Interior designer Sussanne Khan, who has temporarily moved to ex-husband Hrithik Roshan’s home in Mumbai, shared a glimpse of something she spotted recently on Instagram. Sussanne’s entry is a break from the routine “stay at home” posts being shared on Instagram. Looks like she tried to lighten the mood on social media and succeeded pretty well. Needless to say that Mumbai beaches are much emptier because of the ongoing lockdown. And Sussanne spotted a bunch of pigeons on the sands, which serve as a backyard to Hrithik’s home. Sussanne looked out of the window just in time to capture the…
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The first images from India of what the coronavirus looks like are out. The images of the coronavirus have been caught by a team of ICMR-NIV scientists in Pune. The images have been captured using the transmission electron microscope imaging. They have been published in the Indian Journal of Medical Research. The images of Sars-Cov-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, are from the throat swab of the first laboratory confirmed case in India reported on January 30. The woman, among three students studying medicine in Wuhan in China, was diagnosed with Covid-19 after returning to India. The gene sequencing of…
As soon as the news of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson testing positive for Covid-19 surfaced on Friday, PM Narendra Modi tweeted wishing his UK counterpart good health. https://twitter.com/narendramodi/status/1243516004912766977?s=20 You’re a fighter and you will overcome this challenge as well. Prayers for your good health and best wishes in ensuring a healthy UK. Over the last 24 hours I have developed mild symptoms and tested positive for coronavirus. https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson/status/1243496858095411200?s=20 I am now self-isolating, but I will continue to lead the government’s response via video-conference as we fight this virus. Boris Johnson, 55, experienced mild symptoms on Thursday – a day…
Chinese handset maker OnePlus is likely to add wireless charging support as well as waterproofing to its upcoming OnePlus 8 Pro smartphone. The OEM has drawn flak in the past for skipping these two important features in its flagship devices. …But looks like OnePlus will finally address those issues. Unfortunately, you may need to buy the company’s most expensive device to get those features, Engaged reported on Friday. The higher-end variant from the form will also feature a 120Hz refresh panel, instead of a 90Hz one. It will also include faster LPDDR5 RAM, a quad-camera array with two 48-megapixel sensors…
A hacker has apparently stolen source code from AMD, and leaked the code on Github. Word has is that the graphics source code includes details about the Xbox Series X — if nothing else, it seems to contain info about AMD’s upcoming GPUs. According to TorrentFreak, Github removed a repository at the request of AMD, which filed an official DMCA takedown notice. AMD also identified four other repositories containing the information, all of which have apparently been removed. The notices (which you can read here) explicitly state that the content was “stolen from AMD.” It doesn’t say exactly what the…
NASA’s Orion spacecraft has come a step closer to integrating with the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will take it to the Moon under the Artemis programme designed to land the first woman and the next man on lunar surface by 2024. After engineers put the spacecraft through the rigors of environmental testing at NASA”s Plum Brook Station in Ohio, it returned to the agency’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on March 25, the US space agency said on Thursday. At Kennedy, the spacecraft will undergo final processing and preparations prior to launching on an unscrewed flight test, Artemis…
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has become the first world leader to say he has tested positive for coronavirus. Johnson is self-isolating in his Downing Street offices after a test on Thursday found he had the virus, the government said in an e-mail on Friday. “I’ve developed mild symptoms of the coronavirus, that’s to say a temperature and a persistent cough,” Johnson said in a video posted on Twitter. “I’m working from home, I’m self-isolating, that’s entirely the right thing to do. But, be in no doubt, I can continue, thanks to the wizardry of modern technology, to communicate with all my…
Former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) President N. Chandrababu Naidu has hailed the steps taken by the Modi government to tackle COVID-19 threat. In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday, Naidu lauded the initiatives taken by him to contain the spread of dreaded disease. The leader of opposition in Andhra Pradesh drew Modi’s attention towards Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME). Stating that this sector works as backbone to the Indian economy, he wrote that it is pertinent to provide a financial package to stimulate economy in this turbulent times. He noted that…
In an emergency move to counter the economic fallout of the Coronavirus-induced-21-day lockout, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das slashed the key lending rate by 75 basis points (0.75 percentage point). The move came after an unscheduled meeting of the Shaktikanta Das-headed Monetary Policy Committee, which was originally slated for a bi-monthly review early next month. Four out of the six members of the Monetary Policy Committee voted in favour of the move. “The economic outlook globally is uncertain and obviously negative… Financial stability is the topmost priority of the RBI in this crisis,” said Shaktikanta Das, as…
Indian Railways has come up with its own share of doing its bit during the pandemic. The railways is preparing to convert train coaches into isolation wards to prepare for a fight against coronavirus pandemic. North Central Railway (NCR) General Manager Rajiv Chaudhary, said that the Railways are trying to convert a coach at the coaching depot in New Delhi into isolation wards after consulting medical professionals. “A sleeper coach of a train is being converted and improvised into an isolation wards for patients suffering from Covid-19. Such a plan can help us be well-prepared to meet any emergency,” he…