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Delhi High Court summons Bear Grylls, Walt Disney, Hotstar, Nat Geo over copyright infringement
The case will now be heard on January 17, 2023, at the Delhi High Court Mediation Center. On February 22, the Court will hear the lawsuit.

British adventurer Bear Grylls has entered into a legal soup after an Indian script writer filed a copyright infringement suit against him with Delhi High Court for his show Get Out Alive with Bear Grylls.
The Single-Judge Bench of Justice Amit Bansal issued summons to Bear Grylls and entertainment company Warner Brothers Discovery, NBCUniversal Inc, Walt Disney, television network National Geography and over-the-top (OTT) platform Hotstar.
Indian script-writer and producer Arrmann Shharma moved to the High Court and alleged that the Grylls’ show is copied from his original work Aakhri Dum Tak. He told the court that he had conceptualized and scripted the reality show in 2009 while Grylls’ show went on-air in 2013.
As per the copyrighted work developed by Shharma, a TV reality program of 7-8 episodes is to be produced by taking 20 people to the jungle to take up challenges to overcome the natural obstacles in different extreme terrains and sail through for about a month in the jungle without any help. After every task and stunt, a team was supposed to be eliminated and at the end of the show, a winner was supposed to win a huge monetary award, the suit states.
Shharma claimed that he pitched the script to Discovery but the channel rejected it stating that it did not meet its current programming and inventory needs. The lawsuit claimed that Grylls was associated with Discovery at the time he pitched his script to them.
He said although Grylls later quit the channel, he continued to produce the allegedly infringing show for NBC, by claiming it as his own format/show developed with Defendant No.2 (a producer called Tom Shelly).
Shharma continued by saying that the entire show was produced and shot in the exact same way that he had planned it in his original copyrighted work.
Senior Advocate Sanjeev Anand, along with Advocates Imran Ali, Maneesh Saxena, Cherry Gupta, Dhriti Chhabra, Asim Naeem and Manpreet Kaur appeared for the plaintiff. Grylls was represented by lawyer Pravin Anand of Anand & Anand.
The case will now be heard on January 17, 2023, at the Delhi High Court Mediation Center. On February 22, the Court will hear the lawsuit.
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6.6 magnitude earthquake hits Delhi-NCR
The epicenter of the earthquake is Fayzabad, Afghanistan.

Strong earthquake tremors hit north India Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) at around 10:25 pm today. As per the reports, the tremors lasted for more than 10 seconds.
The magnitude of the earthquake was measured at 6.6 on the Richter Scale. The epicenter of the earthquake is Fayzabad, Afghanistan. Initial reports said the quake was 7.7 on the Richter Scale.
According to the National Center for Seismology, the earthquake struck at a depth of 156 kilometres at a latitude of 36.09 and a longitude of 71.35.
No casualty has been reported yet.
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Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal slams Centre over budget, says they have kept illiterates from top to bottom
The Centre had also sought an explanation from the Delhi Government over the budget for the proposed expenditure in the budget.

As the row between the Centre and the Delhi Government escalates over the budget issue, Delhi’s Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday slammed the Centre over their objections in Delhi’s assembly. The Delhi CM in his attack on the Centre claimed the bases of the objections to be meritless.
Delhi CM in his attack also termed objection by the Centre to be unprecedented and further highlighted how no Central Government has violated the tradition of no objection and halted the budget of any state. Kejriwal then pointed out the objections cited by the Centre and claimed that 20,000 crores were allocated for infrastructure, whereas 500 crores were allotted for advertisement in the Delhi budget.
He further questioned how 500 is more than 20,000 and lashed out at the Centre and claimed that they have illiterate people from top to bottom. The statements by Arvind Kejriwal came after the home ministry reportedly said that the AAP government’s budget proposal had hiked the allocation of advertisement as compared to the low funding for infrastructure.
The Centre had also sought an explanation from the Delhi Government over the budget for the proposed expenditure in the budget.
Finance Minister Kailash Gahlot while talking to the media also thwarted the Centre’s claim and said that of the 78,800 crore budget, 22,000 crores was allocated for infrastructure whereas 550 crores were allocated for advertisements.
As per the reports, the Delhi Government has resubmitted the budget to the ministry and the AAP Government will announce Delhi’s budget tomorrow.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal also wrote to the Prime Minister on Tuesday and asked Prime Minister Modi why he hates the people of Delhi. In his letter, Kejriwal also urged the PM of letting the Delhi Budget be passed. CM Arvind Kejriwal also highlighted that objection by the Central Government is unprecedented.
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Finland tops World Happiness Report for 6th time in a row, India among the unhappiest countries in the world
The report speaks for countries’ levels of happiness based on the responses of a nationally representative sample of people about the levels of satisfaction in life these days.

Finland has become the world’s happiest country for the sixth time in a row since 2017 while Afghanistan scores the lowest point of 2.523 and was ranked as the least happy country in the world in 2023.
Among the 137 counties, India is ranked 126, which is lower than even war-torn countries like Russia and Ukraine. India, despite being one of the fastest-growing economy in the world, still ranks below its neighbouring countries like Pakistan, Nepal, China, Myanmar and Bangladesh.
Finland tops the ranking with a score of 7.8 followed by other Norwegian countries like Denmark and Iceland.
World’s top 10 happiest countries
- Finland
- Denmark
- Iceland
- Israel
- Netherlands
- Sweden
- Norway
- Switzerland
- Luxembourg
- New Zealand
World’s top 10 unhappiest countries
- Afghanistan
- Lebanon
- Sierra Leone
- Zimbabwe
- Congo
- Botswana
- Malawi
- Comoros
- Tanzania
- Zambia
What is World Happiness Report?
The UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network publishes a study titled World Happiness Report every year in honour of World Happiness Day, which is observed every year on March 20. The reports use a variety of metrics, including both domestic and global factors, to determine overall happiness.
The report speaks for countries’ levels of happiness based on the responses of a nationally representative sample of people about the levels of satisfaction in life these days.
World Happiness Index Factors
The countries are ranked on the basis of healthy life expectancy, low corruption, social support, GDP per capita, generosity in a community where people look after each other, and freedom to make key life decisions.
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