Today I finished the end of four months of my fat to fit weight loss program and I averaged about 11.2 km of brisk walking along with jogging. Yes! This month I picked up the pace and have started jogging also, when I get tired I stop and walk for a distance and start jogging again. Another fun activity I have added to my routine is biking and cycling and I do twenty minutes of biking every day. Jogging helps in the cardio and that is helpful in burning fat and improving fitness, I do get some blisters and rashes on my toe, but that has reduced over time. I have added grapes, cheese, and sugar-free dark chocolate to my diet. I have also started using Macca atta and Bajra atta along with brown rice to my diet also.

My weight loss has not been much this entire month I have only lost half a kilo, my with loss in kilo’s has reduced this month but I feel lighter for sure and I am able to cover longer distances in quicker time in that regards my fitness has improved, but I am not shedding weight as rapidly as I was in the first three months of the exercise. My skin tone has improved also and I feel very energetic.

Its assembly election fever in Dehra Doon and Uttrakhand these days and I get to see huge crowds on the street neither dressed in saffron caps or the congress colours even the AAP is in full flow here . The streets are littered with posters and flags with faces of the candidates plasters on the walls . Now and again an electric rickshaw wizzes past me with loud speakers blaring the message of one party or the other , yes this is election time for sure .

Went out jogging today , now I do not do just brisk walking but do jogging also in intervals along with stretching , the extra cardio makes me sweet and gets the heart pumping in the morning . The first thing I witnessed today as I got out of my house and into the main street was an accident a hospital ambulance had collided into a Hyundai black SUV . The radiator of the ambulance was smashed with the green engine coolant splattered on the rood the front side of the black SUV had a huge dent and had caved in .

I managed to capture the scene in my I phone and even made a video in the new cinematic mode . I even managed to capture the frustration of the driver as he paced about the road in anguish trying to jostle the ambulance driver who looked harassed and was constantly trying to contact someone through his cell phone .

As I walked further I was again chased my stereo dogs it has become a regular affair for me either being harassed by dogs or getting hit on the arm and elbow by the side view mirror of apron hing cars who past by me almost knocking me over . Thankfully I have managed to find a safe and quite route to do my biking and avoid the main roads in the city , when on my road bike .

With the on going. Section there where people sitting on road site booths distributing pamphlets today the voting starts in the city , so most people  have gotten up early to cast their vote .

Enjoy the pictures and videos of todays session …..

Veteran industrialist and head of the Bajaj group, Rahul Bajaj, passed away on Saturday.

Just what makes two people decide to tie the knot? There are marriages of all kinds. Love. Arranged. And Arranged-cum-Love, which happens only in India. ‘Shaadi toh compromise hai (marriage is a compromise)’, says Shardul Thakur in ‘Badhaai Do’: by then, his family knows exactly what ‘compromise’ he is talking about, leading to consternation all round. Shardul (Rajkummar Rao) and Sumi Singh (Bhumi Pednekar) have got together in holy matrimony for good reasons of their own. The small town they live in has very little understanding of same-sex love or ‘samlaingikta’. For both Shardul, the cop who loves to build his body, ingesting indigestible protein shakes on the way; and Sumi the no-nonsense physical instructor who teaches in a school as she navigates her way through a dating app, the marriage is a perfect cover. They can keep their ‘jaldi-shaadi-karo’ families at bay, and they can continue to be true to their sexual orientation: ‘zamana kya kahega, mummy-papa mar jayenge agar sacchai saamne aa gayi toh (What will society say, and mummy-papa will die if the truth comes out)’.

Director Shakun Batra’s Gehraiyaan starring Deepika Padukone, Ananya Panday, Siddhant Chaturvedi and Dhairya Karwa in the lead roles is just a day away from release. The film’s premiere was held on Wednesday night and saw the actors step out in their stylish best.

Ahead of the film’s release on streaming platform Amazon Prime Video, Gehraiyaan has been cleared with an ‘A’ certificate by the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC). Turns out, the CBFC cleared the film without a single cut.

However, the Examining Committee did recommend a few modifications after watch Shakun Batra’s directorial. The recommendations of the EC were reportedly carried out and the film has now received an ‘Adults Only’ certificate. Ever since the release of the film’s trailer, Gehraiyaan has made headlines for its intimate and kissing scenes.

In fact, it is also the first Hindi film where an Intimacy Director has been credited. However, Shakun Batra has said that intimacy has been treated as a character. He was also of the opinion that intimacy has been given too much importance, “I think there are more conversations about intimacy than probably the story deserves,” Batra had said earlier.

Deepika, on the other hand, had revealed her biggest takeaway from the film. “The one thing I have learnt from this film is not to judge because there is always a reason why they do what they do. The minute you understand the emotion or the thought process behind the action, there is automatically empathy,” the actress had earlier told Mid-Day.

“Modiji ki sarkar mein ye nahi ho sakta ki rozgar Cheen ko aur market Bharat ki… Modiji sarkar ki neeti hai ki agar market Bharat ki hai, rozgar bhi Bharat ke logon ko milega…. (Under Modi government, it cannot happen that jobs are in China while market is India… The government’s policy is that if the market is India, then peope in India should get jobs),” Gurjar said.

Making it clear that relaxations will not be provided to US-based electric vehicles major Tesla unless it participates in manufacturing activities in India, Union Minister Krishan Pal Gurjar on Tuesday said there cannot be a situation where the market is India but jobs are created in China.

The minister of state for heavy industries also told the Lok Sabha during Question Hour that the company is yet to apply for schemes as per the government’s policy.

Last year, the Elon Musk-led company sought a reduction in import duties on electric vehicles (EVs) in India but the Ministry of Heavy Industries asked the firm to start manufacturing its iconic EVs in the country before any tax concessions can be considered.

Gurjar said the government has Production Linked Incentives for automobile and auto components as well as for manufacturing Advanced Chemistry Cell (ACC) battery. Both schemes are open for domestic as well as foreign entities.

Responding to a query on Tesla, the minister said “the company wants workers from China and market of India. This is not possible in Modi government… Our government’s policy is that if india market is to be used, job opportunities will have to be given to Indians.”

The minister’s reply came in response to a question by Congress member K Suresh on whether the government would invite Tesla to enter the Indian market and steps being taken to promote mass production of electric vehicles in the country.

“Want to ask the member if they want india’s money to go to China? That company has not applied as per our policy. For that (company), doors of India are open, they can come apply as per policy, set up company, give jobs to our people, increase government revenue,” the minister said.

“Modiji ki sarkar mein ye nahi ho sakta ki rozgar Cheen ko aur market Bharat ki… Modiji sarkar ki neeti hai ki agar market Bharat ki hai, rozgar bhi Bharat ke logon ko milega…. (Under Modi government, it cannot happen that jobs are in China while market is India… The government’s policy is that if the market is India, then peope in India should get jobs),” Gurjar said.

He was responding to another member’s query about the government’s position on exemptions sought by Tesla and some states expressing interest to have the company’s manufacturing units.

Last month, Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk said the company is working through a lot of challenges with the government to launch its products in India.

For promotion of EVs, there are schemes and the benefits are that advanced technology will come to India and parts will also be manufactured here. People will get jobs and consumers will get cheaper vehicles, the minister said.

The minister also said recently a round table was organised that saw participation of representatives of several companies and associations like SIAM. All said in one voice that the government has done what it had to and that it was now time for the industries to come forward, he added.

If Meta is no longer permitted to transfer, store and process data from EU users on its US-based servers, it could shut down Instagram and Facebook in Europe.

Reported first by iTWire, this is according to Meta’s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange. The issue lies with transatlantic data transfers regulated via ‘Privacy Shield’ — a transatlantic data transfer framework — and other agreements that the company uses to store and use data from European users on American servers.

As of now, the agreements that enable data transfer are heavily being regulated in the European Union. Meta in its recent report to US SEC, Meta has warned that if a new framework isn’t put into place and the company won’t be allowed to use the existing model agreements, it will ‘probably’ no longer be able to offer many of its ‘most significant products and services’ which include Facebook and Instagram.

Meta stressed on the fact of how important sharing data between the nations is for the provision of its services and targeted advertising.

Privacy Shield was annulled by the European Court of Justice in July 2020 due to data protection violations. Since then, the EU and the US have stressed on the fact that they’re working on an updated version of the treaty.

I have made a new addition to my Fat to fit regime today after 16 weeks of Fat to fit schedule I have now just bought a new Montra Road Bike in order to loose weight and help me exercise my thighs and hamstring. The yellow bike has broad tires and is a seven-gear bike with breaks on either side. I took it out on the road today and things went fairly smoothly. I also managed to get a bike helmet with matching colors and an air pump to go along with it . The whole thing cost me Rs 29,000 and I intend to make good use of it along with my Yoga Mat and 2kg dumbbell exercises this will surely increase and accelerate my weight loss program.

My plan now is simple I will be dedicating three hours a day to my exercise plan which will include two hours of brisk walking around 12 km a day. Half an Hour I will dedicate to yoga mat exercises and dumbbell exercises. This will include 30 stomach crunches, and 60 dumbles crunch sideways and up and down along with 20 legs up exercises. Half an hour a day to biking on the road on my new roadster which will be a 3 km biking stretch.

My aim is to increase my weight loss from the current average of 2kg per month to 2.5 kg per month for the coming month. That way I am most likely to hit the 90 kg mark by the first week of March which will be perfect and quite an achievement from the 99.6 kg I weighed when I started this exercise schedule.

The couple – Dinesh SP and Janaganandhini Ramaswamy – held their wedding in Sivalingapuram, a small tribal village of Tamil Nadu. However, friends and family from across the world attended the wedding reception in the virtual world

A couple from Tamil Nadu on Sunday threw their first-of-its-kind in India wedding reception on the Metaverse, an online universe of interconnected 3D virtual worlds.

The couple – Dinesh SP and Janaganandhini Ramaswamy – held their wedding in Sivalingapuram, a small tribal village of Tamil Nadu. However, friends and family from across the world attended the wedding reception in the virtual world.

“I am into Blockchain, NFTs, and technology for the past few years. I used to be always unique and I wanted to keep my life event as a memorable one. As a techie, we always look into the problems and see the possible solutions through programming languages,” Dinesh was earlier quoted as saying by news agency ANI.

The couple had planned a Harry Potter’s Hogwarts-themed since both are Harry Potter fans.

A start-up called TardiVerse worked for a month to create the metaverse where the reception was hosted. Dinesh decided to make an ‘avatar’ dedicated to Janaganandhini’s late father too, the one who presided over the function, as a homage.

“To give importance to my better half, a realistic 3D virtual avatar of her father has been created in NFT, thus she can feel her father’s presence virtually in the metaverse and bless our marriage,” said Dinesh.

Photos and videos from the function have now gained traction on social media.