Name: Navratri 2019: vibrant tattoos take Surat by storm
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Description: Navratri, the 9-day festival has kick-started but with an innovative twist this year. Women in Surat are flaunting vibrant body tattoos, from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's handshake with US President Donald Trump to the colourful Garba and Howdy Modi tattoos. Interestingly, some of the tattoos have been created to spread messages on social issues.

Navratri, the 9-day festival has kick-started but with an innovative twist this year. Women in Surat are flaunting vibrant body tattoos, from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's handshake with US President Donald Trump to the colourful Garba&nbsp;and Howdy Modi&nbsp;tattoos. Interestingly, some of the tattoos have been created to spread messages on social issues.

Navratri, the 9-day festival has kick-started but with an innovative twist this year. Women in Surat are flaunting vibrant body tattoos, from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's handshake with US President Donald Trump to the colourful Garba and Howdy Modi tattoos. Interestingly, some of the tattoos have been created to spread messages on social issues.

Believed to be the birthplace of Jesus, Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity reopened to the public almost 3 months after it was closed to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic. Regarded as one of Christianity's most revered shrines, it has opened with new rules and restrictions in place. Apart from making&nbsp;masks mandatory, the shrine has capped visitors to a maximum of 50 people at a time. The Palestinian Authority has reported about 400 cases of Covid-19 in the West Bank with two deaths. Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh&nbsp;announced earlier that mosques, churches and businesses will reopen on Tuesday owing to the slow pace of infections.

A new report&nbsp;RedQuanta&nbsp;says that in the coming future, Indians may forgo big ticket purchases but this will mean a sharp rise in spending on affordable luxuries. For instance, one may not buy a luxury bag but could direct that need to shop towards buying a lipstick, this is termed as the 'lipstick effect' or revenge-buying. According to the consumer survey, 75 per cent people said they miss eating out the most while&nbsp;As many as 67 per cent of women said they miss shopping. 'Fast fashion and impulse buying will be replaced by quality-rich, timeless investments,' according to the report.&nbsp;

The Spanish government has announced 10 days of national mourning in memory of the victims of the new coronavirus.&nbsp;Spanish flags in Madrid's Cibeles Square hung at half staff in a sign of respect.&nbsp;A huge black ribbon has been hung from the monumental archway and a&nbsp;new monument in memory of the victims has been recently unveiled.
The plaque on the eternal flame reads 'your flame will never fade from our hearts.'
Over 26,000 people have died in Spain so far from the Covid-19 outbreak.

The police arrested two teenagers in Ujjain who allegedly subjected a dog to torture and assault. The incident came to light when a Tik Tok video went viral on social media that showed them tying up the dog and drowning it in a pond. Animal rights organisation PETA had offered a reward of up to Rs 50,000 to anyone who helped identify the perpetrators. According to a TOI report, an FIR has been launched against the Mumbai-based boys. PETA thanked Ujjain police and Special IGP of Aurangabad range who helped trace the accused. Interrogation by the local police revealed that the two made the video of the dog drowning just for fun! They have been booked under Section 34 and 429 of IPC and Section 11(1)(a) of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960.

Think you know all about sushi? This new quarantine food trend might leave you stumped! All over social media in the Phillippines&nbsp;is the sushi bake, which is basically a deconstructed sushi baked like&nbsp;a casserole. With all the components of sushi like salmon, rice or crab sticks in the bake dish, people serve the casserole with roasted seaweed on the side and share their #sushibake&nbsp;adventures on social media.&nbsp;

The first astronauts to be launched by SpaceX are making a style statement with hip spacesuits, gull-wing Teslas and a sleek rocketship &mdash; all of it white with black trim. The color coordination was Elon Musk's idea. SpaceX has designed and built its own suits, which are custom-fit. Replacing the bulky orange "pumpkin" flight suits, the 'Starman Suit' was first revealed in September 2017 and has been designed by American costume designer&nbsp;Jose Fernandez. "The suits are comfortable and inspiring," says the mission director. While the design has been tested in space earlier, this will be the first time&nbsp;it will be worn by humans in space.&nbsp;Marking the first commercial crew flight for NASA, American astronauts will be launched into space on the 27th of May.

Could this be the end of fashion weeks as we know it? Creative Director of Gucci, Alessandro Michele has announced that the luxury fashion brand will be switching to a seasonless&nbsp;collection format. The brand will only produce two collections in a year as opposed to the five that were being released annually till now. Last month, French luxury brand Saint Laurent decided to skip Paris Fashion Week and said that that brand will set its own calendar going forward.&nbsp;
With such big brands leading the wave, this could possibly mean a big rhythmic shift for the fashion industry.&nbsp;

An African designer released her latest collection, not using an exhibition or fashion show of models but with a glimpse of what the fashion industry's future might look like.&nbsp;Anifa Mvuemba&nbsp;released her clothing line on Instagram on 3D digital models who sashayed down the runway with headless bodies. The futurist presentation featured&nbsp;featured pants and dresses in tones of white and vibrant colors.&nbsp;

After its stand-alone trial of Favipiravir&nbsp;entering phase-3, Mumbai-based Glenmark&nbsp;Pharmaceuticals will now test the combined efficacy of two antiviral drugs Favipiravir and Umifenovir&nbsp;together, as a potential Covid-19 treatment.&nbsp;Called the FAITH trial, the study will enroll 158 hospitalized patients with moderate Covid-19. The firm, which has received the approval from the drug regulator, hopes that the 'antivirals&nbsp;different mechanisms of action could complement and enhance efficacy against the new coronavirus.'

As Indian skies opened up for domestic passenger&nbsp;flights on May 25th, a five-year-old boy&nbsp;got a chance to head back to his home&nbsp;in&nbsp;Bengaluru and reunite with his mother. Vihaan&nbsp;travelled all alone from New Delhi, where he was staying with his grandparents&nbsp;and met his mother after three months! He travelled as a special category passenger holding a placard as his mother received him at the&nbsp;Kempegowda International Airport.
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In a bid to boost the number of visitors in the tourism-dependent nation, Greece allowed the opening of&nbsp;cafes and restaurants, as a part of a gradual lifting of lockdown&nbsp;restrictions from May 25.&nbsp;A domestic ban on travelling to the popular Greek islands was also lifted on Monday. Ferry services going towards the islands have resumed services after almost two months of lockdown. The Prime Minister announced that&nbsp;flights to Greece will resume by July 1, when a two-week quarantine for foreigners will no longer be in force.&nbsp;

Two drugs that have been proposed as a potential treatment for the new coronavirus, hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin, could be a lethal combination according to a new study. The combination could seriously impact the&nbsp;cardiovascular system as per researchers&nbsp;from Vanderbilt and Stanford University, who carried out an observational, retrospective meta-analysis of a WHO database of over 21 million case reports. The reports are dated November 1967-March 2020 across 130 countries. Reports&nbsp;of potentially lethal acute cardiac proarrhythmogenic effects have been described mainly with azithromycin but also with hydroxychloroquine. And together, the risk was even stronger, according to the report published in the journal&nbsp;Circulation.&nbsp;

A second case of transmission of Covid-19 from mink to humans has been reported in the Netherlands. A Dutch worker has tested positive for the infection. According to reports, the worker most likely caught the infection before it was known that the mink were carrying the virus. The worker did not take precautions like wearing masks or gloves, reports state. The risk of further contagion remains low, says&nbsp;the Dutch agricultural minister. The case follows a reported infection last week on a farm, where the disease was discovered in April among mink that are bred for their valuable fur. Keeping mink for fur is a controversial&nbsp;issue in the Netherlands. As per court orders,&nbsp;mink breeding must cease by 2024.

A video of a young boy helping his differently-abled sister in a game of basketball has moved netizens to tears. In the viral clip shared by basketball player Rex Chapman, the brother can be seen lowering a portable basket for his sister to score. The person filming the video and the brother can be heard cheering her as she successfully&nbsp;scores a basket. The short clip even won former general manager of the Brooklyn Nets and Philadelphia 76ers teams Billy King's praise and has racked up 6 million views.

US biotech company&nbsp;Novavax&nbsp;has begun&nbsp;human trials for a Covid-19 vaccine in Australia. If the trials are successful, it hopes to release the vaccine later this year. In the first phase of the trial, 131 volunteers in Melbourne and Brisbane will test the safety of the vaccine and look for early signs of its effectiveness. Novavax&nbsp;is using a recombinant vaccine, which includes genetic engineering to grow harmless copies of the coronavirus spike protein in giant vats of insect cells in a laboratory.&nbsp;Scientists extracted and purified the protein, and packaged it into virus-sized nanoparticles.

As Swedish furniture giant Ikea&nbsp;restarts online services in Hyderabad, it has introduced a 'Click &amp; Collect' shopping service to ensure contactless&nbsp;delivery amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Customers can place their order on the Ikea&nbsp;website, pay online and select the 'click and collect service' option. Once notified about their order, customers can come and collect it from the&nbsp;collection station at the store&rsquo;s car-parking area. Other measures such as temperature checks for customers when visiting the collection station, and regular sanitisation of the products and the store have also been put in place.&nbsp;&nbsp;

As Thailand joins the race to develop a potential Covid-19 vaccine, a researcher leading the trial says that the aim is to make it affordable and accessible to Southeast Asia. A Bangkok-based research center has an 'agreement in principle' to supply the vaccine to seven countries including Vietnam, Indonesia and Laos, if effective. Work on the vaccine, being co-developed by University of Pennsylvania and Chulalongkorn&nbsp;University, has begun. If successful, it will be manufactured by Thai company&nbsp;Bionet Asia. The aim is to ensure accessibility&nbsp;to low and medium income countries, said the lead scientist.&nbsp;

The Covid-19 pandemic has hit the travel industry hard.&nbsp; According a survey by BOTT Travel Sentiment Tracker and seven national associations, nearly 40% of travel and tourism firms in India are at the risk of complete closure over the next three to six months. The&nbsp;survey, reportedly, involved 2,300 travel company owners and representatives across the country. The findings suggest that close to 36% of these companies may face a temporary shutdown. Looking at the trends in the recent past, it stated that 81% of the firms have lost 100% of their revenues. Even as domestic flight operations resume, the looming uncertainty means that almost 40% of the companies are opting for job cuts while others are&nbsp;considering&nbsp;it as an option to sustain their businesses, the report said.

The dancing community in Indonesia that depends on crowd-loving&nbsp;shows has taken a huge hit amid the Covid-19 pandemic. To help these artists, two choreographers have set up a YouTube&nbsp;channel&nbsp;and&nbsp;post&nbsp;video performances to ask for donations.&nbsp;People can watch them for free, and if they like it, they are encourages to give a tip to the performers. The traditional system for tipping artists in Indonesia is known as 'saweran'. Called&nbsp;Saweran Online, the channel acts like a digital stage to keep their art alive, showcasing&nbsp;traditional Indonesian dance, contemporary ballet and even dance workouts.

When fashion meets function, this is what you get. A newly-wed couple is being praised on social media for adorning beautiful masks matching their wedding attire. The couple got married on the 22nd of May in Guwahati and made sure they adjusted to the new normal of wearing masks amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The reusable,&nbsp;handloom&nbsp;face masks with the traditional 'kingkhap' motif were created with Assam's Paat Silk by Guwahati-based designer&nbsp;Nandini Borkakati.&nbsp;
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