Mumbai: Shah Rukh starrer ‘Pathaan’ completed 50 glorious days in theatres on Wednesday.
“‘PATHAAN’ 50 DAYS… STILL PLAYING IN 20 COUNTRIES… #Pathaan celebrates 50 days at cinemas today… Being screened at 800 cinemas in #India and 135 cinemas across international markets,” trade analyst Taran Adarsh said in a tweet.
Shah Rukh Khan’s manager Pooja Dadlani shared the same post with folded hand emojis.
The film infused a new lease of life into the pandemic-stricken hindi film industry which has seen back-to-back flops last year.
The film has emerged as the highest grossing hindi film of all time, breaking the record of ‘Bahubali 2.’ ‘Pathaan’ raked 528.29 crores rupees while ‘Bahubali 2’ minted 510.99 crore rupees.
Shah Rukh Khan recently posted on Twitter, “”ITS NOT THE BUSINESS….ITS STRICTLY PERSONAL”. Making ppl smile & entertaining them is our business & if we don’t take it personally….it will never fly. Thanks to all who gave Pathaan love & all who worked on the film & proved ki mehnat lagan aur bharosa abhi Zinda Hai.Jai Hind.”
Released on January 25, ‘Pathaan’ also stars John Abraham, Deepika Padukone, Dimple Kapadia and Ashutosh Rana among others. Meanwhile, SRK will be next seen in director Atlee’s upcoming action thriller film ‘Jawan’ and he has also director Rajkumar Hirani’s next ‘Dunki’ opposite Taapsee Pannu in his kitty.
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Aligarh: Two groups clashed with each other during Holi celebrations.
In the clash, Bhartiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Metropolitan Vice President Subodh Sweety was injured.
According to sources, people from both groups belong to the Hindu community and the clashes took place in front of senior police officials, Sub Divisional Magistrate (SDM) Kuldeep Singh, and Additional District Magistrate (ADM).
Singh stated, “The incident occurred at the Sabzi Mandi junction. Two groups clashed during Holi celebrations. The police immediately rushed to the spot and amicably solved the issue. None of the sides has filed a police complaint.”
In the visuals going viral on social media, people from two groups can be seen engaging in a fistfight and the police trying to intervene and disperse the crowd.
The police are seen trying to control the situation as more reinforcements were called in.
SRINAGAR: Aspirants for Prosecuting Officers on Thursday urged Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission to cancel both papers instead of the one and conduct a fresh examination to provide “a level playing field” for all.
JKPSC on Wednesday canceled “paper-II” which is qualifying with the further announcement that the examination for it will be conducted on March 16. However, several aspirants called the news agency GNS since the announcement was made close-of-day Wednesday, alleging that the cancelation of only paper II will provide an advantage to those aspirants who have scored better marks in paper-I and that decision “rides roughshod” over others.
“As per the scheme of examination, both the papers have the importance of their own. The paper-I score will count only after one qualifies Paper-II,” the aspirants said, adding, “Had the JKPSC not canceled the paper-II ab-initio, those who are having a better score at present in paper-I would not make it to merit list and selection was to be made among those who qualified by having required numbers in paper-II.” Now that JKPSC has chosen to cancel only paper-II, it was providing undue advantage at the cost of others to some aspirants, they said.
“This is clear injustice and unfair with most aspirants,” they said, adding, “It smacks of arbitrariness or to put it in other words, it is irrational and offends the basic requirement of Article 14 of the Constitution.”
They said that with the announcement, the JKPSC was setting a “wrong precedent.”
“The examination scheme is such that an aspirant has to first qualify the paper-II by getting a score as provided under the notification,” they said, adding, “By allowing somebody who has fared better in paper-I two chances is plain injustice. Does someone who has fared better on paper II and not so good on paper-I, also deserve two chances at paper-I?” This clearly, they said, was “unfair”.
As per the JKPSC, its decision to cancel paper-II followed representations from the candidates through the J&K High Court Bar Association Jammu and others, claiming that the standard of the qualifying paper was higher than the level prescribed in the notification.
“The JKPSC itself has admitted that representations received by it requested for re-conducting the examination, meaning both papers, or allowing the aspirants to appear in the main examination,” the aspirants said, adding, “The JKPSC has chosen to set a wrong precedent and we request the Commission to revisit its decision of only examining Paper-II, thereby allowing two chances to some aspirants and denying same opportunity to others.” (GNS)
Asks Commission Why Allow Two Chances To Some And Denying Same To Others
Srinagar, Mar 2 (GNS): Aspirants for Prosecuting Officers on Thursday urged Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission to cancel both papers instead of the one and conduct fresh examination to provide “a level playing field” for all.
JKPSC on Wednesday cancelled “paper-II” which is of qualifying nature with further announcement that examination for it will be conducted on March 16. However, a number of aspirants called GNS since the announcement was made close-of-day Wednesday, alleging that cancelation of only paper-II will provide advantage to those aspirants who have scored better marks in paper-I and that decision “rides roughshod” over others.
“As per the scheme of examination, both the papers have importance of their own. The paper-I score will count only after one qualifies Paper-II,” the aspirants said, adding, “Had the JKPSC not cancelled the paper-II ab-initio, those who are having better score at present in paper-I would not make it to merit list and selection was to be made among those who qualified by having required numbers in paper-II.” Now that JKPSC has chosen to cancel only paper-II, it was providing undue advantage at the cost of others to some aspirants, they said.
“This is clear injustice and unfair with most aspirants,” they said, adding, “It smacks of arbitrariness or to put it in other words, it is irrational and offends the basic requirement of Article 14 of the Constitution.”
They said that with the announcement, the JKPSC was setting a “wrong precedent.”
“The examination scheme is such that an aspirant has to first qualify the paper-II by getting score as provided under the notification,” they said, adding, “By allowing somebody who has fared better in paper-I two chances is plainly injustice. Does someone who has fared better in paper-II and not so good in paper-I, also deserve two chances at paper-I?” This clearly, they said, was “unfair”.
As per the JKPSC, its decision to cancel paper-II followed representations from the candidates through the J&K High Court Bar Association Jammu and others, claiming that the standard of the qualifying paper was higher than the level prescribed in the notification.
“The JKPSC itself has admitted that representations received by it requested for re-conducting the examination, meaning both papers, or allowing the aspirants to appear in the main examination,” the aspirants said, adding, “The JKPSC has chosen to set a wrong precedent and we request the Commission to revisit its decision of only conducting examination for Paper-II, thereby allowing two chances to some aspirants and denying same opportunity to others.” (GNS)
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Tributes have been paid to Duangpetch Promthep, one of the 12 boys rescued from a flooded Thai cave in 2018, who died in the UK on Tuesday.
Kiatisuk Senamuang, the founder of the Zico Foundation and a mentor to Duangpetch, known also as Dom, wrote in a message: “Have fun playing football in heaven, be what Dom wanted to be, just go for it, go to watch every match you want to.”
Kiatisuk’s foundation had supported Duangpetch, a talented player, to attend a football academy in the UK. Duangpetch was found unconscious in his dorm by a teacher on Sunday and was taken by ambulance to hospital, where he died on Tuesday.
“I wish you have a safe journey, if you are free, please come to visit me or just come to see me coaching,” Kiatisuk wrote on social media. “Tonight I will remember all the memories we had. I don’t know when I can fall asleep. I will remember all the memories. I love you so much.”
Kiatisuk said during an emotional online press conference on Wednesday night that he wasn’t aware Duangpetch had any health conditions. “Dom was very strong and very fit,” he said. “He ran fast, well and didn’t have any issues with injuries.”
The cause of Duangpetch’s death has not been confirmed, but the BBC reported that Leicestershire police had said the death was not suspicious.
It is not clear when a funeral ceremony will be held. During Wednesday night’s press conference, Duangpetch’s mother asked how he would be returned, so that his body or ashes could be repatriated and his soul brought home.
Duangpetch was the captain of the Wild Boars football team whose 12 members, aged 11 to 16 at the time, became trapped in a Thai cave along with their 25-year-old coach in 2018. They had adventured into the cave as a fun excursion, but flash floods filled the tunnels, cutting off their exit.
For more than two weeks they were trapped inside the dark cave complex, while billions of people around the world watched a rescue effort by international divers and Thai Navy Seals bring them to safety. One rescuer died during the mission, and a second rescuer died later from a blood infection.
Ekkaphol Kanthawong, the coach who was trapped alongside Duangpetch in 2018, wrote on Facebook that he had been waiting all day for a miracle, hoping the news of Duangpethc’s death was not true.
“Didn’t you ask me to cheer you once you’re in the national league? Why did you break the promise? Didn’t we make all the plans when you come back to play football and go cycling with us?
“Since you were young, you kept saying that you wanted to play in the national league. Why didn’t you do as you said?” Ekkaphol wrote.
“Rest in peace my little brother, if the next life exists, we will see each other again, Dom.”
Images of Duangpetch, including a photo taken during the 2018 rescue, showing him smiling and wrapped in a foil blanket, appeared on the front of Thai newspapers on Thursday and on TV news.
The British ambassador to Thailand said in a statement that he was saddened to hear of Duangpetch’s death. “My condolences to all his family and friends.”
The Royal Thai embassy in London also conveyed its “deepest sympathies” for the loss of Duangpetch, saying: “Our heartfelt condolences to Dom’s family for the passing of their loved one.”
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The Iranian authorities have issued an arrest warrant for one of Iran’s top-ranked female chess players, Sara Khadem, who competed in an international tournament without wearing a headscarf in December 2022, local media reported.
25-year-old Sara Khadem, also known as Sarasadat Khademalsharieh, made headlines around the world when she appeared to play for a second day— Wednesday, December 28, at the Fide World Rapid and Blitz Chess championships in Almaty, Kazakhstan, without a headscarf.
Sarah is currently unable to return to Iran as an arrest warrant awaits her, reported BBC.
She is now living in exile in Southern Spain with her husband and one-year-old son.
Khadim has asked the media not to reveal her location for security reasons.
As per the media reports, Khadem received several phone calls after she appeared without a headscarf, in which people warned her not to return to Iran after the tournament, while others said she should return while promising to “solve her problem.”
Khadem’s relatives and parents, who are in Iran, had also received threats.
Protests in Iran continues
Iran has been rocked by sweeping protests since September 16, over the death of a 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini, in the custody of Iran’s morality police.
Her death has since ignited anger over several issues, including the restrictions imposed on personal freedoms and strict rules regarding women’s clothing, as well as the living and economic crisis that Iranians suffer from, not to mention the strict laws imposed by the regime and its political and religious composition in general.
The Human Rights Activists News Agency (Hrana) announced that 529 protesters had been killed in the unrest as of Tuesday, February 14, including 71 children.
At least 19,763 people, including 720 students, were arrested in those protests that took place in 164 cities and towns and 144 universities.
Regular readers will know that I find video games’ ability to pull people together to be one of the most interesting things about them. I have a weakness for stories about outsiders finding each other, and games make that happen with charming regularity. I once wrote about a long-distance couple who stayed connected by playing Dark Souls, wrestling with that game’s opaque online matchmaking to ensure that they could always find each others’ summon signs, hidden in a nook behind a wall or under a distinctive vase. And I’m fascinated by how Eve Online has attracted a particular flavour of person – usually science-fiction-obsessed, very often in some position of power in real life – to create an intergalactic community that mimics the economics and power structures of our own, but with extra skullduggery.
Online gaming has brought us so much in this regard: people have formed lifelong friendships through all kinds of video games, from World of Warcraft to No Man’s Sky. Twitch is part of this continuum, too – streamers don’t just play games for an audience, they create communities, where relationships can then form.
I experience the social aspect of games on a smaller, more intimate scale. Aside from a brief Guild Wars obsession as a teen, I’ve never been into online multiplayer. For whatever reason, I don’t connect with people in those worlds, behind screen-names – but I have spent most of my life playing games with people in real life in front of the same screen. The re-emergence of GoldenEye 007 this month has reminded me just how vital that kind of multiplayer has been in my personal gaming history.
When I was little, I played video games with my brother on the family SNES and N64. In the tiny under-stair room our parents let us plaster with adverts and posters torn out of video game magazines, we would diligently enter a co-op cheat code so that we could play Diddy Kong Racing together, one of us waiting near the finish line to sabotage our competitors with rockets while the other flew past in first place. We played Smash Bros and Mario Party together – and developed a quite nasty rivalry in Mario Tennis.
When I was a teenager I’d rope in my friends, hauling TVs around the house to facilitate 16-player Halo LAN parties when I got my hands on an Xbox. On one glorious evening in 2004, I managed to get enough people, Game Boys and link cables in the same room to play four-player Zelda on the Gamecube, and it was an absolute riot. At university, Guitar Hero always came out at parties (and Rock Band, and DJ Hero, and whatever other music game enjoyed a brief flush of popularity as Activision milked the genre dry).
MMOs like Minecraft have largely replaced local co-op and split-screen gaming. Photograph: Mojang
Back in 2013, I was running Kotaku UK, the anarchic games site I edited before I came to the Guardian. The brilliant times I’d had with local multiplayer games growing up inspired me to start up Kotaku game nights, where we’d bag up PlayStations and controllers and drag ’em all down to the pub, throwing events with a local fighting game community. Total strangers would bond over pints and left-field multiplayer classics such as Nidhogg, or Sportsfriends, or that reliable old standby, Mario Kart 8; downstairs people would compete in Smash, Street Fighter and Tekken tournaments. (In 2015 we brought Kotaku game nights to Glastonbury, in a gaming tent in Shangri-La; unfortunately this did not go quite as expected, as we became the de facto creche for free-roaming gangs of performers’ children. But still, it was a moment.)
I loved watching how people interacted over those games in the real world. Anyone who still thinks that gaming is an antisocial pastime should step into one of the many gaming bars and cafes that exist these days and see how they bring people to tears of communal laughter.
Now, my kids and I play Switch games together; I’ve managed to get my six-year-old into Kirby’s Forgotten Land, and I get to be his guide and helper, sitting right beside him. When my teenage stepson was the same age, I introduced him to Minecraft, and all he wanted to do for a few months was play it together. I well remember the pang of sadness I felt when he started preferring to play it online with his friends instead.
No doubt this is an age thing; today’s teens memories of playing Fortnite or Minecraft with their friends online as children will presumably be just as redolent for them as my memories of split-screen multiplayer. Because games are still a relatively young medium – it’s been 50 years since Pong – and online gaming is even younger, we’re only just starting to see the generational differences in how we connect through them. But at the risk of sounding like my mother worrying that text messaging was going to stop us all from being able to hold real conversations with each other: I really hope we never lose split-screen multiplayer, and the in-person connection that it fosters.
What to play
Metroid Prime Remastered. Photograph: Nintendo
Sticking with the nostalgic theme of this week’s issue, Nintendo announced a remaster of the peerlessly atmospheric Metroid Prime last week – and then released it immediately online. Hurray! This is one of the greatest works of sci-fi in this medium, no joke. Stripped of her powers, you guide bounty hunter Samus Aran through forsaken space-places but despite what it looks like, it isn’t actually a first-person shooter. It’s an adventure; you’re an archaeologist, a puzzle-solver, a documenter. I’d forgotten just how good Metroid Prime was in the decades since I first played it, and I’m delighted to report that the overhaul of the visuals and controls makes it even better. It’s pricey for a rerelease at £34.99, but great.
Available on: Nintendo Switch Approximate playtime: 15 hours
What to read
Axios reports that the people who worked on the original Metroid Prime, released in 2002, aren’t properly credited in the rerelease, and have been expressing their frustrations about it.
Double Fine has put out a massive 22-hour-long documentary series on the making of its superb Psychonauts 2, based on six years’ worth of footage. Watch the trailer: the entire series is a huge time commitment, but this is the kind of end-to-end insight into game development that we just simply never get.
I’m not quite sure how to put this, but the developers of The Witcher 3 appear to have accidentally incorporated a fan-made mod giving its female characters realistic genitalia and pubic hair into December’s PS5/Xbox Series X version of the game. And the creator of that mod is mad because he claims they didn’t ask permission. Just a normal day in game development …
A book recommendation from our well-read games correspondent Keith Stuart: Player vs Monster – The Making and Breaking of Video Game Monstrosity by Jaroslav Švelch. MIT Press publishes lots of fascinating books on video game theory and this is the latest – a thorough study of monsters in video games, looking at their historic sources, design conventions and the fears they exploit. Intellectual but accessible, and filled with examples from Golden Axe to Shadow of the Colossus.
As well as announcing and releasing a remaster of Metroid Prime, Nintendo showed off new footage from Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Pikmin 4 in last week’s Nintendo Direct, and also announced that Game Boy and GBA games are now playable on Switch, among rather a lot else (here’s the rundown). Tears of the Kingdom showed Link riding around on a cobbled-together wagon thing that strongly recalls niche vehicle experimentation game Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts, which is not something I had on my 2023 bingo card.
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Question Block
Rocket League. Photograph: Psyonix
Writing this week’s newsletter has made me realise that my knowledge of multiplayer bangers is stuck in about 2015, so this time around, I have a question for you, readers: what are your favourite split-screen or party games? What are the proven favourites, and which new ones are making a mark?
I’ll start with my own out-of-date recommendations from my days running pub game nights: dicey competitive fencing in Nidhogg and its sequel; flipping narwhals around in Starwhal; offbeat riffs on various sports in Sportsfriends; Lethal League, an indie baseball fighting game; jelly-baby wrestling in Gang Beasts; cute pixel battles with archery and magic in Towerfall: Ascension; and the all-time greatness of Rocket League (above), football with RC cars. Oh, and Nintendo Land. Mario Chase is an underrated work of genius.
Send your picks to pushingbuttons@theguardian.com.
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Even some of those most supportive of legalization, such as the co-chairs of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus, Reps. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) and Dave Joyce (R-Ohio), are calling for more regulation and better oversight.
“One of the reasons I have fought so hard to be able to legalize, regulate and tax is because I want to keep this out of the hands of young people. It has proven negative consequences for the developing mind,” said Blumenauer, Capitol Hill’s unofficial cannabis czar.
Last year, he and Joyce teamed on legislation, since enacted, to ease federal restrictions on researching cannabis for medical purposes and on growing marijuana for research.
That could significantly improve understanding of the drug.
They’re now talking about standards on dosing, mandates for childproof containers for edibles, and advertising restrictions aimed at protecting children. They’re also concerned about high potency cannabis and its effects.
Federal agencies are also taking action. The FDA recently rejected applications from companies making products out of cannabis who were seeking regulation under the loose standards governing dietary supplements.
The agency said that the use of cannabidiol, or CBD, an active ingredient of cannabis, poses safety risks and that Congress needs to bolster safeguards to mitigate risk.
“We have not found adequate evidence to determine how much CBD can be consumed, and for how long, before causing harm,” said Principal Deputy Commissioner Janet Woodcock in a statement.
Despite its history, there hasn’t been much health research on pot until recently, said Giselle Revah, an assistant professor at the University of Ottawa whose research last year in the journal Radiology linked marijuana smoking to the lung condition emphysema.
Before her study, Revah said, “what was in the literature was extremely limited” because “it’s very hard to study something that’s illegal.”
But recently, in addition to Revah’s work, new scientific studies have uncovered evidence of a rise in children accidentally ingesting edibles, a slight uptick in teenagers getting asthma in states legalizing marijuana, and growing rates of simultaneous use of alcohol and marijuana among young adults.
Sea change
With public opinion turning pro-legalization, 21 states have moved to permit its use for medical reasons or for recreation. A further 16 allow medical marijuana.
And marijuana use is becoming much more common.
On the current trajectory tracked by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, more Americans will use marijuana in 2030 than use tobacco products. Nearly 50 million people used weed in 2020, according to SAMHSA’s National Survey on Drug Use and Health, an increase of nearly 75 percent since 2009.
Researchers are only beginning to examine the data on how this massive increase in use is affecting public health.
As states have opened up cannabis laws, pediatric edible poisonings in the U.S. have grown from 207 in 2017 to 3,054 in 2021, according to federal data, and states legalizing cannabis like Colorado have seen a bigger increase in hospitalizations and poison control visits than other states.
Pre-proof research from late December found that legalization of cannabis for recreational use could be contributing to an increase in asthma among teens.
The researchers found that from 2011 to 2019, teenagers in states that legalized recreational cannabis saw a “slight” uptick in asthma rates in kids ages 12 to 17 compared with states in which cannabis remained illegal. The team, from the City University of New York, Columbia University, the University of California San Diego and others, also found an increase in asthma among children in some racial and ethnic groups.
Renee Goodwin, an adjunct associate professor at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health, said it could be a sign of the downstream effects of legalization. Parents could be smoking more in the home, exposing kids to second-hand smoke, she said.
“You’ve got these sweeping, very rapid changes in policy and there’s no science to inform them,” Goodwin said. “Ideally, there would be at least accompanying clinical guidelines for clinicians to advise parents.”
The mental health impacts of using cannabis aren’t yet clear, though some studies have linked it to increased risk of depression and suicide.
“We really have to slow down,” said Leana Wen, George Washington University public health professor and former Baltimore health commissioner. “We’re getting so far ahead of where the research is.”
In a Washington Post column last year, Wen detailed “abundant research” that she said demonstrated “how exposure to marijuana during childhood impacts later cognitive ability, including memory, attention, motivation and learning.”
Marijuana legalization also coincides with an increase in driving-while-high.
The percentage of driving deaths involving cannabis has more than doubled from 2000 to 2018, according to a 2021 study in the American Journal of Public Health.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is running an ad campaign to combat that increase.
Research published last month found that pediatric poisonings were much higher in Canadian provinces where edible sales are legal compared with a province that barred edibles.
Canada’s rise came in spite of child-resistant packaging and THC content restrictions, said Daniel Myran, lead author of the study and fellow at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute.
“It suggests that if you put cannabis into candy or chocolate, you’re going to see an increase in these poisonings,” Myran said. “It’s a question for regulators — do you need this product form? Can adult consumers get the choice and the option to purchase a legal cannabis product that doesn’t have to appeal this strongly to young kids?”
The policy response
Questions like that are raising the prospect of more regulation.
The FDA called on Congress last month to create a new regulatory pathway for CBD, including labeling, content limits and a minimum purchase age to help avoid harm to the liver, interactions with medications and damage to men’s reproductive systems.
Blumenauer and Joyce both say they plan to push for childproof packaging and rules to standardize dosing.
“Consumers need to be able to know how much THC is in the products they are consuming, as opposed to the unregulated market we are currently facing which makes it nearly impossible to know,” Blumenauer said.
That’s something public health advocates support. But many in the public health world are frustrated that policymakers eager to get on with legalization missed the opportunity to mitigate the consequences in advance.
“We’re in a massive natural experiment,” said David Jernigan, professor of health law, policy and management at Boston University School of Public Health. “Are we learning the lessons from alcohol, tobacco and other drugs when we go to regulate cannabis?” Jernigan asked. “Absolutely not.”
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