Bollywood stars get municipal notice over dengue

September 26, 2015

Mumbai, Sep 26: In an aggressive attack on dengue, the Brihan Mumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has slapped notice or initiated legal action against film stars and celebrities as well as commoners with equal zeal, officials said on Thursday.

juhi chavlaIn the past nine months, the BMC has served notice to 13,587 people and initated 866 legal cases against them for ignoring civic warnings and allowing mosquitoes to breed in their homes or neighbour hood. "Of all the dengue victims, in 80 percent of the cases, the Aedes Aegypti mosquito, which is responsible for spreading dengue, has been found in the homes or in the immediate vicinity. Besides, in 70 percent of the cases, mosquito breeding sites have been discovered in posh areas like Malabar Hill, Juhu etc.," an official said.

In an effort to control the dangers of dengue, the BMC has now served notice to film stars Anil Kapoor, Juhi Chawla, Jeetendra Kapoor and singer Amit Kumar. Officials said breeding sites in plastic sheets, decorative mud pots and other odd articles were found in the homes and in the vicinity of the homes of these four Bollywood personalities.

The homes of other prominent personalities like Amitabh Bachchan (four bungalows), Ranjeet, Mahesh Bhatt, Shilpa Shetty and Shabana Azmi were also surveyed but no mosquito breeding sites were found there.These dengue and malaria breedings sites were among the whopping 5,611 breeding sites which came to light in a survey of 6.27 million homes in the city in the past nine months.

The BMC has also imposed and collected penalties of Rs.2.33 million. In September alone, as many as 1,953 breeding sites were discovered and destroyed, of which 1,773 were in buildings in posh localities and just 180 were in slums.

As per BMC data, this year, there were three deaths due to dengue and another 469 confirmed cases, while last year there were 860 cases and 12 deaths.The BMC has taken up regular fogging, removing stagnant water collected in low-lying areas, pesticides and other measures to control the mosquito menace and urged the public to take precautions.

It has repeated its earlier warnings that dengue mosquitoes thrive in clean accumulated water and urged people to change such water in drums, tanks etc. every week, and wipe all utensils with clean cloth.

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March 5,2020

New Delhi, Mar 5: Urging netizens to adopt traditional salutation styles like 'namaste' and 'salaam' to greet everyone in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, megastar Salman Khan on Thursday shared a picture from his workout session.

Flaunting his perfectly chiselled body, the 'Sultan' actor shared a picture of himself sitting on a pull-down machine with folded hands as a mark of Indian tradition 'namaste'.

"Namashkaar ... hamari sabhyata mein namaste aur salaam hai! Jab #coronavirus Khatam ho jaye tab Haath milao aur gale lago...." he captioned the picture.

Khan recently touched the mark of 30 million followers on Instagram on Saturday and shared a short video on the platform thanking his fans for it.

In the video, he first thanked fans with folded hands and then a salute.

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March 26,2020

Washington, Mar 26: American media personality Kylie Jenner has donated 1 million USD to fight against the COVID-19 outbreak.
Dr Thais Aliabadi shared the same in an Instagram post on Wednesday, "One of my patients, a beautiful Living Angel just donated $1,000,000 to help us buy hundreds of thousands of masks, face shields, and other protective gear which we will have delivered directly to our first responders, as too many masks at hospitals are disappearing before making their way onto the faces of our front line heroes."

According to Page Six, a representative for Jenner confirmed that the 22-year-old star has made the contribution, and said, "I can confirm that she did make the donation."
Now, thanks to Jenner's generosity, Aliabadi will be able to disperse the hundreds of thousands of various necessary essentials needed to combat the dissemination of COVID-19.
The doctor issued huge gratitude and thanks to the Kylie Cosmetics founder and said that she has "never felt more blessed to be a doctor."
Dr Aliabadi was on-hand to deliver Jenner's daughter, Stormi, according to TMZ.
Kylie reciprocated the doctor's kind words by replying to Dr Aliabadi's thank-you post, she wrote, "I love you! and thank YOU for all the love and care you put into everything that you do! You're an angel on earth."
Last Week, Jenner pleaded in an Instagram post, "The coronavirus is a real thing, "I listened to the Surgeon General this morning... he definitely encouraged me to come on here and talk to you guys."

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May 24,2020

Los Angeles, May 24: Filmmaker Frank Marshall, one of the producers behind Jurassic World: Dominion, says the forthcoming film is not a conclusion of the franchise.

Colin Trevorrow, who rebooted Steven Spielberg's blockbuster Jurassic Park franchise with 2015's Jurassic World, is back on the director's chair after sitting out on second movie Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018).

Asked about the upcoming movie, Marshall told Collider: "It's the start of a new era."

Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard are coming back for the third film, which will also feature original stars of 1993's Jurassic Park -- Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum and Sam Neill.

The producer also revealed how he sees the film franchise extending into the future.

"The dinosaurs are now on the mainland amongst us, and they will be for quite some time, I hope," Marshall said.

The film was three weeks into production when it was shut down over coronavirus concerns, but the producer said the team has the sets built in London and will be "back in business" once they have guidelines from the British government.

Dominion is still slated to be released on its scheduled date of June 11, 2021.

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