Tag: hoarding

  • WATCH: Former adult movie actor Mia Khalifa’s picture appears on temple celebration hoarding in southern India, police take action

    A temple celebration in the Kuruvimalai area of Kanchipuram in southern India has gone viral for carrying an image of former adult movie actress Mia Khalifa alongside the temple deity’s picture.

    Mia Khalifa. Photo courtesy: www.instagram.com/miakhalifa
    Mia Khalifa. Photo courtesy: www.instagram.com/miakhalifa

    During the Aadi month festivities at the local temple, somebody had designed and displayed this hoarding featuring Mia Khalifa on it. The morphed hoarding showed the adult actress wearing an Indian dress and holding a kalash (pot) on her head. People who came across this, were shocked. They brought the matter to the notice of the police, who took necessary action.

    The incident was reported from the Sri Mappillai Vinayagar Temple complex of the region which is also an abode to Sri Nagathamman and Sri Chelliyamman deities along with Lord Ganesha. The hoarding surfaced in association with the Chelliyamman temple in the premises and its annual celebration of the auspicious Aadi month.

    The huge hoarding announced the beginning of the Tamil month and its celebration at the temple. It was learned that the temple had been hosting Aadi festivities for more than a decade and this was the 12th event there. So far, only people in the area and its vicinity knew about the celebrations at the temple, but now, with the Mia Khalifa poster going viral, the event has caught the attention of thousands of people online.

    According to reports, the hoarding has now been removed after going viral.

    (The article is published under a mutual content partnership arrangement between The Free Press Journal and Connected to India)

  • WATCH: Tragic moment a giant hoarding collapses in Mumbai; 14 dead, over 70 injured

    (*70*) least 14 folks have died and over 70 others injured as a 120 toes hoarding collapsed in Mumbai as a result of heavy rains. The incident passed off on Monday night in the town’s Ghatkopar space.

    The hoarding collapsed on a petrol pump. Photo courtesy: Free Press Journal
    The hoarding collapsed on a petrol pump. Photo courtesy: Free Press Journal(*14*)

    As per the Hindustan Times, 75 folks have suffered accidents, whereas 89 folks have been rescued from beneath the rubble. All the injured folks had been rushed to hospitals. Thirty-one folks had been discharged later.

    Meanwhile, the video of the collapse has gone viral on the Internet. Footage confirmed the tragic moment the giant hoarding got here crashing on the bottom.

    The hoarding, measuring 120x120sqft, violated laws, a Times of India report acknowledged. As per the native civic physique, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), a hoarding can have a most measurement of 40x40sqft. It additionally weighed a whooping 250 tons, the media outlet reported.

    Meanwhile, the Mumbai Police have registered a case beneath sections 304, 338, 337, and 34 of the Indian Penal Code towards Bhavesh Bhide and others at Pantnagar police station. Bhide has been recognized because the proprietor of the hoarding.

    An ex-gratia quantity of INR 5 lakhs (USD 5,986) for the deceased’s kin has been introduced by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde.

    The deaths had been condoled by India’s President Droupadi Murmu and Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar.