GoanTimes September, 7 2018

05 Lifestyle
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Enjoy the world's
most expensive ice
cream for Dh220,000
The world's most expensive ice-cream
sundae comes for a whopping $60,000
(Dh220,000 approx) and is made using
glacial ice from Mount Kilimanjaro,
Africa's tallest peak.
As exotic as it sounds, the sundae is
a brainchild of an ice-cream company
named Three Twins, founded in San
Rafael, California.
The exorbitant ice-cream sundae
includes a first-class flight to Tanzania,
where Three Twins founder Neal
Gottlieb will hand-churn the ice cream
for you. Besides, in addition to unlimited
ice cream, the package includes swanky
accommodation in Tanzania, a guided
hike up the mountain and a T-shirt as
memento, according to an MSN report.
The product description explains that
"the mountain's glaciers are predicted
to disappear within the next 10-15
years due to climate change and your
purchase helps raise awareness of this
fact with a five-figure contribution to
an African environmental non-profit".
Originally, Three Twins offered the
'World's Most Expensive Ice Cream
Sundae' which had a banana split topped
with syrups from three rare dessert
beverages, a personal cello performance
and a vintage ice cream spoon from the
1850s for $3,333.33. But that was not enough
and the company came up with 'The
World's More Expensive Most Expensive
Ice Cream Sundae', which costs $60,000.
And if you are ready to spend the
moolah and indulge in this ice cream,
they offer a deal where you can get the
package for two for a bargain $85,000!
Scientists are developing artificial
alcohol to help save the planet
Endless West is one of several companies tweaking the traditional spirit-making process, which can
require 20 years of aging before the product can hit liquor store shelves.
After lab-grown meat, the race is on
to develop artificial wine and spirits.
In a sprawling lab in San Francisco,
chemists and scientists at Endless
West are working on creating fauxwhiskey
as a more cost-effective,
environmentally sustainable
alternative to the real thing, reports
TheVerge.com.
It's the same principle that birthed
faux-meat brands like Impossible
Burger and Beyond Meat.
But as The Verge author Alan
Goldfarb points out, Endless West is
one of several companies tweaking the
traditional spirit-making process, which
Supreme Court
decriminalises
homosexuality
New Delhi [India], Sep. 6 (ANI): In a
landmark judgement, after months of
deliberations, the Supreme Court on
Thursday struck down the Section 377
of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) which
criminalised homosexuality.
A five-judge Constitution bench,
headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI)
Dipak Misra and comprising Justices
D Y Chandrachud, Rohinton Fali
Nariman, A M Khanwilkar and Indu
Malhotra, issued the verdict on a bunch
of petitions filed to scrap the law.
Criminalising gay sex is irrational and
September - National Nutrition Month
- being celebrated across India
National Nutrition Month is being celebrated across the country
to mark the fight against malnutrition.
During this month, various
programmes have been organized by
the Women and Child Development
Ministry to spread broad awareness on
the issues related to malnutrition like
stunting, under-nutrition, anaemia
and low birth weight in children.
The Nutrition Month will also focus
on adolescent girls, pregnant women
and lactating mothers to eliminate the
deficiencies prevailing in the health sector.
The decision to celebrate September
as the National Nutrition Month every
year was taken during the second
meeting of National Council on India's
Nutrition Challenges under the Poshan
Abhiyaan held in July this year.
With the aim to bring down stunting
of children in the age group of 0-6 years
from 38 per cent to 25 per cent by 2022,
POSHAN Abhiyaan- the National
Nutrition Mission was launched by
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on March
8 this year in Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan.
The ministry is working on eight
focused themes like optimal breast
feeding, growth monitoring, hygiene and
sanitation, food fortification and girls'
education, diet and marriage at right age
etc. to achieve improvement in nutritional
status of children, adolescent girls,
pregnant women and lactating mothers.
The ministry is trying to reach about
11 crore women and children during
this month through various grass-root
activities, with the convergence of
different ministries.
can require 20 years of aging before the
product can hit liquor store shelves.
Though the methods may vary
-- be it light and heat, pressurized
indefensible, observed the CJI while
delivering the verdict. The Lesbian Gay
Bisexual Transgender community has
same rights as any other citizen, the CJI
added. Respect for each other's rights, and
others are supreme humanity, observed
the bench unanimously, while saying that
right to live with dignity is right.
Known as Section 377 of the IPC, the
157-year-old law criminalised certain
sexual acts, terming them as 'unnatural
offences', punishable by a 10-year jail
term. The law punished "carnal intercourse
against the order of nature with
any man, woman or animal" and thus
had bigger implications for same-sex
relationships.
The legal battle to scrap the statute
has gone on for several years. The Delhi
High Court, in 2009, decriminalised
homosexuality. But in 2013, the Supreme
Court restored the colonial-era law.
Three years later, the top court agreed to
hear the Section 377 petition once more.
Petitioners before the Supreme Court
argued that the controversial law was
not in tandem with a 2017 ruling that
guaranteed the right to privacy to people.
(ANI)
Amazon India unveils
Hindi website, app to
take on Flipkart
New Delhi: Online retailer Amazon India
today launched its services in Hindi,
with the aim of capturing the next 100
million consumers in the e-commerce
battle against Walmart’s Flipkart. The
move could give Amazon access to tens
of millions of new customers in India’s
small towns and villages. The service
is currently available on Android OS
and the mobile website and will soon be
available on Apple devices and desktops.
The announcement of the Amazon
Hindi app and website comes ahead of
the festive season, which is traditionally
the peak sales season for India’s retail
sector—online or offline. India’s
e-commerce market is tipped to grow to
$150 billion by 2022, according to a report
by Nasscom and PwC.
environments or ultrasonic energy --
companies like Lost Spirits, Cleveland
and Whiskey and Terressentia are also
looking for ways to expedite the aging
process of spirits.
Where Endless West is unique,
however, is its quest to create a brown
spirit, be it rum, bourbon or whiskey
entirely from test tubes and beakers
using science and laboratory chemistry.
The company recently underwent a
rebrand: Previously it was called Ava
and concentrated on creating grapeless
wine. Though details on the website
are scarce, Endless West says a new
product will be coming this fall.
This is the world's
most expensive tissue
box as per Guinness
Records and the price
will tear you up!
Japanese paper manufacturer
Daishowa Paper's product Jyuni Hitoe
- a box of colourful tissue papers - has
been recognised by the Guinness Book
of World Records as the most expensive
box of facial tissues.
A single box costs 10,000 Japanese
Yen or R6,300!
Each box comes with 144 pairs (288
sheets) of tissues which have been
described as ‘vibrantly dyed, soft,
delicate, with a quality feel, as only
Daishowa First can do justice to’.
The box of tissues comes in 12
different colours. These 12 colours are
not random creative selections - they
represent the 12-layer kimono - an attire
Japanese women have been wearing
since the 10th century.
The colours include pink), scarlet,
sappanwood red, mandarin orange,
mustard, verdant green, seedling green,
evergreen, wasurenagusa (forgetme-not
flower), lapis lazuli, Japanese
bellflower, and wisteria.
The company has added the texture of
a traditional Washi paper to the tissue
box, wrapping it in a purple cloth to
give a luxurious feel.
The Guinness World Records website
quotes a Daishowa Paper Products
representative explaining it in detail.
“The concept was for people to feel as
if they are pulling out a kimono from a
traditional Japanese drawer. It's not just
the colours, but there's also touch and
fragrance," said the representative adding
that they think that everything, from the
point of opening the package to using the
tissues, can be a "unique experience".