Name: Once forgotten, Agra's Mughal gardens are blooming in full swing!
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Description: Two of the 44 Mughal gardens along the river Yamuna in Agra have been restored by the World Monument Fund and Archaeological Survey of India, after a span of four years and are now in full bloom. Last week, the inauguration of the restored gardens was held at the tomb of I’timad-ud-Daulah. The gardens that were once forgotten, are now bustling with stunning hibiscus and jasmine flowers!

Two of the 44 Mughal gardens along the river Yamuna in Agra have been restored by the World Monument Fund and Archaeological Survey of India, after a span of four years and are now in full bloom. Last week, the inauguration of the restored gardens was held at the tomb of I’timad-ud-Daulah. The gardens that were once forgotten, are now bustling with stunning hibiscus and jasmine flowers!

Time Higher Education recently announced the 8th edition of The Asia University Rankings for 2020 and 8 Indian institutions have made it to the top 100! 56 Indian institutes participated in the rankings in 2020. Out of the 8, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore fared the best at the 36th spot. Several IITs also made the cut, with IIT Ropar bagging the 47th rank, followed by IIT Indore at the 55th position and IIT Kharagpur at 59th rank. IIT Kharagpur and IIT Delhi moved up several places from previous years. IIT Ropar, a new generation institute, also made it to the top 100. However, Indian Universities scored poorly on the international students front. Amid the top ranking global universities are China's Tsinghua&nbsp;University at No.1 and Peking University at No.2.

A market forecast by research firm Global Data has predicted that China will overtake US as the biggest global market for apparel within the next three years. The report also expects India to jump ahead to the fourth spot behind Japan, overtaking Germany, from its current fifth position in the global list of fashion markets. The firm told Women's Wear Daily that the pandemic has wiped out 15 per cent of growth from the market but the Asia-Pacific market will still see growth in the coming years while more mature western markets will lose out.&nbsp;

While most Covid-19 research is&nbsp;focussing on a cure or symptoms, a path-breaking UK trial will study the infection's long-term impact. Amid growing evidence that coronavirus doesn't just harm the lungs but also the heart, liver and kidney, the two-year-long study is recruiting 500 recovered patients who will be monitored for a year to monitor changes in their health over time.&nbsp;The COVERSCAN trial, by&nbsp;Perspectum, a spin-out firm of the University of Oxford, will compare results of control samples taken from thousands of volunteers long before the pandemic.

A silver lining amid destruction for Mumbai as the city breathed its cleanest air in all of 2020 on June 4, according to the System of Air Quality Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR). Cyclone Nisarga&nbsp;and the rainfall accompanying the winds had a positive impact on the city's air quality index which was recorded at 22. With the rains continuing, SAFAR&nbsp;said Mumbai's&nbsp;AQI&nbsp;could drop to 15 on Friday. The cleanest air day for the megapolis&nbsp;till date since&nbsp;SAFAR began air quality monitoring was on September 4, 2019, at AQI 12.&nbsp;

Taking all safety measures amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Uber has launched zero-contact rides at the Bengaluru, Delhi and Hyderabad airports. Besides the&nbsp;Uber sanitisation hubs for disinfecting cars before every trip, drivers will ensure contact-less entry and exit of the passenger. Disinfected car handles will be opened only by the driver but riders need to manage their own luggage. Payment options will be digital and contactless&nbsp;to minimise risk of transmission of virus.&nbsp;

The official birthday&nbsp;celebrations for&nbsp;Queen Elizabeth II will take place on the 13th of June at Windsor Castle, a Buckingham Palace spokesperson told publication HELLO! Online.&nbsp;A miniature version of the 'Trooping the Colour' will be organised, reportedly. The annual military ceremony to commemorate the Queen's birthday was cancelled in April due to the Covid-19 pandemic.&nbsp;The ceremony will be&nbsp;accompanied with a Royal Salute, but in the absence of spectators. As per tradition, the Queen has two birthday celebrations -&nbsp;one on the day she was born on the 21st of April and another official celebration on the second Saturday of June.

Facing the brunt of the Covid-19 pandemic, almost 350 hotels in Darjeeling, under Darjeeling Hotel Owners Association, have decided to shut down from July. According to a Times of India report, the move may render almost 10,000 workers jobless.&nbsp;General secretary of the association, Vijay Khanna&nbsp;shared that tourism&nbsp;may not pick up this year, spelling uncertainty for the hospitality sector. This means that they may not be able to sustain themselves and the workforce. Tourism usually spikes in the months of April, May and June in the hills and the season is now over, he shared.&nbsp;

With most firework festivals in Japan standing cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the nation decided to surprise its citizens practising social distancing at home. With an initiative called Cheer Up! Hanabi, 140 companies across Japan came together to ignite the night skies with fireworks all over the country. To avoid drawing crowds, the date, time and location of the shows were kept a secret as well as a five-minute limit on each firework show.&nbsp;

Food trends have become increasingly frequent amid lockdown but this one might be hard to digest for some of us! A Twitter user has shared a picture of Maggi noodles in pani&nbsp;puri&nbsp;along with a video showing how to make it. And the reactions to the user's inventions were mixed, to say the least. From 'delete your account' to 'i'm&nbsp;amazed this hasn't happened before,' food twitter has plenty to say about this gastronomic&nbsp;innovation.&nbsp;

If a pandemic, cyclones and earthquakes weren't enough, there is another natural phenomenon heading our way! According to&nbsp;NASA, a trio of massive asteroids will zoom past Earth in June, the largest of which has a diameter of 570 metres. Called&nbsp;2002NN4, the cosmic rock's closest point to our planet will be&nbsp;on June 6, at a distance of 5.09 million km. The other two will brush past The Earth&nbsp;coming as close as 2.93 million km on June 8 and&nbsp;3.76 million km on the 24th of June.&nbsp;
While this may sound alarming, scientists have assured that the space rocks will have little impact on life on the blue planet.

Beauty bloggers&nbsp;and&nbsp;make-up artists on Instagram, Tik&nbsp;Tok and just about everywhere else are being slammed by netizens&nbsp;for created make-up looks inspired by the Black Lives Matters protest. Turning a serious social cause&nbsp;into a trendy&nbsp;makeup challenge, the beauty mavens are doing everything from writing slogans on their face and created illusions on being choked to the worst of all, painting their faces black.&nbsp;
Unsurprisingly, people have criticised these makeup enthusiasts for&nbsp;not just&nbsp;cashing in on a trending topic but also&nbsp;trivialising racism for views.&nbsp;

Many&nbsp;animals build structures to aid their survival but very few build it from scratch.&nbsp;Scientists from the&nbsp;Monterrey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in the United States have decoded mucoid structures that animals build in the deep ocean for survival. The 'houses' built by these&nbsp;&nbsp;larvaceans&nbsp;could easily be called marvels of nature. The ocean's tadpole-looking master builders construct the equivalent of a complex five-story house that protects them from predators, and filters food for them, all from the snot coming out of their heads! When these homes get clogged, they build a new one, mostly every day. According to the study, they also filter and bind micro-plastics, taking it out of the water column and dumping it on the sea floor.&nbsp;

To uplift spirits, residents at the Juafar Quarantine Centre in Siwan&nbsp;in&nbsp;Bihar&nbsp;took to dancing. The trending clip shows people dancing to the famous song 'Sandese Aatey&nbsp;Hai' from the 1997 Bollywood movie Border. The clip was shared by a cop, calling the performance&nbsp;'covidance'. Residents were seen standing in rows while maintaining social distance, and following one of the members on stage.

Art experts have found two paintings by&nbsp;Renaissance ney&nbsp;master Raphael in a room inside Vatican's Hall of Constantine.&nbsp;Two female figures, each with one breast bared and serving as allegorical representations of justice and friendship were discovered during a five-year restoration of the Hall of Constantine. Researchers believe that they represent the work of Raphael shortly before his death in 1520.&nbsp;The museum had planned to unveil the "re-discovery" of Raphael's work at an international convention of art experts in April but the Covid-19 pandemic forced authorities to cancel the event.&nbsp;The paintings are now on public display.&nbsp;
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To help disembark stranded crew members on-board cruise ships amid the&nbsp;Covid-19 pandemic, the US&nbsp;Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has launched a new colour-coded system. Based on how long the ship has been isolated for and on the number&nbsp;of Covid-19 cases, a green, yellow, or red status will be assigned to ships. A green status implies&nbsp;no confirmed cases of Covid-19&nbsp;or similar illness for 28 days and the crew can go home via commercial transportation. A yellow status means ships have one or more cases of Covid-19-like illness pending a test and a red status implies one or more confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the last 28 days. Almost 62,000 crew members are waiting to go home as lockdown rules in several parts of the world begin to ease.&nbsp;

Amsterdam's famous Rijksmuseum&nbsp;just received a 16-century painting as a tribute to Covid-19 victims.&nbsp;Bartholomeus Spranger's "Body of Christ Supported by Angels", completed back in 1587, was donated by Dutch dealer Bob Haboldt. The general director of the museum described the gift as a 'moment of light'. He shared that the dealer had plans to sell the painting but decided to dedicate it the victims of Covid-19.&nbsp;He wanted it to&nbsp;serve as an inspiration for others to support art during these challenging times. As restrictions began to ease, the museum was reopened to visitors recently.&nbsp;

The world-famous&nbsp;Uffizi Gallery in Florence opened its doors to visitors,&nbsp;after being locked down for 85 days amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Hundreds of people wearing masks queued up on the first day. The gallery is famous for iconic&nbsp;works by Italian Renaissance masters including&nbsp;Botticelli, Raphael and Leonardo Da Vinci.&nbsp;The museum director shared that during the lockdown, the gallery lost almost one million visitors and 12 million euros in revenue. Stringent measures including thermal&nbsp;scanners, distribution&nbsp;of antibacterial gel, and markings for social distancing have been enforced to contain the spread of&nbsp;&nbsp;Covid-19. Only&nbsp;450 people will be allowed inside&nbsp;the museum during one session.&nbsp;

The tragic death of a pregnant elephant, who passed away while standing in a river after locals fed her a pineapple stuffed with firecrackers in Kerala, has sparked outrage on social media. Angry and devastated netizens took to art to express their emotions, sharing how humanity had failed them. Social media was abuzz with sketches and illustrations of the pregnant elephant as a way to apologise for the inhumane act and spread awareness against animal cruelty.&nbsp;

A healthcare worker in the UK reunited with her daughters after nine weeks and the heartwarming&nbsp;moment&nbsp;was captured on video. Suzie Vaughan, working at the forefront of the Covid-19 battle, was isolating from her family to avoid the risk of&nbsp;transmission of the infection.&nbsp;Vaughan works at a Covid-19 ward at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Kings Lynn. She decided to surprise her daughters who were staying with her sister Charlotte. In the video, shared by Charlotte, Suzie is seen sneaking in to meet her daughters, who are caught absolutely unaware. The reunion has left netizens&nbsp;teary-eyed.

Wildlife poaching has doubled in India, and increased by almost 151%&nbsp;amid the Covid-19 lockdown, analysis by global wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC has found. As funding dries up and fewer people are on ground, rescue efforts have been minimal during this period. The new report compares the period of six weeks before the&nbsp;lockdown&nbsp;with six weeks in lockdown. Cases of poaching went up from 35 to 88, not restricted to any one particular geographical area. The report found that endangered animals under&nbsp;Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection Act, were targeted the most. The report shares that most of the wildlife poaching has been done for local trade and meat consumption.&nbsp;
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