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- Friday, July 17, 2020 0
Kothu parotta, kaima parotta, veechu parotta, chilly parotta and now it is 'mask'' parotta, designed after the basic precautionary face cover, that is the talk of the town.
A city-based parotta master, as the chef is called, is attempting his small yet significant role to create awareness about wearing mask to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and is dishing out mask shaped parottas to drive home the message.

K L Kumar wants to highlight the key anti-coronavirus precaution and has made his customers the target audience.

"I have made parottas in the shape of masks and people who come to my restaurant get the message on seeing them," he said. With the government allowing only takeaway, Kumar displays the mask-shaped parottas to his customers before packing them.

He says his aim is to make people realise the importance of mask in this city where the pandemic is fast spreading in the recent days. "I use it in veechu parottas. (One, which is done by spreading the dough in thin circular form and then folded into layers with air pockets)," he says displaying his mask parotta proudly.

Madurai has seen a spurt in the number of infections in the last few days, having a total of 5299 cases as on Thursday, with 95 deaths. The state government has imposed a total shutdown in Madurai and nearby places till July 12 to curb the spread of the pandemic.
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- Friday, July 17, 2020 0
While some are loving Sachin for his uncanny resemblance with the late Sushant, others are trolling him for not being his exact replica!
But love him or hate him, they cannot ignoring him. His videos on Instagram have suddenly started getting all the attention in cyber space.

"Sachin ji I am your big fan because Sushant was my favourite actor," commented a user on one of his videos.

Another video where Sachin can be seen dancing to the title track of Sushant's 2013 flick "Shuddh Desi Romance" has become a favourite with netizens. Reacting to the video, a user suggested Sachin to try his luck in Bollywood.

Another user suggested Sachin to gain a little more weight to look exactly like Sushant.

Sushant Singh Rajput passed away in his Mumbai residence on June 14. While Mumbai Police is investigating his death, his postmortem report calls it a "suicide".

Sushant's last film "Dil Bechara" is all set to release on an OTT platform.
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- Friday, July 17, 2020 0
Photographs of a dog running with a PPE (personal protective equipment) in its mouth have gone viral in the social media drawing flak from the general public, particulary during COVID-19 times. The dog carrying the PPE near a COVID-19 care centre here has caused serious concern over the manner in which such equipment were being handled.
However, it is not known whether the PPE in the dog''s mouth was a new one that might have fallen off an ambulance or a used one disposed of indiscriminately, a health department official said.

This is the second such instance of a PPE being found on a road here a few days ago. Many social activists have appealed to the health department to handle the PPE, including masks, carefully and take proper steps when being discarded, as it might lead to infections.
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- Friday, July 17, 2020 0
“It was an entirely different experience. When I contacted Sobika, she was so excited to be part of the shoot. Since it is a remote shoot and the model was underwater, I needed help and Sobika's sister Riya agreed to assist.
She held the phone in an inverted manner, so the camera was under the water and the other part was above the water. I guided Riya and she conveyed the instructions to Sobika. Since the model cannot be under the water for a long time, we need to be quick while taking pictures," says Edwin.

The only challenge he faced was making Riya understand the technical part of a photoshoot. "A normal person wouldn't know the terms that are used in photoshoots. So, I had to explain everything to Riya and Sobika. After a few trials, we were able to capture perfect images under the water. Like any other virtual shoot, I was on a video call with the duo. I shared the images on social media and the response was overwhelming,” he adds.
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- Friday, July 17, 2020 0
A European and NASA spacecraft has snapped the closest pictures ever taken of the sun, revealing countless little "campfires" flaring everywhere.
Scientists on Thursday released the first images taken by Solar Orbiter, launched from Cape Canaveral in February.

The orbiter was about 48 million miles (77 million kilometers) from the sun — about halfway between Earth and the sun — when it took the stunning high-resolution pictures last month.

NASA''s Parker Solar Probe is flying much closer to the sun than Solar Orbiter — too close for cameras to safely photograph the sun. Its lone camera faces away from the sun to observe the solar wind.

That''s why Solar Orbiter''s new pictures showing vibrant swirls of yellow and dark smoky gray — the first images from so close and at such small scale — are so precious.

The team had to create a new vocabulary to name these tiny flare-ups, said European Space Agency project scientist Daniel Muller.

Muller described the observed multitude of “campfires” shooting into the corona, or sun''s crown-like outer atmosphere, as quite possibly "the tiny cousins of the solar flares that we already know."

Millions if not billions of times smaller, these tiny flares may be heating the corona, he said, long known to be hundreds of times hotter than the actual solar surface for unknown reasons.

The Royal Observatory of Belgium''s David Berghmans, principal scientist of the instrument that captured the images, said he was blown away. He said his first response was: “This is not possible. It cannot be that good.” “It was really much better than we expected, but what we dared to hope for,” Berghmans said.

These so-called campfires, Berghmans noted, are “literally everywhere we look.” Not yet well understood, they could be mini explosions, or nanoflares. More measurements are planned.

The USD 1.5 billion spacecraft will tilt its orbit as the mission goes on, providing unprecedented views of the sun''s poles. This vantage point will allow it to capture the first pictures of the solar poles.

Solar Orbiter will get even closer to the sun in two years.

“This is just the beginning of the long epic journey of Solar Orbiter,” Muller said. The pandemic has forced Solar Orbiter''s scientists to work from home for months. Only a few engineers are allowed at any one time inside the control center in Darmstadt, Germany.
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- Friday, July 17, 2020 0
Everything is prohibited or curtailed during the ongoing corona pandemic as are congregations at religious places. However, masks as an offering to God at temples in the holy city of Kashi is the new normal.
It is believed that the way dupattas, clothes, etc are offered at the Devasthans with a pure mind, similarly the masks given as holy offerings at temples will protect the devotees against coronavirus.

In Varanasi's Laksa Mangaleshwar Mahadev Missir Pokhara temple, social worker Chandresh Narayan Pandey offers masks as obeisance to God and distributes 100 masks to visitors every day.

Pandey told IANS, "At present, the country is reeling under a pandemic. It is up to us to make people aware of the scourge until a cure is found. People revere the offerings to God based on mythological beliefs. The more you offer the more you are rewarded. We have, therefore, started the auspicious work of distributing 100 masks every day at the temple in the holy month of Shravan."

Till the pandemic is over, he added, masks would be distributed to the needy every day after offering them to the temple.

Those who pay obeisance to Lord Shiva in the temple are exhorted to wear masks. However, those who are not wearing a mask are provided one in the form of a holy offering.

Pandey said the distribution of masks as an offering to God is a good deed and gives one satisfaction. The mask is useful for breaking the coronavirus chain, but people are still negligent. The masks in the temple have now been linked to faith so that people take it seriously to overcome the coronavirus menace.

Shivam, a visitor to the temple, said he comes to offer prayers every day and gets the mask as ‘prasad' (holy offering). Ashish Mishra on arrival at the temple said that after praying to God he, too, got a mask as ‘prasad'.
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