Bengaluru has topped the list for being the world's most 'Traffic Congested City', according to the 9th edition of the annual TomTom Traffic Index. On an average, drivers in Bengaluru&nbsp;spend&nbsp;71% extra travel time stuck in traffic.&nbsp;416 cities across 57 countries were ranked in the index. Mumbai&nbsp;was at the 4th spot followed by Pune at number 5.&nbsp;
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Bengaluru has topped the list for being the world's most 'Traffic Congested City', according to the 9th edition of the annual TomTom Traffic Index. On an average, drivers in Bengaluru spend 71% extra travel time stuck in traffic. 416 cities across 57 countries were ranked in the index. Mumbai was at the 4th spot followed by Pune at number 5.

Cops in India are becoming quite creative in spreading awareness about the novel&nbsp;coronavirus.&nbsp;A cop in Chhattisgarh,&nbsp;Abhinav Upadhyay made use of Lata Mangeshkar's Ek Pyar Ka Nagma Hai to explain quarantine rules. It was so good that it even&nbsp;caught the attention of filmmaker Vishal Bhardwaj, who said he loved it!&nbsp;Bengaluru Traffic police came up with a complete skit, urging people to take the necessary precautions.&nbsp;

Amid high demand since the outbreak of new coronavirus, a market in Dornburg has started a drive-thru system for toilet paper.&nbsp;Due to current restrictions on how many clients are allowed in a shop at any given time, Hofmann came up with the idea of selling the product outside his shop.&nbsp;As of April 1, Germany has recorded more than 71,000 cases of Covid-19 and 775 deaths.

Austria will make the wearing of face masks in supermarkets mandatory from April 6 to curb the spread of the coronavirus.&nbsp;Masks are being handed out by some supermarkets and are free of charge for the time being. Due to a shortage of masks the new rule only comes into effect on April 6. Until then people only have to wear masks if a supermarket can offer them &ndash; covering the face with a shawl is also accepted for the time being.

In some heartwarming&nbsp;news,&nbsp;Naples residents are hanging pasta and other free food items from their balcony in the alleys of the Italian city's ancient center to help poor people who have lost even their low income jobs due to the pandemic.

According to reports,&nbsp;China's infamous 'wet markets' have reopened to the public and&nbsp;are under the watchful eyes of guards. These markets are known for selling bats, pangolins,&nbsp;dogs and other wild and exotic animals&nbsp;for human consumption. The&nbsp;Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan is believed to be the epicentre of the novel&nbsp;coronavirus.&nbsp;Various reports suggest that a 57-year-old female shrimp seller could have been one of the first victims of Covid-19. Scientists&nbsp;suggest that the Covid-19 virus may have first lurked in a bat in China and hopped to another animal, before getting passed on to humans.&nbsp;Several scientists, medical experts and animal rights activists have called for a ban on China's wet markets.
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Researchers from the&nbsp;Courant Institute of New York University have developed an artificial intelligence tool that can help predict the chances of a&nbsp;newly infected Covid-19 patient developing a severe respiratory disease. The tool uses predictive analysis based on&nbsp;data collected from 53 coronavirus patients across two hospitals in China to come up with the results. Published in the journal Computers, Materials &amp; Continua, the tool claims to predict acute respiratory disease syndrome with 80 per cent accuracy.&nbsp;

Google celebrates Australian disease scientist&nbsp;Dame Jean Macnamara&nbsp;with a doodle on April 1, which would have been her 121st birthday. Among her other work, she was most celebrated for her contribution to the development of a successful polio vaccine in 1955.

Internet Archive, an American digital library has opened a collection of more than 1.4 million e-books which are copyrighted. The books will be available for free under the National Emergency Library in a bid to increase access to research and knowledge without a wait-list. The books will be available for students and other users until the 30th of June and it comes at a time when millions of people remain inside closed doors due to the Covid-19 outbreak.&nbsp;

Virologist Gita Ramjee, a well-known vaccine scientist and an HIV prevention research leader, has become the first Indian-origin South African to have died after contracting the novel coronavirus that has killed five people in the country. She&nbsp;had returned from London a week ago but reportedly showed no symptoms of the disease.&nbsp;In 2018, Ramjee was presented with the Outstanding Female Scientist Award by the European Development Clinical Trials Partnerships (EDCTP) for her lifetime commitment to finding new HIV prevention methods.

With nationwide lockdown in India due to the coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic, parts of the country recorded cleaner air.&nbsp; According to data from the Central Pollution Control Board, 23 cities recorded 'good' air quality. There has been a drop&nbsp;in PM 2.5&nbsp; by 30 per cent in Delhi and by 15 per cent in Ahmedabad and Pune, according to the&nbsp;System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research. Reduction in vehicular traffic has considerably reduced levels of&nbsp;Nitrogen Oxide by almost 38 percent in Mumbai!

In a display of appreciation and respect, residents in Punjab's Nabha&nbsp;city&nbsp;showered sanitation workers with flowers amid the Covid-19 outbreak. They clapped for them and offered garlands. The gesture was praised by Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh, who complimented the front-line warriors for their efforts.

The Humane Society, a US-based non-profit organisation, is urging people to adopt and foster pets during the Covid-19 outbreak. They stated that&nbsp;it's&nbsp;crucial&nbsp;to make room for&nbsp; pets that are being abandoned or those whose owners have fallen sick and they can no longer look after them. This will reduce the burden on shelters. Many families in New York did adopt new pets when they heard they were about to go into lockdown&nbsp;and that&nbsp;shared having a pet restores a sense of 'normalcy' in their lives.

On Ashtami, few devotees were seen offering prayers at the famous&nbsp;Jhandewalan&nbsp;Temple in Delhi from outside as the temple remains shut due to the Covid-19 pandemic. It was a rare sight as the temple, which is usually bustling with people to celebrated Ashtami, was almost deserted.

Consulting firm BCG&nbsp;has estimated that the global fashion and luxury market should get ready for a decline of&nbsp;$85 to $120 billion in sales and losses upwards of $450 billion&nbsp;in 2020. BCG's fashion and luxury head added that while the 2008 crisis spared a large part of the wealthier class, the current health emergency affects all sections equally. Additionally, while the demand in the Chinese market may recover soon, sales may not rise as luxury production in Europe remains shut under national lockdowns.&nbsp;

Online cosmetics and beauty products retailer Nykaa&nbsp;announced on Tuesday that it has raised&nbsp;₹100 crore from existing investor Steadview Capital. It also informed its vendors that it has suspended its operations and shut down retail stores and offices due to the lockdown to tackle the Covid-19 outbreak in India. However, a post on their website said that they will be accepting prepaid orders for daily essentials and personal hygiene products in Mumbai, Pune, New Delhi and Bengaluru. In a statement, the company also shared that its cash flow and income have been impacted due to the coronavirus crisis.&nbsp;

The first-ever heat wave has been recorded by scientists from the Australian Antarctic Program, at&nbsp;a research base in East&nbsp;Antarctica. The heat wave was recorded between the 23rd and 26th of January, which falls in the region's summer season. The region experienced its highest temperature during these three days, at a record of 9.2 degrees Celsius. Scientists shared that this could have global consequences for the broader ecosystem.

Rockhopper penguin, Wellington took another field trip this week inside Chicago's shuttered Shedd Aquarium, and this time he visited the beluga whale exhibit. The whales including Annik,&nbsp;the calf born last year, collectively gathered at the window. The aquarium has been closed since the 13th of March due to the coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic.&nbsp;

Indian Railways adds another feather in its cap! The&nbsp;Chittaranjan Locomotives Works, manufacturing factory in Asansol in West Bengal, set the world record for the highest production in the year 2019-2020 despite the Covid-19 outbreak. It has&nbsp;produced 431 electrical locomotives in this financial year and bagged the title of the 'most locomotives in a year'. It surpassed its own previous record of 402 locomotives in the year 2018-2019.

If you're looking for a reason to smile, this dance-off between a grandpa-granddaughter duo is what you need to watch.&nbsp;In the&nbsp;video,&nbsp;Kira can be seen standing across the road from her grandfather as the two maintain social distance and groove to Jackson 5's ABC. The video was shared on Facebook by Kira's mother, who stated that Kira calls her grandad 'Papa'. The two indulge in daily dance-offs to keep their spirits up.

To help distract millions of home-bound children around the world during the ongoing coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic, a global teddy bear hunt is underway. People are placing teddies on their windows and children in the neighbourhood are actually hunting for these bears! The hunt has been inspired by&nbsp;popular children&rsquo;s book "We&rsquo;re Going on a Bear Hunt". People are having some&nbsp;fun, replacing teddy bears everyday, changing their outfits and even placing tiny notes for others to read.&nbsp;

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