The Tibetan New Year or Losar Festival was celebrated with great fervour in Dharamshala. Devotees thronged the main Buddhist temple and offered their prayers. This year, the festival was celebrated for three days, from the 24th to the 26th of February.

The Tibetan New Year or Losar Festival was celebrated with great fervour in Dharamshala. Devotees thronged the main Buddhist temple and offered their prayers. This year, the festival was celebrated for three days, from the 24th to the 26th of February.

Joining the battle against the novel&nbsp;coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic, cab sharing platform Ola has offered 500 of its vehicles to the government in Karnataka to help transport doctors, health-care workers and medicines in the state. Deputy CM of Karnataka confirmed the news in a tweet. The services will be available in Bengaluru, Mysore and&nbsp;Hubli-Dharwad among other regions.&nbsp;

Members of the transgender community distributed food kits to slum dwellers and others in need in Surat amid the 21-day&nbsp;lockdown due to the&nbsp;Covid-19 pandemic. About 150 members prepared kits with rice, oil, tea leaves, flour and other essential items. The group got together ever year to celebrate Navratri&nbsp;but this year they decided to lend a helping hand instead and&nbsp;offered almost 1500 kits to people.&nbsp;

After Chennai's 'Corona Helmet', a sub-inspector in Andhra Pradesh&nbsp;was seen spreading awareness by riding on a 'coronavirus-painted horse'! In the&nbsp;Kurnool district, a sub-inspector was seen riding a white horse painted with red spots, representing the virus, and&nbsp;asking people to take the necessary precautions to stay safe.&nbsp;

The Delhi government has allowed volunteers and animal welfare staff to procure a 'feeders pass' to continue feeding stray dogs, cows and birds during the 21-day nationwide&nbsp;lockdown. The pass can be collected from your district&nbsp;DCP's&nbsp;office.&nbsp;These passes are available in other&nbsp;states including Tamil Nadu, Goa, Pune and Bengaluru.&nbsp;

To combat the shortage of ventilators amid the coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic, engineers and scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are creating a low-cost, open source ventilator design that will be free for people to copy and manufacture. The design will be released online and makes use of an 'Ambu bag', normally used when a ventilator is not available. The team, however, cautioned that the MIT E-Vent must be manufactured according to requirements by the FDA and under the supervision of a clinician. The team is also under the process of seeking FDA approval.

With many of the best restaurants around the world closed due to the novel coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic, the &lsquo;World&rsquo;s 50 Best Restaurants 2020&rsquo; award ceremony, originally planned for June 2nd, has been cancelled. The awards will now take place in Antwerp in&nbsp;Belgium in summer 2021. Organisers at William Reed, the company behind 'World's 50 Best', said that there will be no list in 2020, and instead, they will put all their efforts into helping the restaurant sector fight for its future. Last year, French restaurant Mirazur was named No. 1, followed by Noma in Copenhagen and Spain&rsquo;s Asador Etxebarri. All three restaurants are currently closed due to nationwide coronavirus shutdowns.

The restaurant industry in India may have been hit hard by the coronavirus crisis, but some are setting a great example by lending a helping hand. Employees of Massive Restaurants, that owns&nbsp;Masala Library, Pa Pa Ya, Farzi Caf&eacute; and Made in Punjab, have volunteered to cook and distribute meals to the needy. Restaurateur&nbsp;Zorawar Kalra shared that they're looking at&nbsp;5,000 meals a day across Gurugram and Mumbai, and will start&nbsp;in&nbsp;New Delhi&nbsp;and Bengaluru&nbsp;too. The National Restaurant Association of India has also, reportedly, offered to provide free meals with restaurants in&nbsp;Bengaluru, Calcutta and New Delhi using their resources and networks to feed those in need.&nbsp;

As Covid-19 continues to spell trouble in New York City, health-care workers from Atlanta boarded a flight to tackle the pandemic and offer a helping hand. In a photograph that's now going viral, the crew along with the medics and others held up their hands to form a heart, all high-spirited to help those who need them the most. The sweet moment was caught on camera by an employee of the Southwest Airlines. The worst hit state in the US, New York has seen over a 1000 coronavirus&nbsp;fatalities.&nbsp;

According to a&nbsp;report by UK-based charity Tearfund, four global beverage companies are responsible for more than half a million tonnes of plastic pollution in six developing countries each year, enough to cover 83 football pitches every day!&nbsp;The NGO&nbsp;calculated&nbsp;greenhouse gas emissions from the open burning of plastic bottles, sachets and cartons produced by Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Nestl&eacute; and Unilever. It estimated that the burning of plastic packaging creates 4.6 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equal to the emissions from 2 million cars! The countries include&nbsp;China, India, the Philippines, Brazil, Mexico and Nigeria.&nbsp;

A group of&nbsp;four professors of environmental health from the UK, US and India have shared in the British Medical Journal that warnings, similar to those on cigarette&nbsp;packets,&nbsp;should appear on high-carbon products such as airline tickets and energy bills. Warning labels would make consumers aware of the impact of their purchases not only on the climate, but also on their health and sensitise people to the consequences of their actions, say experts. Like smoking warning labels, high-carbon health labels could be graphic, highlighting the damage to health from air pollution. They could include pictures of damaged lungs, or highlight severe weather such as flooding, they suggest.&nbsp;

New York's iconic Empire State Building was lit up like an ambulance on Monday night, honouring&nbsp;medical professionals and first responders at the front-lines of the coronavirus pandemic. The top of the skyscraper was lit red, with revolving lights circling the mast to resemble a siren. In Egypt too, authorities lit up the pyramids with messages of hope. In Switzerland, the snow peak of one of the most famous mountains Matterhorn&nbsp;displayed inspiring&nbsp;messages of resilience.&nbsp;
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An orthopedic surgeon's rendition of the song 'Imagine' by John Lennon has taken the Internet by storm. Dr Elvis Francois, a Mayo Clinic resident in Minnesota, performed the song&nbsp;along with his colleague Dr. William Robinson on the piano&nbsp;and called for togetherness in the face of the global pandemic. Dr Francois shared the ballad on Instagram&nbsp;and several viewers thanked him for lifting their spirits.

Formula One team, Mercedes has joined forces with medics to help combat coronavirus. The team&nbsp;helped develop a breathing aid&nbsp;that could keep coronavirus patients out of intensive care and ease some pressure on Britain&rsquo;s strained health services.&nbsp;Mercedes worked with engineers at the University College London&nbsp;and clinicians at University College Hospital&nbsp;on improving a device called Continuous Positive Airway Pressure, which bridges the gap between an oxygen mask and the need for full ventilation. 100 such devices are now being sent for a clinical trial.&nbsp;&nbsp;

British musician and composer John Miles and Antwerp Philharmonic Orchestra didn't let the coronavirus&nbsp;lockdown dampen their spirits. Together, along with the producer of the 'Night Of The Proms', a classical concert series where they regularly perform, they put on a quarantine orchestra in which every member played their part separately on video. While Miles played the piano and sang in England, the others performed their parts elsewhere in Europe. They played John Miles' hit song 'Music', released back in 1975.

The Sesame Street Muppets are here to help children stay safe as the world grapples with the coronavirus crisis. Elmo, Rooster and Cookie Monster came together to remind young fans to stay safe and remember to wash their hands regularly. Ditching the toothbrush classic song Brushy Brush, Elmo's song has now been changed to Washy Wash. They've been featured in new public service animated spots and aim to spread comforting messages amid the health crisis.

Researchers from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, affiliated to the Harvard Medical&nbsp;School, have revealed a new blood test that could detect more than 50 types of cancer. The study, published in the journal Annals of Oncology, shares that the test is based on&nbsp;DNA&nbsp;shed by tumours. It was developed using&nbsp;a machine learning algorithm, and is now being clinically trialled. The test could become a tool for early detection, but more research is needed to show how the test may work in a real cancer screening scenario.&nbsp;

As Argentina battles the global coronavirus pandemic, one resident in quarantine decided to channelise&nbsp;his creative&nbsp;energy into making face masks using a 3D printer and donating them to hospitals in need. Jorge Waisman began creating protective equipment along with 70 volunteers. He set up four 3D printers in his Buenos Aires home to make masks that cover the face completely along with chinstraps. In their first week of operation, they've created 500 masks and distributed them to 20 hospitals.

Google Arts &amp; Culture is letting you take a virtual tour of the most famous residence in the United States, the White House. The White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States located in Washington D.C.&nbsp;You can get an exclusive tour of the executive office building, a walk through the historical art work in the White House and get a chance to virtually stand in the lawn of the house. You can even get a sneak peak into the Vice President&rsquo;s Ceremonial Office, the Secretary of War suite, and the library.

To reach out to those in need amid the 21-day lockdown&nbsp;in the country,&nbsp;the Indian Railways has started offering free meals to people across railway stations at different locations in the country. 13 of Indian Railways' base kitchens are being used to enhance distribution of these meals. The food is distributed by the Railway Protection Force with help from some NGOs and volunteers. In New Delhi, the meals were offered at Shakurbasti and Nizamuddin stations while Agra, Prayagraj and Kanpur stations were also involved in the exercise.

A painting by Dutch master Vincent van Gogh was stolen between Sunday and Monday from the Singer Laren museum east of Amsterdam that was closed to prevent the spread of coronavirus, police and the museum said Monday.&nbsp;The value of the work, which was on loan from the Groningen Museum, was not immediately known.&nbsp;A team of forensics and art theft experts is studying video footage and questioning neighbours.

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