<keyword id="12820" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="bappi-lahiri" source="Orion">Bappi Lahiri</keyword>'s hit song '<keyword id="7661" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="jimmy" source="Orion">Jimmy</keyword>, Jimmy' from Mithun Chakraborty-starrer '<keyword id="335069" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="disco-dancer" source="Orion">Disco Dancer</keyword>' has become a new anthem for people in China to protest Covid lockdowns. Several videos went viral on TikTok and other social media platforms in which Chinese facing the lockdowns are seen using Bappi Da's track to express their anger and frustration over the country's stringent zero-COVID policy. Composed by Lahiri and sung by <keyword id="37723" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="parvati-khan" source="Orion">Parvati Khan</keyword>, the hit song in China is recreated in Mandarin "Jie mi, jie mi", which translates into "Give me rice, give me rice". People in videos are seen showing empty vessels to indicate how they are deprived of essential food items during the lockdowns. It can be interpreted as a plea from the people to the government to lift its harsh restrictions. Last month the country's ruling Communist Party and its leader Xi Jinping signalled that there would be no easing up of the zero-Covid policy, calling it a "people's war to stop the spread of the virus". Across the country, around 200 lockdowns have been implemented in recent days - the majority of this affecting communities that have been marked as high or medium risk. Residents in different areas are subject to different rules, depending on whether they are in a low, medium or high-risk zone. Recently, droves of migrant workers attempted to flee the lockdown situation and return to their hometowns. Visuals shared online indicate that workers at Apple's largest assembly site in Zhengzhou broke out of the facilities to escape the 'zero-COVID' lockdown. SEE ALSO: <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/international/news/iran-signs-6-5-billion-gas-contract-with-russia-gas-swap-deal-reportedly-being-finalized/articleshow/95222362.cms">Iran signs $6.5 billion gas contract with Russia, gas swap deal reportedly being finalized</a> <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/news/gold-demand-went-up-by-14-in-q3-world-gold-council/articleshow/95221869.cms">Gold demand went up by 14% in Q3: World Gold Council</a>

Mithunda's Disco Dancer song 'Jimmy Jimmy' is China's Covid lockdown protest song

<img class="gwt-Image" src="/photo/52311749.cms" style="width: 800px; height: 600px;" /> The Centre is working on a new legislation to replace the existing <keyword id="64968" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Consumer-Protection-Act">Consumer Protection Act</keyword>, which will have penal provisions of Rs 50 lakh and five year imprisonment for celebrities promoting sale of items without verifying the quality, Union Minister <keyword id="89367" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="ramvilas-paswan">Ramvilas Paswan</keyword> said today. 
 
The proposed Consumer Protection Bill, 2016 has already been approved by the Parliamentary Standing Committee and would be introduced in Parliament in the next session, the Food and Consumer Affairs Minister told reporters here. 
 
The new legislation to replace the existing Consumer Protection Act, 1986 would have stringent provisions against actors and other personalities doing advertisements for brands without verifying the products. 
 "Some leading actors/actresses like <keyword id="6357912" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="amitabh-bachchan">Amitabh Bachchan</keyword>, <keyword id="6354583" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Salman-Khan">Salman Khan</keyword> and others claim that the products they promote will add to one's strength or one will have hair on a bald head, which is not true. Such things should should stop. You advertise for an item only after being convinced of its results yourself," Paswan said. 
 
In the new legislation, penalty for indulging in a "deceiving" advertisement would be enhanced to Rs 50 lakh from Rs ten lakh at present and the jail term to five years from the current two years, he said. 
 
Paswan said the new legislation would have elaborate scope for a consumer to lodge complaint against a sub-standard product sitting at home and it would also the monetary limits of district and state-level consumer redressal courts. 
 
"The new legislation will make it mandatory that the complaint be registered within 21 days," he said adding, it would enhance the limit of a district court to hear complaints of up to Rs one crore from the present Rs 20 lakh and state courts to Rs 14 crore from present Rs one crore. 
 
Paswan also expressed worry over cheap Chinese goods flooding the market and said measures would be taken to check their rampant flow in the country. 
 
"Chinese entrepreneurs make a low-priced Lord Ganesha and Parvati for Diwali. Was Lord Ganesha born in China?" he asked. 
 
He also mentioned growing instances of irregularities in sale of gold and said BIS would be strengthened and it would be made compulsory for shops to have provisions to check the "gold sold in the name of 24 carats is actually not of nine carats." 
 
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