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…

“Lack of Empathy”

Tata Group patriarch Ratan Tata commented on the layoffs by Indian companies amid the Covid-19 pandemic was a knee-jerk reaction and showed a lack of empathy among the top leadership. “These employees have worked for you and have served you all their careers. You send them out to live in the rain. Is that your…

Lexicography and mountweazels

Free-spirited young British writer’s The Liar’s Dictionary, gives a lexicographical insight, with rich language and her characters rounded enough to be sympathetic but clever and funny, intoxicated with joy and as vivid as Dickens. Eley Williams explores themes of trust and creativity. The novel also interleaves two stories, set in 1899 and the present day…

Shark population has fallen around the world

Fearsome ocean predators number of sharks around the world has fallen. Research published in the latest science journal Nature, found fishing was responsible for fewer sharks across many of the world’s coral reefs. Using a network of underwater cameras, researchers found sharks were “functionally extinct” at 20 per cent of the coral reefs they surveyed.…

Wild elephant “Bulldozer” demolishes 17 houses

      Deforestation in India has surged to such an extent that wild elephants are hitting back by bulldozing houses and human habitat and coolly go back to the forest.  In Kerala Palakkad, a wild elephant nicknamed bulldozer destroys at least one house and disappears into the forest. Within the last three months, the…

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…