Day: March 24, 2020

For Moscow’s quarantined, 100,000 cameras are watching

A vast and contentious network of facial recognition cameras keeping watch over Moscow is now playing a key role in the battle against the spread of the coronavirus in Russia. The city rolled out the technology just before the epidemic reached Russia, ignoring protests and legal complaints over […]

Teams, toddlers and cabinets: The joys of working from home

In the early days of working from home to prevent spread of the COVID-19 disease, some Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers talking strategy on a video chat couldn’t help but get distracted by their team leader’s kitchen cabinets. “There was absolutely nothing special about them except for the […]

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Pandemic & its situation-WHO

To know all about Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and its worldwide latest update you need to visit the official website of the World Health Organisation (W.H.O.). For convenience of the public the following two links are being provided to visit the sites with one click: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019 (About COVID-19) […]

Fauci says he can’t stop Trump from talking at briefings

WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony Fauci says he can’t jump in front of the microphone to stop President Donald Trump from speaking at daily White House briefings on the coronavirus outbreak. The nation’s top infectious disease expert told Science magazine in an interview that Trump listens “even though we disagree on some […]

Trump says he intends to reopen country in weeks, not months

WASHINGTON — As cases of coronavirus continue to rise, President Donald Trump said Monday that he wants to reopen the country for business in weeks, not months, as he claimed, without evidence, that continued closures could result in more deaths than the pandemic itself. “We can’t have the […]

Police vacate protesters at Shaheen Bagh amid coronavirus outbreak

New Delhi, Mar 24: Protestors against the citizenship law at Shaheen Bagh were vacated by the Delhi Police amid coronavirus outbreak on Tuesday morning, officials said. The women agitators have been on a sit-in at Shaheen Bagh for over three months, protesting the newly amended Citizenship Act . […]

Omar Abdullah released after nearly 8 months of detention

Srinagar, Mar 24: Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah was released on Tuesday after nearly eight months of detention. His release order was issued after charges under the Public Safety Act (PSA), slapped on him in February, were revoked. Abdullah, who turned 50 on March 10, […]

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