India skipper Virat Kohli and his actor wife Anushka Sharma on Monday pledged their support to the Prime Minster and the Maharashtra Chief Minster’s relief funds to combat the dreaded COVID-19 pandemic, which has left the world in disarray. Kohli, who has been constantly urging people to practice social-distancing via video messages, took to Twitter to announce the decision. However, he did not specify how much the couple would be donating. “Anushka and I are pledging our support towards PM-CARES Fund & the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund (Maharashtra). Our hearts are breaking looking at the suffering of so many &…
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3Dexperience major Dassault Systemes on Monday announced it is working with Chinas Central-South Architectural Design Institute (CSADI) to support the simulation and evaluation of virus dispersal in the confined environment of Leishenshan Hospital in Wuhan. The largest hospital for infectious diseases and COVID-19 patients, the Leishenshan Hospital was created within record 14 days. CSADI and Dassault Systemes are using the 3DEXPERIENCE platform”s simulation capabilities to simulate virus contamination and diffusion within the hospital”s ventilation system and to counteract the negative effects from unplanned ventilation risks, the company said in a statement. “Dassault Systemes is committed to helping Chinese enterprises combat…
Cupertino-based tech giant Apple is reportedly planning to include a touch ID fingerprint sensor built into the crown of its upcoming Watch Series 6. The Apple Watch already unlocks when the iPhone is unlocked, but unlocking it on a standalone basis requires a numerical code to be entered. It is not clear how the alleged Touch ID fingerprint sensor would be implemented, as the Digital Crown is already used for capturing an ECG in the current Apple Watch models, reports MacRumors. Apple is also reportedly planning to bring blood oxygen detection and an improved ECG to its next Watch Series…
In a touching and heart-warming gesture, a group of Muslim youth came together to perform the last rites of a Hindu man who died on Saturday. The incident took place in Anand Vihar area and the matter came to light when the family posted a thanksgiving on the social media. Ravi Shankar, 73, was battling cancer and died on Saturday. Due to the lockdown, Shankar’s relatives stayed away from the cremation. The Muslim neighbours of the family came forward and decided to help the family with the last rites. They not only took out the ‘antim-yatra’ while chanting ‘Ram-Nam Satya…
At a time when migrant workers from several states were returning home due to nation-wide Coronavirus lockdown, Telangana has urged Bihar to send back the latter’s workers employed in rice mills in Telangana. Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao told reporters on Sunday night that Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar will speak to his Bihar counterpart to request him to send back the workers. Rao said if necessary he would talk to the Centre to arrange few special trains to bring back the Bihari migrant workers. With Telangana gearing up to procure record 1.05 crore tonnes of paddy from farmers at designated…
Modi lauds Omar Abdullah for avoiding gathering on uncle’s death New Delhi, March 30 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday appreciated former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah for avoiding large gathering on uncle’s death. In a tweet, Modi paid condolences to the family. “Condolences to you and the entire family, Omar Abdullah. May his soul rest in peace. In this hour of grief, your call to avoid any large gathering is appreciable and will strengthen India”s fight against COVID-19,” Modi said. Abdullah on Sunday shared that his uncle Mohd Ali Mattoo has passed away after a brief…
Top public health advisors and members of the White House Task Force on Coronavirus have warned that the coronavirus outbreak could claim up to 2,00,000 lives in the United States. It is on the advice of Dr Deborah Bix and Dr Anthony Fauci that US President Donald Trump extended the coronavirus guidelines in the country, including social distancing, until April 30, as the two predicted that the death rate was likely to hit its peak in the next two weeks. “All of the flu models predicted anywhere between 1.6 and 2.2 million fatalities if we didn’t mitigate. Some of them…
A report had claimed that the government was debating extending the lockdown, alarmed over the mass exodus of migrants trying to reach home, desperate for food and shelter. “Rumours and media reports” claiming that the 21-day lockdown to check the spread of coronavirus or COVID-19 would be extended are “baseless”, the government asserted on Monday. “There are rumours and media reports, claiming that the Government will extend the #Lockdown21 when it expires. The Cabinet Secretary has denied these reports, and stated that they are baseless,” tweeted the Press Information Bureau, the government’s media body, with the hashtag #PIBFactCheck. State-run broadcaster…
The finance minister of Germany’s Hesse state, Thomas Schaefer, has committed suicide apparently after becoming “deeply worried” over how to cope with the economic fallout from the coronavirus, state premier Volker Bouffier said on Sunday. Thomas Schaefer, 54, was found dead near a railway track on Saturday. The Wiesbaden prosecution’s office said they believe he died by suicide. “We are in shock, we are in disbelief and above all we are immensely sad,” Volker Bouffier said in a recorded statement. Hesse is home to Germany’s financial capital Frankfurt, where major lenders like Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank have their headquarters. The…
A day after thousands of migrant workers – without jobs and essentials because of the coronavirus lockdown – gathered at a Delhi bus station to get to their native towns, the Ministry of Home Affairs has asked the states to provide them food and shelter. Ordering the states to enforce the three-week lockdown, the centre on Sunday said the workers who have already left for their hometowns must be put in quarantine for two weeks at the “nearest shelter”. The order, issued under the Disaster Management Act, said the employers will pay their workers’ wages on due dates without any…