Love, sex and films drove searches online last year

 Love, sex and films drove searches online last year

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U.Sudhakarreddy@timesgroup.com

30.01.2022

Hyderabad: Search trend analysis on Google has revealed that people in Telangana looked up for love, sex and gold a lot in the second year of the pandemic.

While a cross the country, people se arched ‘sexy’ (in Hindi), netizens in Telangana looked up for ‘sex’ (in Telugu) in 2021, enough to take both words in the list of top Google searches. ‘Love’ also featured in Telangana’s top list.

However, pirated websites trumped all of the above searches. People in Telangana searched for film piracy websites for Tollywood releases. Most new Tollywood movies were leaked on these sites, which are p opular in other parts of the country too. “Piracy is a criminal offence and causes huge loss to the film industry. Small and medium budget films are the worst hit. Police and agencies concerned m ust keep it in check,” Tollywood fil m director N Shankar told TOI.

Trends indicate that in  Telangana, like the rest of India, there is a large consumption of video content.

Another top search in Telangana, rather unsurpr isingly, was ‘gold rate today’. While the country searched for ‘satta’ (gambling) to try and make some quick money, netizens in Telangana typed ‘matka’ in the search window a lot.

‘CoWin app’ and ‘Covid-19 vaccine’ were also the top queries from Telangana. Many in Telangana and across the country also looked for ‘cricket’.

Top searches are terms that are most frequently searched within the chosen region. Social media platforms were also popular searches.

 

CBSE urged to end suspense on results

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TIMES NEWS NETWORK

30.012022

New Delhi: Students of classes X and XII and their parents have urged Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to clear the air on term 1 results — whether they will be declared now or with term 2.

“There is a lot of anxiety among children about the result, as it was the first time they were appearing for a different kind of exam. Releasing the result at this stage will help them work towards the second term in a better manner,” said Amit Chaudhary, whose son studies in Class XII

Conflicting reports about the results date hasn’t helped. One such “circu-lar”, which talked of how students could access results, was termed “fake” by the board on Tuesday.

“Every day we keep reading on different platforms that results will be declared. It would have been best had CBSE come up with a schedule and stated when the results will be declared,” said Prashant, whose daughter is a Class XII student.

There are some students who feel results should be declared after the term 2 exam. “Should we be worried about our term 1 result or term 2 preparation? Our batch has already suffered enough,” Manish Jain, who studies in a private school, said.

HC denies custody of kids to mom because of legal battle

 HC denies custody of kids to mom because of legal battle

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30.01.2022

Chennai: A mother is the natural guardian of minor children unless proved unable to take good care of her child. But in a rare case, the Madras high court has denied such a natural right to a mother who chose to live with her ‘paramour’and‘harassed’ her husband who attempted to get her back to the family, reports Sureshkumar K.

“This court would wish to clarify that refusal to grant interim custody to the mother is not meant to be little her motherhood or slighting the umbilical relationship of the mother and her minor daughters. But what stood in the way was the apparent hysterical disposition manifested in her interminable acrimonious legal pursuit in the matter,” Justice V Parthiban said. Retrieving the estranged conjugal relationship appears to be not pragmatic in the circumstances of the case. But enragement on that account for whatever reasons, need not be nurtured or harboured and carried tothefuture,under mining the parentalbond,if she truly cares for the welfare of her minor daughters, the court added.

“The petitioner (mother) can think of taking professional advice and work towards a  mutually acceptable settlement, instead of playing the legal games of one-upmanship. The situation could still be reversed and salvaged. The ball is in her court and not in this court,” the judge said.

The issue pertains to a plea moved by the mother seeking permanent custody of her four-year-old twin daughters. Since her husband was employed in the US, the twins were born there and obtained US citizenship.

In 2013, when they came back to India, she joined a law school in Chennai to pursue a law degree. Subsequently, she developed a relationship with her college mate who was the son of an influential political leader of the then ruling party. 

At one point of time, she separated from her husband and started living with her boyfriend. As the attempts made by the husband to reunite her with the family went in vain, he moved the family court for divorce. Estranged, she filed multiple litigations against the husband including the present plea for custody of the children. However, the court permitted the mother to contact her daughters through video call during weekends.

Sexual offence not personal in nature: HC

 Sexual offence not personal in nature: HC

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30.01.2022

New Delhi: Delhi High Court has refused to quash an FIR against a man accused of stalking, sexual harassment and circulating morphed pictures of a girl in spite of a settlement between the parties, saying that the offences are not personal in nature but affected the society and are a serious assault on the girl's fundamental right to live with dignity.

Justice Mukta Gupta noted that the circulation of the girl's morphed photographs on an online platform resulted in several people asking for “illegal favours” from her on payment of money and that the FIR cannot be quashed merely on the ground showing repentance.

The judge said that considering the nature of the allegations, it was not a fit case for quashing the FIR on the basis of a compromise.

“Considering the fact that the petitioner not only used to stop, harass, stalk and threaten the complainant but also circulated her morphed photographs on V-Chat, resulting in number of people visiting her place asking about illegal favours from her on payment of money, the alleged offences committed by the petitioner against the complainant cannot be said to be a personal dispute not affecting the society at all,” the court said in its recent order.

“The nature of offence committed by the petitioner against the complainant cannot be quashed merely on the ground that the petitioner now shows repentance as the offence committed is a serious assault on the fundamental right to live with dignity of the complainant,” it added.

The FIR in the present case was filed for the alleged commission of offences under sections 354A (sexual harass- ment)/354D (stalking) /341 (wrongful restraint)/506 (criminal intimidation)/507 (criminal intimidation by anonymous communication)/509 (Word, gesture or act intended to insult the mo- destyof awoman)of theIndian PenalCode. The complainant alleged in the FIR that thepetitioner was a fellow student in her coaching centre who followed her and “offered her friendship” which she refused.

The petitioner then started pressuring her to become friends with him which subsequently lead to her leaving the coaching centre.

It was claimed that even when the complainant began working as a mehendi artist, the petitioner used to stop her on the way to work and thus her mother spoke to the petitioner's parents who assured that no such incident would take place in future.

The FIR further alleged that after 15 days of the complainant's marriage, the petitioner called from an unknown number and told her husband that the complainant was not a good girl and he should leave her.

PTI

No respite: Bhopal shivers at 5°C for 5th day in a row

 No respite: Bhopal shivers at 5°C for 5th day in a row

Winter Onslaught Continues, Panchmarhi Ice Cold at 0°

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TIMES NEWS NETWORK

30.01.2022

Bhopal: For the first time in many years, the state capital has witnessed a severe cold wave with temperature consistently hovering around 5 degrees Celsius for five days. Mercury dropped to zero degrees in Pachmarhi.

Met officials said, there is no system or moisture incursion in the state, but the state would face the impact of western disturbance around February 2. A few places may also witness light rain due to this impact.

Day temperature in Bhopal on Saturday was recorded at 25. 4 degrees Celsius, a degree less than normal mark, while night tempera-ture in the city was 5. 6 degrees Celsius, six degrees less than normal mark. Wind direction in the city was north westerly and average wind speed was 12 kilometres per hour. Lowest temperature in the state in plains was recorded at 3 degrees Celsius in Naogaon and Umaria while hill station Pachmarhi shivered at 0. 4 degree Celsius.

Severe cold wave was witnessed at Khandwa, Raisen while cold wave was in Bhopal, Betul, Gwalior, Guna, Khargone, Ratlam, Chhindwara, Jabalpur Khajuraho, Mandla, Naogaon, Rewa, Umaria, Pachmarhi and Malanjkhand. Many places in the state had severe cold day and cold day.

In the forecast for Bhopal on Sunday the meteorological officials said, day and night temperature in the city would be 23 degrees Celsius and 8 degrees Celsius, respectively, while average wind speed will be14 kmph.

Met has issued a warning of cold wave in many places.

 WOMEN UNDER ATTACK

37-year-old dentist raped on marriage lure

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TIMES N EWS N ETWORK

30.01.2022

Bhopal: A 33-year-old fruit vendor was booked for allegedly raping a 37-year-old dentist on the promise of marriage. The dentist who married to a Patna based man separated from her husband a year after their marriage.

The woman alleged that she has been living in the city with her son at her parent’s place and the accused was raping her for the last three years. When the woman pressured him to marry her, the accused refused and left abusing her. Subsequently, the woman reported the matter to Jehangirabad police. Acting on her complaint police registered a rape case against the accused on Friday and started investigations.

Investigation officer SI Riddhi Sharma said that the survivor, is a dentist but does not practice. In 2017 she came in contact with accused Mohammed Javed, 33, who is a fruit vendor in Jehangirabad.

The accused lured her in his trap and befriended her. In 2018, he called her to meet at his place in Jehangirabad saying that he loved her and would take care of her son. When she went to meet him, the accused raped her on the promise of marriage and repeatedly raped her since then.

After protests, SBI withdraws circular delaying joining of pregnant women

 After protests, SBI withdraws circular delaying joining of pregnant women

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TIMES NEWS NETWORK

30.01.2022

Mumbai: State Bank of India has said that it has decided to keep its revised instructions, regarding joining letters forpregnant women candidates, in abeyance. This follows protests from politicians, women’s rights bodies and a general outcry in social media over the bank’s circular restricting granting of joining letters to women candidates who are over three months’ pregnant. 

 Swati Maliwal,chairperson, Delhi Commission for Women, taking suo moto cognizance of reports on the new guidelines, issued a notice to the chairman of State Bank of India against  its December 31 circular, which said that women who were over three months’ pregnant would be considered temporarily unfit and would not be given immediate joining before delivery. 

On Saturday, Shiv Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi wrote to Nirmala Sitharaman and the SBI chairman, urging them to recall the revised guidelines. She pointed out that the extant guidelines that were brought forward in 2009 allowed the appointment of candidates up to six months of pregnancy but have now been revised. She highlighted the broader issue of the drop in female participation in the workforce. “Such regressive and sexist guidelines will exacerbate the exclusion of women and inequality faced by them,” she said.

“SBI has recently reviewed the various fitness standards for recruitment in the bank, including norms for pregnant women candidates. The revised guidelines were intended to provide clarity on various health parameters where instructions were not clear or were very old,” the bank said. It added that in some sections of the media, the revision in norms in this regard has been interpreted as discriminatory against women.

“SBI has always been proactive towards the care and empowerment of its women employees who now constitute around 25% of our workforce. During the COVID period, as per government instructions, pregnant women employees were exempted from attending office and allowed to work from home,” the bank said.