Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who addressed the nation this evening, said lockdown 4.0 will have a new form and new rules, however, he stopped short of spelling out the details. The PM added that states will be sending their suggestions on lockdown and citizens will then be duly informed about the changes […]
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Behind Rs 20 lakh crore package, PM Modi’s hard push for self reliance
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the nation on Tuesday. The Prime Minister’s address to the nation began at 8 pm where he announced a financial package for various sectors dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. “This package is worth Rs 20 lakh crore, or 10 per cent of India’ Gross Domestic […]
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‘Go vocal for local’: PM Modi announces Rs 20 lakh crore package to tide over Covid-19 crisis
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the nation on Tuesday. The Prime Minister’s address to the nation began at 8 pm where he announced a financial package for various sectors dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. “This package is worth Rs 20 lakh crore, or 10 per cent of India’ Gross Domestic […]
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‘India turned Covid-19 crisis into opportunity’: PM Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday that India turned the coronavirus crisis into an opportunity. “We did not manufacture personal protective equipment, made N-95 masks for namesake when the disease first broke out here. Today, we manufacture two lakh PPEs in a day and two lakh N-95 masks in […]
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PM Narendra Modi approves Rs 2 lakh for deceased in Aurangabad train tragedy
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved an ex-gratia payment of Rs two lakh each to the next of kin of the 16 migrant labourers who were crushed under the wheels of a goods train in Aurangabad last week. An interim relief of Rs 50,000 has also been sanctioned for those […]
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2 Lashkar terrorists who shot 3 CRPF jawans identified, one was from Pak
Two terrorists who killed three CRPF jawans at a security checkpost in Handwara last week are linked to the Lashkar-e-Taiba, a senior police officer said on Tuesday. The officer said one of them was a Pakistani national Usman. The other was a Kashmiri. The two shot dead three jawans of […]
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Female with travel history to Gurugram tests positive for COVID-19 in Nainital, Uttarakhand tally at 69
With one new COVID-19 case reported in Nainital, the total count of people infected from the virus in Uttarakhand has climbed to 69. According to the data released by Uttarakhand State Control room COVID-19, the 23-year-old female patient came from Gurugram to Haldwani. Her sample was tested positive at VRDL Lab Haldwani. The […]
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Covid-19: Urgent need to study coronavirus impact on pets, livestock
Scientists have called for the urgent need for research to understand the potential impacts of COVID-19 in certain animal species, the transmissibility of infection between humans and those animals, and the impact infection could have on food security and the economy. In a study from Western University of Health Sciences […]
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Rs 5-crore fine collected, 1.28 lakh vehicles impounded in this state during lockdown
The Rajasthan Police has impounded 1.28 lakh vehicles under the Motor Vehicle (MV) Act and imposed a fine of over ₹5 crore for flouting rules during the coronavirus-driven lockdown, a top official said on Monday. Additional Director General of Police (Crime) BL Soni also said around 14,400 people in the state […]
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No pillow talk: Women are more likely to fall asleep after sex than men
Action between the sheets has greater sedative properties for women than men, say researchers, adding that women are more likely to fall asleep after sex, some cuddle and pillow talk than men. Published in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, the study of 128 female and 98 male college students found that women […]
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‘Coronavirus hairstyle’ spikes in popularity in East Africa
The coronavirus has revived a hairstyle in East Africa, one with braided spikes that echo the virus’ distinctive shape. The style’s growing popularity is in part due to economic hardships linked to virus restrictions — it’s cheap, mothers say — and to the goal of spreading awareness that the coronavirus […]
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COVID-19 may make education outcomes worse: World Bank
The COVID-19 pandemic has threatened to make education outcomes worse and without aggressive policy, the virus outbreak across the globe will have immediate costs on both learning and health of children and youth, according to the World Bank’s education team. Experts from the World Bank have pointed out that even […]
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Google testing ‘curbside pickup’ badge for local shopping ads
San Francisco, May 11 (IANS) As online shopping grows in Covid-19 times, Google on Monday launched a “curbside pickup” badge for local shopping ads to help customers find products locally and avoid delays in shipping. According to Google, searches for “in-stock” grew by 70% during late March-early April across the […]
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IIT Gandhinagar launches PG course for graduating students
The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Gandhinagar, has launched a one year post graduate diploma programme to help its graduating students whose higher education or employment plans have been disrupted due to the coronavirus outbreak. The postgraduate diploma, to be offered in Biological Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Science […]
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Intel-Microsoft joint project ‘STAMINA’ turns malware into images
Researchers from Intel and Microsoft have joined forces to study the use of deep learning for malware threat detection in a project that first converts malware into images. The basis for this study is the observation that if malware samples are turned into grayscale images, the textural and structural patterns […]