“Curiosity rover has taken its last selfie on the Vera Rubin Ridge and descended toward a clay region of Mount Sharp. The twisting ridge on Mars has been the rover’s home for more than a year, providing scientists with new samples and new questions to puzzle over,” NASA said in[Read More…]
Tag: Selfie
Unique attendance rule for UP doctors, to mark presence with selfies with patients
To fight problems of absent personnel at health centers and to ensure that doctors arrive on time for duty every day, health department has come up with a unique idea where doctors on duty at 15 community health centers (CHC) and 43 public health centres (PHC) have to send selfies with[Read More…]
Selfie Trends: Govt institutions adopt selfie vogue to mark teachers’, doctors’ attendance
Expanding its usage, selfie trends has crept into many government sectors including hospitals, schools in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. After a school in Uttar Pradesh, now doctors in Munger district of Bihar have also been asked to submit their selfie to mark attendance. Making the best use of technology in[Read More…]
Using mobile phones while driving claimed 2,138 lives in 2016: Report
The use of mobile phones while driving has claimed around 2,138 lives in 2016. Uttar Pradesh has topped the list with most number of deaths followed by Haryana. Maharashtra saw 172 deaths owing to the same reason while Delhi reported only two. As per the report released by transport ministry,[Read More…]
Ghaziabad: 8-year old shoots himself while trying to click selfie
Selfie deaths are not an uncommon phenomenon in the country. In a recent incident, an eight-year-old boy accidentally shot himself in the head while clicking a selfie, in Ghaziabad. Junaid, the victim, and some of his friends were taking a selfie while holding a gun, when the child accidentally pulled[Read More…]
Assam: Rs 10,000 fine for clicking selfie on Brahmaputra bridge
If you stop your vehicle on the twin Saraighat Bridge on the Brahmaputra in Guwahati and caught taking a selfie on your phone, you will be fined a penalty of Rs 10,000 in addition to other punitive action as per the law, the Kamrup (Metropolitan) district administration warned here on[Read More…]
R Madhavan’s selfie is setting the internet on fire
The Instagram post of actor R Madhavan has got women drooling over his picture on Saturday. His selfie has taken the internet by storm. This is what the actor had captioned it- “Morning light post a shower.. feeling fresh after a good long nights sleep.. after the long travels …”.[Read More…]
Farmer charges money for taking selfie with his sunflowers
The obsessive compulsive desire to take photos of one’s self and post them on social media– selfie, turned out to be a trend, too serious. And monetising this wave of the trend was long prophesied! An astute farmer from Chamarajanagar district decided to turn his scenic sunflower field along NH[Read More…]
Alarmingly escalating rate of ‘selficide’ in India
Riya, an 18-year-old Delhi University student, isn’t the first case that has been referred to AIIMS department of psychiatry, suspected of suffering from ‘selficide’. In the last few months, there have been at least two other cases in AIIMS and three in Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, who were suffering from[Read More…]
Deadly selfie: Man dies after falling into dam while taking picture
A 20-year-old man met a tragic end after falling into a dam in Maharashtra’s Beed district while taking a selfie. Sheikh had gone to the Bindusarai dam in the afternoon with his friends. While clicking a selfie along the edge of the dam, Gazik Sheikh and his friend Akhtar Sheikh,[Read More…]