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Mint
2 hours ago
- Health
- Mint
‘You rarely see a panicking Russian': Surgeons continue critical surgery during 8.8 earthquake
A powerful 8.8 earthquake hit near Russia's Pacific coast on July 30. It caused tsunami warnings in Hawaii and along the U.S. West Coast. In Kamchatka, a Russian peninsula, doctors kept performing surgery during the quake. A video shows how doctors calmly handled the situation and continued the critical surgery without stopping. 'Doctors in Kamchatka kept calm during the powerful quake — and never stopped the surgery. They stayed with the patient until the end. The patient is doing well, according to the Health Ministry,' RT posted on Twitter (now X) while sharing the viral video. The earthquake, part of the Pacific Ring of Fire activity, caused 3–4 metre waves along Russia's eastern coast. Evacuations were ordered in several coastal areas. Social media users hailed the effort. One of them called the doctors 'brave dear people'. 'You rarely see a panicking Russian,' came from another. 'Imagine waking up from surgery and learning that you were just unconscious through the 6th largest earthquake in recorded history,' wrote a social media user. 'This is such a relief from the repetitive "Oh My God!" of Americans! Quick, reasonable action without a word,' wrote another who praised the calmness of the Russian doctors. Another wrote, 'Praying right now for the Russian people near the Tsunami. Praying also for all the other people in/near the vicinity of the Tsunami. May no one get hurt!' 'In the US they would have stopped the surgery. because there is no insurance code number for earthquakes,' commented another. After tsunami waves hit Hawaii and parts of the US West Coast, the alert level in Hawaii was lowered to a tsunami advisory. People in Oahu who had moved to higher ground were told they could return. However, Alaska, Oregon, Washington and parts of California still remain under tsunami advisories, according to the ABC News. A warning was in place for the coastline between Cape Mendocino and the Oregon border. Waves were seen in Monterey and San Francisco. According to officials, a tsunami warning means dangerous flooding and strong currents are expected. A tsunami watch means a tsunami might happen. Hawaii Governor Josh Green said no damage had been reported, but more waves could come. "So far, though, at the moment, so good," ABC News quoted Green as saying.
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First Post
6 hours ago
- Entertainment
- First Post
'Stree 2' actor Rajkummar Rao surrenders in a 2017 case, granted bail next day- Here's everything you need to know
The actor had to surrender in a case related to that film and was granted bail a day later. But what happened exactly? read more Back in 2017, actor Rajkummar Rao did a film called Behen Hogi Teri, which also starred Shruti Haasan. The actor had to surrender in a case related to that film and was granted bail a day later. But what happened exactly? If reports are to be believed, the actor landed in trouble for hurting the religious sentiments pertaining to a particular scene that caused a stir. To give everyone more clarity, a user wrote- 'In Behen Hogi Teri, he was dressed as Lord Shiva on the poster and someone filed a case for allegedly hurting religious sentiments in 2017. Now the judiciary will take years (already 8y.) to resolve the matter and it will continue to make headlines from time to time.' STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD A local Shiv Sena leader lodged a complaint at the Division No 5 police station. The scene related to Lord Shiva was also there in the film where the actor was on a bike. Before his surrender, he had secured anticipatory bail. Upon surrendering, Rajkummar submitted a response to the court, which subsequently granted him bail. There have been films like PK and Oh My God as well that have caused a stir for hurting religious sentiments in the past. Rajkummar Rao was the most successful star of 2024. For 2025, he has a film called Maalik coming up that releases in cinemas on July 11. There's Toasters with Sanya Malhotra as well which marks his and his wife and actress Patralekhaa's foray into production. This is a Netflix release. Now back to Maalik. In an exclusive interview with Firstpost, the actor spoke about the working hours on his film sets and how there cannot be any hierarchy. The industry has been weighing on the on-going discussion and debate ever since Deepika Padukone quit Sandeep Reddy Vanga's Spirit due to long working hours. Rao also spoke about giving the same food to his crew members and why there cannot be any hierarchy on his sets.
Time of India
18-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Gulshan Grover sheds ‘Bad Man' image in Heer Express: 'There's nothing villainous about this role'
is all set to boot in a fresh look in upcoming film, 'Heer Express'. Helmed by and scheduled to release on August 8, 2025, the film will have Grover in the role of a happy-go-lucky and emotionally stable dhaba owner -- a character that is poles apart from the dark roles that he has been known for. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Gulshan Grover says the role was a personal and creative challenge As reported by Moneycontrol, Grover shared that the opportunity came through his son Sanjay Grover, who serves as both producer and story writer of 'Heer Express,' and director Umesh Shukla, a close friend whose work he deeply admires. He explained that the role was pitched to him as a positive character that evokes laughter and tears, with no trace of villainy. Grover said he accepted the challenge for emotional reasons and found the experience both delightful and creatively fulfilling. According to Filmibeat, Grover described the role as a refreshing shift and said he was 'very happy and delighted' to play a character that brings joy to the world of 'Heer Express.' He added that working with his son and trusted collaborators made the experience even more meaningful. Heer Express promises a clean, feel-good cinematic experience As noted by Free Press Journal, the film follows Heer's journey to fulfill her mother's dream while navigating legacy and personal aspirations. Set in beautiful British sites, the tale combines family values, emotion, and comedy. It stars Divita Juneja and Pritt Kamani alongside experienced actors Ashutosh Rana, Sanjay Mishra, Meghna Malik, and Grover himself. With Grover, Rana, and Mishra trading funny comments and observations on growing on-screen characters, the trailer launch event underlined the saafsuthri, parivarik tone of the movie. Grover said that long-term success in the business depends on learning to adjust to shifting conditions. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Production team and creative vision 'Heer Express' is presented by Tulip Entertainment in association with Merry Go Round Studios and Creative Strokes Group. It is produced by Umesh Shukla, Ashish Wagh, Mohit Chhabra, and Sanjay Grover, and co-produced by Sampada Wagh. The film is helmed by Umesh Shukla, known for '102 Not Out' and 'Oh My God,' and is positioned as one of the year's most anticipated family releases.
Wales Online
09-07-2025
- Politics
- Wales Online
Awkward moment Eluned Morgan was asked to rate Keir Starmer
Awkward moment Eluned Morgan was asked to rate Keir Starmer 'Oh My God. That's a big question isn't it. It's tough' Eluned Morgan and Keir Starmer on stage at Welsh Labour conference (Image: Getty Images ) Wales' First Minister was asked to rank the performance of the UK Government. She was being interviewed by Sky News' political editor Beth Rigby as part of the Electoral Dysfunction podcast. In a videoed clip, the journalist asked her to score the UK Labour government's performance in its first year out of ten. The news channel had asked a Welsh focus group to rank the performance of Keir Starmer's administration out of ten. Before Beth Rigby told her the answer, she asked the First Minister what she would rank them, but she declined to answer. "Oh My God. That's a big question isn't it. It's tough. Oh My God. It's a difficult question and I'm not going to answer it because I'll get into all sorts of trouble if I do that," she said. She went on to say that Wales has benefitted from having a UK Labour Government. "That's really good news, I think there's lots of areas for them to improve on. We can all improve on what we do," she said. When she declined to score, she was asked what Welsh voters had scored the administration. The answer was 5.5. For our free daily briefing on the biggest issues facing the nation, sign up to the Wales Matters newsletter here "I think they think there's a lot of room for improvement, particularly on welfare reform and winter fuel. I am utterly relieved that they have changed their minds on those two things," said Eluned Morgan. Article continues below She admitted she was "absolutely cringing" at being asked the questions in the podcast. Labour is trailing in the polls ahead of the Senedd election in May 2026. Three consecutive polls have now shown Labour would come behind Reform UK and Plaid Cymru next year. Polling for Sky News released this week showed a better figure for Labour - at 23% - but still way behind Plaid Cymru and Reform UK. The poll, by More in Common for Sky News is the second to project Reform would be the biggest party in the Senedd. In terms of Senedd voting intention, the poll shows Reform in the lead with 28% of the vote, followed closely by Plaid Cymru, on 26%. Labour is third with 23%. The Conservatives would go from being the official opposition in the Senedd to having 10% of the vote. The polling, of 883 people carried out between June 18 and July 3, shows less than half (48%) of Labour's 2024 voters would back the party in a Senedd election if it were held today. Their largest losses for Labour are to Plaid Cymru (15%), followed by Reform(11%). However, a significant proportion of Labour's 2024 voters (13%) are undecided about how they would vote in a Senedd election. A YouGov/ITV Cymru Wales poll in May put Labour in third and Plaid top. A different poll, by Find Out Now, put Reform UK top. Article continues below
The Journal
05-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Journal
'It was genuinely all anyone could talk about' - When Oasis rocked Páirc Uí Chaoimh
IN AUGUST 1996, Oasis played two gigs at Cork's Páirc Uí Chaoimh. The Gallagher brothers – Liam and Noel – were at the apex of their fame. The tabloids followed their every move – including Liam's arrival with his then-girlfriend Patsy Kensit at Cork Airport. Thousands of fans travelled to Cork for the 40,000-capacity gigs on 14 and 15 August, which took place a few days after two combined 250,000-capacity gigs in Knebworth , England. It was Oasis's world in 1996, and the rest of us were just living in it. This coming August, the band – back together after a bitter split between the Gallaghers in 2009 – will play two gigs in Croke Park as part of a tour that kicked off last night in Cardiff. So what was it really like to have a ringside seat to those famous 1996 gigs? Oasis / YouTube In December 1994, Neil Harrison from the Beatles tribute band the Bootleg Beatles was performing at a gig when he noticed a man sitting on the stage. The stranger was 'conducting the audience' during the song Hey Jude. 'I thought - who's that?' Harrison tells The Journal . 'And then he appeared in the dressing room, and of course, it was Liam.'' A few hours later, Harrison was eating a curry with the frontman of Oasis and the band's guitarist Bonehead (Paul Arthurs). The Bootleg Beatles later got a call asking them to support Oasis, but turned it down because it was near Christmas. Two years later came another call: would they support the band at Earl's Court, London? In the intervening years, Oasis had become one of the biggest bands in the world. 'We went: 'let me just think about that for a millisecond',' laughs Harrison (who, in spite of his surname, played John Lennon in the tribute band lineup). That led to the group them joining a tour which saw Oasis play two gigs in Cork's Páirc Uí Chaoimh, a massive event in the country's second city. It was also a huge deal for the Bootleg Beatles, catapulting them out of small gigs and into stadiums. The band, which formed in 1980, are still going today – they will play two dates at the Ambassador Theatre in Dublin in September. 'We got a bit of a taste of Beatlemania,' says Harrison. 'God bless them, I'll say it forever: it was a very brave decision of theirs to do that and risk us, because it could have gone terribly wrong.' 'They were a phenomenon' That Oasis chose the Bootleg Beatles as one of their 1996 tour support acts – alongside the Prodigy – spoke to two things: that they wanted to do things their own way, and that they wanted to pay tribute to their favourite band. In 1996, just two years after the release of their debut album Definitely Maybe, they were so big they could do anything they wanted. 'Oasis were a phenomenon in the 1990s. At least one Gallagher was in the paper every single day,' says Sarah Breen, the co-author of the Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling series, who's still a massive fan to this day. 'It was front page news when Liam got a haircut – rightly so.' 'It was genuinely all anyone could talk about,' she says about the Cork gigs. 'They were ours' Prince and Michael Jackson had played Páirc Uí Chaoimh in the years before Oasis. But there was no one quite like these two brothers with Irish heritage (their grandparents are from Mayo), who were, as their granny might say, bold as brass. The Gallaghers' brazenness helped propel the Britpop 'Blur v Oasis' debates, and their sibling rivalry added another twist to their success. Plus, they had a certain frisky charm about them. Asked about their Irish roots by RTÉ in 1994, Noel said: 'I come over 'ere to indulge my love of Tayto, Silvermints and No. 6 cigarettes.' Flor Mac Carthy was a young journalist in RTÉ Cork when she was tasked to cover the gigs for the Six One News. We claimed them, the way we like to do. Really, between Oasis playing Páirc Uí Chaoimh and the really cool gigs [like Nick Cave] in Liss Ard Estate, it was as if the music spotlight had shifted to Cork. So we were a cool place. The excitement was such that Mac Carthy nearly ended up in a near-death situation. 'We knew they were going to arrive shortly in the limo, and all the crowds were inside,' she recalls of her night reporting on their first gig. 'And we thought, okay, here's what we'll do: as they slow down to go in through the gates, I'll have my microphone ready, and I'll just jump in front of the car and they'll have to stop.' 'Then [the cameraman and I] looked at each other and thought – maybe not!' laughs Mac Carthy. CR's Video Vaults / YouTube Speculation abounded about the band's activities in Cork. 'There was a rumour that the Oasis chopper was seen flying from Skibbereen to Glandore,' says Mac Carthy. She even ended up interviewing nuns who got into the gig for free. There was an attitude of 'anything goes' around. Advertisement 'There were hordes of teens with Beatles haircuts, because Cork really embraced the Beatlemania vibe of the Oasis haircuts,' she recalls. 'There was a fantastic atmosphere.' 'It was our Beatlemania' Sarah Breen Sarah Breen Alan White, now a primary school teacher, was a 13-year-old Oasis fan living in Cork who happened to share a name with the band's drummer. 'I took up the drums because of it,' he laughs. He went to the gig with his older sister and their uncle, and the experience became a benchmark for all the gigs he'd attend afterwards. He loved Oasis because 'they were like: 'We are the biggest band in the world, and we don't give a shite what anyone else thinks'. You don't really see that nowadays,' says White. 'It was basically our version of Beatlemania. Even though they probably whipped a lot of their melodies from the Beatles, but we didn't care,' jokes White. Pre-internet, it just felt like everybody was obsessed with them, and they were to be fair. He queued for hours to buy tickets: 'It was a Willy Wonka, golden ticket type job.' 'For years after, I was like, 'I was at that gig' – almost like 'where were you when JFK was shot?'.' Getting into the event was 'absolutely bananas', but once he got into the crowd the security person at the soundstage let him stand behind the railings on a platform. 'Are we gonna get rotten tomatoes?' White remembers, even at 13, noticing the disparity between the two support acts. 'It was a weird combination to be honest – Bootleg Beatles, the Prodigy and Oasis,' he says. This was something that worried the Bootleg Beatles too. 'Are we just gonna get rotten tomatoes coming flying? I didn't honestly know what the reaction was going to be… we were putting these wigs on and dressing up as the Beatles,' says Neil Harrison. But the audiences all seemed to take us to their hearts, which is great. Keith Flint, the frontman of the Prodigy, who had a somewhat unfounded reputation as a 'hard man', was even seen grooving to their set backstage. Oasis's reputation as rock n'roll hellraisers was well cemented by 1996. 'They were extremely respectful. They included us in everything,' says Harrison. 'Liam watched our whole set on the side of the stage. He loved it so much… I think they completely dug what we were doing.' What does he remember about Cork? 'We had a few jars. I remember the family being there, and sitting down and talking to them. That was quite interesting. They were just regular people. There was no airs and graces about them.' As for the Irish fans, he says: 'You know what the Irish are like. I mean, they go for it. The moment you start, they're up there, they're away.' Says Alan White: 'I remember everybody seemed to be wearing Docs. And circle glasses, like the John Lennon, Liam Gallagher glasses, bucket hats…. Literally everybody that was there was dolled up in Oasis gear. It was just cans everywhere.' 'I just remember the whole place bouncing. Literally the minute they started playing, it was just 'jump'.' 'Completely obsessed' Oasis / YouTube Sarah Breen was 'absolutely and completely obsessed with Oasis', and felt like she had won the lottery when she got the chance to go to Cork for the gig with her two cousins. 'I don't know why a culchie from Carlow connected so strongly with a group of working class lads from Manchester, but it was like a lightning strike,' she says. 'It was cool to like them in the early 90s and I was fully in love with Liam. I bought every single. Cut every picture out of the tabloids every day. Forced my friends with MTV to record every music video. I even wrote a letter to Peggy Gallagher explaining the situation. She was good enough to send me back a signed picture of her sons a few weeks later. One of Breen's favourite Oasis songs was Whatever, which never appeared on an album but was released as a single, and she used to sing along to the violin part at home. 'I thought I was the only one who did that. But when the song started in Páirc Uí Chaoimh, 40,000 other people sang the strings out loud. It was the first time I'd ever felt part of a community… and why I still love going to concerts 20 years later.' Breen's fandom hasn't waned, even if the band has gone through various trials over the years. 'When I was a teenager I spent a lot of time arguing with people about why Oasis were the best band in the world. Now that I'm a little bit older, I just say that they're the best band in my world,' says Breen. Breen has dreamed of another Oasis gig since the band split up. 'The anticipation of these gigs has made me burst into tears more than once,' she says. 'I've seen people suggest they're just doing this tour 'for the money'. Isn't that why any of us get up and go to work?' A year after the Cork gigs, the album Be Here Now was released. It marked the beginning of a downturn for Oasis, with critics feeling their musical gifts had started to wane. Eventually, after various ups and downs the band split amid fractious arguments between the Gallagher brothers. Says Alan White: 'Because I had been to that gig in Cork, I was almost loyal to them. I was like, I have to keep listening to them. I went to see them again in 2001. They were just riding that crest of a wave, just in their pomp in 1995, 1996, could do no wrong. I suppose that was never gonna last forever.' Breen says she was 'sort of in denial' about the band's issues – musical and personal. 'My love for Oasis didn't allow any room for criticism. I was too far gone. I can even feel myself getting defensive about it now,' she says. She's going to both Croke Park dates. 'Part of me is dreading August coming around because I don't want it to be over. At the risk of sounding melodramatic, what will I have to live for then?' This is a tour that fans have been waiting for for years. It's not just Oasis that people are waiting for – it's the reminder of a time that feels so different to today, a pre-social media time. It's a blast of nostalgia from a band that even today have a hold on the culture. Says White: 'I'd say they could probably play Baa Baa Black Sheep and people would still go mental for it.' Readers like you are keeping these stories free for everyone... A mix of advertising and supporting contributions helps keep paywalls away from valuable information like this article. Over 5,000 readers like you have already stepped up and support us with a monthly payment or a once-off donation. Learn More Support The Journal
