Commander Chris Cassidy, who accidentally dropped a mirror in space as he stepped out of the International Space Station&nbsp;for battery work, called the incident a 'real bummer'! In an interview with news agency Associated Press, Cassidy&nbsp;shared that he had no idea how the small mirror on his sleeve came off. It may have caught on a metal attachment, he said. He saw it disappearing into the darkness, once it fell off.&nbsp;Spacewalking astronauts wear a mirror on each sleeve to see the displays on their chest control panel.&nbsp;Cassidy&nbsp;is on a six-month mission along with two Russians.&nbsp;Their launch was the first manned lift-off for SpaceX, and the first from the US soil in nearly a decade.

Commander Chris Cassidy, who accidentally dropped a mirror in space as he stepped out of the International Space Station for battery work, called the incident a 'real bummer'! In an interview with news agency Associated Press, Cassidy shared that he had no idea how the small mirror on his sleeve came off. It may have caught on a metal attachment, he said. He saw it disappearing into the darkness, once it fell off. Spacewalking astronauts wear a mirror on each sleeve to see the displays on their chest control panel. Cassidy is on a six-month mission along with two Russians. Their launch was the first manned lift-off for SpaceX, and the first from the US soil in nearly a decade.

The Maharashtra government on Monday decided to allow hotels along with lodges and guest houses outside containment zones from July 8 at 33% of their capacity. The permission has been granted on the condition that these entities adhere to social distancing norms and other protocols. The Arogya Setu app will be compulsory and the order has asked guests to minimise use of housekeeping services. Contactless payment methods like QR codes, e-wallets have been encouraged for both check-ins and check-outs, while number of guests in elevators have been restricted. The government has asked restaurants to provide e-menus to guests and use disposable paper napkins. Room services and takeaways have been encouraged, instead of dine-ins.

Qutub Minar, Humayun's Tomb and a host of other centrally-protected monuments in Delhi were reopened for visitors after being shut for over three months due to the Covid-19 crisis. All guidelines, including social distancing and sanitisation measures, will be followed at these heritage sites. Wearing of masks will be mandatory and no one will be allowed to enter without it.
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The Louvre&nbsp;museum in Paris is bustling&nbsp;back with activity after a 16-week shutdown amid the&nbsp;Covid-19 pandemic. The museum, which houses some of&nbsp;the world's most famous artworks, has made it mandatory for visitors to wear face masks. Almost a third of its galleries, where social distancing is difficult, still remain shut.&nbsp;To avoid bottlenecks, arrows will guide visitors through the labyrinth of galleries. According to reports, the museum has lost more than 40 million euros and almost 80% of its visitors.&nbsp;
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He was 4 years old when he survived the 1918 Spanish Flu and at 106, he's now a Covid-19 survivor! The Delhi patient recovered faster than his son at the Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital in the capital. The 1918 influenza pandemic was dubbed as the most severe pandemic in recent history that affected a third of the global population. The centenarian's wife and another family member had also contracted the novel coronavirus, and have been discharged after treatment.

Meet 'Bob-cut Sengamalam', an elephant who lives at the Rajagopalaswamy Temple in the town of Mannargudi&nbsp;in Tamil Nadu. She keeps making an appearance on the Internet for her unique hairstyle. She's got a bob cut and her mahout S Rajagopal&nbsp;is the man behind her fringes. He shares that it's not&nbsp;easy to maintain her hairstyle but he wanted to give her a special look. Indian Forest Service officer Sudha Ramen, recently,&nbsp;shared photos of the stylish elephant on Twitter&nbsp;but visitors to the temple often take to social media to share her photos as she's quite a sensation!

It seems like this novel idea could be the future of exhibitions and art galleries in a post pandemic world. Art lovers in Toronto were treated to a unique drive-in, socially-distant Van Gogh exhibition earlier this week. Visitors were given two options, either they could view the artworks in socially-distanced circles on foot or take their cars right into the building. The immersive Gogh-By-Car exhibit is being dubbed as the biggest summer art show in Canada. 10 cars can fit in at a time on the exhibition ground, allowing viewers to see the masterpieces through their windows and windshields.

Dolce Hanoi Golden Lake hotel in Vietnam is the world's first gold-plated hotel and it is now ready to welcome guests. The 5-star property took approximately 11 years to build and cost&nbsp;$200 million. At the hotel in Hanoi, guests get a chance to marvel at a gold-plated lobby and relax in a gold infinity pool. The gold was sourced locally, and thus, the cost of each room per night has been kept relatively low. According to reports, even the meals served at the hotel have a 'mystery gold substance' in them!

The South Delhi Municipal Corporation has partnered&nbsp;with&nbsp;the Indian Oil and National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) for a pilot&nbsp;&lsquo;Waste to Wealth Plant&rsquo; project at the Okhla&nbsp;landfill site. The pilot project will help address the issue of&nbsp;disposal of municipal solid waste. It will be capable of generating 50 tonnes of Refused Derived Fuel (RDF) per day to&nbsp;produce Syn Gas. This will then be used to generate electricity.&nbsp;

A popular tourist attraction in the national Capital city, Dilli Haat&nbsp;reopened to welcome visitors after over three months of closure due to the Covid-19 lockdown. Due to very low footfall, the entry has been made free for the first 15 days. Several shops were still closed as shopkeepers stayed away with no customers in sight.`According to a Hindustan Times report, many stall owners expressed concerns on how they will pay for the rent that is expected in the absence of customers. The famed Garden of Five Senses in Delhi has also reopened, but it fared better in terms of visitors.

Mysterious, pink glacial ice has appeared in the Alps, prompting scientists in Italy to investigate it. It is caused by algae of the species Ancylonela nordenskioeldii, that enhances the effects of climate change. According to scientists at the National Research Council, the pink snow on parts of the Presena glacier is caused by the same plant that was earlier found in Greenland. While it is not considered dangerous, it's a natural phenomenon that occurs in the summer and spring months. Usually, ice reflects 80% of the sun on its surface. However, the presence of algae makes it darker and makes the ice melt more quickly as it begins to absorb heat.

Wild animals seem be having a gala time amid the Covid-19 lockdown&nbsp;with lesser crowds.&nbsp;In a video that has now gone viral, a herd of&nbsp;deer can be seen running around Mithi River in Mumbai&nbsp;and left&nbsp;everyone&nbsp;stunned at the rare sight. The video was shared by lawyer and environmental activist Afroz Shah on Twitter.

As a tribute to couriers&nbsp;working amid the&nbsp;Covid-19 pandemic, food retailers in Moscow have unveiled a unique monument. It features a figure of a delivery person, made from metal and concrete and reads 'to those who made self-isolation possible'. Designed by artist Alexei Garikovich,&nbsp;the monument portrays how couriers turned heroes, showing up at work everyday despite&nbsp;the spike in Covid-19 cases.&nbsp;It has been installed on a territory of a business center by five Russian food companies that collaborated&nbsp;for the project.

Pani puri&nbsp;vendors in India are turning creative amid the Covid-19 pandemic. To ensure utmost safety and hygiene while you enjoy a plateful of your favourite street snack, some vendors are switching to contactless&nbsp;pani&nbsp;puri&nbsp;vending machines. A video doing the rounds on social media, shared by&nbsp;Additional Director General of Assam Police&nbsp;Hardi Singh, shows an automated machine dispensing flavoured water and the crisp&nbsp;puris&nbsp;once money is inserted into it. It seems like this could be the future of street food in a post-pandemic world.&nbsp;

Setting an example of hard work and dedication, a 15-year-old girl&nbsp;Roshni Bhadauria&nbsp;from the&nbsp;Ajnaul&nbsp;village in Madhya&nbsp;Pradesh, has scored&nbsp; 98.5 percent in the Class 10 board exams. Roshni&nbsp;cycled&nbsp;24 kilometers every day to attend school, no matter what. She has secured the 8th position on the merit list and has made her entire village proud. The daughter of a farmer, Roshni&nbsp;shared with news agency ANI&nbsp;that she hopes to join the IAS and bring about change in society.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Hundreds of scientists say there is evidence that coronavirus in smaller particles in the air can infect people. They have called on the World Health Organization to revise recommendations, the New York Times has reported. The WHO has said the coronavirus disease spreads primarily from person to person through small droplets from the nose or mouth, that come out when a person with Covid-19 coughs, sneezes or speaks. In an open letter to the agency, 239 scientists in 32 countries have stated that whether carried by large droplets that zoom through the air after a sneeze, or by much smaller exhaled droplets that may glide the length of a room, the coronavirus is borne through air and can infect people when inhaled.

20-year-old&nbsp;Suhaira Ashraf&nbsp;from Srinagar&nbsp;has overcome all obstacles to open her own football academy and train young people in the region. At 'Kashmir Football Academia', she hopes to train both aspiring girls and boys in the sport. She even teaches school children at the Polo Ground in Srinagar and Budgam&nbsp;and works as a coach at the&nbsp;State Football Academy.&nbsp;Suhaira&nbsp;started playing football when she was in class two, she shared.&nbsp;

As monuments under the Archaeological Survey of India gear up to reopen on Monday, the Taj Mahal&nbsp;will not reopen for tourists owing to a spike in Covid-19 cases in Agra. Agra district magistrate&nbsp;stated that all monuments, including Agra Fort and Akbar tomb, will be closed in the city until further notice. The decision was taken in a meeting between a district level Covid-19 team and ASI members on Sunday evening, who stated that the reopening of the monuments will allow tourists in and foster crowds increasing Covid&nbsp;risk. Agra currently has 71 containment zones and saw 55 new Covid-19 cases in the past 4 days. In other sites,&nbsp;practices, like sanitisation, social distancing&nbsp;and wearing masks will have to be followed, in line with new Covid-19 rules.

The Pulwama&nbsp;region in Jammu&nbsp;and Kashmir is one of the leading producers of milk with 310 thousand tonnes of milk produced in 2019-20 alone. Milk cooperatives in the region are attracting educated youth to come forward and earn a livelihood. The district administration of Pulwama has established Automatic Milk Collection Centres (AMCCs) and youth who collect milk under the 'Umeed'&nbsp;scheme can sell at these centres. The milk is then supplied to other districts of Kashmir valley.&nbsp;The initiative&nbsp;encourages&nbsp;the youth to be self reliant and self dependant.&nbsp;

Large crowds flocked to pubs, salons and movie theatres in England on Saturday as Covid-19&nbsp;lockdown restrictions were lifted. Dubbed as super Saturday, many appeared to flout social distancing guidelines while enjoying themselves. Other places that were reopened included churches, theme parks, libraries, museums and outdoor gyms. The National Gallery in London is all set to reopen on the 8th of July with new rules and restrictions. As Covid-19 cases continue to soar, the UK government's decision to reopen public facilities was criticised by some, who cited examples of a spike in cases in states in the US upon reopening.

To mark Guru Purnima, which falls on the 5th of July this year, devotees thronged to the Sangam Ghat&nbsp;in Prayagraj on Sunday. They took a holy dip and offered their prayers. Guru Purnima,&nbsp;also known, as Vyasa Purnima marks the birthday of Ved Vyasa. It is dedicated to all the spiritual and academic gurus.&nbsp;

NASA astronaut, who lost his mirror while fixing batteries on the&nbsp;ISS, calls it a 'real bummer'!

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