Author: Starvision Desk

Inhabitants of these high-rise societies now fear using elevators due to the ongoing streak of mishaps.The recent incident, involving the tragic demise of a 72-year-old elderly woman in a lift mishap on August 3 in the Paras Tierea society in Noida’s Sector 137, has escalated concerns among residents, igniting a fervent demand for the implementation of the ‘Lift Act’.The issue has been raised by MLAs of Noida and Jewar in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly.Responding to this, Energy Minister AK Sharma assured that the Lift Act will soon be passed, and strict measures against those found responsible for such accidents…

This will be the first time that the interactions of the popular Master and Padawan duo from the ‘Clone Wars’ series will be shown in live action.The 42-second clip only connects the series more to the events of the animated ‘Star Wars’ shows ‘Clone Wars’ and ‘Rebels’, as well as featuring connections to ‘The Mandalorian’ live action series.Before that, just a week ago, the show had released another video titled ‘Master and Apprentice’ which showcased Ahsoka Tano training ‘Rebels’ character Sabine Wren in lightsaber combat.The ‘Force’ clip shows Ahsoka facing off against both Imperial Inquisitors, as well as her interactions…

The Fire Department received a call about the incident at around 3.15 p.m.The godown is located at Budhpur in Alipur.An official said that a total of 16 fire engines were rushed to the spot.Further details are awaited.–IANSatk/pgh

The worker, identified as Suresh Yadav, who hails from Haryana’s Jind and has good experience in digging trenches, fell into the pit while rectifying a fault in the machine deployed for digging during the construction of the Delhi-Katra expressway near Kartarpur in Jalandhar district on Saturday evening.Rescuers have been digging a parallel pit for the evacuation of the worker who got struck after a huge mass of earth collapsed and fell on him.Suresh along with another technician Pawan Kumar had entered into the trench to inspect the machine. While they were in the trench, the disaster occurred. Kumar was successfully…

Sri Aurobindo’s part is essayed by Vikrant Chauhan in the film.Suraj Kumar previously produced an Indo-Argentinean film titled ‘Thinking of Him’ on Rabindranath Tagore’s bond with the Argentine writer and intellectual Victoria Ocampo.This short film is based on Sri Aurobindo Ghose’s prison life in Alipore Jail, Kolkata, from where his spiritual journey started.Sri Aurobindo was arrested for conspiracy on May 5, 1908, and spent a year in Alipore jail while the British government, in a protracted court trial tried to implicate him in various revolutionary activities.Following the screening, there will be a discussion on the making of the film and…

The men’s hockey team was ranked fourth with 2746 points, just 15 behind England’s 2761. World No.1 Netherlands (3133) had pulled away from second-ranked Belgium (2918) when the list was upgraded on July 7 at the end of the FIH Pro League season.India’s triumph in the Asian Champions Trophy earned them enough points and the team took their tally to 2771.35, moving up to the third in the rankings ahead of England, who now have 2763.50 points.The Netherlands retained the No.1 ranking with 3095.90 points followed by Olympic champion Belgium at 2917.87. World Champion Germany are fifth with 2680.04 points…

Swapnadip, a fresher in the university, died under mysterious circumstances after falling from the balcony of a students’ hostel on the JU campus on Thursday,Deepsekhar and Manotosh were presented before a lower court in Kolkata following their arrest on Sunday, which remanded them to police custody till August 22.On Saturday, the same court had remanded Sourav Chowdhury, a former M.Sc student of JU who’s believed to be the main brain behind the ragging racket on the campus, especially in the hostels, to police custody till August 22.Swapnadip’s body was found in front of a students’ hostel on August 10 and…

Ahead of their new task, contestant Vashu Jain will start mouthing off insults to his fellow contestant while even trash talking Gautam Gulati, who sternly warns him to never try this again.The whole thing will start as the camps of Gang leaders, Gautam and Prince Narula are gearing up for their upcoming battle. However, carried away by adrenaline Vashu will tell his fellow contestant Himanshu Arora from the rival Gautam Gang, that he is too scared to fight him which shows on his face. He will then get too carried away and even say that Gautam is the same as…

Despite popular claims about the impact of social media on well-being, the researchers from the Oxford University in the UK found “no evidence” that Facebook use was consistently linked negatively to well-being, rather they found quite the opposite.”Although reports of negative psychological outcomes associated with social media are common in academic and popular writing, evidence for harms is, on balance, more speculative than conclusive,” they wrote in the research paper published in the journal Royal Society Open Science.”We examined the best available data carefully — and found they did not support the idea that Facebook membership is related to harm,…

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) in its report on cesses and taxes, said that as the burden of taxes, cesses and levies eventually falls on the common man a review of cesses needs to be periodically undertaken, to determine the extent of achievement of the intended purpose by prescribing a specific timeframe.The panel also observed that since cesses are to be imposed for only specific purposes, the use of broad and general language for their imposition and collection may lead to discrepancies in utilisation of the proceeds.Impressing upon the need to ensure specificity, the committee is of the view that…