The Mask Unmasked
Some things are more contagious than the coronavirus. Like not wearing a mask in public. Here바카라s the deal. Anyone caught without adequate facial covering would be fined Rs 5,000 in Una district, Himachal Pradesh. That바카라s too stiff a penalty to escape a debate in the state assembly. Congress leader Mukesh Agnihotri demanded the amount slashed. To this, party colleague Harshwardhan Chauhan asked the speaker to punish CM Jai Ram Thakur for not wearing a mask in the assembly. Speaker Vipin Singh Parmar was all ears without a mask and Chauhan, for his part, had pulled his cover down to the chin to speak바카라a fault that didn바카라t escape the assembly바카라s eyes. Laughter echoed inside the Vidhan Sabha.
The Zoo Zoom
Chimps at two Czech zoos are providing a moment of levity to a pandemic- and Zoom-fatigued world. They are in fact starting to enjoy their new live online linkup. To make up for the lack of interaction with visitors because of COVID-19 restrictions, the chimpanzees at Safari Park Dvur Kralove and the troop at a zoo in Brno, 150 km away, now watch one another바카라s daily lives on giant screens. The sound is off, but there has been plenty of interest in what the distant cousins are up to. When they see tense situations, it gets them up off the couch바카라like humans watching live sport. The chimpanzees have also adopted other human behaviours such as grabbing nuts to chew on while watching the action.
In His Jeans
Uttarakhand CM Tirath Singh Rawat바카라s verbal missteps could fill a blooper reel of gaffes. He tripped over 바카라ripped jeans바카라바카라when he asked how women wearing torn denim could uphold culture. He lost a step when he said people should have produced more children to get extra pandemic ration. 바카라Those having 10 children got 50 kg (every household was given 5 kg of ration per member). Those with 20 got a quintal바카라Now you are jealous. When there was time, you produced only two. Why didn바카라t you produce 20?바카라 he asked. He fumbled again when he confused Britain with the US, saying America ruled India for over 200 years. Before that, oh my! 바카라Just like Lord Ram had done good work and people started considering him as god, in future, the same thing will happen with our beloved PM,바카라 he said. The way words are tripping him up, he could have a foot permanently in his mouth.
Fastest Rodeo Jockey
He is the real bolt from the blue of Kambala, the buffalo rodeo race in Karnataka. He is Srinivas Gowda, who last year ran faster than Usain Bolt바카라at 9.58 seconds, the current land record holder in the 100 metres. Gowda ran the distance in 9.55 seconds, but a rival broke his record some time later. Gowda set it right this year, covering 125 metres at Venoor-Permuda in 11.21 seconds. By calculating the speed and distance, officials concluded that he covered 100 metres in 8.96 seconds. For the record, unlike polyurethane surfaces and spiked shoes at international track and field, Kambala makes the sprinters, or jockeys, run off their bare feet as they sprint alongside two angry bulls on a slushy paddy field.
Death By Safari
Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam바카라the world is one family. But corralling an extended family, with members picked from the Andes to Australia, in one place by the sea in Gujarat is relatively hazardous. The state assembly was told that 46 of 149 animals and birds brought to the Jungle Safari near the Statue of Unity in Kevadia have died in two years. Two alpacas, two llamas and a wallaby were among the dead foreign imports. The remaining 41 casualties바카라including a marmoset, a ring-tail lemur and 39 birds of varied species such as the Lady Amherst바카라s Pheasant and the Conure and Macaw parrots바카라were sourced from other states. The Rs 5.39-crore Jungle Safari is officially known as the Sardar Patel Zoological Park swaddling 375 acres.
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Illustrations: Saahil, Text curated by Alka Gupta
