NEW DELHI — Days after a much-publicized court battle, Kangana Ranaut finally received a fresh passport on June 29, and she is gearing up to meet the team of her upcoming film “Dhaakad.” The “Queen” actor informed her followers about it on her Instagram handle. She posted a picture with the “Dhaakad” director Razneesh Ghai. “Got my passport… Thanks to everyone for their concern and best wishes … Chief, I will be with you all soon @razylivingtheblues #Dhaakad (sic),” read the caption. “Dhaakad” will see Ranaut playing the role of an officer in the movie. The film also stars actors Divya Dutta and Arjun…
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Smudge, the cute moon bear, was the last animal to be born at a bile farm in China. Nanning Bile Farm bred bears for many years and extracted their bile for traditional Asian medicines as part of a cruel practice. The bears were kept in poor conditions, with many kept in cramped cages from birth, and farmed for their bile — the digestive fluid produced by the liver. At its height, the farm held 132 moon bears, also known as Asian Black Bears who would routinely undergo the process of bile extraction. Smudge was the last bear born at the farm…
While there is now enough gasoline across the United States to keep up with surging demand, prices are being kept high by a lack of drivers to deliver it, analysts told Zenger News. Running high ahead of the long July 4 holiday weekend in the U.S., the average retail price for regular unleaded hit $3.10 per gallon on Tuesday, according to travel club AAA. That’s up 3 cents per gallon from last week — and nearly a dollar more per gallon than this time last year. Patrick DeHaan, the senior petroleum analyst at GasBuddy, told Zenger from Chicago that while…
WASHINGTON — New insight on how our experiences during a task or interaction shape our current mood has been recently reported by an international team of researchers. Published in the open-access eLife journal, the study, titled “The temporal representation of experience in subjective mood,” suggests that early experiences may have a larger effect on our mood than more recent events. These findings hold implications for the timing of events in experimental or clinical settings and suggest new directions for mood interventions tailored to individual patients. People routinely report on their moods during everyday activities and when they interact with clinicians providing mental…
CANBERRA, Australia — A new report warns an environment where credit growth is far outpacing and income growth is unsustainable and will trigger a response from Australia’s financial regulators. Moody’s Analytics, which operates independently from the Moody’s Investors Service credit rating agency, estimates that 20 percent of Australia’s population is under “mortgage stress.” This is a concern when lending rates are at historical lows. Mortgage stress is defined as those who pay 30 percent of household income in mortgage payments. “An underlying concern is that when interest rates do eventually rise, highly leveraged households need to be able to continue servicing their…
MELBOURNE, Australia — A Melbourne restaurant has reached out to a wheelchair-bound Australian war veteran to apologize after he claimed it would not accept his booking. Joel Sardi served in the army for five years, including a stint in Afghanistan, before becoming a quadriplegic after suffering spinal injuries in a fall down a staircase in 2014. The former soldier wanted to book a table for dinner at the Indian restaurant Ginger Garlic in Eltham but was knocked back. “When I called up, they accepted the booking for five people, but then I told them I was in a wheelchair, they said ‘I am…
CANBERRA, Australia — Surveillance laws in New South Wales have been used to “hinder the exposure of systemic, commercialized animal cruelty,” said several animal rights activists, as they launch a High Court case against the Australian state. The Farm Transparency Project said that the police have increasingly used specific laws to limit public awareness of large-scale harm to farmed animals. Their lawsuit was served upon the New South Wales Attorney-General and argued to imply freedom of political communication in the Australian Constitution, which is breached by certain state laws. The Surveillance Devices Act in New South Wales prohibits the publication or communication of footage or…
CANBERRA, Australia — There’s been a big jump in the number of electric vehicles on Australia’s roads according to the latest figures on the national fleet. The Australian Bureau of Statistics says the number of electric vehicles registered across the country rose by more than 62 percent to 23,000 in the 12 months to the end of January this year. Australian Bureau of Statistics tweeted “The number of electric vehicles registered in Aus continues to charge ahead (pun intended). The latest Motor Vehicle Census reveals 23,128 electric vehicles were registered in 2021.” At the same time, the total vehicle fleet rose…
BRISBANE, Australia — An Australian woman has allegedly been found with a loaded gun, bullets and drugs including cocaine and meth within the first hour of Queensland’s lockdown. Police say the 22-year-old was seen acting suspiciously inside her vehicle with another woman while officers were performing proactive patrols on the Gold Coast at about 6.50 pm on June 29. Queensland Police tweeted “A 22-year-old woman has been charged after the alleged discovery of a loaded firearm in a car at Miami last night.” The police released a statement on the arrest. The statement read that the woman has been charged with…
BRISBANE, Australia — Queensland small businesses are still waiting for a pledge of direct compensation after Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk’s lockdown announcement, as the opposition ramps up its push for support packages. Local government areas of southeast Queensland, Townsville City and Palm Island enter their first of a three-day snap lockdown on June 30, as the state braces for new coronavirus cases. On June 29, it emerged a 19-year-old receptionist at the Prince Charles Hospital in Brisbane who traveled to the state’s north and was infectious in the community for 10 days before being tested. She was found to have the highly contagious…