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Ashley Judd encouraged people to seek help for their mental health and talked about her grieving process after the loss of her mother, country star Naomi Judd. In an interview aired on “Good Morning America” on Thursday, the movie star said she wanted to address her mother’s struggle with depression. Judd said she was with her mother at her home in Tennessee on the day Naomi died on April 30.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping is suffering from "cerebral aneurysm" and had to be hospitalized at the end of 2021, news agency ANI reported on Wednesday citing other media reports. "It is learnt that he preferred to be treated with traditional Chinese medicines rather than going for surgery, which softens the blood vessels and shrinks aneurysm,” the agency added. Speculations about his health were made when he avoided meeting the foreign leaders from the outbreak of COVID-19 till the Beijing Winter Olympics. Also during his visit to Italy a noticeable limp was observed in his walking manner. Similarly, during an address to the public in Shenzhen in October 2020, his delay in appearance, slow speech and coughing spree again led to speculation about his ill health.
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To find a groom or a bride for single people, we put their profiles on the net on different matrimonial apps and sites, or let them live if they want to remain single, but did you know that in China there was an ancient practice of ghost weddings? Scroll down to know what it is all about and how it is deadly. Those who believe in the custom, have been practicing it for 3000 years. This practice ensures that the unmarried get married to people when they are dead so that they are not single in their afterlife. Originally, this practice was strictly for the dead but in recent times, one living person is married to a corpse. In the traditional ghost marriage concept, the bride’s family asks for a heavy price and dowry from the groom’s side in the form of paper tributes. Age, family background are very important here and families also hire a Feng Shui master for a matchmaking job.
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A 48-year-old Nepali woman scaled Mount Everest for the 10th time on Thursday, breaking her own record for the most summits of the world’s highest mountain by a female climber, her hiking company said. Lhakpa Sherpa last climbed the 8,848.86-metre (29,031.69-foot) mountain in 2018. A fellow Nepali, Kami Rita Sherpa, holds the men's record of 26 climbs. "Lhakpa has broken her own record and become the first woman to achieve 10 summits," her brother Mingma Gelu Sherpa, an official of her Seven Summit Club hiking agency, told Reuters.
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Cancer is a chronic illness that is treatable if detected early. However, there are no specific signs or symptoms that could indicate cancer. In many cases, cancers are detected when they're already in an advanced stage, making it difficult for the doctors and medical professionals to treat. Body pain can indicate cancer. However, they're not an early symptom, but signal that the cancer has spread to other parts of the body including the nerves and the organs. In such circumstances, your doctor may prescribe certain medications to alleviate the pain and would investigate the location of the pain.
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Kratika Sengar, who was last seen in Choti Sarrdaarni, and her actor husband Nikitin Dheer have been blessed with a baby girl. The couple welcomed their first child this morning (May 12, Thursday). The couple's recent maternity photoshoots made their joy evident. The two were looking forward to the new phase. Kratika and Nikitin first broke the news exclusively to TOI(Times of India) in November. Kratika had said, "Nikitin is on a cloud and I don't even know the number! He is very excited to become a father and I feel extremely blessed and grateful that I will become a mother soon."
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Students at a high school in the western German town of Schleiden on Wednesday buried a longtime member of their community — a classroom skeleton that had served as an educational specimen for generations of pupils. Around 80 students, teachers and town officials took part in the ceremony at Schleiden’s Protestant cemetery, where the bones of the unknown woman were buried in a small coffin featuring symbols of all major world religions.
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Shilpa Shetty enjoys massive following on social media, her motivational posts and fitness inspiration are hugely popular with fans. However, the actress has now announced a break from Instagram and Twitter. “Soooo bored of the monotony, everything looking the same... going off social media till I find a new avatar,” Shilpa Shetty announced on Thursday.
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ICT Foundation Nepal will host a two-day Huawei Digital Nepal Conclave in collaboration with InfoDevelopers on 18th and 19th of June, 2022 at The Soaltee Hotel in Kathmandu. The slogan of the program is 'Digital Nepal Conclave for Digital Transformation', and the focus of the Conclave is on effectively implementing the Digital Nepal Framework, which is being promoted by the Government of Nepal as a transformative project. According to Razan Lamsal, president of the ICT Foundation Nepal, relevant discussions will be held in relation to the Digital Nepal Campaign, the Digital Transformation Effort, the latest technologies, and their practices.
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Jacqueline Fernandez, who has been on the radar of Enforcement Directorate in connection with Sukesh Chandrasekhar case, has moved court seeking permission to travel abroad for work commitments. The actress has moved an application in the Delhi Court seeking a 15-day exemption to travel to Abu Dhabi for an award ceremony. Thereafter, she is expected to travel to France and Nepal for her work commitments.
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As the court presiding over the Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard case is in recess until May 16, those keeping up with the case have been keeping busy on TikTok. According to the latest reports, a bizarre trend sweeping the social media platform has short videos ridiculing Heard’s testimony against Depp amassing millions of views online. Variety reports that videos or audios from the trial see creators dramatically imitating Heard, mocking her and even performing dances to the same.
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Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan attended the funeral of Santoor legend Pandit Shivkumar Sharma on Wednesday. The veterans were seen paying their last respects to the celebrated santoor player and music composer. Ila Arun and Hariharan also paid their last respects to the maestro.
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Actor and activist James Cromwell has gone from “Succession’s” Uncle Ewan to real-life supergluin’ — pasting his hand to a midtown Manhattan Starbucks counter on Tuesday to protest the coffee chain’s extra charge for plant-based milk. The 82-year-old Oscar nominee, known for “Babe: Pig in the City” and “L.A. Confidential,” channeled his role as the crotchety, anti-capitalist brother of a billionaire media mogul for the protest organized by the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
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Nai Prakashan has decided to dedicate the 2022 year’s 'Nai Aantarastriya Puraskar' to Professor Mohan Sitaula, who has made significant contributions to the international expansion of the Nepali language and growth of Nepali literature by his constant awareness and dedication through creation and organization.
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Rapper Young Thug was one of 28 people indicted Monday in Georgia on conspiracy to violate the state’s RICO act and street gang charges, according to jail records. The Atlanta rapper, whose name is Jeffrey Lamar Williams, was arrested at his home in Buckhead, an Atlanta neighborhood just north of downtown. He is being held at the Fulton County Jail. The conspiracy charge dates back to 2013 and the gang charge to 2018, the jail record says.
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Australian singer-songwriter Nick Cave has confirmed the death of his son Jethro Lazenby at age 31. “With much sadness, I can confirm that my son, Jethro, has passed away,” the frontman of rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds said in a statement Tuesday. “We would be grateful for family privacy at this time,” Cave added.
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Dinesh Sunwar, a Nepali Parkour athlete, has set a Guinness World Record for the 6th time. The holder of five Guinness World Records in Parkour, Sunwar managed to complete 14 'full twist backflips' in one minute and set the world record for the 6th time. He has previously broken the record of 11 times of backflips in this category.
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is reviewing Tesla (TSLA.O) Chief Executive Elon Musk's $44 billion takeovers of Twitter Inc (TWTR.N), Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing a person familiar with the deal.
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The third long-duration astronaut team launched by SpaceX to the International Space Station (ISS) safely returned to Earth early on Friday, splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico off Florida to end months of orbital research ranging from space-grown chilies to robots.
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While the BA.2 sublineage of the Omicron variant remains dominant in most parts of the world, World Health Organisation chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus raises concerns over subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 that are currently driving the new surge of COVID-19 infections in South Africa.