Covid-19 cases up by a million in four days to 16.4m

On Saturday evening the UK government removed Spain from the list of travel destinations where you can come back from without self-isolating for 14 days, from Sunday, after a spike in the number of cases in Spain. In the UK, there have been calls for support for people returning from Spain to quarantine where there…

Assa Abloy self-sanitizing door handle copper tapes

After the Covid-19 Pandemic lockdown, the reopening of the hotel’s sanitization plays a pivotal role in protecting the health of its guests and residents. A self-sanitizing copper tape wrapped around door handles and knobs serves that purpose. The largest global supplier of intelligent lock and global leader in security door opening solutions, Assa Abloy’s self-sanitizing…

The Eternal Couple

Wildlife photographer  Mithun H, whose shot of black panther leopardess went viral, revealed he had to wait for six days and night in the same spot to get the shot. ” It is a fruitful though. Sayya the Black Panther and Cleopatra the Leopardess, have been courting for four years”. The Bengaluru-based wildlife photographer during…

Twitter hacker accessed 36 accounts

Twitter has revealed that hackers viewed  36 accounts and its private direct messages and one of the accounts affected was according to local Dutch report is far-right politician Geert Wilders. His profile image was replaced with that of a cartoon of a black man, and his account’s background image was changed to that of a…

Mukesh Ambani is now world’s fifth-richest man

Mukesh Ambani (63) chairs a £70 billion ($88 billion) oil and gas giant Reliance Industries among India’s most valuable companies, a company founded by his father Dhirubhai Ambani, a yarn trader, in 1966 as a small textile manufacturer. In 2016, Reliance sparked a price war in India’s hyper-competitive telecom market with the launch of 4G…

Prince George is seven

  The Duchess of Cambridge, Catherine released two photographs of Prince George Alexander Louis, the future king born on 22 July 2013. Prince William and Catherine were “delighted” to share the photos. Prince George – known as His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge is the great-grandchild of the Queen and will be the 43rd…

Should TikTok be banned?

TikTok with strong links to China is the latest company to come under attack as tensions between President Xi’s China and President Donald Trump’s US escalate. India has already taken it off app stores as Australia and the US are considering banning the app. TikTok a free app like a short-form version of YouTube where…

A confident trickster who managed to steer her way into places of power

Swapna Suresh involved in a gold scam has the potential to derail Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. In Kerala, a 2013 case of sexual exploitation involving politicians in which inevitably it was the Sarita Nair who became the focal point of the solar scam scandal labelled “ice-cream Parlour case”. Swapna Suresh hit the headlines on…

Government debt stands at £1.98 trillion

  The UK government borrowed £127.9bn between April and June for tackling the coronavirus pandemic, taking the total government debt to £1.98 trillion. The difference between spending and tax income was more than double the £55.4bn borrowed in the whole of the previous year.  The borrowing in June was lower in May at £35.5bn, as…

Interferon beta protein reduces Covid-19 patients in hospitals by 79 per cent

Southhampton-based biotech Synairgen uses a protein called interferon beta which the body produces when it gets a viral infection, primary results of a clinical trial suggest a new treatment for Covid-19 dramatically reduces the number of patients needing intensive e care and also indicated “very significant” reductions in breathlessness among patients who received the treatment.…