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Researchers describe how they created an algorithm that pushes out only as much data as the viewer's internet connection can receive without degrading quality.

Forex traders said the uptick in the currency counter was largely because market participants expect more stimulus measures from top central banks to support their respective economies reeling under the Covid-19 pandemic.

While Kareena Kapoor calls Taimur her 'in-house Picasso', Saif Ali Khan's elder son, Ibrahim, calls himself 'Picasso Jr'.

If even fairly close to 10,000 of those in serious condition in hospitals have been from the minorities, a very large number among them would be Indians considering that Indians are the second largest minority in Britain.

In a video message, the prime minister sought the blessings of Lord Basaveshwara to give the country the strength to defeat the COVID-19 pandemic.

Till Saturday, the number of staffers infected with the virus stood at 40. According to a senior official, 68 more samples are to be tested.

Police said four terrorists have been killed in the encounter between holed up terrorists and the security forces in Guddar village of Kulgam district.

If New York City is not whole, it will drag down the entire region, and it will hold up the entire national economic restart, he said.

Patowary said the social-distancing norms are being maintained and the buses are carrying up to 50 per cent of their capacity.

The toll due to COVID-19 in the state rose to 19 while the total cases to 503, including 182 discharges. The state saw a drop in new cases after 26 people tested positive on Saturday, 29 on Friday and 18 on Thursday.

One of the many families awaiting treatment at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bihar's Sanjeev Kumar Sharma said he travelled 1,100 kilometres from Samastipur for his son Abhinandan's treatment.

The state government had conditionally eased some lockdown restrictions on shops, leaving aside those inside malls etc, on Saturday following an order to this effect by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) a day earlier.

Assam so far has 35 COVID-19 positive cases of which 27 have been discharged and one patient has died. The state has conducted 7,616 sample tests so far in the six laboratories in the state and of these 35 tested positive and 209 results are still awaited...

As a precaution, we have all been advised to go into self-quarantine and have given our swab samples for testing, the Circle Inspector, who did not wish to be named, said.

The vast majority of the news cases are work permit holders residing in dormitories for foreign workers, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said in its preliminary release of figures.

For self-sufficiency, the immediate need is creation of infrastructure like hospitals, cold storage, ware housing facilities, mandi yards, alternative employment activities like cottage industry and food parks in rural areas.