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    British Sunday newspapers on March 29, 2020, carry stories reporting on Britains Prime Ministers comments that Things will get worse before they get better, amid the nationwide lockdown to combat the novel coronavirus pandemic. (Photo | AFP)Science
    UK relied too much on 'herd immunity' model, did not test enough, says...

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

    1 April 2020 5:27 PM IST

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

    1 April 2020 5:19 PM IST

    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)Technology
    German drug stores, supermarkets erect Plexiglass at cash counters,...

    Demand for the sneeze guards has surged as companies scramble to protect employees from coronavirus that is...

    1 April 2020 5:00 PM IST

    A handout image taken and released by 10 Downing Street on March 31, 2020, shows a scrren relaying a Zoom video conference with Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson (top row L), chairing a remote session with minister of his Cabinet, while self-isolating, in London. (Photo | AFP)Technology
    Porn shows up on Zoom, puts popular videoconferencing app under...

    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...

    1 April 2020 4:56 PM IST

    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 Common - mcfarlandmo)Science
    An infected person's sneeze could spread coronavirus up to 8 metres:...

    Current guidelines may limit the effectiveness of the proposed interventions against the deadly pandemic, the...

    1 April 2020 3:24 PM IST

    Health workers sanitise an area near Nizamuddin mosque, after people who attended the religious congregation at Tabligh-e-Jamaats Markaz, tested postive for COVID-19, in New Delhi on Wednesday (Photo- PTI)India
    Markaz Nizamuddin premises vacated after 2,361 people evacuated

    The total number of coronavirus cases in Delhi climbed to 120 on Tuesday after 23 new cases of the disease were reported...

    1 April 2020 3:15 PM IST

    Medics screen passengers, who were airlifted from Iran, before being sent for a mandatory isolation period to an Indian Army Wellness Facility in Jodhpur. PTI photoIndia
    250 Indian pilgrims stranded in Iran corona+: Centre to Supreme Court

    The embassy at Iran is in touch with the 250 people stranded there. They will be brought back, whenever there is...

    1 April 2020 3:13 PM IST

    Mumbais covid 19 count climbs to 167. (Photo- PTI)India
    Mumbai's covid count rises to 167 with 16 new cases

    As many as 167 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Mumbai. Of them, 16 people have tested positive on Wednesday

    1 April 2020 3:10 PM IST

    Total number of cases in the state rise to 34India
    Coronavirus death count in Bengal rises to 6

    A 57-year-old man, who was admitted to a private hospital in Golabari area of Howrah district two days ago, died on...

    1 April 2020 3:06 PM IST

    Health workers prepare to sanitise an area near Nizamuddin mosque, after people who attended the religious congregation at Tabligh-e-Jamaats Markaz, tested postive for COVID-19, in New Delhi. PTI imageIndia
    10 covid19 hotspots in India

    There are two hotspots each in Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Kerala and Maharashtra and one each in Gujarat and Rajasthan

    1 April 2020 2:49 PM IST

    A still from Phir Hera PheriEntertainment
    Hera Pheri revisitied, two decades later

    Starring Paresh Rawal as Baburao with Akshay Kumar and Suniel Shetty as Raju and Shyam, the film got two action heroes...

    1 April 2020 2:42 PM IST

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