who had to announce a ban on certain cough syrups to rein in the uncontrolled spread of the drugging drink.

    “Any shopkeeper found selling these cough syrups will be penalised with a fine – and a warning.”

  • Student arrives at examination centre in ambulance

    A ninth grader in Karachi arrived at the examination centre in Karachi with a fractured leg, Geo News has reported. His arrival with a fractured leg in an ambulance surprised everyone at the centre.

    As per details, Asharab Shah was brought to a centre in Malir by his mother .”It is a matter of his education and his whole academic year is at risk,” said the student’s mother, adding that she had to bring him despite him being in pain.

    His mother further said that Shah suffered an injury two weeks ago and is currently undergoing treatment.

  • 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.