The BJP had also raised questions on Thursday over how a “promoter of beef consumption” got access to the 12th century shrine, where entry of non-Hindus is banned.

New Delhi: Social media influencer Kamiya Jani declared on Sunday that she has “never eaten or promoted beef.” This comes after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) accused Jani, founder of popular online food and travel channel Curly Tales, of visiting Odisha’s Jagannath temple as a ‘beef promoter’. “In the wake of the recent controversy, it is important that I present real facts and the truth,” she said. “My motive for going to Jagannath was to seek the blessings of Lord Jagannath and provide information about the infrastructure of the temple. I am a practicing Hindu. I have never eaten beef and never advertise it.”

On Friday, the ruling BJD and the opposition BJP were locked in a fight against X over Jani’s entry into the Jagannath temple in Puri for making a video on the shrine.

While the saffron camp accused ruling BJD leader and former bureaucrat VK Pandian of facilitating the entry of Jani, who is accused of promoting beef consumption on a YouTube channel, to the temple, the ruling party said she was appointed earlier by top BJP leaders to make films on Hindu heritage and temples.

The BJP had also raised questions on Thursday over how a “promoter of beef consumption” got access to the 12th century shrine, where entry of non-Hindus is banned. BJD MP Manas Mangaraj went to X and questioned Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan about the unnecessary issue involving Kamiya Jani.

“She also went to Char Dham and Ayodhya Ram Temple to see Ram Lalla. And you all love her and posted this on your social media (handles),” Mangaraj said. Mangaraj, who is also the media advisor to the Odisha government, added screenshots of photos of Kamia Jani shared by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and Dharmendra himself.

The BJD leader asked Pradhan, “Please tell us what your problem is with her now. Or is it simply intolerance towards the enormous work completion for Sri Mandir that you cannot bear? This is really shameful that you yourself liked and promoted posts about Hindu temples and now you have a problem for Sri Mandir.

Soon after Mangaraj’s post, BJP MLA Lalitendu Bidyadhar Mohapatra, a close associate of Pradhan, posted on X: “@manasrmangaraj, the more you try to hide the truth, the more you expose it. Do you justify the promotion of Mahaprasad by someone who promotes beef?”

Adrianne Palicki offered a surprising insight into how The Orville‘s delayed filming schedule took its toll on the cast.

During the Tuesday, November 28 episode of Michael Rosenbaum‘Inside of You’ podcastPalicki, 40, hinted that the space saga will not return for a fourth season.

“No, I don’t do that anymore,” she responded to a question about it The Orvillewhich hasn’t released any new episodes on Hulu since August 2022. “I really don’t know the answer to that [if it was canceled].”

Created by Seth MacFarlane, the science fiction series follows the crew of starship USS Orville as they have adventures while exploring different parts of the galaxy. MacFarlane, 50, stars in the show alongside PalickiPenny Johnson Jerald, Halston Sage, Scott Grimes, Peter Macon, J. Lee, Mark Jackson, Jessica Szohr And Anna Winters.

According to Palicki, the show has become “really difficult” to film. She pointed to the fact that The Orville filmed 33 episodes over the course of six years, which doesn’t allow the cast to have a stable income stream as that equates to about 5 episodes per year.

“It became a real problem because there was so much time between seasons because Seth wanted to write everything himself,” Palicki continued. “At one point we were like, ‘We have to fight with the studio to give us a retainer fee or something.'”

The actress, who played Commander Kelly Grayson, used Lee’s off-screen experience as an example, adding, “J. Lee ate saltines and gatorade at one point because we just couldn’t afford anything. It was horrible.”

MacFarlane has previously noted that his busy schedule has caused long gaps between seasons.

“How can I incorporate this into everything else that’s happening right now?” he told TVLine in August 2022, citing his commitment to projects such as Family man and Peacock is coming Ted series. “I will say that I get as emotionally invested in the show as any of the fans do, so I will find a way to do it if there is a season 4.”

Earlier this year, the outlet received an update on this The Orville‘s future of the president of Disney Television Group. “It’s a great show and I know the fans loved having it back in their lives. And Seth has done a great job, in as unique a way as he can, in front of and behind the camera,” Craig Erwich said in January. “But right now we have nothing to share.”

MacFarlane told it too We weekly in the past about the pressure of returning to a project.

“It’s scary to start a brand new season because you’ve just written a whole bunch of episodes, which you’re probably proud of and feel good about, and then you have to do it all over again,” he said in 2018 forward The Orvillesecond season premiere. “There’s always that scary thought in the back of your mind: ‘Oh, s–t. We’ve used up all the stories, and there are no more. ”

He continued: “You always want every season to grow, to be bigger and better, and this season definitely fits that bill. I think it will really surprise people how the show has expanded and really come into its own.

We weekly has reached out to Hulu and Lee reps for comment.

Since Labor came to power 18 months ago, Australia has been denied a real wage increase due to high inflation.

By the time wage growth finally catches up with inflation in 2024, the average worker would have lost three years of losing their wages because they couldn’t keep up with the cost of living.

This is despite nominal wages rising 1.3 percent in the three months to September – the fastest quarterly increase since 1997.

A former Reserve Bank board member fears new industrial relations laws could keep inflation high, leading to more interest rate hikes as wage increases lag behind the consumer price index.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Employment Minister Tony Burke continue on about weak wage growth during the coalition’s nine years in power – despite workers not receiving an annual real pay increase since Labor won the May 2022 election.

“The Liberals and Nationals spent a decade in government deliberately keeping wages low,” they said last week.

‘Peter Dutton and the coalition – now in opposition – still want to keep wages low.’

But when Mr Dutton, the opposition leader, was a minister under former Liberal prime ministers Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison, workers actually enjoyed annual real wage increases.

That’s because inflation remained largely below 2 percent from late 2014 to late 2019, putting the consumer price index at the far end of the Reserve Bank’s target of 2 to 3 percent.

In 2023, the wage price index grew by a record 1.3 percent in the three months to September, marking the fastest quarterly growth since the Australian Bureau of Statistics began keeping data in 1997.

The annual increase of four percent was the highest since 2009.

But with consumer price index inflation at 5.4 percent, real wages actually fell by 1.4 percent over the year.

Australian inflation is the highest in the OECD after New Zealand.

This figure is in stark contrast to when the coalition was in power.

In the 2015-2016 financial year, wages rose by 2.1 percent, but with inflation at 1 percent, workers received a 1.1 percent real pay increase when Turnbull toppled Abbott.

Under the Abbott government in 2014, wages rose by 2.5 percent while the CPI fell by just 1.7 percent – ​​meaning workers got a real wage increase of 0.8 percent.

In 2019, under the Morrison government, wages rose by 2.2 percent, but with inflation of 1.8 percent this translated into a real wage increase of 0.4 percent.

Australian workers have not seen an annual real wage increase since March 2021 – a few months before Sydney went into lockdown – when wages rose 1.5 per cent while the CPI rose 1.1 per cent.

That meant a small real wage increase of 0.4 percent.

In 2022, with both Labor and the Coalition in power, Australian workers faced a 4.5 percent real wage cut as the wage price index of 3.3 percent lagged the 32-year high inflation rate of 7.8 percent.

Under the Coalition, real wages rose – albeit disappointingly – as inflation remained low even as the RBA cut cash rates during the pandemic from 2.5 per cent in February 2015 to a record low of 0.1 per cent in November 2020.

But under Labour, the RBA has raised rates 12 times to a 12-year high of 4.35 per cent, after starting in May 2022 during the election campaign.

However, there was good news in the quarterly wage price index: the 1.3 percent increase in the three months to September exceeded the 1.2 percent increase in the CPI – meaning a real wage increase of 0.1 percent .

“While there will be some volatility in the quarterly data, the Treasury also expects annual real wages to return to growth in early 2024,” Dr Chalmers said.

Labor has also introduced the Closing Loopholes Bill, which would give workers and unions the power to use the Fair Work Commission to apply ‘same job, same pay’ rules to workers employed by a labor hire company if they have less than their colleagues receive. on an enterprise agreement.

“This year’s Loophole Closing Bill in Parliament aims to close the loopholes that undermine workers’ wages, conditions and safety,” said Dr Chalmers and Mr Burke.

But Warwick McKibbin, who was a Reserve Bank board member from 2001 to 2011, said labor laws were likely to make it even harder for employers to find workers, adding to inflationary pressures as a drop in productivity means customers have to pay more pay.

“Ironically, the government’s labor policy actually limits supply,” he told Daily Mail Australia.

‘Equal work and equal pay policies actually reduce productivity – which makes it worse.’

Higher wages fueling higher inflation could lead to even more interest rate increases.

“You have to balance supply and demand, but if no one does that, then the central bank has to do that,” Professor McKibbin said.

Professor McKibbin, who is now director of the Center for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis at the Australian National University, expects three more rate hikes that would take the cash rate to 5.1 percent – a level not seen since December 2008.

In the Egyptian resort of Hurghada, a Russian man was heard screaming ‘daddy’ today when he was bitten to death by a shark.

Tourists watched in horror from shore as the beast wounded the man before dragging him underwater. His distraught girlfriend managed to escape.

The tourist – believed to be 23 years old – was in Egypt for a long stay. He was dubbed Vladimir Popov by the Baza news outlet in Russia, and had moved to the resort with his father a few months ago.

His father watched the deadly attack in horror, which was also filmed from shore.

The video shows the man desperately shouting “Papa, Papa” as the predator chased him into the water and circled around him before launching the attack.

The man can be seen desperately trying to swim to shore, but appears to be attacked by the shark while still in deeper water.

His body spins in the water and his legs rise above the surface – as shocked onlookers scream and shout for the man to swim.

‘Swim away, swim away! Fast! A shark!’ people can be heard screaming.

The splashing in the water stops and the man’s head resurfaces. He appears to move back into the water in the video, but only slowly.

He can be heard screaming ‘Papa’, begging for help, as part of the water turns red.

As he does, the shark’s body is clearly visible on the surface this time. The long black shape circles around the man and his fin and tail can be seen on the surface.

The woman filming the gruesome attack can be heard repeating “oh my god” as it unfolds. As she does, the shark turns for another attack and swims towards the man again, clamping its jaws around him and pulling him under.

The man’s head appears above the water one last time, and the shark’s body is seen writhing in the ocean as it appears to eat the man’s body and drag it further down.

A witness said, “The shark is now eating its remains. There she is, eating his remains.’ Another said, “Right before my eyes, the shark ate the man, the girl managed to escape. He got hit by the shark.

“It’s terrible, this man’s remains are lying there.”

The Russian Foreign Ministry has confirmed the death of a civilian from a shark attack.

An unnamed Russian tourist said: ‘Rescuers responded very quickly. I immediately felt it was a shark.

“I immediately jumped up and started screaming, ‘Sharks! Save yourself!’.’

A witness said, “It was about twenty feet from shore.”

Another onlooker said, “The girl was rescued, she was screaming very much on the beach.

“She was so shocked, screaming. I don’t know where they took her.’

The incident reportedly took place at Dream Beach in Hurghada.

Russian tourists were instructed to be vigilant in the popular seaside resort and to follow instructions and prohibitions from hotel staff.

The Russian man is not the first to be killed by a shark at the resort.

Last July, 68-year-old Austrian Elisabeth Sauer was attacked in front of shocked onlookers – 15 minutes after English-speaking guests warned Egyptian lifeguards about sharks. Their warnings were laughed at.

A second woman – identified only as a Romanian national in her 40s – is believed to have been killed in a similar attack just 200 yards away from where Sauer died, with her badly disfigured remains found the same day on a nearby reef.

Ms. Sauer lost an arm and a leg in an attack that was caught on film as onlookers tried to distract the shark and get her to safety.

She made it to shore using a flipper, but died a short time later.

Reports at the time – from the AFP news agency and Austrian news outlets – indicated that the attack was committed by a Mako shark, while local Egyptian newspapers referred to the animal as an Oceanic whitetip shark.

It was not immediately clear which shark species carried out Thursday’s attack.

The 20 foods that should never be eaten on a train have been revealed – and smoked mackerel tops the rankings.

In a survey that determined ‘the least attractive food to eat on a train’, smoked mackerel received 49 percent of the vote, boiled eggs came second with 43 percent and curry third with 41 percent.

Fourth is egg sandwiches (36 percent), while 35 percent say blue cheese (fifth) should never be eaten on the rails.

Smoked mackerel isn’t the only unpopular seafood dish eaten midway through the trip — crab sticks (joint sixth, 34 percent), tuna pasta (joint seventh, 33 percent), shrimp (joint seventh, 33 percent), tuna sandwiches (joint seventh, 31 percent) and sushi (ninth, 24 percent) are also frowned upon as snack choices while riding the rails.

The poll among 2,000 Britons Train line also reveals that a kebab (joint sixth, 34 percent), pickles from a jar (joint seventh, 33 percent), a burrito (joint seventh, 33 percent), and fried chicken (joint 12th, 20 percent) are the top foods avoided for train travel .

If you’re looking for something quick on the go, you might want to consider tucking into a Pot Noodle (23 percent), Pickled Onion-flavored Monster Munch (22 percent), or fast food from McDonald’s or Burger King (18 percent). percent), which rank 10th, 11th and joint 14th respectively.

The remainder of the top 20 is made up of bananas and samosas — jointly ranked 13th at 19 percent — and “all leftover meals” collectively ranked 14th at 18 percent.

At the other end of the spectrum, chocolate bars (69 percent) and soft candies (63 percent) were voted the least offensive snacks to eat on the train.

However, more than a third (38 percent) agree that they would like people to eat on trains as long as the food doesn’t smell. Forty-nine percent, meanwhile, say snacking on a train is acceptable as long as the seats in front and behind you are empty.

Elsewhere in the survey, Trainline found that more than half (53 percent) of those surveyed think food is the best way to make the most of their time on the train.

On longer journeys, train picnics seem to be on the rise, with nearly one in two people (45 percent) admitting to pack a full picnic when embarking on a long train journey.

Picnics on the train are especially popular during a weekend away (35 percent), while 17 percent make sure they always get enough to eat on the train when they go on a bachelor party. Some even admit to bringing a sushi platter for the trip, and one respondent always carries prosecco and fancy picnic snacks when heading to Royal Ascot.

Meanwhile, 36 percent enjoy a drink to help them relax on their journey, with a majority (57 percent) believing it’s perfectly acceptable to crack open a ‘gin in a tin’ on a train.

Excluding snacks, listening to music (66 percent) tops the list of ways to make a train journey more relaxing, followed by getting lost in a book (45 percent) and watching a movie (29 percent).

In parallel with the research, Trainline is teaming up with beverage distributor Goodrays to release “Choo Chews,” a line of CBD-based gummies made specifically for train travelers on vacation.

The fruit gummies are being given away free of charge to passengers over 18 via a pop-up vending machine at King’s Cross Station in London.

Commenting on the research, Mike Hyde, Trainline’s chief data officer, said: “As our research has shown, a tasty snack and a train journey go hand in hand, although some foods really shouldn’t be eaten on the go, especially if there are other people be around. We know that many passengers choose to snack during a train journey as a way to unwind and relax – which inspired us to launch our limited-edition CBD gummies Choo Chews, giving our customers the opportunity to sit back and enjoy their journey.”

Rail travelers can pick up the Choo Chews at King’s Cross Station on May 18th and 19th between 9.30am and 4.30pm, or while supplies last.