NEW DELHI — Of the 40-plus titles that global video streaming giant Netflix has announced for its grand 2021 line-up in India, as many as nine are new seasons of existing shows. It may be common in the United States, but for India, the number is representative of the content creation, production, and consumption revolution sparked by the emergence and proliferation of the streaming world. Avid Indian watchers of American and British content are aware of and accustomed to the season format where a set of new episodes of a show are launched at intervals. Shows like “The Simpsons”, “Friends”, “The…
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DURG, India — For three years, migratory birds had stayed away from Gidhwa and Parsada — two villages in the eastern state of Chhattisgarh — because of drought. But last year, winged visitors from Europe, Mongolia, Myanmar, and Bangladesh started arriving here with the onset of winter in October. The wetlands in the area, about 77 kilometers (48 miles) north of state capital Raipur, are an “undeclared bird sanctuary”, according to the website of the district Bemetara. “Reservoir fishes, village moist lands and biodiversity attract” the birds, it states. The state decided to organize a three-day bird festival from Jan. 31 this year. The…
Salman Khan, one of the biggest stars of Bollywood, is known to his fans and others mostly as a swashbuckling action hero in films such as “Dabangg” (2010), “Ready” (2011), and “Tiger Zinda Hai” (2017). But residents of the southern metropolis of Bengaluru can see paintings by the actor in an exhibition — The Masters and The Modern, An Amalgamation of Old and New World Classics — at gallery g till March 10. Hosted by the Sandeep & Gitanjali Maini Foundation, Khan’s art shares the walls of the gallery with works of some of India’s legendary artists such as Raja…
SHCHUKOZERO, Russia – As many as 10 IL-76 aircraft and 20 ground vehicles were recently trained on a snow-covered unpaved runway in Russia’s Ivanovo region on March 2. The video of the aircrew training was recorded by the ministry of defense and shared on their Facebook page. “The crews of the Il-76 military transport aircraft performed take-offs and landings on a snow-covered unpaved runway in the Ivanovo region. The flights, which took place in the daytime and at night, were attended by young pilots.” The IL-76 — a multi-purpose four-engine strategic airlifted — originally designed by the Soviet Union’s Ilyushin…
DARBHANGA, India — On the hot and humid night of May 8, 2020, 15-year-old Jyoti Kumari bought a used bicycle, helped her injured father to its carrier, and began her toughest journey yet from Gurugram, on the outskirts of India’s capital Delhi, to their village in the eastern Indian state of Bihar — 1,200 kilometers (745 miles). “My father was injured in a road accident and was bedridden,” Jyoti told Zenger News. “The money we got from our village was spent on medicine and food. We had no money left to pay room rent and the owner was threatening us. I…
KRASNODAR, Russia — A 20-year-old Russian influencer shared a picture of his newborn baby girl after marrying his stepmother last year. Marina Balmasheva, 36, who hails from the western Russian region of Krasnodar Krai, lived with her husband Alexey, 45, for over 10 years before they got divorced. Since then, she started dating his 20-year-old son Vladimir ‘Voya’ Shavyrin. Marina married Vladimir last summer and the couple gave birth to a daughter, who they have named Olga Vladimirovna. Both Marina and Vladimir notified they are not speaking to her ex-husband and his father. “I think he does not like what we…
HAMBURG, Germany – The president of German University of Hamburg has come out in support of his physics’ professor Roland Wiesendanger, who had claimed that the current pandemic had started from a laboratory accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. The professor had said he had evidence about the origin of the coronavirus which is ironic to the current analysis. His thesis has caused a stir in media for blaming the laboratory for the global pandemic. Scientists claim it is their duty to weigh up and discuss different hypotheses. The analysis was however criticized for using dubious sources,…
BERLIN, Germany — The Berlin Zoo has sought the help of the public to name its first gorilla cub born after 16 years. The two-week-old gorilla offspring born on Feb. 15 was doing very well with her parents. “These are some great news for this endangered species because a gorilla group is usually made up of a silverback (an adult male gorilla) and several females,” said said Ruben Gralki, deputy district manager. “An abundance of females is an advantage for the European Endangered Species Programme.” Reportedly, it is said that gorillas share 98.3 percent of their genetic code with humans,…
DOUBS, France – A son’s home-beating proved to be too costly for a mother after her 12-year-old son reported her to the cops for growing weed at home. The incident took place in the commune of Pontarlier in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comte region in eastern France on Feb. 25 when the boy left home angry and told patrolling police officers about his mother. Neither the boy nor his mum has been named and police acted on the tip and investigated the home, where they found cannabis plants and growing equipment and promptly arrested the boy’s mother. The boy was handed over to…
HANOI, Vietnam – Disturbing images of reptiles being tied at both ends of the body before brutally killed and ripped off their skin in Vietnam have gone viral. The snakes and crocodiles, that are being farmed for their skins, writhe in agony as they become part of the illegal skin trade. The snakeskins are used to create luxury fashion items such as handbags by companies such as LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, which owns the Louis Vuitton brand, among others, according to animal rights organization PETA UK, who obtained the footage from its sister organization PETA Asia. “Other images, also…