In Case You Missed It: 14 Noteworthy Things That Happened In The Week Gone By

A tea seller¡¯s daughter from Madhya Pradesh made her father Suresh Gangwal proud by bagging the President¡¯s Plaque at the combined graduation day parade at Air Force Academy, Dundigal in Hyderabad, reported TOI.?

Flying Officer Aanchal Gangwal got commissioned as an officer on June 20 in the presence of IAF chief BKS Bhadauria. Aanchal is a Computer Science graduate from a government degree college in Neemuch. She secured a job as sub-inspector in the MP police and later worked as inspector in the labour department.

A car carrying the couple along with three others fell into a river in Jharkhand's Palamu district on Sunday. But locals were quick to spot the floating car and some of them jumped into the water without a second thought to save the people inside from drowning.

Dramatic footage circulating online shows dozens of people gathered by the edge of the river, trying to rescue the group of people inside the half-sunk car. In the video it appears that the locals managed to bring the car closer to the bank with the help of the rope they tied around the vehicle.?

Recently, a group of fishermen reportedly released a number of Olive Ridley turtles who had accidentally got caught in fishing nets. The video of the incident that took place along the shores of Benaulim beach in Goa went viral soon after.?

The local fishermen¡¯s gesture came to the notice of Goa¡¯s Chief Minister Pramod Sawant who hailed them for their collective effort in rescuing five Olive Ridley turtles, a protected species.

As the country battles an unprecedented health crisis, due to the COVID-19 outbreak, there is an ever-growing demand for ventilators and oxygen supplies, as more and more patients get admitted to hospitals or are in home isolation.?

But in Mumbai, the worst-hit city in India due to COVID-19 there is a small helping hand. Shahnawaz Shaikh, a resident of Malad has been helping COVID-19 patients by arranging Oxygen cylinders for them, spending his own money.?

"No one deserves to die like this. Hence, I decided to sell my SUV car for which I got Rs 4 lakh, which is pretty less. But we managed to buy 60 oxygen cylinders and rented another 40. So far, we have helped 300 people by providing them cylinders on time," Shaikh said.

The actor showed up at Borivali bus station in Mumbai in order to bid a new set of migrants goodbye who Sood has arranged to be sent back home on Monday. It was raining heavily that day and while most of us will never step out in the rain, here was Sonu Sood living up to his promise.?

?¡°It was really moving for me to watch these migrants walking on roads, including the little kids and old parents. I shall continue doing the same for other states as well to the best of my abilities,¡± Sonu said in a statement sometime back and we are happy to report that until now he has lived up to every single word of his.

The coronavirus pandemic has forced changed in our lives on so many levels. It has also led to weddings being low-key affair than they usually are, and social distancing being part of ceremonies, more as a ritual.?

How about this for a story. A day after the groom overcame coronavirus, the hospital staff blessed the newly wed couple with gifts and sang songs as they walked out of the hospital - this unusual but beautiful scene was witnessed at Howrah's Sanjiban Hospital treating COVID-19 infected patients.

In a beautiful gesture, 28-year-old Eric Anton Lobo and 27-year-old Merlin of Nandakhal village in Vasai, Maharashtra, celebrated their wedding day by donating 50 hospital beds and oxygen cylinders to the rural COVID-19 care centre in Satpala village, reported Hindustan Times.?

¡°In a typical Christian wedding, around 2,000 guests attend and the event is incomplete without wine and good food. This costs a big packet. We decided to celebrate differently,¡± HT quoted Lobo as saying.

While the opposition in Kerala may call her 'Nipah princess,' and 'COVID queen' and mock her work as just PR exercise, the world has taken note of state Health Minister KK Shailaja's efforts in containing the spread of COVID-19 pandemic.?

And on Tuesday, when the United Nations marked Public Service Day on June 23, to honour those working on the frontlines during the COVID-19 pandemic, the former science teacher-turned politician was one of the world leaders who were honoured by the world body for their attempts to curb the spread of the deadly virus.

A video of an elderly woman pulling off extremely difficult yoga asanas has surfaced online, which has left people absolutely impressed with her skills. The woman in the video has exceptional flexibility and most of us can only dream of pulling off the asanas she flawlessly did.

Ever since the video was posted on Twitter by Sudha Ramen of the Indian Forest Service, it has gone viral on the micro-blogging website. The 51-second-long video has been viewed almost 4,000 times.

Bhagvati Yadav, who ran a small pani-puri stall at the Rungta Lane near the posh Napean Sea Road, In Mumbai was one person. For the past nearly 46 years, he travelled from his tiny home in Mata Parvati Nagar at nearby Walkeshwar daily and sold pani-puri there for decades.?

Yadav who was a diabetic and had been admitted to a hospital and in the third week of May succumbed to Covid-19. Since he was the sole breadwinner for his family, Yadav's death left his loved ones including his wife and a daughter who is a Maths teacher in a poor state during the pandemic.?

But after getting to know about their plight, a group of his loyal customers came together to support them. People from south Mumbai have joined hands to collect money and help his family, through a crowd-funding platform, raising over Rs 2.50 lakh so far, with a target of Rs 5 lakh.