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Maharashtra reports more recoveries, but Pune, Mumbai see post-festivity case spike

Shoumojit Banerjee Maharashtra’s recoveries barely outpaced its case surge with just 5,860 patients being discharged on Thursday as opposed to 5,535 new COVID-19 cases. Pune district and Mumbai city, which had been reporting low case surges for some weeks, saw a noticeable rise in fresh cases post-Deepavali. The cumulative recoveries have risen to 16,35,971 with the State’s recovery incrementally increasing to 92.79%. The total case tally stands at 17,63,055 while the active cases have come down to 79,738. With

Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatana's MP Raju Shetti

Mumbai

Shetti warns govt. against ‘forced recovery’ from power consumers

Shoumojit Banerjee Such U-turn would result in people losing faith: farmers’ leader

Hyderabad

HC declines to vacate stay order on data collection of properties for Dharani

Marri Ramu Court questions Advocate General about security of the data collected from the people

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Mangaluru

Foundation stones laid for improvement works

Special Correspondent Karnataka Coastal Development Authority chairman Mattar Rathnakar Hegde on Monday laid foundation stones for various road projects being funded by the authority at the Dr. K. Shivaram Karanth Pilikula Nisargadhama here.The projects include laying fresh bitumen coat on road on the outer periphery of the Nisargadhama, completing four-lane concrete road till the entrance of the Nisargadhama and improving roads inside the Nisargadhama. Moodbidri MLA Umanath A. Kotian and others were present on the

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Terra firma: The NIIF platform is expected to contribute almost ₹1-lakh crore to infrastructure.

Business

Govt. allots ₹2,000-cr. for infra funding

Special Correspondent Cabinet approves up to ₹6,000-crore of equity infusion into NIIF’s platform by 2021-22

Business

SIMA urges freeing viscose fibre from anti-dumping duty

M Soundariya Preetha Mills group says most of 50 PLI plan products use viscose

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Industry

NSE warned Future Retail of action in Amazon row

Reuters Retailer quizzed on market disclosures

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Science

Sweden getting on board India’s Venus mission with payload to explore planet

PTI Sweden is getting on board India’s Venus orbiter mission ‘Shukrayaan’ with a scientific instrument to explore the planet.Ambassador of Sweden to India, Klas Molin said Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) is engaged in the venture, its second collaborative project with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).“IRF’s satellite instrument Venusian Neutrals Analyzer [VNA] will study how the charged particles from the Sun interact with the atmosphere and exosphere of the planet”, he told

This handout picture released on November 23, 2020 by the University of Wisconsin-Madison shows an an Atta cephalotes soldier (R) ant extends her mandibles over an Acromyrmex echinatior worker.

Science

Biomineral body armour protects leaf-cutter ant in battle: study

AFP It also helps protect them against infection from the disease-causing fungus Metarhizium anisopliae, which might otherwise spread quickly through their dense colonies.

Sputnik V, the vaccine for COVID-19 developed by Russia

Health

Coronavirus | Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine shows interim efficacy of 91%

Jacob Koshy Sputnik V vaccine is also being tested on human volunteers in India and will cost “less than $10 [₹700] for international markets”, RDIF says in statement

Health

More than half of 20-year-olds in India’s metros likely to develop diabetes in lifetime: Study

PTI As urban centres continue to grow rapidly across India, decreasing diet quality, and decreased levels of physical activity are all contributing to this hidden epidemic.

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Children

The pandemic guide to parenting a preteen

Nivedita Ganguly How to bring back a sense of calm to children who are between childhood and the teen years

Trial run: Covishield vaccine being administered to a volunteer at Andhra Medical College in Visakhapatnam.

National

Coronavirus | Serum Institute of India stocking emergency doses of COVID-19 vaccine

Special Correspondent SII official says nearly 100 million Covishield vials will be in stock by January 2021.

A few poets from a list of 22 that Verse by Verse offers.

Technology

Google’s ‘Verse by Verse’ can help you write poetry

Aditya Saroha Users can choose up to three poets from a list of popular poets including Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Frost, and others.

team of researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) coined the term ‘LidarPhone’, a novel acoustic side-channel attack through LiDAR sensors.

Technology

Hackers can turn vacuum cleaners into spying devices, NUS researchers say

Sowmya Ramasubramanian The team recorded over 19 hours of audio and were able to collect both spoken digits and music played by a computer speaker and TV soundbar, with over 90% accuracy, it said.

Microsoft Flight Simulator gets new airports, visual enhancements in U.S. update. | Picture by special arrangement.

Gadgets

Gaming Microsoft Flight Simulator gets new airports, visual enhancements in U.S. update

Ishan Patra Gamers will also be able to experience the visual enhancements made to 48 other airports, 50 new points of interest across the country, and new activities on each coast.

Education

Business Into the world of Business intelligence

Rajesh Murthy With multiple roles to choose from, variety of technologies to work on and excellent compensation prospects, a career in BI promises endless potential and growth

Students watching recorded lecture with professor talking from tablet. Podcast courses, audio and video recording, class recording access concept, violet palette. Vector isolated illustration.

Education

Tech talk Business education goes tech

Ramakrishnan Raman Indian B-Schools have taken some strategic steps in using technology, in the wake of COVID-19

Critical reading creates critical thinking.

Education

Wide angle Create informed citizens

Albert P Rayan One of the ways to do so is to develop critical thinking, which can be achieved by exposure to a wide variety of literature

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