Friday, 6 December 2019
Tuesday, 3 December 2019
6-year-old raped, strangled so hard that her eyes came out
JAIPUR: In a heinous incident in Rajasthan's Tonk, a 6-year-old girl was raped and later, reports suggest, that the victim's throat was pressed so hard that her eyes had come out.
This incident was carried out in Khedli village when the girl was returning home from school on Saturday afternoon.
The accused took the girl to the forest and raped her there. After the rape, the girl was strangled to death by her own school belt.
The baby's blood-soaked body was found on Sunday Morning. Police acted swiftly after this incident and arrested Mahendra alias Dholia, the accused, who is a resident of Khedli village.
Sunday, 1 December 2019
15 people killed after wall collapse due to heavy rainfall in TN, govt to give ex gratia of 4 lakhs
Coimbatore, Dec 02: At least fifteen people have killed after a wall collapsed of collapsed four houses due to heavy downpour in Mettupalayam village in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu Tuesday morning due to heavy downpour. The rescue operation is underway to remove the people who are trapped in the debris.
Reportedly, nine bodies have been retrieved so far.
Meanwhile, the Tamil Nadu government has announced an ex-gratia of Rs 4 lakh for the families of those killed in the wall collapse mishap in Coimbatore.
Reportedly, due to heavy splash in the state, all the schools and colleges in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry have been declared to remain shut today, after the weather forecast.
Coimbatore to witness heavy rains for the next three days
Heavy to very heavy rain expected for the next three days.
According to a forecast by Coimbatore Weatherman G Santhosh Krishnan, who has been pretty much accurate with his forecast, heavy rains are likely across entire Tamil Nadu. Coimbatore is likely to receive heavy rainfall till December 02, 2019. With the Northeast Monsoon having set in from October 01, the recorded rainfall deficit for Coimbatore has been observed to be three per cent and is expected to increase in the coming season.
Although the surplus rains have helped in filling up water reservoirs, the roads and underpasses around the city has been inundated hassling motorists and pedestrians. Rain gutters have also been overflowing thus inundating roads. Government Arts College road is a victim to such an inundation.
Heavy to very heavy rain is likely to occur in places like Peelamedu Airport region, Ramanathapuram and Lakshmi mills. The city will have maximum temperature of 29° C and minimum temperature being 22° C. According to Santhosh, around 10mm of rain had occurred yesterday in the city and 30mm to 40mm of rain in the Peelamedu Airport region, Ramanathapuram and Lakshmi mills vicinity. The mercury levels had also come down by 2°C to 3°C.
Caution has been sent out to the Western Ghats regions, namely, Siruvani, Nilgiri, Valparai and Kodaikanal as heavy rains are likely to occur in these places. The sky conditions are likely to be dark, cloudy with occasional heavy passing showers says Santhosh. The rain is likely to reduce after December 02, 2019 as strong winds are likely to occur during the showers and this is expected to reduce to normal breeze of 15 km per hour during the downpour.
As the year 2019 is coming to an end, the average temperature of the city has been around 26°C to 27°C. The city has had a pleasant climate this year with an average temperature of 36°C to 37°C during summer and 30°C during winter.
Famous South Actress Joins BJP
On Saturday, popular Tamil actress Namitha, who's accompanied by her husband Veerendra Chowdary, has joined BJP in presence of its party working president JP Nadda in Chennai.
Namitha, who got introduced to Telugu audiences with Venkatesh starrer 'Gemini', has went to entertain us with 'Sontham', 'Billa' and 'Simha'.
Earlier this year, the former beauty pageant featured in a Tamil horror comedy 'Pottu'.
Besides Namitha, Tamil television actor Radha Ravi too switched his loyalties from AIADMK to BJP in presence of Nadda. The 67-year old actor was at the receiving end for making derogatory comments against Lady Superstar Nayanathara.
The inadvertent YouTuber: A fisherman goes live from sea
With a subscriber base of 5.36 lakh, Kingston is a YouTube star in his own right. However, neither did the success come overnight nor was it served to him on a silver platter. Much like the choppy waters he had to combat everyday, each view and subscriber was hard-earned like the fish he caught: by drifting off to uncharted territories; casting the net wide, and being patient.
Kingston was a 12-year-old boy when he first boarded a vessel from Mookaiyur to seek sustenance from mother sea's bosom. His eyes have seen the sea-change that transformed Mookaiyur, from a has-been Portuguese harbour town to an alternative dock off the Palk Bay built to decongest the Rameswaram fishing jetty. The 18 years at sea transformed him into a hardened veteran, who weathered many a storm to ensure that the kitchen fire back home was lit. However, it did nothing to uplift his lot from that of a hand-to-mouth existence.
Home to around 2,000 people involved in various sectors of the fishing industry, Mookaiyur is where Kingston learnt the ropes. He grew up on the shores, learning the ways of those that live off the sea, overawed by its magnificence, and humbled by its vengeance.Kingston, a Class VI dropout, embodies what American Physicist Freeman Dyson said: Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. The long hours of idleness on the shores after a gamble at the sea introduced Kingston to TikTok, a video platform. After seeing people turn day-to-day affairs into click baits, Kingston took his cue and uploaded a video himself in October 2018.
The live fishing video became an instant hit, with viewers sympathising with the ordeals of the fishermen. That was when it began. The next day saw Kingston stopping enacting videos from movies and starting to make his own videos on fishing. "Initially, the idea was to show the ordeal we face. One seldom reads any news about a fisherman other than their arrest at the hands of, or being shot at, by the Sri Lankan Navy. The other mentions are about their being stuck in the sea or being lost in a storm," says Kingston.
He began posting on TikTok videos on survival skills at sea. Within a month, Kingston's videos started trending on TikTok miniverse. However, Kingston had a problem: The most he could record was a 60-second video, utterly insufficient to give the viewer a perspective. A brainstorming session with colleagues opened before him another portal: YouTube."In November 2018, while I was discussing my problem with a friend, he asked me check out YouTube," he says, adding, "Everything started from there." He took on board a few educated friends and relatives and gained as much insight he could from these meetings. "I started the channel shortly after. Within a month, one lakh people had subscribed to my channel," he says.
The life of a fisherman
"I posted videos on the regular life of a fisherman without knowing that money could be made out of it. That was until a fellow YouTuber enlightened me about business opportunities available," says Kingston.So how is the channel faring? "Every Thursday, I take questions from my viewers. People ask a lot of questions about the sea and the life of fishermen," he says. "On Saturdays, I have introduced a section on sea food recipes and native cooking style of a fishing family. On Sundays, elder fishermen from the village share their experiences," he informs.
"I posted videos on the regular life of a fisherman without knowing that money could be made out of it. That was until a fellow YouTuber enlightened me about business opportunities available," says Kingston.So how is the channel faring? "Every Thursday, I take questions from my viewers. People ask a lot of questions about the sea and the life of fishermen," he says. "On Saturdays, I have introduced a section on sea food recipes and native cooking style of a fishing family. On Sundays, elder fishermen from the village share their experiences," he informs.
Kingston's emergence as a reputable YouTuber made him a hot personality to have at B-School seminars. "PSG college from Coimbatore invited me to deliver a lecture for their students. Though I am a school dropout, technology and social media helped me reach places. I have got invitations from private colleges in Puducherry, and Chennai," he says.
"After 18 years of fishing, I could build only three single rooms to house my family. However, within a year of starting my channel, I now earn more than what I used to earn in a year," he says proudly. For a fisherman, each day is different, he says cryptically, before adding: Sea has lots of secrets in it. All my growth and videos are the gift from sea.
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