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Elon Musk reacts as 'childless cat lady' Taylor Swift supports Kamala Harris: 'I will give you a child'
Elon Musk, who welcomed his twelfth child in June, has been a vocal advocate for people producing more babies while Taylor Swift identified herself as a 'childless cat lady' -- a reference to comments made by Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance in 2021 about 'childless cat ladies' running the country.
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Bengaluru's Brookfield Layout residents pool in Rs 4 lakh to restore dug-up road with help from Bescom
The entire project was estimated to be worth Rs 5.07 lakh. Bescom paid Rs 1.5 lakh while the residents crowd funded the rest. 'The quality of life matters a lot to the thousand-odd families that stay in the neighbourhood,' said Siddharth, the top contributor.
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Anupam Mittal is 'blown away' by good roads in Rajasthan: 'Mumbai waalon ne kya paap kiya?'
Even filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri joined ranks with Anupam Mittal and trolled BMC for its 'innovative' footpath designs and poor quality roads. Last week, he shared a news story on how Mumbai residents began to perform pothole pujas in a unique protest against bad roads. 'It's so bad that it's funny,' Agnihotri had said.
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AC switched off, felt suffocated: Tejas Express passenger after train gets stuck in flooded Vadodara
Passenger Prithwiraj Mukherjee also accused the Railways of giving preferential treatment to Vande Bharat since it was allowed to ply on flooded tracks to reach Ahmedabad, but as Railway Seva pointed out, Vande Bharat can run in deep waters measuring more than 200 mm without having the water reach it's electrical equipment -- a feature that Tejas Express does not have.
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Flipkart customer claims he bought speakers for Rs 30,000, received one worth Rs 2,300
Abhishek Bhatnagar also shared an unboxing video that showed a properly packed Sonos speaker box inside the sealed Flipkart carton. The clip, however, does not show the Flipkart customer, opening the Sonos box.
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Bengaluru army officer 'disciplines' traffic violator with a stick. Internet finds it 'satisfying'. Watch
During an altercation between a driver and a scooter rider who was driving in the wrong side, an officer steps out of an armed forces truck stationed nearby and intervenes. He smacks the motorist on the head for breaking traffic rules and appears to tell him off.
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Nikhil Kamath goes on a mushroom walk in Bengaluru's Cubbon Park. See post
According to entrepreneur Aymen Aslam, who had also participated in the walk and had spotted the Zerodha co-founder, Nikhil Kamath 'came in alone. Super nonchalant.'
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'Health-illiterate boomer uncle': Liver Doc, Sridhar Vembu clash over benefits of walking barefoot
The public spat between hepatologist Dr Cyriac Abby Philips and Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu continued across multiple posts on X. While the doctor called Vembu a 'science illiterate', Vembu hit back, calling Dr Philips 'arrogant' and urged his followers to stay away from such doctors.
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Indigo loses flyer's bag with items worth Rs 45,000, offers him Rs 2,450 as compensation
The incident happened in July when a faulty update from CrowdStrike caused a global IT outage and Indigo offered the compensation a month later.
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Liver Doc shares how 39-year-old heavy drinker vomited 3 litres blood, died of multiple organ failure
The patient was rich and was apparently loved by all because he would host monthly parties at his place where he was the 'biggest entertainment' for his cousins and friends since he could drink the maximum amount of liquor.
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Bengaluru entrepreneur says he was almost killed by a water tanker: 'India is not a safe country'
After an altercation over rash driving, AI-based startup founder Dhruv Bhatia said he suddenly noticed the tanker being driven straight towards him off the road.
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Bengaluru YouTuber goes to buy Harvard merch in US, finds Rs 12,000 jacket 'Made in Pakistan'
Content creator Ishan Sharma added that his visit to Harvard University was 'epic'. He added that it was a dream college for him as a 17-year-old watching documentaries and films such as 'The Social Network'.
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Bengaluru lawyer outraged by Indigo's Rs 50 'cute charge': 'Do you charge users for being cute?'
Addressing a note to Indigo, advocate Shrayansh Singh commented that 'space has been commodified to its extreme by airlines' since passengers are also made to pay extra for their seat choices.
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Cockroaches found in dal served on Vande Bharat. 'My 80-year-old father ate the food': Mumbai man
'When we went to the pantry car to complain, we saw that the food was being prepared right next to the dustbin and there were live cockroaches crawling around,' Mumbai-based businessman Rikki Jeswani, who was returning from Shirdi with his family on the Vande Bharat train, told Moneycontrol.
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Airline travel can make you sick, says doctor. 'Seats, tray tables harbour all sorts of bacteria, viruses'
'Quick turnaround between flights often means that deep cleaning is not possible, and seats may only receive a cursory cleaning,' Dr Sudipta said. 'Fabric seats, in particular, can trap and retain moisture, making them more prone to harboring bacteria and viruses. Back and headrests can be exposed to a person’s sweat, particularly after boarding in hot climates.'
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Temple flower seller forced to buy iPhone for son after he goes on 3-day hunger strike. Watch
'I sell flowers outside a temple and I gave him the money to buy the phone because he did not eat anything for three days,' the woman said in the video as the son stood smiling by her side holding a fat wad of cash.
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Kolkata doctor rape-murder: 'Left kitchen to join protests for our daughters' safety,' say mothers
Shimuli, mother to an eight-year-old, hoped her daughter learned solidarity while accompanying her in the protests. 'She has been seeing such incidents happen frequently. It's unfortunate that she was brought into a society like this but the sooner she realises the strength of expressing solidarity, the better,' she said.
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Shark Tank India's Anupam Mittal says Starbucks desserts are 'more toxic than tobacco companies'
The Shaadi.com owner's comments said that Strabucks's continued value erosion is inevitable. Mittal's comments were made after the coffee chain replaced its Indian-origin CEO Laxman Narasimhan with Chipotle CEO Brian Niccol on August 13.
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'Fraud by Amazon': Kolkata man buys Rs 31,500 Tissot watch as gift for uncle, gets a used one
The customer, an investor and IIT Kharagpur alumnus, said that when he complained to Amazon, he was sent a replacement which turned out to be a Tissot watch in an Armani box. 'This is completed harassment by Amazon,' he said,
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Kolkata doctor rape & murder: Women 'reclaim the night' as thousands march for justice amid rain
'This protest is something (the likes of which) Kolkata has never seen before' said actor Sreelekha Mitra. 'We should keep the government under pressure so that everything is done systematically and justice is served'.
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Chaos at Delhi airport: Flyers made to wait 3-4 hours for security check-in. 'Saw this myself,' says Radhika Gupta'
While the Delhi airport is yet to release a statement on the current situation, responding to complaints on social media, the former CEO of Jet Airways, Sanjiv Kapoor, said he believes that airports are doing the best they can.
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Bengaluru founder defends Cognizant's Rs 2.5 LPA job offer: 'Quality of freshers is often so bad...'
Vatsal Sanghvi is not alone to think that Cognizant isn't in the wrong. San Francisco-based venture capitalist and influencer Debarghya Das said that if job seekers were unhappy with the salary the company is offering, they can simply move on.
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Bengaluru CEO shares job ad of momo stall offering Rs 3 LPA, while Cognizant settled for Rs 2.5 LPA
Cognizant is currently led by the highest-paid CEO in the country, Ravi Kumar Singisetti. According to reports, he received $22.56 million (about Rs 186 crore) in compensation in 2023.
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Bengaluru YouTuber gets a free upgrade at 5-star hotel in US after viral post on poor hospitality
Responding to Ishan Sharma's post, authorities of five-star hotel Caesar's Palace replied: 'We’re excited to have you at our resort! We appreciate you taking the time to reach out. Feel free to message us if anything else is needed. We hope you have a great rest of your time in Las Vegas.'
