The Underwater Photographer of the Year has been awarded to Greg Lecoeur from France. His surreal image, titled 'Frozen mobile home' shows seals surrounding an iceberg in Antarctica. The competition, across 13 different categories, saw over 5500 entries from 70 countries. Anita Kainrath from Austria was awarded the&nbsp;'Up &amp; Coming Underwater Photographer of the Year' for her photo called 'Shark Nursery'. Zena Holloway's stunning image of a free-diver and conservationist in the Yucantan Peninsula in Mexico was a stand out in the Black and White category.

The Underwater Photographer of the Year has been awarded to Greg Lecoeur from France. His surreal image, titled 'Frozen mobile home' shows seals surrounding an iceberg in Antarctica. The competition, across 13 different categories, saw over 5500 entries from 70 countries. Anita Kainrath from Austria was awarded the 'Up & Coming Underwater Photographer of the Year' for her photo called 'Shark Nursery'. Zena Holloway's stunning image of a free-diver and conservationist in the Yucantan Peninsula in Mexico was a stand out in the Black and White category.

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;

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;

In the parking lot of a shopping centre in the Colombian town of Mosquera, a drive-in movie theatre has been set up for people to enjoy a cinema experience during the coronavirus pandemic. A total of 95 vehicles with four occupants are able to enter the drive-in and no minors are allowed, due to strict quarantine rules in place in the town.&nbsp;Customers can only get out of their vehicles if they need to go to the bathroom, so they can request the drive-in's attendants if they wish to buy anything such as snacks.

Nearly 5.5 crore unintended pregnancies, 18 lakh unsafe abortions and 30,000 maternal deaths were prevented thanks to the use of contraceptives in India in 2019, said Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan.&nbsp;In a virtual meeting on World Population Day, Vardhan&nbsp;also credited&nbsp;substantial investment in the family planning programme for this feat.&nbsp;
India's crude birth rate has reduced from 21.8 in 2011 to 20 in&nbsp;2018, while the total fertility rate has declined from 2.4 in 2011 to 2.2 in 2018, Vardhan&nbsp;said in a statement.&nbsp;The health minister emphasised that family planning provides dignity to women, especially who are poor and marginalised.

Chinese researchers have found a link between elevated blood sugar levels without a previous diabetes&nbsp;diagnosis with higher Covid-19&nbsp;death risk in a study. A team including scientists from Tongji&nbsp;Medical College China examined fasting blood glucose (FBG) level of Covid-19 patients at the time of admission in reference to their 28-day mortality. Publishing their results in the journal&nbsp;Diabetologia, the team found that patients in the highest FBG group were 2.3 times more likely to die than those in the lowest. Based on the findings, they recommend&nbsp;blood sugar testing and control for Covid-19 patients, even those who don't have a history of diabetes.&nbsp;

India's drug regulator has approved itolizumab, used to treat skin condition psoriasis, for restricted&nbsp;emergency use for the treatment of Covid-19 patients facing moderate to acute respiratory problems.&nbsp;
The drug is manufactured and marketed by India's Biocon Ltd and has now been repurposed for Covid-19, the indigenous pharma&nbsp;company said.&nbsp;The firm presented the phase II clinical trial results to the drug regulator which were deliberated upon by the Subject Expert Committee of the DCGI's office.&nbsp;The use of the medicine is subject to some conditions including the requirement of informed consent of patients, a risk management plan and usage restricted to a hospital setup.

In some good news,&nbsp;India&rsquo;s tiger census of 2018 has entered the Guinness Book of World Record for "being the largest camera trap wildlife survey". According to Guinness, it is&nbsp;the most comprehensive&nbsp;census till date. Minister of Environment&nbsp;Prakash Javadekar&nbsp;shared that India was able to&nbsp;double the tiger numbers four years before the target. In 2018, camera traps were placed at 26,760 locations across 139 study sites, which generated almost 35 million photos.&nbsp;India has now become one the largest and secure habitats for these wild cats.&nbsp;India has&nbsp;installed more cameras to monitor tigers than other countries and our tiger population is almost&nbsp;70% of the world's tiger population,&nbsp;Javadekar&nbsp;said while congratulating the&nbsp;National Tiger Conservation Authority.&nbsp;

July 11 is observed as World Population Day annually. The UN decided to focus on the sexual and reproductive needs and rights of women this year, particularly during the Covid-19 crisis.&nbsp;A study conducted by the United Nations Population Fund in April 2020&nbsp;revealed&nbsp;that if the lockdown continues for another six months, 47 million women may not be able to access contraceptives, resulting in&nbsp;7 million unintended pregnancies. Moreover, 31 million cases of gender-based violence can be expected in the coming months. On the employment front, a paper written by professor&nbsp;Ashwini Deshpande&nbsp;from the&nbsp;Ashoka University suggests that&nbsp;gender and caste disparities induced job losses for women during the early lockdown&nbsp;period.&nbsp;According to her report, women who were employed pre-lockdown are 23% less likely to be employed post-lockdown than men. The pandemic is deepening pre-existing inequalities, and exposing vulnerabilities in social, political and economic systems, says the UN.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Swiss company&nbsp;Climeworks&nbsp;is working to pull carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as a way to fight climate change and has found a unique way to use it. Their process is simple.&nbsp;CO2 collectors are installed near a source of energy. As a fan pulls air through the collectors, CO2 molecules bind to a filter material inside the machines. When the filter is saturated, the collectors are heated to 100 degrees Celsius to distill the carbon into its purest form. The resulting carbon is then sold to drink companies, greenhouses, and renewable fuel manufacturers. A single collector can remove around 50 tons of carbon annually &mdash; roughly the carbon footprint of a single American.&nbsp;By 2025, Climeworks&nbsp;aims to capture around 1% of carbon emissions.

Soon, it will be possible for people in Bengaluru to reach the Kempegowda international airport by train! The service by the South Western Railway zone is in the pipeline, Indian Railways confirmed the news on Twitter. Work on the Yelahanka-Bangarpet line is underway and is expected to be completed by August this year. According to reports, the Bengaluru International Airport Authority Limited will run a free shuttle service every 15 minutes to transport passengers from the station to the airport.

Every year, July 11 is observed as World Population Day. &nbsp;It marks the day when the world population crossed the 5-billion mark on July 11, 1987. The theme for 2020's campaign&nbsp;is safeguarding the health and rights of women and girls around the world as the fertility rate is one of the major factors which determine population growth.&nbsp;As per the World Population Prospects 2019 estimates, the global fertility rate is likely to fall from 2.5 children per woman in 2019 to 2.2 in 2050.&nbsp;Estimates from the UN suggest that nearly 83 million people are added to the rapidly growing world population every year. The global population is projected to reach 8.5 billion by 2030, 9.7 billion in 2050, and 1.2 billion by 2100.

The&nbsp;Bandipur and Nagarhole sanctuaries in Karnataka&nbsp;have disallowed tourists from entering due to a surge in the number of tourists amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The&nbsp;Mysuru Deputy Commissioner Abhiram G Shankar issued an order on the 10th of July that no tourists will be allowed to enter these regions or make accommodation&nbsp;reservations online or offline. The same rules apply to&nbsp;HD Kote&nbsp;Taluk. The move comes as a precautionary measure to help contain the spread of the novel coronavirus.

A new study on over 92,000 patients in Brazil suggests that an&nbsp;inactivated trivalent flu shot could help prevent people from getting infected with severe Covid-19 by improving immunity. However, the study has not been peer reviewed yet and is still in its pre-print phase. The researchers found that the flu shot can reduce mortality by 20 percent when taken before the onset of Covid-19 and by 27 percent when a vaccine was given after the onset of the infection.&nbsp;This non-specific&nbsp;immunity has been seen with other vaccines like&nbsp;MMR and BCG. The study also mentions certain similarities between the coronavirus and the flu virus.&nbsp;So, chances are that our immune system recognises both these viruses through similar receptors.

The world's rarest gorillas have been spotted in a forest in Nigeria along with their babies in the&nbsp;Mbe Mountains in Cross River state.&nbsp;The Cross River gorillas were captured by cameras set up by the Wildlife Conservation Society. The critically endangered species have been the target of hunters for many years, however, the latest sighting confirms that the gorillas are reproducing and well protected. According to a statement by the Cross River Landscape for Wildlife Conservation Society Nigeria, authorities have been working with other communities to ensure the subspecies is protected and no death has been reported in Nigeria since 2012.

Swarms of locust&nbsp;have made their way into the plantations at the District Jail in Firozabad. The jail premises are home to multiple plantations of spinach, pumpkin and bottle guard. Jail staff and inmates came out to clang utensils and drive the locusts away with loud noise.

Louis Vuitton's Spring Summer 2021 menswear collection was previewed in a short animated film called "The Adventures of Zoom with Friends". The film showcased a cartoon character in an empty Paris. Artistic director Virgil Abloh gave a sneak peak of his concept called 'Message in a Bottle', the looks of which will be unveiled on the 6th of August in Shanghai and later in Tokyo. Altering his pattern Abloh plans to fuse many collections and display them all at once, so the Shanghai show will offer looks repeated from an earlier collection. Abloh also launched a new scholarship fund of $1 million for black creatives. Another brand that embraced the digital trend was&nbsp;Issey Miyake. It showed its spring summer 2021 menswear collection in a short film, starring the skyline of Tokyo and models dancing in a studio.

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