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WEIRD BUT TRUE

Did you notice 2,000 and 500 Myra. “The kindness in

notes raining on Kolkata street? 9 month old Myra’s eyes
still stays after being
abandoned, and I could
BUNDLES OF CURRENCY notes in denominations of really use your help in
100, 500 and 2,000 were showered from a commercial finding her a family,” he
building in Central Kolkata on the eve of November 20. As wrote. He also shared a
per reports, the cash was link to a form that people
thrown out of an office interested in adopting
from the sixth floor of a Myra can fill out. “Please
building in the midst of an do not try to adopt Myra
income tax raid conducted in order to get Mr Tata’s
by Directorate of Revenue attention,” the form states.
Intelligence (DRI). In
a video of the incident
posted by ANI, bystanders
and vendors can be
seen scampering to grab Official puts honesty on
their share of free cash display to avoid confusion
that is being pushed out of a window with the help of a
broom. DRI sources told news agency PTI that its officials AN OFFICIAL WORKING at the Electricity Board in
had gone to the office of a private company engaged in Karimnagar district, Telangana, has installed a huge
export-import activities located on that floor to conduct board saying “I am uncorrupted” in his chamber. Podeti
search operations for alleged evasion of duty.”Later Ashok, an Additional Divisional Engineer in the Northern
reinforcements were also sent,” sources said, adding Power Distribution Corporation Limited (NPDCL) office,
searches were on. “The search is based on commercial says that he was forced to take the step after receiving
intelligence related to some export, import business. It is multiple bribe offers. The bright red installation reads
a search operation for documents, which may be some “Nenu Lancham Theesukonu” in Telugu (I don’t take
information stored in computers.” bribes) and “I am uncorrupted” below that. It was installed
about 40 days ago, and has recently garnered a lot of
attention on social media, reported local media. Tired
of explaining that he is against corruption, last month,
Industrialist Ratan Tata appeals he came up with the idea of putting up this board in his
for adoption of abandoned dog chamber, so that people
wouldn’t harass him. “In
our office, every day a new
INDUSTRIALIST RATAN TATA took to Instagram set of people come to the
on November 24 to share an appeal for adoption of an office and offer bribes. I
abandoned dog. Mr Tata, 81, shared two pictures of Myra was tired of repeating the
— a 9-month-old Labrador who was abandoned, and same thing, that I don’t
asked his followers to help her find a family in Mumbai. take bribes. I thought I
“Of all the different sufferings that animals today have should put up a notice,
to go through, my heart truly breaks for the ones that get which will clear all their
abandoned by families,” wrote Mr Tata before introducing doubts,” Ashok said.

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