WhatsApp is set to roll out a new feature for its users that will curb the spread of misinformation by allowing users to verify forwarded messages. WhatsApp forwards are often used by bad elements to spread fake news and misinformation. The Facebook-owned platform has come up with several features in the past to ensure that…
Coronavirus – Big ATM cash, minimum balance, Income Tax, GST, PAN, Aadhaar announcements made by Modi government- All details here
Coronavirus – In a big development in the view of coronavirus outbreak, Modi government has given a major relief to the common man, traders, MSMEs, big corporates and others too. Addressing a press conference, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, MoS Finance Anurag Thakur with officials made many key announcements to give relief in the troubled…
Hantavirus Creates Panic Between Netizens After One Person Dies in China, Know Everything About The Virus
Amid coronavirus scare and lockdown announced in several states globally, the news of a man hailing from Southwest China, died and was reported tested forHantavirus , has created a panic all over the world. As per the reports, the man from Yunnan Province in Southwest China was on his way back to Shandong Province for work on a…
Coronavirus in India – Social distancing can reduce India’s cases by up to 62%, says ICMR study
If Indians can do just one thing to help the country reduce the overall number of novel coronavirus cases by up to 62 per cent, that one thing would be: SOCIAL DISTANCING. The World Health Organisation has repeatedly stressed upon the importance of social distancing and experts after experts have appealed to people to strictly adopt…
Manipur COVID-19 positive patient took flight via Agartala, 11 high risk contacts traced
Tripura has identified 11 high-risk contacts who came in touch with a girl from Manipur who has tested positive with COVID-19. The girl returned from UK to Delhi, and journeyed back home to Manipur via MBB Airport in Tripura on March 21. Speaking to Indianexpress.com , an official of the Airports Authority of India (AAI),…
US reports 10,000 Coronavirus cases in a single day
Washington: Over 10,000 confirmed coronavirus cases were reported in a single day in the US, raising the number of COVID-19 patients to 43,734, as President Donald Trump signed an executive order to prevent hoarding of vital medical supplies and personal protective equipment. The US also for the first time registered over 130 deaths in a day…
Samsung Exynos chipsets 3rd in terms of market share
Seoul, Samsung’s Exynos chipset division has become the third largest supplier in the world od smartphones. According to Counterpoint Research, Exynos chips grabbed a 14.1 per cent market share in 2019, up 2.2 per cent points compared to the last year. Qualcomm and MediaTek remained the top two players in the mobile chipset market, taking…
Know Pablo Escobar? Hail his hippos who’re restoring a lost world
New York: If you are in awe with Narcos and their dazzling yet dangerous escapades like cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar, love his hippos too as those animals may help counteract a legacy of extinction, say researchers. When Escobar was shot dead in 1993, the four hippos he brought to his private zoo in Colombia were…
Heat kills coronavirus, after all!
Summer is fast-approaching most parts of the world. However, it coincides with one of the biggest pandemics our societies have witnessed: the novel coronavirus COVID-19. As of figures from today, more than 380,000 cases have been registered worldwide. Additionally, over 16,500 have died. The global tally of the recovered patients so far stands at 100,000….
Pakistan hopes to defeat Covid19 outbreak
Pak PM’s aide rules out countrywide lockdown, assures of availability of daily items Pakistan on Tuesday expressed the hope that the government, with the cooperation of the people, will soon get be able to contain the spread of the coronavirus pandemic and, to this effect, strict measures are being taken gradually. Special assistant to Prime…
Pakistan hopes to defeat coronavirus pandemic
Pakistan on Tuesday expressed the hope that the government, with the cooperation of the people, will soon get be able to contain the spread of the coronavirus pandemic and, to this effect, strict measures are being taken gradually. Special assistant to Prime Minister on health, Dr Zafar Mirza, said that no countrywide lockdown is being…
Trump tweets daughter Tiffany’s claim that lockdown needs to be little over a week even as coronavirus spreads
President Donald Trump, on March 23, retweeted his youngest daughter Tiffany’s claim that the US has “eight days to slow the spread” of the novel coronavirus. The tweet comes at a time when the POTUS is facing criticism for suggesting that he could lift lockdowns across the country significantly earlier than what the experts have…
China to lift 3-month lockdown over Hubei province, Wuhan city
Beijing/Wuhan: China on Tuesday announced that it will lift the three-month lockdown on more than 50 million people in the central Hubei province, the epicentre of the deadly coronavirus outbreak, on Wednesday as the COVID-19 began to abate. The prolonged lockdown of Hubei’s capital Wuhan will end on April 8, lifting the mass quarantine over the…
Greta Thunberg says she may have coronavirus
Stockholm: Cimate activist Greta Thunberg said Tuesday that it was “extremely likely” that she had contracted the new coronavirus, after experiencing several symptoms following a trip to central Europe. “Around ten days ago I started feeling some symptoms… I was feeling tired, had shivers, a sore throat and coughed,” the teenage climate champion said in…
Canceled SXSW announces winners as ‘S-house’ wins big – Here’s the full list of films which won over the jury
NEW YORK – South by Southwest, the sprawling conference and film festival, was one of the first major gatherings canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Its organizers, however, eager to lend a hand to the movies that had been set to premiere at SXSW, went ahead with the announcement of its film awards on March…
