With calendars featuring celebrities as women from Raja Ravi Varma’s paintings, the trend of photographers recreating vintage paintings as photographs is on the rise. By Riya Sharma Photographer G. Venket Ram recreated popular 19th-century Raja Ravi Varma’s paintings into photographs that grace a 2020 calendar which according to Ram is a part of Naam Charitable Trust’s fund-raiser […]
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Digital newbies are emerging due to severe cash-crunches amid the nationwide lockdown. The last three weeks have seen a 42 percent spike in the digital transactions through apps, reports say. By Neetu Saini The nation-wide lockdown has facilitated a deep penetration of UPI (Unified Payments Interface) apps for monetary transactions in the past few […]
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Private hospitals in Trichy refuse to admit patients with sicknesses other than Covid-19, leaving them to fend for themselves By Adilin Beatrice C Tiruchirapalli: Private hospitals in Trichy, Tamil Nadu, are not admitting patients with ailments other than Covid-19, causing them grave distress. Some hospitals that are still admitting non-Covid patients are reportedly asking their […]
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By Ankita Mukherjee The day the college asked us to go home, we were so shocked that we didn’t know how to react. We frantically called our parents or cried our lungs out as it was our last day in the college. Those booking their own tickets got a shock when news came that there […]
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A lot of people have become addicted to online gaming and binge-watching due to the ongoing lockdown By Tamanna Yasmin Kolkata: “I’ve developed this addiction after the lockdown,” says Sayani Ghosh, an MSc student at West Bengal State University. “I spend four to five hours on gaming and around six more hours watching web series. It […]
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As the country battles against COVID-19, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Bhopal struggle to meet their fixed costs. Rhythima Agrawal The lockdown in the country has paralyzed the operations of the medium and small scale industries. This has made it difficult for the manufacturers because they have to meet their fixed costs such […]
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All the 12 suspected cases and two COVID-19 positive cases reported in Pilibhit district are now cured and there are no new cases as for now. Archita Srivastava April 15, 2020 Lucknow: Amit Mohan Prasad, the Principal Health Secretary of Uttar Pradesh, during a press conference held in Lucknow on April 13, declared that Pilibhit […]
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The Government of India Information and Broadcasting, in a press release dated April 15, has published a set of revised consolidated guidelines from the Ministry of Home Affairs. By Sanchari Ghatak Bengaluru: Post Prime Minister Modi’s official address to the nation, in which he announced an extension to the existing countrywide lockdown till May 3, […]
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With the lockdown being extended till May 3, 2020, the states are gearing up to take stringent measures to fight the coronavirus. By Astha Oriel On April 14, 2020, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, gave the green signal for the lockdown to be extended till May 3, 2020. However even before the nationwide lockdown was announced, […]
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Government fair price ration shops have been selling rice at high prices amid the ongoing nationwide lockdown, in various areas of Jamshedpur. By Abhinav Kumar Jamshedpur: Residents of various areas in Jamshedpur have complained that essential commodities like rice are being provided at a higher price than allowed by the government. Rishav Tulsyan, a resident […]
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