An 18,000-year-old puppy was discovered covered in permafrost in eastern Russia. It was found by a local in Yakutia, a region in eastern Siberia, back in 2018. It was in remarkably well-preserved, complete with fur, whiskers and teeth and is believed to be the oldest canine discovered in the area. A genome sequencing is in the pipeline to identify if the specimen is a dog, a wolf or some other prehistoric ancestor. In recent years, Russia's Far East has become a hub for such discoveries as the permafrost is melting due to climate change.

An 18,000-year-old puppy was discovered covered in permafrost in eastern Russia. It was found by a local in Yakutia, a region in eastern Siberia, back in 2018. It was in remarkably well-preserved, complete with fur, whiskers and teeth and is believed to be the oldest canine discovered in the area. A genome sequencing is in the pipeline to identify if the specimen is a dog, a wolf or some other prehistoric ancestor. In recent years, Russia's Far East has become a hub for such discoveries as the permafrost is melting due to climate change.

Indian fashion designer Rahul&nbsp;Mishra&nbsp;will be joining the onlineedition of Paris Couture Week, presenting his first ever digital couture show. The presentation, alongside shows by other global luxury fashion houses, will be staged on July 7. Called Butterfly People, the collection will feature 12 looks and include embroidered face masks as well. Mishra&nbsp;was previously invited to present his collection at the couture week last year by the French fashion federation and he has also been regular on the global fashion calendar.&nbsp;

Genome sequence data from almost 30 per cent of all Covid-19 samples&nbsp;collected by the World Health Organization (WHO) have shown signs of mutation, reports Reuters. However, the top health body said that there is no evidence of this mutation leading to severe disease. WHO has collected over 60,000 samples of the disease so far.&nbsp;
Scientists at Scripps Research have found that 65% of global cases by April were from the mutated virus. They found that the mutation, called&nbsp;D614G, increases Covid-19's ability to infect cells and may explain why outbreaks in northern Italy and New York were larger than the ones reported earlier in the pandemic.&nbsp;

Wearing a face mask or covering is not just choice but a necessity to protect yourself from contracting Covid-19. But a man from Pune&nbsp;has given an interesting twist to this health mandate.&nbsp;Shankar Kurade, from the&nbsp;Pimpri-Chinchwad&nbsp;region of Pune district, has got himself a mask made of gold worth Rs 2.89 Lakhs, reports news agency ANI. Kurade&nbsp;said that the mask is thin and has small holes on its surface to support breathing. However, he is not sure whether the mask is effective in preventing infection or not! The gold mask was quick to go viral on social media.&nbsp;

As part of a multi-billion dollar investment towards become a global tourism destination, Saudi Arabia unveiled plans for a new ultra-luxury airport. The airport's design has been inspired by the illusion of a desert mirage and is set to be completed by 2023.&nbsp;
The airport will service guests of the&nbsp;kingdom's new super luxury resort AMAALA&nbsp;when it opens. Designed to accommodate&nbsp;one million annual visitors, the airport will offer an 'exclusive private club experience' with dedicated&nbsp;hangars for private jets and commercial planes.&nbsp;

After more than three months of banning visitors, Himachal&nbsp;Pradesh&nbsp;has reopened for tourists with some conditions. Tourists will need to make a prior hotel booking of at least five days and submit a test report showing negative for Covid-19 from an ICMR-approved laboratory no older than 72 hours at the time of entry.&nbsp;
The state government has relaxed the ban as part of Unlock II measures.&nbsp;The order, however, does not mention the exact date from which tourists may visit the state and inter-state bus service will remain suspended till further orders.

China is on its way to lift restrictions on beauty companies that support cruelty-free practices by not conducting animal tests on personal care products, reports WWD. The country, which mandates animal testing for eye and skin irritation in Chinese laboratories before allowing product to enter Chinese markets is relaxing its norms. 'Effective Jan 1, 2021, imported ordinary cosmetics such as shampoo, blusher, mascara and perfume will no longer have to be animal tested.' announced Human Society International. However, special cosmetics including hair dyes, sun protectors children's products and more will still require animal tests. The order is yet to be finalised but efforts are underway.&nbsp;

The United Kingdom's Duke of Cambridge visited a pub on July 3rd, a day ahead of the reopening of bars, cafes and restaurants in England and Northern Ireland.&nbsp;Prince William was served a pint and chips at the Rose and Crown pub in Norfolk, where he spoke about the reopening under new health guidelines. Pubs in England have been closed since March 20, under restrictions to prevent the spread of Covid-19.

Offering relief to some manufacturers, Chandigarh&nbsp;has moved three products out of its banned list of&nbsp;18 categories of single-use plastic products.&nbsp;
The administration has changed three of the categories to 'extended producer responsibility' that include 500ml refill pouches, straws attached to tetra packs&nbsp;and multi-layered packaging used to pack food items.&nbsp;
'The decision was taken after receiving representations from industries saying that there were no other viable alternatives available,' UT Director of Environment, Debendra Dalai&nbsp;said as per HT.&nbsp;

Not just physical, the coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic and the stresses brought upon by it are having a massive impact on our mental health as well. A report by Lybrate, a health and wellness platform, has found that online consultations for mental health issues have increased by over 180 per cent compared to pre-pandemic levels. The platform saw a 255 per cent surge in consultations from women and 150 per cent from men. The highest jump was witnessed in the city of Mumbai at 205 per cent, followed by Delhi, Pune, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Bengaluru and Kolkata, all falling&nbsp;in the 100 to 200 per cent increase range.&nbsp;

A favourite of writers and creatives, the iconic Indian Coffee House in Kolkata's&nbsp;College Street reopened on Thursday, 103 days after shutting down due to the Covid-19 pandemic.&nbsp;The eatery will be open from 11 am to 6 pm every day excepting Sundays. In the pre-COVID era, the Coffee House usually operated between 9 am and 9 pm.
To ensure social distancing, fewer than normal customers will be allowed on the two floors of the heritage eatery, which has been frequented by renowned poets, intellectuals and artists including the likes of Satyajit Ray and Amartya Sen&nbsp;among others.&nbsp;

The Karnataka&nbsp;government has ordered all facilities treating Covid-19 patients to provide a nutritious diet to all infected persons. The new diet plan is issued in an effort to boost the immunity of virus patients under treatment. As per the diet, breakfast will be served at 7 am and can be dishes like rava&nbsp;idli, pongal, set dosa, or&nbsp;bisi&nbsp;beli bath. After breakfast, patients should get a serving of seasonal fresh fruit followed by lunch at 1 pm. The lunch menu will comprise of&nbsp;roti, chapati, palya, rice, dal, egg and curd. At 5 pm, patients will get&nbsp;one banana and three cookies, two protein cookies, two dates and a mango bar for vitamin C. The dinner, served at 7 pm is almost the same as lunch followed by a glass of flavoured milk at 9 pm.&nbsp;

Japan has launched a new bullet train that isn't just faster but can also function safely during an earthquake.&nbsp;
Called N700S, where the 'S' stands for Supreme, the train&nbsp;can run up to 360 kilometres per hour, which was a record set by the train in 2019. The train has now been launched for public use from July 1 and connects the Tokyo Station and Shin-Osaka Station in Osaka.&nbsp;
In a first, the train is fitted with a lithium-ion battery self-propulsion system, that allows it to operate on its own for a short distance in case of a power outage. This will let the train transport its passengers to a safe location in case of an earthquake.&nbsp;

The&nbsp;Indian Council of Medical Research has asked medical institutions involved in trials for India's first Covid-19 vaccine, to fast-track the clinical trial approvals. The hospitals involved have been ordered to begin subject enrolment no later than July 7. Developed by Bharat&nbsp;Biotech in partnership with ICMR and the National Institute of Virology, the DGCI&nbsp;recently approved human clinical trials for Covaxin. ICMR&nbsp;has set Aug 15 as the launch date for the vaccine's public health use but the&nbsp;final outcome will depend on the cooperation of all clinical trial sites involved in this project, the top health body said. Reports say ICMR's letter to Bharat Biotech also comes attached with a warning, deliver on time or face consequences.&nbsp;

Teams of painters and artists gathered for a second day on Thursday to paint a "Black Lives Matter" mural in the middle of a street that passes federal buildings in lower Manhattan.
Endorsed by city leaders, three up-and-coming Black artists from New York were chosen to stylize the letters of each of the three words.&nbsp;The mural sits adjacent to the Thurgood Marshall federal courthouse, named after the first Black U.S. Supreme Court justice.
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Scientists from&nbsp;UCLA have designed a high-tech glove,&nbsp; capable of converting sign language into speech in real-time. The wearable device eradicates the need for a translator, helping users to communicate with ease. Based on the American Sign Language, the sensors attached on the fingers and thumb of the glove help make sense of each word, phrase or letter with accuracy. To test the device, they attached adhesive sensors on faces of volunteers to capture facial expressions that are a part of ASL. These signals are then sent to a smartphone that translates them into spoken words. Scientists hope that the innovation will help people learn sign language.&nbsp;

Science and Technology Minister Harsh Vardhan and HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal&nbsp;have launched a 'Drug Discovery Hackathon' project and invited students and researchers to participate in it with an aim to develop an anti-Covid-19&nbsp;drug. The initiative is being jointly carried out by the Ministry of Human Resources Development and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).&nbsp;The CSIR has been re-purposing drugs to help patients recover from the novel coronavirus.

Dr. Fuad Halim is doing all it takes to save lives amid the pandemic&nbsp;as treatment for Covid-19 takes priority in health-care centres. The 49-year-old doctor runs a small dialysis unit in Kolkata&nbsp;and is offering the procedure, critical for kidney&nbsp;patients,&nbsp;at just ₹50. The facility has been set up under NGO&nbsp;Kolkata Swasthya Sankalpa, which he runs along with his friends and relatives. Ever since the lockdown began, Halim and his team has performed 2,190 procedures, aiming to treat both Covid-19 positive and negative patients with utmost precautions. They conduct an average of 35 to 40 dialysis&nbsp;a day.

According to researchers from the University of Virginia School of Medicine, a blood&nbsp;test may be able to predict the severity of Covid-19 and which&nbsp;patients are likely to need&nbsp;a ventilator.&nbsp;The finding could lead to a scoring system that would flag at-risk patients for closer monitoring and personalized treatments. The study focused on 57 Covid-19 patients who needed a ventilator to&nbsp;breath. They found that blood levels of a certain cytokine&nbsp;can predict the course of Covid-19.&nbsp;Cytokines are proteins that are central to the&nbsp;immune system, and their overreaction&nbsp;is a sign of severe Covid-19.&nbsp;Researchers also found higher levels of two cytokines in patients with high&nbsp;blood sugar. They said this may explain why&nbsp;diabetes&nbsp;is linked with worse Covid-19 outcomes. However, the study has not been peer-reviewed and should be considered preliminary.

The Indian Railways has shared that it achieved 100% punctuality on the 1st of July, for the first time in history since the services began.&nbsp;No trains were delayed among the 201 that ran on that day. The previous best was 99.54% on the 23rd of June with one train getting delayed. Indian Railways is running on a limited capacity with all regular passenger trains cancelled, and only&nbsp;special trains to ferry passengers stranded or those travelling out of necessity. Specific routes across the country have been devised to help movement amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Researchers in Brazil discovered 2,248 fires in the Amazon last month, making it the highest number of fires recorded in June since 2007. According to the National Institute for Space Research, the heaviest burning season occurs in July, August and September. 1,880 fires were detected in June 2019. The increase may be attributed to ranchers and illegal loggers in the area amid the&nbsp;Covid-19 pandemic. Brazil has reported the second highest Covid-19 death toll in the world, and the raging fires could increase the risk of breathing trouble and respiratory illnesses.

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