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Smoking now glamourised in Nigerian movies Activist
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Oluchi Joy Robert
The World Health Organisation, WHO, says over eight million people die annually from tobacco-related smoke. Most of these deaths occur in low-and middle-income countries. The tobacco industry is known to target new smokers, especially the youths through visuals that glamourise smoking. Because of this, film hubs like Hollywood and Bollywood have banned smoking in movies.
Fourteen years ago, precisely in 2007, a screening of 10 randomly selected movies by tobacco control activists in Nigeria showed that the tobacco industry might have been using Nollywood to promote tobacco smoking. 10 movies screened at the time were found to have unnecessary smoking scenes and glamourised smoking. In 2020 a random selection and preview of 36 films also showed the same glamourisation of smoking observed in 2007.
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Orissa High Court on Friday (09
th April) dismissed a plea which claimed that that Kaai (Kukuti) Chutney (paste) which is prepared using red ants, can prevent infection through the COVID-19 virus.
Dismissing the plea, the bench of Chief Justice S. Muralidhar and Justice B. P. Routray said that the use of red ant chutney or soup by the tribal communities for medicinal and therapeutic purposes
is based on their traditional knowledge systems which the Court is hardly equipped to comment upon.
The plea before the Court
The Petitioner before the Court is working as Assistant Engineer (Civil), Takatpur, R & B Section, Baripada, DistrictMayurbhanj and he belongs to the Bathudi Tribal Adibasi community.
A Bench comprising of
Navin Sinha and
KM Joseph observed that an application under Section 34 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act to set aside an award is covered by moratorium under Section 14 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code.
Section 34 proceeding is a proceeding against the corporate debtor in a court of law pertaining to a challenge to an arbitral award and would be covered just as an appellate proceeding in a decree from a suit would be covered, the bench headed by Justice RF Nariman observed in the judgment titled P Mohanraj & Ors. v. M/s Shah Brothers Ispat Ltd.