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To keep herself entertained during the Covid-19 lockdown, a polar bear at a St. Petersburg zoo in&nbsp;Russia&nbsp;played volleyball with the staff! A video filmed at the Leningrad Zoo shows Khaarchaana diving into a pool to catch the ball and then throwing it back at the staff. According to zoo authorities, throwing toys at visitors was one of Khaarchaana's favourite activity&nbsp;for amusement and now that the zoo is closed, she's enjoying it with the staff.&nbsp;

To keep herself entertained during the Covid-19 lockdown, a polar bear at a St. Petersburg zoo in Russia played volleyball with the staff! A video filmed at the Leningrad Zoo shows Khaarchaana diving into a pool to catch the ball and then throwing it back at the staff. According to zoo authorities, throwing toys at visitors was one of Khaarchaana's favourite activity for amusement and now that the zoo is closed, she's enjoying it with the staff.

13-year-old Netra Mohandas, from Madurai, Tamil Nadu, has been appointed as the 'Goodwill Ambassador to the Poor' by the United Nations Association for Development and Peace.&nbsp;In the midst of the Covid-19&nbsp;outbreak, Netra, the daughter of a salon owner,&nbsp;convinced her father to give the money he had saved for her education, a sum of five lakh&nbsp;rupees to the people in need. With the accolade, Netra&nbsp;will be able to speak at UN conferences in Geneva and New York and also receive a scholarship worth one lakh&nbsp;rupees.&nbsp;Her father's effort was also lauded by PM Modi&nbsp;in his Mann Ki Baat&nbsp;programme.&nbsp;

Results of a new study has found that&nbsp;the level of bad cholesterol in the blood of Indians has not changed in the last four decades. Published in the journal Nature, the global&nbsp;report revealed that bad cholesterol levels are rising among Asians but they have been on a sharp decline in Western nations. However, the overall level still remains high in high-income Western nations like North America and North-Western Europe in comparison to Asian countries. For the research,&nbsp;data from 102.6 million individuals was examined by hundreds of researchers across the world&nbsp;over a period of 39 years. Indian men ranked 128th in 2018, the same as their rank in 1980, Indian women did show a marginal change moving from 139 to 140 on a global scale.&nbsp;

A new survey has revealed that while pollution was down by 79 per cent in Delhi during the initial phase of lockdown, it has returned with a steep upwards trajectory as the city gradually opens up. The study by&nbsp;Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has found that out of the six megacities&nbsp;analysed, air pollution in Delhi is rising the fastest at four to eight times, as compared to two to six times in other cities. Pollution levels in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad and Bengaluru&nbsp;were a part of the survey which also found that&nbsp;a 97% reduction in overall traffic and 91% reduction in trucks and commercial vehicles entering Delhi were the main factors behind the improvement in air quality. On Friday, the Central Pollution Control Board recorded Delhi's AQI&nbsp;at 111.&nbsp;

In some cheerful news, officials of Bhitarkarnika&nbsp;National Park say that the park has successfully survived the wind velocity and destruction brought upon by the cyclone Amphan&nbsp;to coastal regions in Odisha.&nbsp;
The rich mangrove forest cover in and around the park acted as a natural&nbsp;protective barrier against nature's fury, officials said.&nbsp;Adding that mangrove forests with its intricate root system stabilize the coastline, reducing erosion from storm surges, currents, waves, and tides.

Rajasthan Tourism Minister Vishvendra Singh has kicked off #SafaWithTwitter&nbsp;on the social media platform, asking users to share their experience of wearing the traditional headgear. The safa&nbsp;is an important element of honour and heritage in Rajasthani culture which is worn widely even today.&nbsp;Supporting the unique initative&nbsp;promoting the state's culture, several&nbsp;leaders have also shared their photos wearing the turban.&nbsp;

Like most other retailers selling nonessential goods, Gap Inc. too suffered major losses due to the disruption caused by Covid-19. The clothing retailer has posted a loss of $932 million compared to a $227 million profit in the same period last year. The apparel group said that owing to 90 per cent of its stores closing in Q1 of 2020, net sales were down 50 per cent with store sales taking the bulk of the hit with a 64 per cent decline along with a 5 per cent decline in digital sales. The group that owns Gap, Banana Republic and Old Navy will pack away its summer collections for the year and release them next year to customers as part of its new strategy.&nbsp;

Taking the motto of 'sugar, spice and everything nice' to a whole new level is a viral snack called Dulces&nbsp;Enchiladas. Popular with people in the West, the snack basically involves coating a sweet, juicy candy with a spicy chilly sauce and powdered sugar. What sounds like flavour explosion in your mouth is apparently a very easy to DIY&nbsp;snack which can be made with almost any candy and any spicy sauce of your choice.&nbsp;

Scientists from the University of Oxford have stopped the clinical trials for antimalarial&nbsp;drug hydroxychloroquine, dubbing it 'useless' as a Covid-19 treatment, reports Reuters. Researchers upon reviewing data from the so-called RECOVERY trial announced that the drug, which famously dubbed as a possible 'game-changer' by US President Donald Trump, does not work as a treatment for coronavirus patients. The clear announcement that HCQ&nbsp;does not reduce death risk in hospitalised patients with Covid-19 has not pushed WHO to stop its own trial of the drug, as the health body remains committed to finding its 'own data.'&nbsp;

Pharmaceutical company&nbsp;AstraZeneca&nbsp;is aiming to produce 2 billion doses of a&nbsp;coronavirus&nbsp;vaccine.&nbsp;It plans to start distributing the vaccine to the U.S. and U.K. in September or October.&nbsp;According to a press release,&nbsp;AstraZeneca said that it had signed a licensing deal with the Serum Institute of India to provide 1 billion doses to low- and middle-income countries, with 400 million of those shots set to be delivered by the end of 2020.&nbsp;The vaccine, named AZD1222, was originally developed by Oxford University in the U.K. and AstraZeneca is working with pharmaceutical industry partners to manufacture and distribute the drug.

Thousands of China's movie theatres may face permanent closure due to the&nbsp;Covid-19 pandemic, says a new survey by film industry insiders. China is known to have the most number of movie screens in the world but they've all been closed since January when the&nbsp;lockdown was imposed. China, reportedly, has the second largest box office in the world after the United States. However, things took a turn this year. A survey of 187 theatres&nbsp;suggests that 40% of them may face survival difficulties. The survey shares that theatres had already laid off 20% of their staff by March. According to film and entertainment website variety.com,&nbsp; closure could mean a loss of 66% from last year's revenue. Another added struggle is the lack of new releases, since shoots and production have been halted.&nbsp;

Facebook-owned social media platform Instagram has partnered with food ordering apps Swiggy and Zomato&nbsp;to help small eateries who have lost business due to the Covid-19 pandemic. As part of the alliance, Instagram&nbsp;has launched its 'food order' sticker feature in India, which users can click on to order food from the restaurant through websites like Swiggy&nbsp;or Zomato. Eateries can share the sticker on their stories and their followers can then re-share&nbsp;their favourite joint's sticker on their own stories to show support.&nbsp;

Renowned journal The Lancet has issued a statement of concern after over 100 scientists from around the world flagged discrepancies in its recent study linking the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine with increased death risk during Covid-19 treatment. The medical journal has withdrawn the paper published on May 22 that was based on a database from an Illinois company&nbsp;Surgisphere Corporation and analysis&nbsp;of some 96,000 patient records, the authors claimed.&nbsp;Among major issues cited by scientists are concerns that there was no mention of the countries or hospitals that contributed to the data source and no acknowledgments of their contributions.&nbsp;The research scandal threatens to undermine confidence in one of the world's top medical journals amid a&nbsp;pandemic.&nbsp;The findings, reportedly, led the&nbsp;World Health Organization&nbsp;to temporarily suspend clinical trials for the&nbsp;drug.&nbsp;

People from Aurangabad in Maharashtra&nbsp;have urged&nbsp;for a biodiversity zone tag for a 17th-century garden that is home to more than 10,000 trees and 82 birds species. The&nbsp;Himayat Baugh&nbsp;is one of the very few green spaces still preserved amid growing urbanisation of the city of Aurangabad.&nbsp;
A member of the&nbsp;Aurangabad Municipal Corporation told PTI&nbsp;that every six months, there is a new encroachment observed in the 30-acre garden where a huge number of trees have crossed a life of 200 years here and every tree is capable of being a heritage.&nbsp;

On World Environment Day,&nbsp;Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar&nbsp;said that forest cover in urban areas must be increased in order to uplift the lung capacities of cities. Addressing a virtual celebration for the global day, Javadekar&nbsp;announced the launch of an initiative called&nbsp;Nagar Van or Urban Forests with 200 corporations and cities to increase forest cover in India. It was also revealed in the same meeting that the government has set a target of planting 145 crore trees this year.&nbsp;

This year's International Yoga Day will be celebrated only digital platforms and no mass gatherings will be organised in view of the coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic, the government has announced. The theme for 2020 will be 'Yoga at Home and Yoga with Family'.&nbsp;The AYUSH ministry had earlier planned to hold a&nbsp;grand event at Leh which has been&nbsp;cancelled. As announced last month, 'My Life &ndash; My Yoga' video-blogging&nbsp;competition will inspire people from all over the world to share their yoga experience for grand prizes. People can upload their entries&nbsp;to any social media platform with the hashtag&nbsp;#MyLifeMyYogaINDIA.

Padma Shri&nbsp;awardee and internationally acclaimed sand artist Sudarsan&nbsp;Pattnaik&nbsp;marked World Environment Day with a stunning sand art installation at Odisha's&nbsp;Puri beach. The artwork depicts two hands holding the Earth with the message 'It's time for nature'. The theme for this year's campaign focuses on preserving our&nbsp;biodiversity that human life depends on.&nbsp;

The Covid-19 pandemic has left Mexico City's organ grinders struggling without any income. They roam around&nbsp;in their traditional uniforms wearing masks, but the streets are empty. Some of them have been playing music on the streets of the Historical Center for the last 16 years. Street entertainment has come to a halt over the last few months.&nbsp;Non-profit civil organisation, Cadena&nbsp;has been&nbsp; delivering groceries to them, and has helped about 280 organ grinders.&nbsp;

Almost 25 swarms of locust have already made their way into&nbsp;Rajasthan, damaging crops and posing a major threat to the activities&nbsp;of the&nbsp;Indian Air Force base in Jaisalmer&nbsp;and Jodhpur. Locals in Jodhpur&nbsp;seem to have found an innovative way to scare away the insects. They took to the fields and clanged utensils to prevent locust from attacking the crops. It is believed that loud noise could keep them away.&nbsp;
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Guwahati's&nbsp;Fancy Bazaar has got an artistic makeover with graffiti&nbsp;artists taking over the walls to spread awareness about Covid-19. The bazaar is Guwahati's&nbsp;biggest market place and the artists believe that their art will&nbsp;help make an impact. The graffiti highlights the importance of following norms listed by health authorities and even pays tribute to corona warriors, who have been fighting on the frontlines of the pandemic.&nbsp;

Not all heroes wear capes, some don the khakhi uniform of a police constable. A Mumbai&nbsp;policeman turned saviour for a 14-year-old girl who had to undergo an open heart surgery and needed blood, urgently. Amid Cyclone Nisarga&nbsp;that hit Mumbai,&nbsp;family and friends couldn't make it to the hospital. PC Aakash Gaikwad volunteered to donate blood. The helpful gesture was shared on Twitter by Param Bir Singh, the Mumbai Commissioner of Police.&nbsp;

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