Technology, Mobiles tabs, 1st Apr 2020, News & Stories from India

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Technology Mobiles & Tabs 01 Apr 2020

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A woman gestures as she walks through a disinfection tunnel set up at the entrance of the Thennampalayam market in Tiruppur district of Tamil Nadu on April 1, 2020. (AFP)

80 per cent of Tamil Nadu Covid-19 cases traced to Old Delhi meeting

The state now has 234 positive cases, of which 190 are Tablighi returnees

01 Apr 2020 11:32 PM

Nirmala Sitharaman's budget projections for income tax collections have gone for a toss.

Direct taxes down by nearly Rs 1 lakh crore

Tax collections fall short of annual target by nearly Rs 4 lakh crore

01 Apr 2020 9:57 PM

British man runs marathon in backyard during lockdown

Former professional javelin thrower spent his 32nd birthday doing 6-meter shuttles from one end of his small backyard to the other

01 Apr 2020 9:10 PM

Nationwide, people who attended the Tablighi Jamaat congregation in Old Delhi from March 10-13, such as these people from Nalgonda and Miryalaguda in Telangana, have come forward to be tested for the Covid-19 virus after reports emerged that the coronavirus spread that meeting. (PTI)

Media declared 18 Tablighi Jamaat congregants Covid+; Their tests never took place

The 18 men from Tamil Nadu had voluntarily come forward to be tested

01 Apr 2020 9:05 PM

UEFA postpones all international matches scheduled for June

It is perhaps an indication that club football will make a return earlier than expected

01 Apr 2020 9:04 PM

Wimbledon cancelled due to virus, first time since WWII

The All England Club announced after an emergency meeting on Wednesday

01 Apr 2020 8:42 PM

India's ace wrestler in 65kg category, Bajrang Punia. AP Photo

Bajrang Punia placed No.2 in latest world rankings, assured of seeding at Olympics

Fast-rising Ravi Dahiya also seems set for a top-four billing at the mega-event

01 Apr 2020 8:02 PM

Juventus' Italian defender and captain Giorgio Chiellini. AFP Photo

Football field to boardroom: Giorgio Chiellini works out salary cuts

Chiellini's key achievement was that players will get back about half of their missed salaries or perhaps even more after June 30

01 Apr 2020 7:39 PM

England captain Eoin Morgan (R) attends a training session with head coach Trevor Bayliss. AFP Photo

England could possibly play two formats at the same time: Eoin Morgan

Test team could face either West Indies or Pakistan, while the white-ball side take on Australia in 50-over and Twenty20 matches

01 Apr 2020 6:57 PM

It's been an easier transition than expected at Rangers: Bala Devi

Once she returns, Bala Devi will

01 Apr 2020 6:52 PM

Thirteen more people tested for coronavirus in the Ramganj area. (Photo- PTI)

Rajasthan corona count at 106 after 13 new cases

Jaipur has now become a major hotspot in the the country with 34 cases, 26 of which have been reported from the Ramganj area

01 Apr 2020 5:59 PM

Many who attended Nizamuddin religious congregation have tested positive for Covid-19. (Photo- PTI)

Of Tablighi Jamaat Nizamuddin controversy, its link to coronavirus in India

The Jamaat claims that about 2,500 members were at Nizamuddin Markaz

01 Apr 2020 5:55 PM

Former India all-rounder Yuvraj Singh. PTI Photo

Blown out of proportion: Yuvraj on storm over call for donation to Afridi's charity

His messages on Twitter had triggered an avalanche of criticism from social media users in India

01 Apr 2020 5:33 PM

British Sunday newspapers on March 29, 2020, carry stories reporting on Britain's Prime Minister's comments that 'Things will get worse before they get better', amid the nationwide lockdown to combat the novel coronavirus pandemic. (Photo | AFP)

UK relied too much on 'herd immunity' model, did not test enough, says Indian-origin scientist

Devi Sridhar warned that the UK could be in for an endless cycle of lockdown and release, even as the virus has claimed 1,789 lives

01 Apr 2020 5:27 PM

Former Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne with Indian batting legend Sachin Tendulkar. DC File Photo

Shane Warne names Sourav Ganguly as captain of his India XI

Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Virat Kohli don't find place in his team because he picked only those Indian players against whom he had played

01 Apr 2020 5:19 PM

Temporary protective measures to protect cashiers from coronavirus at a branch of the store Penny in Hamburg, Germany, Monday March 23, 2020. In many branches of Aldi, Lidl, Netto, Rewe, Penny and other supermarkets and drugstores, Plexiglas panes and other devices are currently installed as protection from coronavirus spread by droplets from mouth and nose, at the cash registers. (Photo | AP)

German drug stores, supermarkets erect Plexiglass at cash counters, drive up production of virus shields

Demand for the “sneeze guards” has surged as companies scramble to protect employees from coronavirus that is transmitted through droplets

01 Apr 2020 5:00 PM

A handout image taken and released by 10 Downing Street on March 31, 2020, shows a screen relaying a Zoom video conference with Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson chairing a remote session with ministers of his Cabinet, while self-isolating, in London. (Photo | AFP)

Porn shows up on Zoom, puts popular videoconferencing app under scrutiny in US

Zoom saw US downloads surge by 252 percent to 4.2 mn in the week of March 16, when stay-at-home measures began, compared to a week earlier

01 Apr 2020 4:56 PM

Love in the Rain won the Best Editing award for Vishnu at the Tripvill International Film Festival.

Vishnu's hard work pays off in unusual rom-com Love in the Rain

What Love in the Rain is remarkable for heart gripping intensity

01 Apr 2020 4:55 PM

Health workers sanitise their collegues after disinfecting an area near Nizammuddin mosque, in the wake of coronavirus pandemic, in New Delhi on Wednesday. PTI photo

Nizamuddin Markaz: FIR against maulana, cops say 157 at masjids pose a risk

The police warned no “social distancing” is possible at these places and there was a grave public health risk

01 Apr 2020 3:41 PM

Old guidelines assume droplets to be one of two categories, small or large, taking short-range semi-ballistic trajectories when a person exhales, coughs, or sneezes. However based on more recent discoveries, the MIT scientist said, sneezes and coughs are made of a puff cloud that carries ambient air, transporting within it clusters of droplets of a wide range of sizes. (Photo | Wikimedia Commons - mcfarlandmo)

An infected person's sneeze could spread coronavirus up to 8 metres: MIT scientist

Current guidelines “may limit the effectiveness of the proposed interventions” against the deadly pandemic, the researcher says

01 Apr 2020 3:24 PM

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