DailyOh! PM chairs crucial meet on J&K, a Strawberry Moon in the sky tonight
NASA promises a pink moon tonight!
It was a politically charged Thursday as the Prime Minister held an all-party meeting to discuss the prevailing situation in Jammu and Kashmir. The meeting also sought to chalk the future course of action for the union territory. 14 political leaders from the UT participated in the meet at the PM's residence.
Former Deputy Chief Minister Kavinder Gupta told India Today that the Prime Minister has assured that the election process will be started soon after delimitation. Home Minister Amit Shah, who was also at the meet, has assured full statehood in due process.
Further, the subject of Article 370 was also brought up. However, the government said that the matter is sub-judice and cannot be discussed. The meet today is the first such political exercise since August 5, 2019, when Article 370 was abrogated.
#Verified: Kavinder gupta, BJP: Article 370 was brought up but the govt said the matter is subjudice and cannot be discussed. Pm assured election process to be started soon after delimitation. Amit shah assured full statehood in due process.
— Shuja ul haq (@ShujaUH) June 24, 2021
The BJP-led government is trying to be all-inclusive in their decision making in Jammu and Kashmir, but the situation in West Bengal spelt a different story altogether.
There is a virus and you need a sanitiser to get rid of it. While this sounds perfectly acceptable in the case of getting rid of the Coronavirus, the TMC workers in Bengal have gone a step further.
After the TMC workers who had joined BJP ahead of the Assembly polls and now are seeking to come back to the TMC, there have been all kinds of ghar-wapsi drives. The latest: 150 BJP workers who joined the Trinamool Congress in the Ilambazar block of Birbhum were ‘cleansed of the BJP virus’ with sanitiser.
Earlier, around 200 BJP workers joined the TMC in Hooghly district after shaving off their heads and sprinkling Gangajal to atone themselves.
Now coming to the real virus.
Scientists have found signs of inflammation and neurodegeneration in the brains of individuals who died of Covid-19. This kind of brain damage is similar to what is observed in people who die of conditions such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson's disease.
But what exactly is neurodegeneration? Our Word Of The Day “means any pathological condition in which the nervous system or nerve cell (i.e. neuron) loses its function, structure, or both.” The word is a combination of neuro and degeneration. The word neuro comes from the Greek word neuron that translates to “nerve” or “sinew” or “tendon”. Degeneration comes from the late 15th-century Latin word degeneratus that translates to “no longer of its kind”.
A virus slayer hanged himself to death yesterday in a Barcelona jail.
If you are reading this on your laptop or desktop, you most probably have the small red-coloured icon at the bottom right side corner of your screen for the McAfee antivirus software. The man who hanged himself is the pioneer of this anti-virus software, introducing his eponymous program in the 1980s.
US technology entrepreneur John McAfee took the extreme step of suicide after the Spanish high court authorised his extradition to the United States on tax evasion charges, his lawyer told Reuters.
The story of the 75-year-old McAfee is a classic case of rags-to-riches-to-rags. He started out as an extremely poor son of an alcoholic father who couldn’t provide for him. John McAfee was a self-taught entrepreneur, learning from the odd jobs he did for survival.
As a youth, he began working at a company that coded punch-card systems in the late 1960s and that is how he taught himself the basics of early computing. Using this information, he landed a job at Missouri Pacific Railroad, where he helped the company use a new-fangled IBM computer system to help calibrate train schedules.
He founded the McAfee Associates, the software company, in 1987 in his small house in California. It was in response to the news of a Pakistani computer virus called “Brain”, thought to be the first to attack personal computers. He soon was rolling in millions of dollars as the users installed the software and the companies paid licensing fees.
However, did you know that the software giant sought the office of president of the United States? In September 2015, he announced his candidature from the newly formed political party called the ‘Cyber Party’ in the run up to the 2016 US presidential election. Subsequently in December 2015, he re-announced his candidacy bid saying that he would instead seek the presidential nomination of the Libertarian Party.
In fact, McAfee consistently polled among the top three presidential candidates for his party on the campaign trail. His Vice-Presidential choice? Equally interesting. He said that it would be the photographer and former commercial real estate broker — Judd Weiss. McAfee was the runner-up in the primaries but came in third at the 2016 Libertarian National Convention.
While that was from the other end of the world, let us now also tell you what is happening out of this world. We mean, in the celestial world.
It is yet another Supermoon after nearly a month and the Earth's natural satellite will again appear brighter and bigger in skies tonight. The celestial event is more significant beyond being a late Supermoon, because it is also a Strawberry Moon!
Before your imagination runs riot and you picture a strawberry in the sky, allow us to tell you that the Strawberry Moon derives its name from ancient American tribes who marked the Full Moon with the beginning of the harvesting season for strawberries. NASA attributes the name because of the pinkish hue that the full moon in June takes. There are more theories and counter-theories, and you can read them all here.
The moon will reach its peak brightness in India at around 12.10 am. And since you will be staying up that late, we have your healthy, yummy breakfast sorted. Try the blueberry yoghurt tomorrow morning.
But that is for tonight and tomorrow morning. For now, we want to say bye with some pictures of one of our favourite superheroes meeting the Pope. The Spider-man not only shook hands with the Pontiff but also presented him with a mask!
Bye for now. We will meet you tomorrow.
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