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According to the police, entry to the Kharghar Hills and Pandavkada waterfall in Panvel area has been restricted owing to accidents during monsoon in the past.   Police and fire brigade personnel have rescued a s many as 116 tourists, including 78 women and five children, after they got stranded at Kharghar Hills in Maharashtra’s Navi Mumbai on Sunday. According to the police, entry to the Kharghar Hills and Pandavkada waterfall in Panvel area has been restricted owing to accidents during monsoon in the past. However, on Sunday, people from nearby areas managed to evade police and trek to the hills from sector 5 in Kharghar. The police said due to heavy rain the water level of a stream behind the golf course increased due to which the tourists got stranded. Heavy rains in that area led to the stream swelling, leaving the revellers on the hills. The police and the fire brigade officials rescued them using an iron ladder and a plastic rope. The rescue operation started a little a...

Central team of experts that visited Covid-affected Kolhapur and Sangli districts in Maharashtra have suggested a total lockdown in the two districts. The team expressed concern as to why the transmission was not stopping in the two districts despite a series of measures in place. “There are 10 districts which have a higher positivity rate as compared to the rest of the state and the Central team that visited some of them has emphasised on measures like testing, contact tracing, and vaccination…We are following all protocols,” Rajesh Tope, state health minister, reportedly said. According to Dr Shashank Joshi, expert with the state Covid task force, the trend of coronavirus infection is picking up in districts such as Kolhapur, Sangli, Satara, and Pune rural and even Ahmednagar and Nandurbar (which are showing upward trend due to a low denominator). “The entire Western belt of Maharashtra is a cause of concern…We have an active virus in circulation and something is not going right,” Dr...

"We hope and trust that the state government and the BMC shall leave no stone unturned to ensure that the eligible bed-ridden and immobile individuals will also have the benefit of COVID-19 vaccine,” - High Court The Maharashtra government told the Bombay High Court on Tuesday that the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) would start   Covid-19 vaccination at homes for bedridden and immobile persons in Mumbai from Aug 1. The court appreciated the move and said that the Union government did not rise to the occasion. However, the state government has risen to the occasion and today there is some light at the end of the tunnel. A division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Girish S Kulkarni heard a PIL by city-based lawyers Dhruti Kapadia and Kunal Tiwari giving directions to the Centre, State and BMC to provide a door-to-door vaccination facility to aged and bed-ridden people. Advocate General Ashutosh Kumbhakoni, appearing for the state government, told a...

Chahal has been credited for being the architect of the internationally acclaimed ‘Mumbai Covid fight model’ that effectively controlled the spread of the  pandemic in the city   Mumbai Municipal Commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal on Monday was honoured with the ‘Mumbai Ratna Award’ for the city’s successful fight against  Covid-19 by Governer Bhagat Singh Koshyari at Raj Bhavan. Chahal has been credited for being the architect of the internationally acclaimed ‘Mumbai Covid fight model’ that effectively controlled the spread of the  pandemic in the city. "Received prestigious MUMBAI RATNA AWARD from Hon’ble Shri Bhagat Singh Koshyari, Governor of Maharashtra at RAJ BHAVAN,Mumbai yesterday evening for being architect of internationally acclaimed Mumbai Covid fight Model. I dedicate this honour to Team BMC" , Chahal said. “It would have been beyond imagination, even to think of such an honour, without a stellar performance of Team BMC. Team BMC resolv...

  It will be the first project to be implemented under the strategic partnership (SP) model that allows domestic firms to collaborate with foreign players to produce high-end military platforms in India. The  Defence Ministry on Tuesday issued the request for proposal (RFP) to domestically build six conventional submarines for the Navy at a cost of over Rs 40,000 crore, over a month after the mega acquisition project was cleared. The project is named Project 75 (India) It will be the first project to be implemented under the strategic partnership (SP) model that allows domestic firms to collaborate with foreign players to produce high-end military platforms in India.The RFP was issued to the Mazagaon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL) and Larsen & Toubro (L&T), the two Indian companies shortlisted following a long-drawn process, according to the defence ministry. The RFP was issued to shortlisted Strategic Partners (SPs) or Indian Applicant Companies for the...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated and laid foundation stones of multiple development projects in Varanasi on Thursday. The projects are worth more than Rs 1,500 crore at the IIT-BHU ground. Later in the day, he also inaugurated the International Cooperation and Convention Center , 'Rudrakash', which has been constructed with Japanese assistance. The inauguration program included various public projects. It consisted of a 100-bed MCH wing in BHU, multi-level parking at Godauliya, Ro-Ro vessels for tourism development on river Ganga and a three-lane flyover bridge on the Varanasi-Ghazipur highway. It is constructed in the Sigra area of Varanasi over three acres of land at a cost of nearly Rs 200 crore.  The ‘Rudraksh’ center  has been positioned as an ideal location to host all types of international conventions, concerts and exhibitions in order to strengthen the city’s competitiveness by developing its tourism sector. It comprises a main hall with a tower, meeting r...

NASA has announced on Wednesday that it is sending  two   new  missions to Venus in order to examine the planet's atmosphere and geological features. Bill Nelson, the agency's newly-confirmed administrator, said that the  two  sister missions, both aim to understand that how Venus became an inferno-like world, capable of melting lead at the surface.  He also said that the missions would offer the chance to investigate a planet NASA haven't been to in more than 30 years.  The missions, who have each been awarded $500m (£352m) in funding, are due to launch between 2028 and 2030. The last US probe to visit the planet was the Magellan orbiter in 1990. Both missions were picked following a competitive, peer-reviewed process based on their scientific value and feasibility of their plans. The Davinci+ (Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging) mission aims to measure the planet's atmosphere to gain insight into how it formed ...

Facebook wants to provide a new tool for its content creators, that is, “Green Screen”. Facebook is testing the new tool so that it can be added. The new “Green Screen” tool will allow facebook users to add any video or image in the background of their Facebook Stories. This option is very much similar to the one available on Instagram already. But, in facebook, it will be available as an editing tool for the app, whereas on Instagram it is available as an AR filter or effect. This tool was spotted by  Mamun Billah via Social Media Today . As per the screenshot shared, the user can see the option in the stories section. The user can choose a photo or video from the Gallery section. When the user chooses the option, from the screenshot shared, you can also see the tool labelled as “GREEN SCREEN by Instagram” at the bottom. This feature was also available in the short videos creating app, Tik Tok, which was banned by the government last year in India. Recently, twitter also started t...

Starships SN8 and SN9 previously exploded upon landing during their test runs. SN10 achieved an upright landing earlier this month, but then went up in flames about eight minutes after touchdown SpaceX chief Elon Musk confirmed on Twitter on Tuesday that the latest prototype of the company's Starship rocket series had crashed, after the video feed of its test flight cut out. The Starship was one in a series of prototypes for the heavy-lift rocket being developed by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's private space company to carry humans and 100 tons of cargo on future missions to the Moon and Mars. The complete Starship rocket, which will stand 394 feet (120 metres) tall with its super-heavy first-stage booster included, is SpaceX's next-generation fully reusable launch vehicle - the center of Musk's ambitions to make human space travel more affordable and routine. "At least the crater is in the right place!" Musk joked, in acknowledging the fourth failed...

US space agency NASA shared a stunning glimpse of a galaxy cluster ACO S 295.  The image features the galaxy cluster which is 3.5 billion light-years away from the Earth . The image has been shared by NASA Hubble official Instagram page where the caption states, “A cosmic crowd dazzles in this #HubbleFriday image. ..”  Describing the image, the post said, “The galaxy cluster ACO S 295 dominates the centre of the image, but background galaxies and foreground stars are all fighting for attention, too!” The cluster contains thousands of galaxies of all ages, shapes and sizes with spiral galaxies such as the one at the centre and some edge-on spiral galaxies visible only as thin slivers of light. Together, it is estimated that the total mass of these galaxies is thousands of times greater than that of the Milky Way. In a statement, the US space agency further elaborated about galaxy cluster: "This packed image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope showcases the galaxy clu...