North Kolkata Calling !!

Who have not heard about the rock star Elvis Presley ? Another world shivering name was Frank Sinatra whose voice mesmerized us during the 60s. There was a time when they stayed at the iconic  Hawaii resort known as Coco Palms Resort. The resort opened in 1953. It became quite popular among Hollywood community. Many movies including Presley's musical romcom 'Blue Hawaii's were filmed there. Many consider it to be a historical place. In 1992 most of it was destroyed by Hurricane Iniki !

He is just a 12 year old boy and like others he too is attached to his phone.  His mother - a teacher in Chattattisgarh's Kanker district was usually a busy lady. She found her son too occupied with a phone which is nothing unusual. We could see almost in every house such sights and behaviours. Finally the teacher came to know about the cyber crime to which her son unknowingly  became  a victim. The boy made 278 transactions over a period of three months.The mother was completely in  the the darkness as no OTP was asked for the debits. Rs 3.2 lakhs went from her A/c for buying weapons for an online battle game !  According to police there were two other  boys who too bought weapons worth few  lakhs  !  

Is it possible to rape a person in her dream ? A woman in Aurangabad accused an occultist of doing such a deed. In fact the woman went over to the Town police station and reported to the SHO Anjani Kumar of her ordeal.   According to her there has been occasions when she was repeatedly raped by Chaturvedi in dream. She went to him for her son who was ailing.  He suggested her to recite Mantras and perform certain rituals. This will help her son to recover. Unfortunately the Mantras and rituals failed to perform and her son expired. The occultist then started harassing her by doing such ill deeds in her dream- complained the woman.

We have all heard of Jim Corbett -the world famous British hunter, tracker, naturalist and author. In the Jhirna range (India)  a large area of forest has been   named after him. The area is known as Corbett Tiger Reserve. On Sunday an unexpected guest was viewed through the camera trap. At first a group of forest staff thought they suddenly saw a brilliant white plumaged bird. It flew very quickly out off their sight. The next day they found in their trapped camera - a lone white peafowl- never seen in their reserve in  its 85 year history !

A Parsi businessman, finding the girl unique in  academic, told her father about it. The girl dreamt of becoming a doctor as she was well aware of her calibre. Unfortunately she got married at the tender age of 20 and was unable to fulfill her ambition. After five decades later when she was around 67 years old she finally did it. She (Usha Lodaya) passed her viva for PhD. It took nearly 50 years to fulfill a dream - a dream that she cherished from her teenage days !

The world's 3rd largest diamond was recently uncovered in Botswana. It is a 1,098 carat diamond and it was unearthed by a joint venture between the Government and Anglo Am- erican's De Beers.  

While buying medicines prescribed by doctors we  usually carry  our money bags. Knowing fully well that that will be sufficient for the purpose.  Never do we expect to over strech the limit.Even if we have to face such a situation -well it might come to a few more rupees .    Hence if we hear of certain drug priced Sixteen Crore  Rupees per dose we should feel ourselves completely bowled out. Two Indian kids -one from Bengaluru and the other Hyderabad received such injections for a rare genetic disease.  They were loosing their nerve cells in their spinal cords !

Uttarakhand High Court's observations regarding the spreading of virous from Kumbh in Haridwar has much importance. The pilgrims took along the virous to whichever State they came from. The Chief Justice further observes that the same mistake should never happen at the Char Dhams ! Let us keep our fingers crossed !!

   We often play various games just to get rid of boringness. One among them is an indoor game popularly known as Ludo. We know that it is a game of luck and the kids specially enjoys these kind of games.       We elders along with a kid (5yrs) usually play Ludo just for time pass. Surprisingly the kid always seems to win the game. It once passed through our mind whether she has some special inborn skill.      In 'Mahabharata' too we have seen Shakuni's skill in the game of dice. Hence is it sheer luck ?       In this respect Bombay High Court is to decide since a Mumbai politician sort an FIR under Pre- vention of Gambling Act against a company that operates  online Ludo where money is involved.

US President believes firmly that the Virus was  a creation from Chinese lab ! Dr Anthony Fauci an expert from US infectious disease wants China to reveal the medical report of the nine men who were probably infected and were in the lab. That  might lead to the findings whether Covid-19's first emergence was from a lab leak.   If China could be held responsible then -according to the US - it should be liable to pay $10tn as penalty !