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Afternoon briefing: Ex-TMC MP gets rape threats for backing Kolkata protest; Thailand reports first Mpox case, and more
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Former Trinamool Congress MP and Bengali actor Mimi Chakraborty claimed that she has received rape threats online for backing the cause of protesting doctors in Kolkata. Sharing screenshots on social media platform X, Mimi Chakraborty claimed to have received many such threatening comments in recent times. “AND WE ARE DEMANDING JUSTICE FOR WOMEN RIGHT???? These are just few of them. Where rape threats has been normalised by venomous men masking themselves in the crowd saying they stand by women. What upbringing nd education permits this????,” Mimi Chakraborty posted on X tagging the cybercrime division of Kolkata police. Dig deeper.
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Thailand has detected the fresh Mpox case in a European man who arrived from Africa last week and is awaiting test results to determine the strain, a disease control official said on Wednesday. News agency AFP reported Thailand reported the suspected first case of the new more dangerous strain of Mpox. Thailand authorities were treating the case as if it were the Clade 1 form of Mpox, as the person had arrived on Augusts 14 from an African country where it was spreading, Thongchai Keeratihattayakorn, director-general of the department of disease control. Dig deeper.
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British YouTuber Miles Routledge joked about launching nuclear bombs at India and accused, without evidence, an anonymous troll of being Indian in a series of deeply racist posts made on the social media platform X. Routledge, 25, is best known as the British student who was stranded in Afghanistan during the Taliban takeover of 2021 and had to be evacuated from the war-torn country. On Tuesday, he triggered a slew of racist posts against Indians by sharing a screenshot in which an anonymous X user appeared to be threatening him. Routledge accused the X user of being an Indian despite nothing to suggest he belonged to India. Dig deeper.
