Author: News Desk

A ‘fart competition’ held on Sunday in Gujarat’s Surat, touted as the country’s first-ever turned out to be a massive fail as only three participants managed to overcome shyness and inhibitions to take a shot at the three trophies on offer. They too, however, failed to pass the test as they could not find the courage to pass the wind. While sixty people had registered to display their prowess in letting out “longest”, “loudest” and “most musical” farts at a banquet hall in the Vesu area, only twenty turned up on Sunday, said organizer Yatin Sangoi. According to the organizer,…

An Instagram influencer with millions of followers and a host of celebrity endorsements claims that drinking celery juice can cure chronic illnesses. But he doesn’t have any medical qualifications, and doctors say many of his claims about celery and other vegetables and fruits aren’t backed up by science. If you spend a lot of time on Instagram, you may have come across posts of people sipping on a green beverage – celery juice. While it might not be to everyone’s taste, it is certainly a drink of the moment. Google Trends statistics show relatively little interest in celery juice over the…

It wasn’t a bomb or a bullet, but a can of dry shampoo that turned into a projectile and burst through the sunroof of a car. Now a St. Peters woman is warning others not to leave aerosol cans inside a car. “We thought something fell down from the sky, but the glass was going out so we know that wasn’t the case,” Christine Debrecht told. Debrecht is talking about the giant hole in the sunroof of her daughter’s Honda Civic. Luckily, nobody was inside the car at the time. Debracht said the damage was so severe, it took about 10…

Malaysia has deemed Lorene Scafaria’s “Hustlers” too vulgar for audiences. The country’s censorship board said no way to the film’s apparent parade of nudity and eroticism. The film’s international distributor confirmed the ban on social media today. See the post below. https://www.instagram.com/p/B2mRpoChPev/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet “Hustlers” last weekend took the second spot at the top-10 box office, beneath “It Chapter Two,” and is currently riding high on rave reviews — as well as Oscar buzz for star Jennifer Lopez, who plays a streetwise stripper who takes ingénue Constance Wu under her wing (and into her fur coat). The film’s nudity and sex are relatively light but…

Donald Trump has denied a report alleging he made a promise to a foreign leader, which sparked a whistleblower’s formal complaint. The complaint is reported to relate to a July phone call with Ukraine’s new president, Volodymyr Zelensky. The Washington Post said an intelligence official found the comment “so troubling” they went to the department’s inspector general. In a tweet, Mr Trump dismissed the claims as “fake news”. Democrats are trying to get the complaint turned over to Congress, with the details still unknown. However, some reports allege that Mr Trump asked Mr Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden and his…

Members of Russia’s film and theatre community are protesting after a young actor was jailed for assaulting a police officer during a rally he insists he wasn’t even part of. Pavel Ustinov, 23, was sentenced to three and a half years for injuring an officer during an unauthorized protest last month to demand free elections. Prosecutors said the actor, who has appeared in small roles in Russian films, had been heard shouting opposition slogans and had assaulted one of the officers who had tried to arrest him. But his supporters say videos posted on YouTube, which were not allowed to be shown…

In a first of its kind symbolic effort by India at the UN, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate a 50KW ‘Gandhi Solar Park’ next week during his visit to the world organisation, a gesture that highlights India’s willingness to go beyond the talk on climate change. At a contribution of about one million dollars, India has gifted solar panels that have been installed on the roof of the UN Headquarters here, one panel each for every 193 UN Member State. Modi will remotely inaugurate the solar park at the UN Headquarters and the ‘Gandhi Peace Garden’ during a special commemorative…

Reportedly tropical Depression Imelda inundated southeast Texas on Thursday, lashing some areas with torrential rain causing devastating flooding, leaving at least two dead and thousands of residents stranded. Rescuers in boats pulled hundreds from flooded cars. Meanwhile, in view of the situation, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has declared a state of emergency for 13 counties in southeastern Texas. Abott said “This happened very quickly. It just demonstrates that in this day and time, climate change is real. We no longer have to be concerned just with a hurricane. We have to be concerned with almost any sort of weather system that…

UK’s Labour goes into its party conference this weekend with a leader who wants to remain “neutral” in any second Brexit referendum. Could that be a recipe for disaster for the party and the country?Just a few weeks ago, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn cut the increasingly forlorn figure that seems to have become his trademark ever since he pulled off the unexpected coup of reviving his party’s fortunes in the 2017 general election. Many of his most loyal supporters had to concede that Corbyn had, by all accounts, lost the plot on Brexit, dilly-dallying over which course to take and…

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is likely to raise the Kashmir issue and the human rights situation in the Valley during discussions at the high-level UN General Assembly session that begins here next week, his spokesperson has said. The Secretary-General’s Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric during the daily press briefing here on Thursday said the UN chief has underscored the need for dialogue as the only way to resolve the issue and, “as part of the solution for the current crisis in Kashmir, to make sure that human rights aspects are very much dealt with, as well.” On Kashmir, the Secretary-General has said…