Detained poet Varavara Rao’s wife moves Mumbai Court, asking for his health status Poet Varavara Rao was hospitalised earlier due to ill-health (Photo: PTI) The family members of popular revolutionary poet P Vara Vara Rao on Saturday (May 30), including his wife, demanded that the Maharashtra government must reveal the actual status of his health,…

Hours after being discharged from Covid Care Centre, Mumbai cop dies A Mumbai Police constable passed away early Friday, merely hours after being discharged from a Covid Care Centre (CCC) in Worli. The deceased, 53-year-old Deepak Hate, who was posted at Bandra police station, had been processing the return of stranded migrant workers in the…

Paas Nahin Aana! Google’s new AR camera tool will help you maintain social distance San Francisco: Smartphone users have a new way to keep their distance—a tool that lets them know when people are getting closer than pandemic guidelines recommend. The Google-developed Sodar tool available this week taps into Android smartphone cameras to put users in…

WeTransfer, Popular File Sharing Website, Banned by Narendra Modi Government Citing National Interest New Delhi, May 30: The Union government on Saturday banned the popular file-sharing site WeTransfer.com citing national interest and public interest for making this move. Earlier, Department of Telecommunications (DoT) sent a a notice to internet service providers across the country to ban…

Lockdown 5.0 guidelines issued for phased-reopening of ALL activities for 1 month BREAKING: The government has extended coronavirus lockdown till June 30. New guidelines have been issued for phased-reopening of all activities outside containment zones for the next one month. The current phase of re-opening, Unlock 1, will have an economic focus, the government said….

Karnataka to test high risk COVID-19 passengers at Rs 650 Karnataka government has made arrangements for passengers coming from high-risk states to undergo COVID test at private laboratories for Rs 650, an official said on Friday. “The state has decided to test certain specific groups of passengers to minimize the spread of COVID. Further, the…

Veteran socialist leader and media doyen Veerendra Kumar cremated with state honours After the mortal remains of Veerendra Kumar were brought to Wayanad from Kozhikode where he died on Thursday, rituals were performed by his son as per Jain religious traditions. Veteran socialist leader and media baron M P Veerendra Kumar was cremated with full…

PM marks a year of Modi govt 2.0 with letter to citizens – Read full text here On this day exactly a year ago, Prime Minister Narendra Modi took oath for a second consecutive term in office after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) secured a thumping majority by winning 303 seats in the 2019 Lok…

TRAI suggests new national numbering plan, 11-digit mobile numbers in India – All you need to know Releasing its latest recommendations on “Ensuring Adequate Numbering Resources for Fixed Line and Mobile Services”, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Friday suggested moving from 10 to 11 digits in case of regular mobile numbers. The…

Trump says US terminating relationship with World Health Organisation Accusing the World Health Organisation (WHO) of being ‘totally controlled’ by China, where the first case of the novel coronavirus emerged, US President Donald Trump late Friday announced the country will permanently ‘terminate’ its relationship with the organisation and will redirect funds from the WHO to other…

Moscow bound Air India flight returns midway after pilot found Covid-19 positive By IANS NEW DELHI: A special ferry flight of national carrier Air India which took-off from Delhi for Moscow on Saturday returned back after a crew member was found Covid-19 positive . The flight being operated under the Vande Bharat mission was half way over…

Karnataka bans spitting of tobacco in public places, violators will be punished BENGALURU: In a welcome move, Karnataka has followed the footsteps of other states and Union Territories to curb the spread of Covid 19 has banned the use of smokeless tobacco products and spitting in public places. The union ministry in the month of…

Romanian shoe-maker designs long-nose footwear to help people maintain social distancing Soon after a two-month lockdown to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus eased in Romania in mid-May, Grigore Lup, a Romanian shoemaker from the Transylvanian city of Cluj, noticed people were not respecting the rules of social distancing. So Lup came up with the…