EARN $100,000 FOR SLEEPING 2 MONTHS

Yes, you read right.Your eyes read correct.Earn £100, 000 for sleeping 2 months on bed.NASA WantsTo Pay You $100,000 To Stay In Bed For Two Months.

Some of us are just night owls. We like to stay up late and sleep in till the afternoon. Most of our productivity comes when the sun sets and our friends refer to us as being nocturnal. Now our parents might not be so fond of these late-night attributes but it seems like a rather large government affiliated agency has some positions opening up for those who enjoy lounging in bed.
NASA has recently announced a new position that allows their candidates to chill in bed all day long as part of their ‘bed rest studies.’Appropriate candidates will have to stay in bed all day for the duration of 60 days.

Candidates, surprisingly, have to go through a pretty rigorous physical and psychological test in order to get this job.

I mean, you would think staying in bed for close to two months would be a pretty easy gig but NASA is interested in only those participants that display characteristics that will fit in with the ‘[NASA] astronaut population.’

But it’s actually a lot tougher than what it sounds like. The special bed that participants have to sleep on will reduce blood pressure and also cause a slow decrease in blood volume.

As the weeks pass by, muscles will begin to deteriorate and atrophy (or shrinking) will develop along the back and also down the lower half of the body.

Canada cycle police arrest top US suspect in Montreal

Canadian police patrolling on bicycles apprehended a man for drug possession only to discover he was one of the most wanted suspects in the US.
Police say Katay-Khaophone Sychantha was detained during a routine patrol on a Montreal cycle path.
His identity was discovered back at a police station where officers noticed a telltale amputated fingertip.
The alleged drugs-trafficker is on the US Department of Homeland Security's list of 10 most wanted suspects.
He has a $25,000 (£19,000) reward on his head and is also wanted by Ontario police for alleged drugs offences.
In a statement, Montreal police said Mr Sychantha and another man were approached by officers on cycle patrol who suspected they had drugs.
He tried to flee, a statement said, but officers gave chase and he was caught. He is alleged to have produced a fake US identification card.
Facing extradition
He was fingerprinted at a police station in the St-Laurent area. Officers also noticed the amputated fingertip which the US Department of Homeland Security lists as a distinguishing feature for the wanted man.
He appeared in a Montreal court on Thursday and was charged with drug possession, trying to mislead a police officer and carrying fake identification, the Montreal Gazette reported.
It is expected he will be handed over to Ontario police and also faces possible extradition to the US, it added.
According to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Laos-born Katay-Khaophone Sychantha, 35, was first indicted in Michigan in 2005 for conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance.
"Following this indictment, Sychantha evaded capture and continued to supervise a drug smuggling organisation based in the Windsor, Canada area," ICE, a branch of US Homeland Security, said on its website.
It said he had a history of violence and has allegedly "made threats against HSI [Homeland Security Investigations] special agents and other law enforcement officials".
The notice says he should be considered armed and dangerous

South Korea REACTS - releases video of 'top level precision' missile

SOUTH Korea have released footage of a “top-level precision” missile as a warning to the despotic northern ruler Kim Jong-un.

The Kim regime caused outrage in the region after firing a missile over Japan on Monday night.

Residents of Japan’s northernmost main island Hokkaido were told to run and hide as the rocket careened over the region before landing in the ocean on the other side of the country.

Now South Korea has issued the north with a threat of their own – releasing a video of two missiles which could be deployed if Kim Jong-un steps out of line.

The video shows a 500km range ballistic missile with improved warhead power landing on a target with pinpoint accuracy.

Another, an 800km range missile, can be seen ploughing into the ocean after being fired from a floating dock.Either missile is in range of Kim Jong-un’s dictatorial base in Pyongyang, potentially wiping out his authoritarian rule.A spokesperson for the nation;s Agency for Defence Development said: "Our military has the missile capability with top-level precision and power to strike any place in North Korea if necessary."It will greatly reinforce missile forces and power down the road as well."

The video’s release was in direct response to North Korea’s missile launch following a meeting of the south’s National Security Council.

Meanwhile the South carried out a threatening bombing drill near the inter-Korea border, the South Korean government’s chief press officer revealed.

The bombing was ordered by South Korean president Moon Jae-in and used four F15K fighter jets to drop a flurry of MK84 multi-purpose bombs on a training ground near the Korean border, the press chief added.

Is 'killer robot' warfare closer than we think?

"Killer robots" may seem like something from a sci-fi film, but reality is catching up

More than 100 of the world's top robotics experts wrote a letter to the United Nations recently calling for a ban on the development of "killer robots" and warning of a new arms race. But are their fears really justified?

Entire regiments of unmanned tanks; drones that can spot an insurgent in a crowd of civilians; and weapons controlled by computerised "brains" that learn like we do, are all among the "smart" tech being unleashed by an arms industry many believe is now entering a "third revolution in warfare".
"In every sphere of the battlefield - in the air, on the sea, under the sea or on the land - the military around the world are now demonstrating prototype autonomous weapons," says Toby Walsh, professor of artificial intelligence at Sydney's New South Wales University.
"New technologies like deep learning are helping drive this revolution. The tech space is clearly leading the charge, and the military is playing catch-up."

Russian arms maker Kalashnikov is developing a suite of fully automated weapons

 One reported breakthrough giving killer machine opponents sleepless nights is Kalashnikov's "neural net" combat module.
It features a 7.62mm machine gun and a camera attached to a computer system that its makers claim can make its own targeting judgements without any human control.

• AI fighter pilot wins in combat simulation

The company did not respond to repeated requests by the BBC for an interview, but according to Russia's state-run Tass news agency it uses "neural network technologies that enable it to identify targets and make decisions".
Unlike a conventional computer that uses pre-programmed instructions to tackle a specific but limited range of predictable possibilities, a neural network is designed to learn from previous examples then adapt to circumstances it may not have encountered before.

Would robot combat systems make fewer mistakes than humans?

And it is this supposed ability to make its own decisions that is worrying to many.
"If weapons are using neural networks and advanced artificial intelligence then we wouldn't necessarily know the basis on which they made the decision to attack - and that's very dangerous," says Andrew Nanson, chief technology officer at defence specialist Ultra Electronics.
But he remains sceptical about some of the claims arms manufacturers are making.
Automated defence systems can already make decisions based on an analysis of a threat - the shape, size, speed and trajectory of an incoming missile, for example - and choose an appropriate response much faster than humans can.
But what happens when such systems encounter something they have no experience of, but are still given the freedom to act using a "best guess" approach?
Mistakes could be disastrous - the killing of innocent civilians; the destruction of non-military targets; "friendly fire" attacks on your own side.

Remotely piloted drones have been used to carry out missile attacks since 2001

And this is what many experts fear, not that AI will become too smart - taking over the world like the Skynet supercomputer from the Terminator films - but that it's too stupid.
"The current problems are not with super-intelligent robots but with pretty dumb ones that cannot flexibly discriminate between civilian targets and military targets except in very narrowly contained settings," says Noel Sharkey, professor of artificial intelligence and robotics at Sheffield University.
Despite such concerns, Kalashnikov's latest products are not the only autonomous and semi-autonomous weapons being trialled in Russia.
The Uran-9 is an unmanned ground combat vehicle and features a machine gun and 30mm cannon. It can be remotely controlled at distances of up to 10km.




The prospect of autonomous weapons systems inadvertently leading to an escalation in domestic terrorism or cyber-warfare is perhaps another reason to treat this new tech with caution.

Write Clean Code

Jason McCreary

I am sharing the exprience of Jason McCreary who is developer having vast knowledge of programing.

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I recently started a new job. With every new job comes a new codebase. This is probably my twentieth job. So I've seen a lot of codebases.

Unfortunately they all suffer from the same fundamental issue - inconsistency. Likely the result of years of code patching, large teams, changing hands, or all of the above.

This creates a problem because we read code far more than we write code. As I read a new codebase these inconsistencies distract me from the true code. My focus shifts to the mundane of indentation and variable tracking instead of the important business logic.

Over the years, I find I boy scout a new codebase in the same way. I apply three simple practices to clean up the code and improve its readability.

To demonstrate, I’ll apply these to the following, real-world code I read just the other day.

function check($scp, $uid){
  if (Auth::user()->hasRole('admin')){
    return true;
  }
  else {
  switch ($scp) {
    case 'public':
      return true;
      break;
    case 'private':
      if (Auth::user()->id === $uid)
        return true;
      break;
    default: return false;
  }
  return false;
  }
}

Adopt a code style

I know I’m the 1,647th person to say, “format your code”. But it apparently still needs to be said. Nearly all of the codebases I’ve worked on have failed to adopt a code style. With the availability of powerful IDEs, pre-commit hooks, and CI pipelines it requires virtually no effort to format a codebase consistently.

If the goal is to improve code readability, then adopting a code style is the single, best way to do so. In the end, it doesn’t matter which code style you adopt. Only that you apply it consistently. Once you or your team agrees upon a code style, configure your IDE or find a tool to format the code automatically.

Since our code is PHP, I chosen to adopt the PSR-2 code style. I used PHP Code Beautifier within PHPCodeSniffer to automatically fix the code format.

Here's the same code after adopting a code style. The indentation allows us to see the structure of the code more easily.

function check($scp, $uid)
{
    if (Auth::user()->hasRole('admin')) {
        return true;
    } else {
        switch ($scp) {
            case 'public':
                return true;
            break;
            case 'private':
                if (Auth::user()->id === $uid) {
                    return true;
                }
                break;
            default:
                return false;
        }
        return false;
    }
}

Naming things properly clearly

Yes, something else you’ve heard plenty. I know naming things is hard. One of the reasons it’s hard is there are no clear rules about naming things. It’s all about context. And context changes frequently in code.

Use these contexts to draw out a name. Once you find a clear name, apply it to all contexts to link them together. This will create consistency and make it easier to follow a variable through the codebase.

Don't worry about strictly using traditional naming conventions. I often find codebases mix and match. A clear name is far more important than snake_case vs camelCase. Just apply it consistently within the current context.

If you’re stuck, use a temporary name and keep coding. I’ll often name things $bob or $whatever to avoid getting on stuck on a hard thing. Once I finish coding the rest, I go back and rename the variable. By then I have more context and have often found a clear name.

Clear names will help future readers understand this code more quickly. They don’t have to be perfect. The goal is to boost the signal for future readers. Maybe they can incrementally improve the naming with their afforded mental capacity.

After analyzing this code, I have more context to choose clearer names. Applying clear names not only improves readability, but boosts the context making the intent of the code easier to see.

function canView($scope, $owner_id)
{
    if (Auth::user()->hasRole('admin')) {
        return true;
    } else {
        switch ($scope) {
            case 'public':
                return true;
            break;
            case 'private':
                if (Auth::user()->id === $owner_id) {
                    return true;
                }
                break;
            default:
                return false;
        }
        return false;
    }
}

Avoid Nested Code

There are some hard rules regarding nested code. Many developers believe you should only allow one nesting level. In general, I tend to ignore rules with hard numbers. They feel so arbitrary given code is so fluid.

It's more that nested code is often unnecessary. I have seen the entire body of a function wrapped in an if. I have seen several layers of nesting. I have literally seen empty else blocks. Often adding guard clauses, inverting conditional logic, or leveraging return can remove the need to nest code.

In this case, I'll leverage the existing return statements and flip the switch to remove most of the nesting from the code.

function canView($scope, $owner_id)
{
    if ($scope === 'public') {
        return true;
    }

    if (Auth::user()->hasRole('admin')) {
        return true;
    }

    if ($scope === 'private' && Auth::user()->id === $owner_id) {
        return true;
    }

    return false;
}
In the end, coding is writing. As an author you have a responsibility to your readers. Maintaining a consistent style, vocabulary, and flow is the easiest way to ensure readability. Remove or change these and maintain readability you will not.

Woman who was a man to marry man who was a woman

Born a girl and now a man, Aarav Appukuttan, a 46-year-old from Kerala, says he was trapped inside a woman’s body for years. After undergoing a gender reassignment surgery at a Mumbai hospital, he fell in love with Sukanyeah Krishna 22, a man who underwent surgery at the same clinic to become a woman.

Aarav said he decided to eavesdrop while Sukanyeah was speaking to her family on the phone in Malayalam, as he knew the language. A casual conversation between the two led to them exchanging numbers. Their phone calls became more frequent in the coming months and cupid struck.

Neither of them has had an easy childhood. Aarav said he had long hair when he was 13. He would sit next to girls in his class, but felt unnerved by his attraction to them.

He confided in his mother, who took him to a doctor. The doctor said such problems were likely to happen at the onset of puberty, owing to hormonal imbalances. He asked Aarav to wait for a few years before opting for treatment.

However, Aarav, said his gender identity disorder (GID) only became more severe. In the next few years, he lost his mother and knew he had to take care of his siblings before he could focus on his own problems. “My father remarried,” he said.

“I used to hate my body and wanted to cut it sometimes. But, I had to restrain myself and keep my feelings in check for 45 years. I always behaved like everything was normal,” he added.

Sukanyeah said she also experienced GID during her childhood. After her father died, her mother took her to a doctor, who started her on male hormone therapy immediately. “With the therapy, my facial and body structure changed. I started developing muscles, my shoulders became broader and I lost a lot of hair on my head,” she said.

She said she was put on a high-protein diet, meant to aid her muscle development. “No one understood what I was going through. During my Class 10 board exams, I fainted owing to the pressure,” she said.She dropped out of school, studied software engineering and now works as a freelance web developer.

As the couple awaits their marriage ceremony, their friends say they expect a grand celebration. “ We wanted a small marriage ceremony, but our friends are asking for a treat. So, we will have a grand wedding.” said Aarav.

He adds that he and Sukanyeah want to counsel those whose children are experiencing GID.

Dr Sanjay Pandey, from Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, Andheri, who operated both of them said those who experience GID are just as normal and competent as we are. “ The only difference is that they feel trapped in the body of a gender they do not want to be. This is psychologically and emotionally tough,” he said.

He said gender reassignment surgery costs between Rs18 lakh to Rs19 lakh in places such as Thailand, where it is popular. In India, it costs between Rs 4 lakh to Rs5 lakh.

Foundation of 'dark Web' steps into the light

The Tor Project, the foundation of the crime-infiltrated "dark Web," is trying to soften its public image — but without backing away from the anonymous Web-surfing technology that has made it so controversial with law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

For about a decade, the Massachusetts-based nonprofit has provided free software that lets activists and political dissidents visit websites and exchange messages outside the scrutiny of oppressive governments. But the same software has allowed hidden markets for child pornography, guns, illegal drugs and stolen credit card information to flourish, while heightening U.S. intelligence agencies' worries about technology providing an unbreakable wall of anonymity for leakers, spies and terrorists.

The result has been a flurry of unflattering headlines — "'Dark Web' Hides Pedophiles," one NBC affiliate in California reported, while CNN declared that the "Pentagon hunts for ISIS on the secret Internet" — in news stories that specifically mentioned Tor as a tool for wrongdoers. FBI Director James Comey likewise dropped Tor's original name, "The Onion Router," during a Sept. 10 hearing in which he warned that "we see fraudsters of all kinds, whether it's health care or just trying to steal your banking transactions, trying to operate in a way that we can't see." And Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) mentioned Tor last year while pressing the Justice Department to step up its efforts to shut down online drug markets.

Meanwhile, Tor has an unlikely source of funding for a group run by techno-anarchists who denounce U.S. Internet surveillance: Almost all its money comes from the federal government. Those ties have stoked accusations from critics who say government funding assuredly means government spying.

So the Tor Project is trying something new: engaging in the soft-power fight of shaping its own narrative before a barrage of accusations causes permanent damage to its reputation. The organization brought on its first full-time communications director in March. And its leaders are reaching out to journalists, including a rare interview in which communications director Kate Krauss and co-founder Roger Dingledine candidly discussed the future of Tor.

“I can imagine a failure mode where ... Tor has been smeared so thoroughly so that everybody knows that ‘anonymity is for bad people,’” Dingledine said.

But rather than illicit drug marketplaces like the now-shuttered Silk Road, whose founder was sentenced to life in prison in May, or even “the dark Web” itself (a term Dingledine finds offensive), Tor backers say the project should be known for its contributions to privacy and human rights.

“People are not necessarily using Tor as their go-to tool to be bad,” said Krauss, whose hiring is Exhibit A in Tor’s pilgrim’s progress to a warmer, more proactive self. Ordinary people use Tor, she said. Whistleblowers and advocates use it. On any given day, the Tor Project is communicating with activists in China, Iran and Saudi Arabia.

Even police officers use Tor during investigations when online anonymity matters. “Everyone deserves the right to privacy,” Krauss said.

As part of the new openness, Dingledine and Krauss envision outreach to untapped audiences, tutorials for journalists, an expanded social media profile and an attempt to shift the conversation about Tor away from criminality. But their efforts will run into skeptics like former FBI agent Christopher Tarbell, who contributed to a wave of press coverage branding Tor a criminal paradise when he helped unmask Silk Road mastermind Ross Ulbricht in 2013.

“What do they say about child pornography?” Tarbell asked in a separate interview about Tor.

“People have died because they can buy drugs in their basement" through websites hidden by Tor network, he added. “As a parent, I want to say 'Yes, the technology should be stopped.'"

Dingledine said he’s untroubled by the fact that bad elements may take comfort from his life’s work of building Tor. He says the service benefits activists and ordinary, privacy-seeking citizens more than it enables criminals, terrorists, child abusers or anyone else in the parade of unsavories who have tarred Tor in the public mind.

“The bad guys are doing great on the Internet right now," Dingledine said. "The good guys have very few options."

For example, he said, criminals and terrorists can set up a system to communicate anonymously that lasts just two weeks, with law enforcement none the wiser for it, then can take it down and move to something else. “It doesn’t necessarily have to scale, it doesn’t have to have peer review, it doesn’t have to last," Dingledine said. Only Tor has set up a long-term system that’s also in reach of any member of the public.

Until recently, Tor didn’t think it needed to explain itself in public, viewing itself as already radically transparent. Its software is open source, and many of its internal communications are posted online. If you want to get to know the Tor Project, the thinking went, just read the website.

But in one of the many paradoxes that permeate Tor, those reams of searchable but jargon-filled missives can make Tor look like it's doing what it lets others to so well: hide information.

That naive belief in transparency backfired significantly in late 2014, when Silicon Valley online news site PandoDaily set off a minor Internet firestorm with a series of accusatory articles that attacked Tor over its federal funding. Tor is “almost certainly a giant honeypot,” presumably keeping logs on its users’ activity, the articles charged. As proof, PandoDaily cited not only Tor’s dependency on federal dollars but its origins in military intelligence.

The series was “a smear,” Dingledine said, one “designed to undermine confidence in the system.”

PandoDaily was right, however, about the funding and history. Without the State or Defense departments to support it, the Tor Project would go bankrupt — its more than 2 million worldwide users stuck without an effective way to hide their identities online. About 95 percent of its $2.7 million annual budget comes from U.S. agencies through Internet freedom and research grants.

Dingledine readily acknowledges those facts. “It’s on our website,” he said, repeating the old mantra because some habits die hard.

It’s also true that Tor is the product of research funded by the Naval Research Laboratory in the 1990s with the express intent of constructing technology for evading online detection. Spies use it to this day, their Internet traffic hidden side-by-side with furtive chatter among Iranian dissidents.

“We’re grateful for the government funding we get,” Krauss said.

But some avowed critics of the U.S. surveillance state are also Tor fans: NSA leaker Edward Snowden touts it, and close Snowden ally Jacob Appelbaum — who lives in self-imposed exile in Berlin — is a paid Tor developer. Other hackers and privacy advocates with noted reputations have done turns on staff.

Why the paradox? In a nutshell, the same government that funnels billions of dollars each year to the NSA for digital surveillance also spends a few million annually to make dodging the spy agency possible — because even the federal government needs a way for people be anonymous online.

About one-third of Tor’s funding comes through a government-incorporated nonprofit called the Open Technology Fund, established during the “Internet Freedom” push at the State Department under then-Secretary Hillary Clinton. So long as access to an open Web is a government priority, it will need Tor or something like it to allow human rights activists to evade their own homegrown surveillance agencies.

It needs anonymity for itself, too, since the federal government isn’t the only entity that monitors the Internet.

“A few years ago I presented at a conference run by the FBI,” Dingledine said. "At the end of the conference one of the FBI agents took me aside and asked, ‘Surely you have some sort of way of tracking your users?’ When I pointed at his FBI colleagues in the room who had told me they use Tor every day for their work, and asked if he'd be comfortable if we had a way of tracing them, I think he got it."

Using Tor to reach websites requires a modified browser that navigates an encrypted circuit of three to six specially configured servers. The Tor Project doesn’t own or control those servers — they’re maintained by volunteers spread out across the globe. As a result, Dingledine and the Tor Project have no idea who’s using Tor.

He also has no way to block or summarily take down illegal websites that take advantage of Tor to hide their true location. Getting to those websites requires going through a circuit of six servers, and the information for reaching them is published to six servers that change each day.

“So I guess you could go to the operators of these six relays and try to persuade them why it's important to censor this hidden service,” Dingledine said. "But you'd have to get all six to agree, or the service would still be reachable. And the next day it would be a new six."

Anyone trying that would also trip up against the international distribution of Tor servers. Would a Russian Tor server owner listen to a request from the FBI to stop routing to a hidden website? “How about the American relay operator listening to the Russian feds?” Dingledine asked.

Dan Meredith, principal director of the Open Technology Fund, has one take on the controversy surrounding Tor: This is what happens when a progressive but niche technology transits into the mainstream, as the Internet itself once did. “No one thinks that the Internet had any controversy and problems behind it. But it did — it was military funded,” he said.

“They’re still in the startup phase,” said Andrew Lewman, who stepped down in April after six years as the Tor Project's executive director. “It’s been a long process. It’ll continue to be a work in progress.”

Dingledine said he’s confident Tor will mature as an organization. “There are a lot of people who want to use Tor,” he said. Still, embedded into Dingledine’s faith is a plea showing how far Tor has yet to evolve as an organization.

“Please, can we fight on the value of our technology, not on the ability to do press releases?” he said.

Ancient Buddhist city in Afghanistan

A 2,000-year-old Buddhist city, Mes Aynak in Afghanistan, rich in stupas, shrines and monuments could be razed to the ground if a Chinese mining company is allowed to prospect for huge copper reserves on which the city sits.

The massive 500,000 square metre area straddling a 5,000-year-old Bronze Age settlement sat on what was once the cultural crossroad linking Asia to the Mediterranean.
An estimated $100bn (£66bn) worth of copper lies locked within Mes Aynak.

Around 600 large Buddha statues, and frescoes showing scenes from the life of the Buddha, have been unearthed to date, but the site is enormous and many more treasures are expected to be buried beneath.

"Some believe future discoveries at the site have the potential to redefine the history of Afghanistan and the history of Buddhism itself," reports Saving Mes Aynak.

The Afghanistan government and a Chinese state-owned mining company, the China Metallurgical Group Corporation, plan to mine the area. To reach the deposit, the site along with six surrounding villages have to be destroyed, reports Popular Archaeology.

The company plans to use open-pit mining, which is one of the most environmentally destructive style of mining that often leaves behind a trail of destruction, including erosion, tailings, groundwater contamination by chemicals, etc.

Afghan archaeologist Qadi Temori and American documentary film director Brent Huffman are working to raise international pressure on the company and the Afghanistan government in a bid to buy more time for archaeologists to retrieve and preserve the monuments before the site is destroyed.

The Saving Mes Aynak team has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo.

The campaign hopes to persuade Afghanistan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani to spare the site from destruction via designation as a Unesco World Heritage Site.

Discovered in 1964, political upheaval in the region prevented the site from being excavated. In 2004 French archaeologists who returned to the site reported that it had been extensively looted.

Located 25 miles southeast of Kabul near the Pakistan border in the Taliban-controlled Logar Province, it lies on a major transit route for Pakistani insurgents.

The Buddha statues of Bamiyan were dynamited and destroyed in March 2001 by the Taliban after being declared as idols. Bamiyan too lies on the Silk Road.

Afghanistan is believed to be sitting on a geological gold mine containing around 60 million tonnes of copper, 2.2 billion tonnes of iron ore, 1.4 million tonnes of rare earth elements and tonnes of aluminium, gold, silver, mercury and lithium, totalling more than half a trillion pounds, according to the US Geological Survey.

The minerals were deposited in the region during the violent collision of the Indian subcontinent with Asia.

The famous actor Arnold Schwarzenegger sleep on road

The famous actor Arnold Schwarzenegger posted a picture of him sleeping in the street under his famous bronze statue, and wrote sadly (How times changed).
The reason he wrote the sentence was not only because he was old, but because when the governor of California opened the hotel with the statue in front of him. The hotel officials told Arnold: "At any time you can come and have a room reserved in your name". When Arnold left judgment and went to the hotel, the administration refused to give him a room arguing that the hotel was fully booked.
He brought a cover and slept under the statue and asked people to imagine it. He wants to convey a message that when he was in a position they were praising him, and when he lost this position they forgot and did not fulfill their promise to him. Yes, times have changed. Do not trust your position or your owner or your power or your intelligence. All of this will not last.
In life after death.

The Blue Whale Challenge

What Is The Blue Whale Game?
 
It's described as a game, but the Blue Whale Challenge is far from a game. Young teens who accept the challenge are encouraged to complete a series of tasks which get more and more sinister and at the end of the game the player is urged to take their own life in order to "win."

The Blue Whale suicide game goes by many names including 'A Silent House,' 'A Sea Of Whales' and 'Wake Me Up At 4:20am.' It takes 50 days to complete and is played primarily via the website VKontakte, which is a popular social network in Russia. It gets its name from a common belief that blue whales voluntarily beach themselves in order to end their own lives.

The game is attracting teens as young as 12-years-old in Russia and Central Asian countries but recent reports suggest the game could be spreading across Europe and into the UK. The game has been blamed by the Russian media as the reason why 80 to 130 children committed suicide between November 2015 and April 2016.

How To Play The Blue Whale Challenge

The game's administrators or curator find players through "death groups" or "suicide groups" set up on VK.com (VKontakte). Police in Russia have shut down several of these groups in recent years but say that as soon as one is shut down, another starts up and this has driven them underground.

Once you've been accepted by an administrator, you are given your first of 50 daily challenges, these can be anything from simple tasks like listening to a certain song, watching unsettling videos and waking up at odd times to much more extreme requests like cutting words or whale symbols into your skin. The first challenge usually comes at 4:20am. Every time you accomplish a task, you must provide photographic or video proof of completion to the admin.

A journalist working at Radio Free Europe created an account on VK, posing as a 15-year-girl they attempted to join the Blue Whale game. After making contact with a curator they were given their first task, which involved deliberate self-harm.

Complete List Of Blue Whale Challenges

1. Carve with a razor "f57" on your hand, send a photo to the curator.
2. Wake up at 4.20 a.m. and watch psychedelic and scary videos that curator sends you.
3. Cut your arm with a razor along your veins, but not too deep, only 3 cuts, send a photo to the curator.
4. Draw a whale on a sheet of paper, send a photo to curator.
5. If you are ready to "become a whale", carve "YES" on your leg. If not, cut yourself many times (punish yourself).
6. Task with a cipher.
7. Carve "f40" on your hand, send a photo to curator.
8. Type "#i_am_whale" in your VKontakte status.
9. You have to overcome your fear.
10. Wake up at 4:20 a.m. and go to a roof (the higher the better)
11. Carve a whale on your hand with a razor, send a photo to curator.
12. Watch psychedelic and horror videos all day.
13. Listen to music that "they" (curators) send you.
14. Cut your lip.
15. Poke your hand with a needle many times
16. Do something painful to yourself, make yourself sick.
17. Go to the highest roof you can find, stand on the edge for some time.
18. Go to a bridge, stand on the edge.
19. Climb up a crane or at least try to do it
20. The curator checks if you are trustworthy.
21. Have a talk "with a whale" (with another player like you or with a curator) in Skype.
22. Go to a roof and sit on the edge with your legs dangling.
23. Another task with a cipher.
24. Secret task.
25. Have a meeting with a "whale."
26. The curator tells you the date of your death and you have to accept it.
27. Wake up at 4:20 a.m. and go to rails (visit any railroad that you can find).
28. Don't talk to anyone all day.
29. Make a vow that "you're a whale."
30-49. Everyday you wake up at 4:20am, watch horror videos, listen to music that "they" send you, make 1 cut on your body per day, talk "to a whale."
50. Jump off a high building. Take your life.

Want To Play?

If you're stupid enough to want to play this game then you're going to have to search hard. Assuming the game even really exists, it's not out in the open. You can't find the Blue Whale Challenge on Google or even on a Facebook group. According to news reports it exists in closed groups and in private message conversations.

It's said that the game administrators often choose their victims rather than the players themselves seeking out the game.

Perhaps you're just looking to play so that you can troll the admins, to expose them or to seek revenge but remember, anyone who encourages a vulnerable teen to take their own life is sick and you don't know what people like that are capable of.

Clicking a link someone like this sends you or downloading a file could expose a security vulnerability on your phone or computer that allows the admin to steal your personal data which they could then use to blackmail, manipulate or trick you into playing.

 

Live video of the iPhone 8

 Another day, another iPhone 8 leak. This time we see a live video of a black device that looks like the flagship which Apple is going to launch in September. It might be just a dummy, but the evidence is mounting that Apple would have at least one phone, which will look like this given the increasing number of leaked prototypes.

The clip is just 5 seconds and a spectacularly low quality for modern times, but the key components are visible. There is a dual camera on the back in a vertical setup while on the front we see another dual setup. One of the cameras above the display will probably be used for the rumored iris scanner.

Looking at the sides, we see the power button on the right side while the volume rocker and the mute button are sitting on the left side.

Another leak which appeared through Slashleaks suggested the fingerprint scanner will be on the back, below the Apple logo, but we don't see one here. The situation is getting more confusing and there is a good chance Apple has at least a few design circulating around. Still, fingers crossed, Apple will surprise us with an under-screen/under-glass fingerprint scanning technology of some sort.

Important career lesson

Elon Musk gave his assistant a 2-week test when she asked for a big raise — what happened to her is an important career lesson

Are you critical to your company's success?
In his 2015 book, "Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future," Ashlee Vance shares the story of how Musk stopped working with his longtime executive assistant in early 2014.

According to Vance, the assistant, Mary Beth Brown, asked Musk for a significant raise after she'd been working with him for 12 years. In response, Musk told Brown to take two weeks off, during which he would assume her responsibilities and see whether she was critical to his success.

When Brown returned, Musk told her he didn't need her anymore.

Musk also told Vance that he offered Brown another position at the company but that she never returned to the office after that.

This example is pretty extreme, but it's a solid lesson in knowing what you're worth to your organization.

Business Insider spoke with Lynn Taylor, a national workplace expert and the author of "Tame Your Terrible Office Tyrant: How to Manage Childish Boss Behavior and Thrive in Your Job." She shared a few strategies for assessing your value - before someone else does it for you - and boosting it.

First, Taylor said, you'll want to do an "audit" of your responsibilities. Take 15 minutes one day to think about what exactly you're working on.

"Could a temp do what you're doing and keep your boss happy?" Taylor said. If the answer is yes, or even maybe, you might need to step up your game.

Above all, Taylor said, "you want to make your boss need you - not just have you on board." So consider what makes your boss successful and how can you align yourself with that, she said.

Some people call it "managing up" - it's about figuring out how you can make your boss look good to their boss.

One tactic is to flat-out ask your boss whether you're adding enough value to the organization. You don't even have to wait for your next performance review, Taylor said.

While you're discussing some other project, you can say: "By the way, I want to make sure that I'm really providing the most value-added work that I can. I know you have a lot on your plate - are there any areas that I could work on, on my time, that would help make your job easier?"

Come prepared with specific examples of how you could help. For example, let's say you know your boss has been working on a tough project, and that you have some solid research experience from your past job that could be an asset to this project.

You could tell your boss: "I noticed that you were working on XYZ. I know that my background in X might be able to take care of some of the more routine aspects of that, but maybe even some strategic aspects of that. I'd love to give it a shot if you're open to it."

The bottom line is that you want to make yourself an integral part of your boss's success - and the company's. What happens after that is out of your control.


"No one is indispensable," Taylor said. "It's just to what degree are you harder to replace."

India-china war: China can use Opium as a weapon against India

A population of 2.96 lakh tribals living in five districts along the Arunachal Pradesh-China border is a major threat to national security at a time when the Indian Army and China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) are eyeball to eyeball on Doklam. Eighty-five per cent of males in the area—the majority from  Mishimi tribes—are drug addicts and traffickers. According to an Army report, Mishimis, who are hostile to India and had helped the Chinese Army in 1962 with information on Indian Army locations, may be aiding the PLA in the region in the same manner.

A new threat is that Chinese drug  mafia, which is sending refined opium back into India to be sold on the streets, will expand its operations, aided by the Chinese government. The additional terror threat rising from the insurgency-sensitive region could make the state a tinderbox.
Intelligence inputs suggest that young Mishimis constantly share inputs with the PLA through relatives in China and Myanmar who are always on the move across the border. The military establishment fears that the vast number of drug addicts among Mishimis can be used by the Chinese against India. “We have strong apprehensions that local drug addicts work as agents for the Chinese to get information on the Indian side,” said an officer of the Arunachal Narcotics Department.

According to the state Narcotics Department, the four districts populated by Mishimis produced nearly 762 tonnes of poppy crop on 1,067 acres last year. This has gone into making Arunachal Pradesh the largest poppy producer in the country with 40 per cent of the total share. Intelligence reports note that commercial poppy farming is done even inside reserve forest areas making traffickers difficult to track and catch. “Eighty per cent of poppy goes to Myanmar, where the trade is controlled by Chinese drug mafia. It returns to India as refined brown sugar through the porous Assam-Myanmar border,” said a Narcotics Department official.

Agencies suspect that by flooding Indian markets with cheap opium, China will be able to strike deep into the heart of urban India. The Drug Enforcement Agency has noticed a surge in illegal poppy cultivation especially in Namsai, Lohit, Longding, Tirap and Anjaw districts sharing a border with Myanmar and China. The state Narcotics Department believes dense forests and low population makes the state a playground for traffickers of opium and heroin. As per NCB report, “Large tracts in this state are now being cultivated commercially by the influential people for extraction of opium gum and trafficking”.

The border belt of Arunachal Pradesh is traditionally known for high-value medicinal plants and herbs. The local population sends the produce to China through Myanmar, since China is the biggest consumer. A recent report shared with the Union Home Ministry by the Arunachal State government cautioned that if the worrying trend is not checked promptly, “the situation may take a serious turn not only affecting national security” but also have an adverse impact on the health and existence of various other tribes in remote and inaccessible areas of Arunachal Pradesh. Both the Arunachal Pradesh government and the Ayush Ministry headed by Shripad Naik has proposed the utilisation of fertile land to cultivate herbs and medicinal plants.

State security and intelligence agencies also warn of a new terrorist threat from Arunachal Pradesh, clandestinely fomented by China as several border districts are prone to insurgency. The Naga faction of NSCN has reportedly recruited drug addicts from Changlang, Lohit and Anjaw. It is significant that poppy cultivation contributes to terror funding in Afghanistan.

Fatalities in terrorist violence in Arunachal Pradesh in 2016 were: 14 civilians, 88 security personnel and 165 terrorists. In 2017 till April, 10 civilians, 11 security personnel and 35 terrorists have been killed, according to information submitted by the state government.

Why Corruption Prevails In India?

 ‘It will cost ₹500 as a fine……’ said the Traffic cop jingling the keys of the freshly caught licenceless teenager”… Or you could just pay ₹100 rupees and skip off you know.”

Well, the most obvious reason for corruption to flourish and stay put in Indian society has many factors and the desire to get things done at the very least time and effort. Why wait in a line for hours altogether when an agent will get the same with some bribe? This also brings in a point that people with duty expect more than what they are actually paid for. Is your pay low? Ask for a raise, not a bribe. A kid has an obligatory duty to study and pass because it’s HIS future not his parents; who bribe him with promises of getting that new bicycle if he gets good grades. This at times begins at home.

Hinduism is the only religion in the world to worship a god of wealth. This is ironic because we have a tendency to strike DEALS with the deity. Not just a single god but any other will do fine too. You might have done a coconut offering for every easy paper you’ve got in your examination

Corruption and bribery have a dug deep roots in India. This can be traced back to the times of medieval times; during the Britisher’s systematic occupation of our territory. The East India Company did not win just because it had a greater army personnel or new weapons. We were always better than them. It was our moral ambiguity which hit us the hard. Guards and security personnel were easily bought with enough bribe for them to settle down for the rest of their lives. A mere platoon was enough for the invaders to enter a fortress through bribes during the night and claim victory. This rung bells in history since long. Let’s look at a few instances where bribery won the battle but not bows and swords.

1) Battle Of Plassey:

The British managed to buy Mir Jaffar who gave little to no effort in Warding off Clive and his army. The entire might of Bengal fell for a mere 3000 troops. 

2) Occupation of Golconda in the state of Hyderabad was just because a back door guard was bribed to open it.

3) The king of Srinagar who was at the time giving shelter to Sulaiman Shikoh, the Mughal prince was easily bribed by Aurangazeb

Facebook Completes Transition to Neural Machine Translation

Facebook, which uses machine translation to translate text in posts and comments automatically, announced in a blog post on August 3, 2017 that it has completed transitioning to a neural machine translation (NMT) system.

“We switched from using phrase-based machine translation models to neural networks to power all of our backend translation systems, which account for more than 2,000 translation directions and 4.5 billion translations each day,” Facebook engineers Juan Miguel Pino, Alexander Sidorov and Necip Fazil Ayan wrote in the company’s developers blog.

The social media giant started working on neural networks and to transition from phrase-based machine translation models to NMT in 2016 (“phrase-based MT has reached the end of its natural life”). In April 2017, Ayan announced at the F8 Developers Conference that it is halfway through deploying NMT.

Fayan said at the time that NMT at Facebook has been deployed in 15 systems, including popular language pairs English to German, English to Spanish, English to French, and Turkish to English.

Now with the full rollout of NMT, it is hoping that the new model could “provide more accurate and fluent translations”. Will Facebook’s two billion users really see better translations across the social network and in its two other platforms, Instagram and Workplace?

The blog authors admitted that translating Facebook posts and comments is difficult. “We need to account for context, slang, typos, abbreviations, and intent simultaneously,” they explained. 

Improvements in translation quality, especially in high-traffic languages, will be worth watching.

For now, the bold claim that its engineers are trumpeting is an 11% increase in BLEU score “across all languages compared with the phrase-based systems.”

Google rolled out NMT in 2016 ahead of Facebook and has been claiming strides in Google Translate, but badly translated texts still get the rap, while mangled songs end up being parodied on Jimmy Fallon’s show.

Facebook’s Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) team has published its research on using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for machine translation and CEO Mark Zuckerberg himself announced in May 2017 that the company will release its work on NMT in the open source community.

Facebook researchers shut down AI bots

 Days after Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that artificial intelligence (AI) was the biggest risk, Facebook has shut down one of its AI systems after chatbots started speaking in their own language, which used English words but could not be understood by humans. According to a report in Tech Times on Sunday, the social media giant had to pull the plug on the AI system that its researchers were working on "because things got out of hand". The trouble was, while the bots were rewarded for negotiating with each other, they were not rewarded for negotiating in English, which led the bots to develop a language of their own.

"The AI did not start shutting down computers worldwide or something of the sort, but it stopped using English and started using a language that it created," the report noted. Initially the AI agents used English to converse with each other but they later created a new language that only AI systems could understand, thus, defying their purpose. This led Facebook researchers to shut down the AI systems and then force them to speak to each other only in English.

In June, researchers from the Facebook AI Research Lab (FAIR) found that while they were busy trying to improve chatbots, the "dialogue agents" were creating their own language. Soon, the bots began to deviate from the scripted norms and started communicating in an entirely new language which they created without human input, media reports said. Using machine learning algorithms, the "dialogue agents" were left to converse freely in an attempt to strengthen their conversational skills.

The researchers also found these bots to be "incredibly crafty negotiators". "After learning to negotiate, the bots relied on machine learning and advanced strategies in an attempt to improve the outcome of these negotiations," the report said. "Over time, the bots became quite skilled at it and even began feigning interest in one item in order to 'sacrifice' it at a later stage in the negotiation as a faux compromise," it added.

Although this appears to be a huge leap for AI, several experts including Professor Stephen Hawking have raised fears that humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, could be superseded by AI. Others like Tesla's Elon Musk, philanthropist Bill Gates and ex-Apple founder Steve Wozniak have also expressed their concerns about where the AI technology was heading. Interestingly, this incident took place just days after a verbal spat between Facebook CEO and Musk who exchanged harsh words over a debate on the future of AI.

"I've talked to Mark about this (AI). His understanding of the subject is limited," Musk tweeted last week. The tweet came after Zuckerberg, during a Facebook livestream earlier this month, castigated Musk for arguing that care and regulation was needed to safeguard the future if AI becomes mainstream. "I think people who are naysayers and try to drum up these doomsday scenarios -- I just, I don't understand it. It's really negative and in some ways I actually think it is pretty irresponsible," Zuckerberg said.

Musk has been speaking frequently on AI and has called its progress the "biggest risk we face as a civilisation". "AI is a rare case where we need to be proactive in regulation instead of reactive because if we're reactive in AI regulation it's too late," he said.

Hizbul terrorist gunned down in encounter in J-K's Anantnag, Jammu & Kashmir, india

A newly recruited local terrorist of Hizbul Mujahideen was gunned down in an overnight encounter with security forces that also resulted in the death of an unidentified person in the ensuing crossfire in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district, security officials said on Friday.

The encounter broke out on Thursday night at Kanibal in Bijbehara of Anantnag district, when the police along with the army and Central Reserve Police Force cordoned off a village following an intelligence input about the presence of terrorists, they said.

During the encounter, which lasted for two hours, one terrorist identified as Yawar, hailing from Anantnag, was killed while two other terrorists managed to escape under the cover of darkness, they said, adding that an army jawan also sustained bullet injury but was stated to be stable.

Yawar, who was allegedly a “chronic stone pelter” of the area, had joined the outfit in the first week of last month, they said, adding that a Self-Loading Rifle looted earlier from a police guard was recovered from him.

During the encounter, one motorcycle-borne individual, whose identity is yet to be ascertained, was found dead with bullet injuries, the officials said, expressing apprehension that he might have died in the crossfire.

The number plate of the vehicle was damaged and no identity card of the deceased was found.Two mobile phones were recovered from the deceased who was in multi-layered clothing. The telephone contacts in his handset could not immediately help to confirm his identified.

The local police have released his picture for identification. According to the officials, the body of Yawar was handed over to his family for burial and restrictions were imposed in the town as a preventive measure

The Trek Up Raisina Hill Proved Elusive for this Hopeful

Whom will Modi ji pick for the race to Raisina Hill? Media speculation has not been of much help.

The suspense was building. Whom will Modi ji pick for the race to Raisina Hill? Media speculation has not been of much help. And anyways, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah have made a spectator sport of proving journalists wrong.

So, at the BJP Parliamentary Board meeting on June 19 to finalise the nominee for the Presidential elections, everyone present was as surprised by the final choice as you and me.

Among the hopefuls was a senior minister from the South who has been fancying his chances as the next President or, at least, Vice-President. An insider said that as soon as PM Modi began speaking this minister’s face fell. The PM said no member from the current pool of ministers can be spared for the top job. With only two more years left for the next general elections the PM said he wants all hands on the deck.

The dejected minister later poured out his sorrow - in which language we don't know, our protagonist speaks quite a few - to an opposition leader. "I wanted to move to a constitutional post, but it seems tough now," was what he apparently said.

Girl playing/living with poisons snakes as they like her friends

If everyone lived like Americans we would need 5 earths

Earth Overshoot Day marks the day when human’s use of resources for that year reaches unsustainable levels. The use of resources after this a burden on the planet.

On August 2, humans used up all the resources that can be sustainably renewed by earth this year and whatever is consumed till the end of 2017 will count as a burden on the planet.The idea of Earth Overshoot Day is to have a threshold, beyond which we are overdrawing from our pool of replenishable resources of the planet

In 1997, Earth Overshoot Day fell in late September but over the years it has come earlier and earlier now falling in early August. Humans today need 1.7 earths to satisfy their needs and wants now, and at the pace of consumption we would need 2 earths by 2030.

However, if people across the world lived like Indians we would require only 0.6 earths, which means using less than what is available for exploitation.  If everyone on the planet lives like Americans, we would need 5 earths, according to Global Footprint Network.

Excessive use of resources has real consequences for the planet. A WWF report showed that there was a 58% fall in global populations, fish, birds, mammals, amphibians and reptiles between 1970 and 2012, indicating that human pressure on natural resources in unsustainable, eating into the resources available for other species.

In India, one of the ways this stress on the environment is manifesting is as a water crisis. Of the 20 major river basins in the country 14 are water stressed and there is likely to be acute water scarcity in the country by 2050. An overwhelming proportion of surface water sources (70%) are polluted and 70% of groundwater resources will become critical within the next 10 years.

“Economic growth and development is critical for India – improved education, health, and job opportunities along with better infrastructure are much needed,” Sejal Worah, Programme Director, WWF-India. “However, if not properly planned and implemented, such growth can also pose a significant challenge to the natural environment. The message from our planet is clear and one we cannot ignore.

Experts say that humans can still redeem what is left of earth’s resources if they can push the limit further by 4.5 days every year, which would mean using fewer and fewer resources. If humans tread this path there is hope that by 2050 we would be using resources sustainably again.

Tillerson: US not seeking regime change in North Korea

US secretary of state asks Pyongyang to halt its nuclear programme, telling North Koreans, "we are not your enemy".

US State Secretary Rex Tillerson has said Washington is not trying to topple Kim Jong-Un's regime in North Korea, but Pyongyang must halt its nuclear missile programme.

"We do not seek a regime change. We do not seek the collapse of the regime. We do not seek an accelerated reunification of the peninsula," he said during a press conference in Washington, DC on Tuesday.

"We do not seek an excuse to send our military north of the 38th parallel. And we're trying to convey that to the North Koreans. We are not your enemy. We're not your threat, but you are presenting an unacceptable threat to us, and we have to respond."

Reviewing his six months in office, Tillerson said the US would be willing to talk to the North Korea if it accepts to disarm.

"We don't think having a dialogue where the North Koreans come to the table assuming they're going to maintain their nuclear weapons is productive," he said.

But he sought to reassure the isolated regime that it does not need a nuclear arsenal to defend itself from a US attack.

China's role

US President Donald Trump has demanded that China, North Korea's neighbour and biggest trade partner, rein in its nuclear ambitions - angrily tweeting over the weekend that Beijing is not doing enough.

But here too, Tillerson was more diplomatic.

"We certainly don't blame the Chinese for the situation in North Korea," he said.

"Only the North Koreans are to blame for this situation, but we do believe China has a special and unique relationship, because of this significant economic activity, to influence the North Korean regime in ways that no one else can."

Tillerson's views on North Korea and its close ally China is in sharp contrast to the US envoy to the UN, Nikki Haley, who on Sunday asked Beijing to decide on tougher UN sanctions on the North over its two long-range missile tests last month.

"China must decide whether it is finally willing to take this vital step. The time for talk is over," she said.

Last week, Kim boasted that North Korea could strike any target in the US after carrying out its latest intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test.

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said Trump was ready to launch a devastating military strike if diplomacy failed to stop the nuclear missile threat.

Trump has also spoken to its ally Japan over the latest North Korean missile test.

Junglee: The Mask director will make a Hindi film and this is the actor he has chosen

Vidyut Jammwal is looking forward to start shooting for his next thriller Junglee which will be directed by American writer-filmmaker Chuck Russell. He feels fortunate to be part of a film with a message for the global audience.

Russell has joined hands with Junglee Pictures to helm an action-adventure about a man and an elephant. It will throw light on the issue of elephant poaching and ivory smuggling.

The film is set to go on floors in October, with a release targeted for the summer of 2018. “Being trained in Kalaripayattu since the age of three and given my love for animals, I couldn’t have asked for a better script to showcase my potential. I consider myself really fortunate to get a chance to be part of a film that has a message of global significance,” Vidyut said in a statement.

The Commando star added, “Above all being directed by the legendary Chuck Russell is any actor’s dream and I can’t wait to begin the shoot.”

Russell is known for films like A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, The Mask, Arnold Schwarzenegger-starrer Eraser and The Scorpion King.

Priti Shahani, President, Junglee Pictures, also said that Junglee will narrate a heart-warming story penned by Ritesh Shah. “Chuck was our first choice and we reached out to him thinking may be the story would appeal to him given that it raises an issue of global significance. And to our delight Chuck agreed and he will be flying in next month to start the prep,” Shahani added.

Talking about roping in Vidyut for the film, she said, “Kalaripayattu, a form of martial arts which originated in Kerala, also forms an integral part of the film. Vidyut is trained in the martial art form since childhood. We are very happy to have roped in Vidyut for this thriller.”

The action-thriller will unfold in the jungles of Kerala, and is scheduled to be shot in an elephant reserve in the state.