अगले महीने से शुरू होने वाली चारधाम यात्रा के दौरान केदारनाथ और बद्रीनाथ धाम में विशेष पूजा करना महंगा होगा। बद्रीनाथ-केदारनाथ मंदिर समिति (बीकेटीसी) ने पूजा शुल्क में बढ़ोतरी कर नई दरें तय कर दी हैं। बदरीनाथ धाम में श्रीमद्भागवत कथा के आयोजन का शुल्क दोगुना कर दिया गया। इसे 51 हजार रुपये से बढ़ाकर 1 लाख रुपये कर दिया गया है. वहीं केदारनाथ धाम में पूरे दिन की पूजा के लिए 51 हजार रुपये का शुल्क देना होगा. जो पहले 28,600 रुपये थी.

Kolkata/Darjeeling: The BJP released its second list of 111 candidates for Bengal, banking on familiar faces — former MPs, sitting MLAs and veterans — while pipping longtime ally Gorkha National Liberation Front on three seats in the Darjeeling-Kalimpong hills, Rohit Khanna and Roshan Gupta report. Former MPs Nisith Pramanik (Mathabhanga), Arjun Singh (Noapada), Roopa Ganguly (Sonarpur South) and Dibyendu Adhikari (Egra) made the cut in the list of eight sitting MLAs, as did Ashok Kirtania (Bongaon North), Swapan Majumdar (Bongaon South) and Subrata Thakur (Gaighata). Other prominent names to receive nominations include Ritesh Tiwari (Kashipur-Belgachia), Priyanka Tibrewal (Entally) and Sanjay Singh (Balli).Former IPS officer Rajesh Kumar, who was appointed Kolkata Police Commissioner by the Election Commission for 50 days during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, got the ticket from Jagat Dal. The 1990-batch officer retired as principal secretary of the department of mass education and library services.There are 14 women in BJP’s second list, taking the total to 25 women so far. Rekha Patra, the face of BJP’s Sandeshkhali movement against arrested and suspended Trinamool leader Sheikh Shahjahan, will contest elections from Hingalganj.In the hills, potential candidates of ally GNLF were not selected for any of the three constituencies – Darjeeling, Kurseong and Kalimpong. The party founded by Subhash Ghisingh has been an NDA constituent for a decade, but has since been delisted by the Election Commission, leaving its aspiring candidates dependent on the BJP. GNLF general secretary Neeraj Zimba won Darjeeling as a BJP candidate in the 2021 elections. Earlier, he had won the 2019 by-election on the lotus symbol.The BJP nominated former Indian hockey captain Bharat Chhetri from Kalimpong and accommodated the GNLF’s rival Gorkha Janmukti Morcha in Darjeeling, fielding its young central general secretary Noman Rai. Kurseong ticket went to local BJP block president Sonam Lama.GNLF central panel spokesperson Y Lama said his party was not even consulted. “Our Central Committee will decide future actions.”Kharagpur Sadar MLA Hiran Chattopadhyay, whose seat was allotted to former state unit chief Dilip Ghosh, has been fielded from Shyampur. Tapas Roy, who won Maniktala on a Trinamool ticket in 2021 and joined the BJP before unsuccessfully contesting from Kolkata North in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, has been fielded in his old constituency. Roopa Ganguly has been fielded from Sonarpur South.On the Kurmi front, the BJP decided to support independent candidate Vishwajit Mahato in Purulia’s Joypur. In its first list, the party had made former state president of Kurmi community Rajesh Mahato a candidate from Gopiballavpur. Both Rajesh and Ajit are pushing for ST status for the Kurmi community and inclusion of Kurmali in the Eighth Schedule.

22 दिसंबर 2016 की एक ठंडी सुबह अचानक सुर्खियों में आ गई जब करीब 500 गाड़ियों का लंबा काफिला शहर की सड़कों से गुजरा. ये कोई आम काफिला नहीं बल्कि माफिया से नेता बने अतीक अहमद का शक्ति प्रदर्शन था. गाड़ियों के हॉर्न की आवाज से सड़कें जाम हो गईं और एक एंबुलेंस भी फंस गई, लेकिन इस पर अतीक का बयान और भी चौंकाने वाला था. यह घटना अतीक अहमद के उस वर्चस्व को दर्शाती है, जो उसने अपराध और राजनीति के सहारे स्थापित किया था.

अपराध और आतंक का चेहरा
अतीक अहमद का नाम लंबे समय तक उत्तर प्रदेश के अपराध जगत में खौफ का पर्याय बना हुआ था. इलाहाबाद के धूमनगंज इलाके में विधायक राजू पाल की हत्या इसका बड़ा उदाहरण है. चुनाव में हार का बदला लेने के लिए अतीक के गुर्गों ने उसका पीछा किया और गोलियों से भून डाला. इसके अलावा यूनिवर्सिटी में घुसकर शिक्षकों को धमकाने की घटना भी उसके आतंक को दर्शाती है.

फिल्म ‘धुरंधर-2’ में दिखी कहानी
हाल ही में रिलीज हुई फिल्म ‘धुरंधर-2’ में अतीक अहमद जैसे किरदार को ‘आतिफ अहमद’ के नाम से दिखाया गया है. फिल्म में बताया गया है कि वह पाकिस्तान से आने वाले नकली नोटों को चुनाव में खपाता था. हालांकि, एजेंसियों ने उसे पहले ही खत्म कर दिया।

अपराध की शुरुआत और बढ़ता नेटवर्क
1962 में इलाहाबाद में जन्मे अतीक ने कम उम्र में ही अपराध की दुनिया में कदम रख दिया था। 1979 में उन पर पहली हत्या का आरोप लगा. इसके बाद हत्या, रंगदारी, अपहरण और जमीन कब्जाने जैसे 100 से ज्यादा मामले दर्ज हुए. उसकी पकड़ इतनी मजबूत थी कि जेल में रहकर भी वह अपना नेटवर्क चलाता था.

राजनीति में प्रवेश और शक्ति में वृद्धि
1989 में अतीक अहमद ने राजनीति में कदम रखा और विधायक बने. इसके बाद वह पांच बार विधायक बने और 2004 में सांसद भी बने. उन्होंने अपराध और राजनीति के बीच की सीमा को लगभग खत्म कर दिया था.

अंत और संपत्ति का खुलासा
15 अप्रैल, 2023 को अतीक और उसके भाई की पुलिस हिरासत में गोली मारकर हत्या कर दी गई थी। इस घटना को देशभर में लाइव देखा गया. बताया जाता है कि अतीक करीब 11 हजार करोड़ रुपये की संपत्ति का मालिक था और उसके नाम पर 200 से ज्यादा बैंक खाते और कई फर्जी कंपनियां थीं.

The real science behind the most disturbing Spider-Man trailer ever The real science behind the most disturbing Spider-Man trailer ever

new trailer for brand new Day Opens with a voiceover describing the three stages of a spider’s life and what happens in the spaces between them. It turns out that science is even stranger than fiction.This week when the first trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day was released, Peter Parker is disoriented, waking up in a cocoon, struggling to control the webbing that now comes from his body instead of the mechanical web-shooters he has used during his MCU operations. The shift to organic webbing isn’t entirely new territory for the franchise; Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man had biologically constructed webs in Sam Raimi’s 2004 film, and the concept was briefly acknowledged in No Way Home. Here it suggests something more unstable, a physical development possibly linked to the DNA mutation or the cumulative stress of being Spider-Man, leaving Parker exposed in ways he wasn’t before. In the comics, such biological changes have sometimes taken much darker turns, with Parker growing extra limbs, developing a more violent physiology, and losing pieces of his humanity in the process.

A disoriented Peter Parker awakens inside a giant web cocoon after collapsing, prompting a mysterious and disturbing transformation ahead

The trailer suggests that there are no such extremes, but the direction of travel is clear. In the footage, the voice of actor Keith David, whose role is undisclosed, provides the narration that forms the trailer’s backbone: “Spiders have three life cycles. Between cycles, this can make the spider vulnerable to dangers. And for those spiders that make it across, it’s like a kind of rebirth.” It’s a neat piece of screenwriting that hints at a real arc for Holland’s Parker. It is, in its broad strokes, accurate too, and the reality of what spiders actually go through in those three stages is worth understanding on its own terms.

What exactly are these three steps?

Every spider that has ever existed, from the smallest jumping spider to a dinner plate-sized tarantula, goes through the same three stages: egg, pupa, and adult. There is no larval or pupal stage like the butterfly. Spiders do not undergo metamorphosis. What they do instead is weird in its own quiet way.

A female nursery web spider, Pisaura mirabilis, carrying her egg sac / YouTube Steve Downer – Wildlife + Macro Cinematography

It starts with the egg sac, a structure the mother builds from silk before she lays the eggs. The silk is tough enough to protect from the elements, and a sac can hold anywhere from a handful of eggs to several thousand, depending on the species. Some mothers guard the sac until the eggs hatch. Wolf spider mothers carry it with them entirely, and when the eggs are ready, they cut the sac themselves to free the babies. Other species deposit the sac somewhere safe and abandon their offspring entirely to fate. The eggs usually take a few weeks to hatch, although in colder climates some eggs overwinter inside the sac and emerge only in the spring.

most dangerous stage

When spiders hatch, they are not larvae or grubs. They’re fully formed, tiny spiders, eight legs, many eyes, the entire architecture of an adult, compressed into an almost invisibly small thing. They lack size, and in order to grow larger they need to remove the obstructive exoskeleton, a process called molting. Most species moult five to ten times before reaching adulthood, and during moult, when the old exoskeleton has shed and the new exoskeleton has not yet hardened, the spider is at its most exposed. It doesn’t work properly. It cannot defend itself. The line in the trailer about vulnerability between cycles is, in biological terms, a reasonably plausible description of this window.

A jumping spider takes stock of its spiders/Instagram Sanctuary Asia

Dispersion at this level is one of the more quietly extraordinary things spiders do. Some spiders move away from the egg sac. Others blow up balloons, climb to a high point, raise their bellies, and release fine silk threads that catch the wind and lift them into the air, sometimes carrying them for hundreds of meters, sometimes much further. The silk forms a triangular shape which essentially functions as a kite. This is how spiders adapt to new environments, and this means that a creature born in one place can reach full adulthood in another.

Spider testing the air with ballooning silk/Image credit: Steve Creek Wildlife Photography

Adulthood, and what is its price

Once the spider reaches adulthood, it is able to reproduce, and for male spiders, that’s often the end of the story. A male first spins a small web, deposits sperm on it, and then draws that sperm into specialized appendages called pedipalps before going in search of a female. The approach requires care; Females are larger, often stronger, and may be mistaken for prey by a male who misjudges the encounter. Many males die shortly after mating, despite popular belief, due to biological inevitability rather than female aggression in some species. Female spiders live much longer. Most spider species live a total of one to two years, but the female tarantula is one species that makes fun of the average, with some living more than twenty years. They continue to ejaculate even into adulthood, which creates a peculiarity: if a female tarantula ejaculates after mating, she leaves the structure in which she stored the sperm, and she has to mate again. In brand new DayThe filmmakers used this biological structure as an allegory where Peter Parker finds himself temporarily torn between a version of himself and whatever comes after him, without his bearing. It remains to be seen whether the film monetizes that metaphor when it releases on July 31. At least the spider from which it is borrowed has biology on its side.

This could be a rare opportunity for Indian athletics fans to see world record holder Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis in action on home soil, as Bhubaneswar is set to host the World Indoor Athletics Championships in 2028.

India will host the prestigious indoor event for the first time after World Athletics awarded the hosting rights to the country at its council meeting in Torun, Poland on Thursday. The decision was taken a day before the start of the 2026 World Indoor Championships in the Polish city.

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“India has been awarded the World Indoor Athletics Championships for the year 2028,” confirmed World Athletics Vice President Adil Sumariwalla.

Held every two years, the event features some of the biggest names in global athletics, including pole vault superstar Duplantis, who has dominated the discipline in recent years. His presence in Bhubaneswar in 2028 will give Indian fans a chance to see one of the modern greats of the game up close.

The Athletics Federation of India (AFI) had earlier announced its bid for the 2028 edition, with the World Athletics delegation visiting the indoor facility at the Kalinga Stadium complex in January.

AFI President Bahadur Singh Sagoo said this development reflects the growing stature of Indian athletics on the global stage.

He said, “India being awarded the 2028 World Athletics Indoor Championships is a symbol of the growing stature of Indian athletics. Following Neeraj Chopra’s success at the Olympics and World Championships, track and field has received special attention in the country.”

Bhubaneswar’s Kalinga Stadium complex, which houses a state-of-the-art indoor facility, has emerged as a major venue in India’s bid to host major international events.

India has also submitted bids for several global competitions, including the 2028 World U20 Championships and the 2031 World Athletics Championships, as part of its larger ambition to host the 2036 Olympics.

Who is Mondo Duplantis?

Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis is perhaps the greatest track and field athlete of all time. Duplantis, a pole vaulter, has broken the world record 15 times since 2020 in a remarkable display of dominance. The Swedish star cleared 6.31m at the Mondo Classic indoor meet in Uppsala, Sweden. Broke the world record for the 15th time in his careerImproved my own mark by one centimeter.

Unlike most track and field disciplines, the pole vault has a single world record covering both indoor and outdoor performances. And it happened six years ago at an indoor meet in Poland, where Duplantis broke the pole vault record for the first time.

In a six-year world record run, he also won two Olympic gold medals, including a world record at the 2024 Paris Games, claimed the Laureus World Sports Award, and extended a 38-meet winning streak through 2023.

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