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Amid the pervasive realm of social media, each flick and swipe guides you through an infinite stream of content. Within this landscape, health and fitness influencers have garnered substantial followings, aiming to inspire or instruct with posts that could vault them to online stardom. Yet, do these influencers genuinely divulge the keys to a healthier, more harmonious life, or are they merely presenting falsehoods adorned in appealing aesthetics?

How do you imagine your police force to be like? In Assam, police officials have been told to lose weight or they'll lose their jobs. Those who clock in a BMI of over 30 – which is classified as obese – will be sent for a “health camp” to the Police Training College under nutritionists and doctors from the government. This is not the first time this issue has come up in India. Some studies have shown that the problem might be systemic.

Large-scale disruption of road routes and bridges due to heavy rains is causing many hardships to the people in Uttarakhand's remote hill villages with pregnant women and the elderly being the worst hit. People were seen carrying woman having labour pain in chairs mounted with the help of sticks on their shoulders to the nearest health facility. This has been the plight of the remote villages of Pokhri, Joshimath, Dasholi, Ghat and Dewal blocks of Chamoli district for nearly a month. The patients are seated in chairs which are lifted on the shoulders with the help of bamboo sticks and taken forward.

An elderly man took inappropriate photos of an air hostess while travelling on a Mumbai-bound SpiceJet flight. The incident came to light after a vlogger posted a video on her social media account. “On SpiceJet flight 157 (Delhi-Mumbai), our seat was A and B, and on C sat an elderly man who did a deplorable act. The man was trying to record a video of the underpants of a flight attendant while she was serving him,” said the blogger.