Clocked another 11.5 km of brisk walking today as I meandered across the Tibetan Market which was founded in 1989 almost 23 years back I was then in the ninth standard in Welham Boys barely thirteen years old . I still remember buying packets of Pondy cards with pictures of naked women wearing a bikini , we would play rummy with these ponds cards they where a rage amongst the students . I then walked across the road and ahead was the St Francis Church an old and famous worshipping place for the local Catholic Community .

I took some snaps and payed my respects to the statue of Mother Mary and Jesus Christ on the cross .My close friends have begun to notice my weight loss and are happy at my achievement of having lost 7kgs in more than 14 weeks. Today I also did some jogging and running but not for that long it was my first day of jogging today and I felt it was not so much of a strain for me .

My meals give me enough energy to let me do the amount of walking that I do , I constantly keep changing my walking route.. My 16 km walk to Max Hospital dd cause a few blisters one just under my big toe and the other on one of the smaller toe fingers . My feet down hurt as much but the blisters have emerged again especially when ic over large distances of 14 plus km of walking in a day . I guess it’s my toes telling me to take it easy. I have taken some snaps of my blister and one of them is too fat with water filled in it . On constant walking then will burst and the skin will peel off , I will have to use antiseptic powder to heal the skin and the abrasion that a burst blister causes on the toe .

Till then enjoy the snaps of my blisters and the church .

I took some videos and photographs of my yoga mat exercises that I do now regularly once a day without fail. I did 30 stomach crunches today and three sets of thirty dumbbell exercises, these days I use a 2 kg dumbbell and as I get better at it I may increase it to a 4 kg dumbbell soon within a month.

I also intend to start jogging and do some light running from next month and will be adding skipping to my exercise routine. My commitment to brisk walking remains the backbone of my weight loss program and I intend to increase my monthly average by 1 km month on month. My average at the end of Jan is 11 km of walk every day.

Till then enjoy the videos and snaps of my exercise routine.

In the digital world, people are used to tech-based gadgets more than ever. The motto is to make any work less laborious and less time-consuming. Among so many gadgets, there are some that are based on artificial intelligence. Here are the top 10 coolest AI-based Gadgets that you can use this year.

Self-operating Drones
Drones need to have some level of autonomy to stop them from falling out of the sky or ramming straight into a tree, and it’s all thanks to AI that drones like the DJI Phantom 4 Advanced can pilot themselves as and when needed. The Phantom 4 Advanced, similar to several other models, is smart enough to pick you out from a crowd and take a selfie of you without you having to do anything laborious. The same kind of intelligent tech enables it to identify a quickly approaching obstacle, so it can swerve to avoid it – all thanks to the onboard image processing AI.

Google Home
All of that high-level programming and engineering filters its way down to the Google Assistant, which comes built into the Google Home as well as a growing number of other devices. When your speaker recognizes your voice, that’s AI at work – machine learning identifying the characteristics of your speech even if you’re saying words that it hasn’t heard you say before. A different kind of artificial intelligence is deployed to make sense of what you’re actually saying, to work out which words in which order and which context should prompt which responses. You can’t yet chat to a smart speaker quite as easily as a human being, but when you can, it’ll be because of AI engineering.

KODA AI Robot Dog
If you can’t have a real dog, you can always go for the KODA AI Robot Dog. It interacts with people the same way a real puppy does. This self-evolutional robot dog has a decentralized platform, acts as an emotional companion, and can even provide physical support.

Nobi Smart Lamp
If you have a family member who lives independently, the Nobi Smart Lamp can give them peace of mind. This practical gadget looks like a ceiling lamp and automatically detects falls. It then notifies emergency contacts, getting your loved ones the help they need at the right time.

Morebot Scout: AI-Powered Smart Home Robot
Great for home security, the Morebot Scout AI-Powered Smart Home Robot, has enough sensors and AI algorithms to eliminate blind spots. Even better, you can control it via Alexa and Amazon.

Zmirror All-in-One Smart Mirror
The Zmirror All-in-One Smart Mirror is smart enough to analyze your skin health and improve your productivity. And that’s exactly why you want to have it on your nightstand or by your bathroom sink. Plus, you’ll get superb audio for all your YouTube videos, Kindle books, and more with the Harmon Kardon speakers.

Square Off Grand Kingdom Set Smart AI Chessboard
The Square Off Grand Kingdom Set Smart AI Chessboard is a smart game. It uses robotics, sensors, and artificial intelligence to move the chess pieces on its own. And it even lets you play chess with anyone in the world. With 20 different levels of difficulty, it allows you to play at your own competitiveness.

Tempo Studio AI Home Gym
With the Tempo Studio AI Home Gym, AI gets you into shape. It lets you access live and on-demand workouts for personalized guidance. It’s just like having a personal trainer who’s available 24/7. It also comes with all the equipment you need like two dumbbells, a barbell, a recovery roller, plates, and more.

PowerVisionPowerEgg X Explorer AI Personal Camera
The PowerVisionPowerEgg X Explorer AI Personal Camera has the technology to recognize faces and objects. It learns from you and knows what to zoom in on. So, while you waterski, this drone focuses on you and not the seagull floating next to you.

Samsung JetBot 90 AI+ Robotic Vacuum
With its AI-based sensors and navigation, the Samsung JetBot 90 AI+ Robotic Vacuum may be the smartest vacuum you’ve ever met. It has a LiDAR sensor that detects distance and location, while a 3D sensor recognizes small and fragile objects. Finally, an object recognition algorithm maps the best cleaning route.

Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s latest directorial Gangubai Kathiawadi, which was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, is finally hitting the screens.

The film starring Alia Bhatt and Ajay Devgn will grace the theatres on February 25th.

“Witness her reign in cinemas near you on 25th February 2022. #GangubaiKathiawadi ,” announced the makers.

The joint production venture of Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Dr. Jayantilal Gada will have its world premiere at the prestigious 72nd Berlin International Film Festival.

Gangubai Kathiawadi is a biographical crime drama set in the 1960s, which revolves around the life of Gangubai who became one of the most powerful women from Kamathipura.

The film also stars Ajay Devgn and Emraan Hashmi in important roles.

A case has been registered against Google CEO Sundar Pichai and five others from the tech giant over the alleged copyright infringement of a Bollywood movie on YouTube.

Bollywood filmmaker Suneel Darshan in his complaint against Mr Pichai said that he has not sold the rights of his 2017 film ‘Ek Haseena Thi Ek Deewana Tha’ to anyone or released it, however, it is running on YouTube with millions of views.

He claimed that the content has been “blatantly” used with over a billion infringements and a huge amount of money is being made by the illegal uploading of his film.

“I hold Sundar Pichai responsible since he represents Google. I have tracked over 1 billion views of my ‘Ek Haseena Thi Ek Deewana Tha’ have been recorded. No action has been taken despite this concern being raised with the company,” Mr Darshan said.

Along with Mr Pichai, Gautam Anand ( head of youtube), Joe Grier- Grievance officer and four employees of the tech giant are among the officials named in the FIR.

Meta-owned instant messaging platform WhatsApp has finally rolled out the ability for iPhone users to pause and resume their voice note recordings. The feature has been in beta since some time and allows users to listen to their voice before they can send an audio note. The feature comes as WhatsApp is reportedly bringing several new features to the instant messaging platform like the ability to transfer chats from an Android phone to an iPhone, in-app customer service chats, and more.

The latest feature for iOS users allows them to pause whatever they are recording for a voice note and listen to it before they send. Users can also resume their recording, in case they want to extend the message they are trying to send out. The new feature comes with WhatsApp version 22.7.75 on iOS. “You can now pause and resume while recording voice messages. Try it out by swiping up to lock a recording, and then tap the “pause” and “resume” buttons,” the app store listing of the latest update says.

To try out the new feature, users need to swipe up and lock their voice recording, then there are new pause and play buttons that users can tap for testing out the new features. The feature has been in testing since October last year. A WABetaInfo report had earlier said that the feature will be available for end users in a future build, which is releasing now. It is not known as to when Android users will get this feature, but reports suggest it could be as early as in the coming few days.

WhatsApp is also working on a feature that will allow users to import their chats from an Android smartphone to a new iPhone. Currently, new iPhone users have no way of transferring their WhatsApp chats from an Android phone to iPhone. However, this changed last year as WhatsApp brought the ability to move chats to an iPhone from some Samsung and Google Pixel smartphones. Now, the company seems to be expanding this feature to more Android phones.

“Accepting that individuals would invest more energy via online media during the lockdown, digital lawbreakers moved their exercises more via web-based media.”

Dr. Balsing Rajput, Administrator of Police, Maharashtra Digital Cell, uncovers to Prasanna D Zore/Rediff.com the most recent techniques utilized by digital lawbreakers to cheat You.

A Chevening Network safety Individual with a doctorate in way of thinking from the Goodbye Foundation of Sociologies, the mild-mannered Indian Police Administration official has been at the bleeding edge of taking care of digital protection in Maharashtra since Walk 2016.

The first of a two-section meet:

How have the digital lawbreakers changed their exercises to exploit the public lockdown? What are the recent fads arising in digital wrongdoing?

There are a couple of changes in the usual methodology of digital hoodlums after the lockdown.

Accepting that individuals would invest more energy via online media during the lockdown, digital lawbreakers moved their exercises more via web-based media.

They especially began spreading messages like ‘get free portable re-energized, ‘get Rs 2,000 credited to your financial balances, and so on

Also, they are provoking individuals to snap such connections so they could gather more information by coordinating individuals towards counterfeit Sites. So this is the principal pattern.

Second, sending counterfeit news and reports has seen spikes since the lockdown.

Third, there has been an expansion in disdain messages focusing on strict networks.

On the criminal side, we have seen that there are numerous web-based installment applications and wallets that are being utilized to swindle individuals.

These digital lawbreakers are focusing on individuals looking for food and vegetable merchants closest to their homes when they have secured down their homes on Google.

Detecting an open door here, fraudsters have changed their strategies and placed their numbers via web-based media as food merchants and sellers of fundamental merchandise.

At the point when individuals call these numbers, they are guaranteed free home conveyance of fundamentals on the installment of Rs 5 or Rs 50.

They are given the choice of money down for their buys and are sent an application connects, which when clicked opens up a structure that requests Visa or bank subtleties so they can book their orders by making an installment of Rs 5 or 50.

When a client makes this installment, every one of his subtleties is caught by these crooks including their portable number, OTPs, passwords, email IDs, and so forth

Utilizing these subtleties, they pull out cash from ledgers or use Visas for buys.

Many individuals have lost cash to these internet-based stunts.

I have by and by got five to seven such cases and in various areas in Maharashtra we have gotten objections around 50 such cases.

In metropolitan regions, we have seen a spike in alcohol look and to exploit these, online hoodlums opened phony alcohol shops promising free home conveyance. The business as usual continues as before. Sending a phony to connect to catch charge card and bank subtleties of individuals and afterward utilize this touchy information to pull out cash from their records.

We have given warnings across the state about such tricks and cautioned the police headquarters where such crimes have been uncontrolled.

The other pattern is coercing individuals who watch explicit substances during this lockdown or maybe before the lockdown started.

There has been a flood in email sextortion rackets over the most recent couple of days. These extortionists have spilled email IDs and passwords of individuals who surf the Web for obscene substances.

The email shippers guarantee that they have seen the clients perusing explicit locales and they have the accounts. They take steps to disgrace these individuals by sending these accounts to their relatives. Consequently, they request delivery for not sending these accounts.

This might have really occurred in a couple of cases, I don’t yet know without a doubt, yet in the vast majority of the cases, these extortionists gain admittance to penetrated information or information caught through malware called ‘crawlers’ and ‘trackers’ via looking through the program history of their objectives or from add-on augmentations or reserve memory.

Most programs store the history of Pages visited by clients; numerous clients save their email IDs and passwords on their PCs.

There are two potential manners by which these lawbreakers access your private information: Either through information break on Sites that individuals frequently visit or perhaps a store of program information is spilled.

We have gotten numerous grievances connected with sextortion and we have given warnings likewise in regards to that. Individuals/Clients need not be alarmed by such examples.

They ought to quickly change their secret word, clear their program reserve setting.

Try not to permit any pop-ups and additional items assuming you are utilizing Internet browsers.

In the event that you are utilizing portable and perusing versatile applications, check which applications are running, what authorizations you have given to those applications and check which applications are consuming the majority of your portable information, which mail customer you are utilizing to really take a look at your sends on versatile.

We have encouraged individuals to investigate these issues and follow essential security safeguards while surfing on the web.

These are a portion of the top patterns concerning how digital lawbreakers are utilizing the lockdown to trick individuals or cheat cash utilizing their charge cards or bank subtleties.

Has there been a sharp expansion in the quantity of these cases after the lockdown?

There has been a stamped expansion in four kinds of cases.

One is misrepresentation connected with online conveyances, web-based shopping, and online food and alcohol.

Second phony news, third disdain discourse, and fourth sextortion.

What activity has the Maharashtra Digital Cell taken against these lawbreakers?

We have a zero resilience strategy (against digital violations).

The Public authority of India has made an entrance called cybercrime.gov.in. We encourage individuals to enroll their grumblings on the web.

Their objections straightforwardly come to the concerned police headquarters and we are the nodal office for Maharashtra. These protests are additionally gotten at our end.

We examine these grumblings promptly and ask the concerned police headquarters to follow up on these objections.

We likewise appeal to individuals that they should visit their closest police headquarters and hotel their grumblings.

We additionally have a zero resistance strategy towards counterfeit news, disdain messages, and digital wrongdoing which is connected with abuse of ladies and kids.

We treat these grievances exceptionally in a serious way. We have acted up until this point rigidly against such crooks.

From January 2020, we began Activity Dark Face to control pedophilia and online double-dealing of ladies, register such grievances and carry the hoodlums to confront the law.

From January to date, we have enlisted 140 related cases. In excess of 60 individuals have been captured. In excess of 100 individuals have been distinguished, who will be captured soon.

Moreover, the second classification that we have zero resistance against is phony information and disdain talks.

We have enrolled in excess of 275 arguments against those getting out counterfeit words and disdain messages. In excess of 69 individuals have been captured up until this point.

We have recognized in excess of 200 individuals who have enjoyed getting out counterfeit word or disdain messages and will be captured soon.

During the lockdown time frame, Whatsapp and Facebook have been utilized broadly for gossip-mongering and disdain messages followed by TikTok and Twitter. A large portion of the sound and video content connected with these cases was found on Facebook and WhatsApp. We have additionally advised these stages about these exercises.

How can these online media stages help out the Maharashtra Digital Cell in following and checking such violations?

We have requested that they check these crimes occurring on their foundation and they have reacted emphatically. Yet, we need them to act proactively and prudently.

They know what the pattern is on their foundation; they know from where the traffic is traveling every which way, what sort of exercises are occurring right in front of them, yet (they are fleeing from their obligations) under the attire of ‘We don’t investigate client content’… be that as it may, these patterns are apparent. They should make mechanical courses of action, which will forestall (these crimes).

I will give a model.

Google Pay has a converse connection that can be utilized to charge cash from somebody’s record rather than an individual crediting cash into somebody’s record.

Along these lines, in the event that I need to pay you, you can send me a connection to make the installment. Ordinarily, assuming that I need to pay you, I credit the cash into your record utilizing your versatile number connected to your bank or utilizing your bank subtleties.

But on the other hand, there’s an office (turn around interface) by which you can likewise send a connection to me and request a charge from my record.

Google Pay and OLX have turned into a lethal mix for certain, packs utilizing this business as usual.

In the event that you are purchasing something (on OLX), rather than you making the installment to the merchant, the dealer tricks you to filter an RFID code to make the installment yet such exchange creates a converse connection, that is, rather than producing a credit interface (through which the purchaser makes the ideal installment to the vender), the dealer sends you a charging interface which permits him to pull out however much he needs from your record rather than the sum for which the exchange happens.

Thus, rather than you (the purchaser) paying cash to me (the dealer), the con artist has sent a charge to connect to you that permits him to pull out however much he needs to from your record. Such tricks are additionally occurring while at the same time purchasing merchandise online on internet business Sites.

In such cases, an innovative plan like when you register for making installments through the NEFT (Public Electronic Supports Move) or Devils (Quick Installment Framework) stages where you need to enlist first and after some time, which is utilized for check of the leaser and debitor, you can make and get installments utilizing these stages.

I have my lunch and dinner taken care of on most days, but it is the middle of the day and late at night that I get hunger pangs and yarn too much on something that can give me energy and make me feel full throughout the day. So I have discovered diet munchies are very low on fat and calories but make you feel full quickly. Most people much on potato chips, biscuits, sweets, rusks, cake, and even tubs of ice creams if they feel like a munch. I have thrown all that out of the window and decided to make Tandoori Makhane, Melon seeds, almonds, and dry strawberry mixes, along with figs and boiled corn cob as my evening and late-night munchies. These foods are low in calories, fat, and sugar and high in fiber and nutrition. These make you feel full these along with green tea or Kashmiri Chai are excellent for evening tea time and late-night snacks if you feel hungry. Low on calories and also filling. Time to throw away that salted biscuit or cream cake, time to do away with fried stuff like samosa, chips, bread pakoda, and other savories. Munch on these diet munches, if you want to support your weight loss regime.  Feel full without gaining weight and calories.

As I said along with my fitness plan I am also on a drive to quit my smoking habit and habit of having paan masala. I used to have two to three small packets of Pan masala a day. This is my second day of having no Paan Masala as I have replaced that habit by having saunf and bits of mango papad. I used to smoke 12 to 13 cigarettes a day. Now when I smoke I throw the cigarette butt in a special dustbin placed outside my garden, now at the end of the day when I go to bed I can count the total number of cigarettes I smoke. My goal is to reduce my cigarette intake by one cigarette every day and try to lick the habit within the next two to three weeks completely.

Paan Masala is easier to leave for me but smoking is very difficult as a writer I take lots of breaks to freshen my mind and it is during these frequent writing breaks I take a smoke, it helps me think and write. So it is a habit that is very well entrenched in my mind it is more a phycological habit I have had for over a decade and kicking it is proving very difficult.

I am thus counting my cigarettes every day and then consciously reducing it by one every day, it is tough but it’s something that has to be achieved for my overall health improvement. Smoking is something I have to leave as I get fitter and add more exercise to my daily schedule, the exercise should distract me from smoking more throughout the day and I am sure with will power I will be able to kick the habit that can prove deadly for me as I age.