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REFINERY AT RATNAGIRI, MAHARASHTRA Friends, those of you who are from Maharashtra must have come across news about the controversy, which is presently happening for the refinery at Dist Ratnagiri in Maharashtra. Now let us go through the brief history of this project. The project was originally proposed in 2015, when the BJP-Shiv Sena government…

SAME-SEX MARRIAGE Friends, you must have read in newspapers/social media about the Supreme Court (SC) hearing a petition filed by LGBTQIA+ members for legalizing same-sex marriages within the purview of the Special Marriage Act. This petition was filed in the SC sometime back, and at that time the court asked the government to file its…

Taking Care of Patient Suffering from Parkinson’s Disease Coping with Parkinson’s caregiving is not easy. Whether you are a family member or a trained professional, this can be challenging. Ideally, if you are a family member, you should start by educating yourself about the disease. Understanding the disease and the various ways it affects people…

PARKINSON’S DISEASE This disease mainly affects senior people. As with many other diseases, even Parkinson’s disease presents some symptoms early on. These are not so noticeable or commonly associated with this disease. Hence many people ignore them as they can not correlate with this disease. For example, even though tremors are known symptoms, they may…

In today’s weekend blog, I am continuing with the blog of last weekend about highest grossing Indian films of every year (this includes South Indian films dubbed in Hindi). 1986 Karma– a film directed by Subhash Ghai, starring Dilip Kumar, Anil Kapoor, Jackie Shroff, Naseeruddin Shah, and others. It did the business of Rs 14…

HOW TO REPORT ONLINE FRAUDS/CYBER CRIMES The more we use technology for convenience in our day-to-day lives, the more cautious we have to be. It appears scamsters find ingenious ways to deceive people. They target vulnerable groups like the illiterate, senior citizens, etc. Fraud happens in many ways, some of which can be as harmless…

A few news items which caught my eye today, and which I want to share with you are: 1 Tree-cutting controversy at Aarey for Mumbai Metro 3 project– This Metro project which is going on for the last 6 years has been delayed by a number of years. This is because of the location of…

SHARING GRIEF When someone known to us is in grief, we all feel for them and want to help them. They could be our family members, friends, or neighbours, and our intentions to help are genuine. Often, we struggle with what to do and how we can help them. Sometimes, we feel that they might…

The film business is a very tricky business, sometimes highly acclaimed film fails to generate a good box office collection, and there are times when the film highly panned by the critics become the highest-grossing film of that year. Here is the list of year wise highest grossing films: 1951 Awara– a film directed by…

Every year CANCER kills nearly 10 million people, and almost 70% of these fatalities are of people over 60 years. However, despite these grim numbers, scientists and doctors have made considerable progress over the years that has helped improve our chances of surviving cancer. As per experts, there are certain lifestyle changes that you can…