An artist from Germany, Gabriele Oelschlager, is a frequent&nbsp;visitor to the coastal town of&nbsp;Kovalam&nbsp;in Kerala since the last 25 years. While taking a casual stroll alongside the&nbsp;Hawa beach, Oelschlager makes it a point to collect waste items that have washed ashore. She then transforms them into works of art. She transforms everything from plastic bottles to fishing boats and containers into decorative&nbsp;pieces. To end garbage woes at the beach, she aims to set up a comprehensive waste treatment plan. She hopes this would make Kovalam&nbsp;a model beach both in India and across the globe.

An artist from Germany, Gabriele Oelschlager, is a frequent visitor to the coastal town of Kovalam in Kerala since the last 25 years. While taking a casual stroll alongside the Hawa beach, Oelschlager makes it a point to collect waste items that have washed ashore. She then transforms them into works of art. She transforms everything from plastic bottles to fishing boats and containers into decorative pieces. To end garbage woes at the beach, she aims to set up a comprehensive waste treatment plan. She hopes this would make Kovalam a model beach both in India and across the globe.

A research group from UK's&nbsp;Rosalind Franklin Institute, Oxford University and others says that&nbsp;antibodies derived from llamas have been shown to combat the new&nbsp;coronavirus in lab tests.&nbsp;The research published in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology involved engineering llama antibodies or nanobodies, named due to their small size. These nanobodies, either alone or in a Covid-specific mix could be the key towards&nbsp;passive immunisation of critically ill&nbsp;Covid-19 patients. Rosalind Institute's&nbsp;director said, 'These nanobodies have the potential to be used in a similar way to convalescent serum, effectively stopping the progression of the virus in infected patients.'&nbsp;

Researchers from Banaras&nbsp;Hindu University's&nbsp;Institute of Medical Sciences are going to study&nbsp;the use of Ashwagandha as a test drug for preventative use among frontline health workers and Yashtimadhu for supplementary therapy as a standard treatment of Covid-19 patients with mild to moderate symptoms. The project aims to test the efficacy of&nbsp;ayurvedic interventions in Covid-19 patients.&nbsp;BHU&nbsp;is among 15 institutions of the country contributing to this project, that is led by the Ministry of AYUSH, Indian Council of Medical Research and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.&nbsp;

Popular video messaging app Snapchat&nbsp;has rolled out its mental health tool 'Here for You' for Indian users.&nbsp;The platform had announced the feature, targeted to promote well-being among its younger users in February, on Safer Internet Day. Snap has partnered with mental health institutes&nbsp;Mariwala Health Initiative and Manas Foundation to create resources to tackle anxiety, depression, loneliness, suicide, and general mental health problems for its users. Indian users of the app can search for words like depression, anxiety and more to access these resources.&nbsp;Here For You covers topics like eating disorders, guides to help friends staying safe from abuse, asking for help when you need it.&nbsp;

Chinese vaccine maker&nbsp;CanSino Biologics&nbsp;has initiated discussions with Russia, Brazil, Chile and Saudi Arabia to launch phase 3 trials of its experimental Covid-19 vaccine candidate. The announcement came from CanSino's&nbsp;co-founder who revealed the trial with start 'pretty soon' at&nbsp;an anti-viral drug development conference in China.&nbsp;
CanSino's&nbsp;Ad5-nCov&nbsp;vaccine candidate was the&nbsp;first in China to start human testing in March but has lagged behind its local competitors since then. Two other Chinese vaccine candidates developed by Sinovac&nbsp;Biotech and Sinopharm&nbsp;are already approved for phase 3 clinical trials.&nbsp;

Scientists analysing the immune response of Covid-19 patients and health workers in the UK say that immunity from Covid-19 may only last for a few months. Researchers from King's College London have found that 60% of patients showed a potent antibody response at the height of their infection but&nbsp;only 17% retained the same potency three months later. These findings, which are yet to be peer-reviewed, could have an impact on vaccine development as well as the pursuit of herd immunity. The level of antibodies also differed based on the severity of the infection, researchers said.&nbsp;

Glenmark Pharmaceuticals has announced that it has commenced a Post Marketing Surveillance study on its&nbsp;drug&nbsp;FabiFlu to closely monitor its efficacy and safety in 1,000 Covid-19 patients. The company also shared that it is reducing the price of the oral antiviral by 27%.&nbsp;The new MRP&nbsp;has come down to ₹75 per tablet from the earlier ₹103 per tab.&nbsp;Glenmark has managed to keep the pricing of FabiFlu lower as compared to its price in other countries. The price reduction has been made possible through benefits gained from higher yields and better scale as both the active ingredient and formulations are made at Glenmark's&nbsp;facilities in India, shared the company.&nbsp;

The Jammu&nbsp;&amp; Kashmir government has announced the opening of tourism in the region from July 14 in a phased manner. In the first phase, travellers will only be allowed by air and&nbsp;RT-PCR testing of all tourists will be compulsory upon arrival. The order said that visitors will need a prior hotel booking and will need to remain in the hotel until their Covid-19 test comes out to be negative. The arriving tourist will also need to pre-book local transportation facilities like a taxi as well as a return plane ticket.&nbsp;Jammu and Kashmir has reported 10,156&nbsp;coronavirus cases so far and at least 169 mortalities.&nbsp;

According to a new scientific paper by the University of Rochester, bats are immune to the Covid-19 virus. The research credits their ability to control body inflammation that gives them their rock-solid immunity. Bats are able to prevent the multiplication of the virus in their bodies, the report states. The research adds that their ability to fly gives them the perfect immuno-response. The mammals are able to get used to 'sudden ups and downs' and metabolism changes in their bodies. The researchers have also attributed their environment as a reason for their stronger immunity. Bats' immunities are at a 'never-ending' war with various viruses and pathogens that exist in the environment, say experts. The review was published in the journal&nbsp;Cell Metabolism.&nbsp;

Locals in the&nbsp;Borghat Chapanala area in the&nbsp;Nagaon district of Assam recently spotted a 16-feet long Burmese python. The huge&nbsp;reptile was rescued by the forest department officials, and it weighed almost 38 kilos!&nbsp;It was quite a task to rescue the python as it was found devouring a goat. It was later released safely into the&nbsp;Swang Reserve Forest.&nbsp;

Russia has become the first nation in the world to successfully complete the clinical trials of a&nbsp;Covid-19 vaccine. The trials were held at the Center for Clinical Research on Medications at Sechenov University. According to Russian news agencies, the trial proved that the vaccine is safe and the volunteers will be discharged on the 15th and 20th of July. However, it has not been ascertained yet when the vaccine will enter its commercial production stage. According to the World Health Organisation, currently there are 21 vaccines under key trials.&nbsp;

An unopened Super Mario Bros&nbsp;game has broken global records by selling at an auction for $114,000, that's approximately ₹85 lakhs! It has now become the most valuable video game in history. The game from 1985 was among the&nbsp;first editions to be manufactured by&nbsp;Nintendo. The auction was held by Heritage Auctions in Dallas. The 'cardboard hangtabs'&nbsp;attached to the packaging, which were replaced with plastic&nbsp;by the company over the years, makes it rare.&nbsp;Surprisingly, the game is in a near-perfect condition since it was manufactured years ago.&nbsp;
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A sniffer dog, of the&nbsp;Mahaboobabad police headquarters in Telangana, was laid to rest with full honours. Leo, the Labrador,&nbsp;detected land mines and claymore mines for over 9 years and passed away on Sunday due to a breathing problem. All department officials were present for his last rites as they bid a tearful adieu to the brave-heart.&nbsp;

Believed to be India's only golden tiger, the beautiful wild cat&nbsp;was recently spotted in Kaziranga&nbsp;in&nbsp;Assam. The 'Tabby Tiger' was clicked by wildlife photographer Mayuresh Hendre&nbsp;and the mesmerising&nbsp;photos were shared by&nbsp;Indian Forest Officer Parveen Kaswan. The&nbsp;pale golden colour is due to a rare&nbsp;&ldquo;recessive gene" and the tiger has red and brown stripes over its body instead of the regular black stripes.&nbsp;

A newly discovered comet, deemed to be one of the brightest comets to pass our planet in decades,&nbsp;is streaking past the Earth, providing a stunning night time show. From the 14th of July, the comet nick named Neowise will be visible to the naked eye after sunset every day for 20 minutes for the next 20 days.&nbsp;NASA's Neowise infrared space telescope discovered the comet in March.&nbsp;The comet will be visible across the Northern Hemisphere until mid-August, when it heads back towards the outer solar system.&nbsp;The rarity of the comet makes it special as it&nbsp;will take about 7,000 years for it to return.&nbsp;

In order to spruce up online classes and make them more interesting, a Kerala-based teacher has introduced augmented reality. It took&nbsp;Shyam Vengalloor,&nbsp;a social science teacher at a school in Malappuram, almost two months to get this done. The technology incorporated here, superimposes a computer-generated image on the user's screen of a real world. Animals like an elephant and a cow, a globe, the solar system appear next to them while they teach different topics in virtual classes, making them interactive.&nbsp;

Tai Star Valianti, a man from Arizona has bagged the Guinness World Record title for placing 485 blocks of Jenga on top of a single one! The final structure looks like an inverted pyramid. Tai&nbsp;broke his own record which he set last year using 353 blocks. With more practice this time, he managed to use 485 blocks. The entire structure took him almost two hours to complete!&nbsp;

American pharma&nbsp;company Gilead Sciences Inc has said that&nbsp;additional data from a late-stage study shows that its antiviral drug&nbsp;remdesivir significantly improved clinical recovery of critically ill Covid-19 patients. The company said&nbsp;74.4% of remdesivir-treated patients recovered by Day 14 versus 59% of patients on standard care Dr. Susan Olender from Columbia University said in the Gilead statement to Reuters that the analysis 'draws from a real-world setting and serves as an important adjunct to clinical trial data even though it is not as vigorous as a randomized controlled trial.'&nbsp;In contrast, a University of Pittsburgh&nbsp;medical professor said it is a 'joke' to compare&nbsp;clinical trial data with observational data and conclude anything definitive about death risk.&nbsp;

Children from economically disadvantaged&nbsp;backgrounds in India&nbsp;experience constant educational disadvantages as compared to their wealthier peers, with girls standing to be the worst affected, finds a new study.&nbsp;Data was drawn from standardised scores&nbsp;from 951 children from the regions of Andhra Pradesh, Rayalaseema and Telangana. The report published in the British&nbsp;Educational Research Journal found that children from&nbsp;more affluent households consistently outperform their less-affluent peers. 'Despite recent policy reforms in boosting enrolment rates and improving access to education, there are still substantial gender and wealth-driven disparities affecting the educational progression of young children in India,' an author from the study added.

The GMR Hyderabad International Airport (GHIAL) on Friday introduced India's first fully contact-less airport car parking in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.&nbsp;The authority has also scaled up its NETC (National Electronic Toll Collection) FASTag car parking in collaboration with NPCI (National Payments Corporation of India) integrating 10 NETC FASTag issuer banks and will go live with other issuer banks in the next few weeks. 'With this customers holding any bank NETC FASTag could zip through the airport car parking with zero-contact transactions having full control over their safe travels,'&nbsp;Pradeep Panicker, CEO, GHIAL&nbsp;said.&nbsp;

France-based Rick Owens became the latest designer to try a fashion show alternative during the pandemic.&nbsp;The American designer showed his spring/summer 2021 menswear collection in a split-screen video switching between black and white and coloured clips.&nbsp;
Owens has reportedly used&nbsp;repurposed items sourced from his own older collections, remixing them with new styling and ideas. The collection titled&nbsp;PHLEGETHON&nbsp;featured slim pants, mesh tank tops and some signature Owens' jackets.&nbsp;

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