Israel strikes media building,
refugee camp in Gaza City
An Israeli air strike targeted
and destroyed a high rise
building in Gaza City that
housed the offices of The Associated Press, AlJazeera
and other media outlets
hours after another Israeli
air raid on a densely populated refugee camp killed at
least 10 Palestinians from an
extended family, mostly children, on Saturday.
The strike on the highrise
came nearly an hour after
the military ordered people
to evacuate the 12 storey
building, which also housed
other offices and residential
apartments.
Odisha forms panel
to tackle future waves
The Odisha government on
Saturday announced formation of a highpower advisory committee under chairmanship of Srinath Reddy
that would guide the State
on mass vaccination and
help prepare strategies to
face future COVID19 waves.
The high power committee would have renowned
doctors, public health experts and scientists including Devi Prasad Shetty, noted cardiac surgeon and
founder of Narayan Health,
and Ramakant Panda, Managing Director of Asian
Heart Institute.
Two killed in Kerala
as cyclone intensifies
Cyclonic storm Tauktae
(pronounced Tau’te) in the
Arabian Sea is expected to
intensify into a very severe
cyclonic storm by Sunday,
with windspeeds expected
to touch 160 kmph by
Monday.
AI begins zeolite cargo service
National carrier Air India
(AI) has begun the first of its
“zeolite cargo flights”, with
the Central government having commenced the process
of importing zeolite from
across the world for use in
medical oxygen plants.
The government has appointed the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) as the
charterer for these consignments. Under the Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance
and Relief in Emergency Situations (PM CARES) Fund,
the DRDO is to set up these
medical oxygen plants.
Samyukt Kisan Morcha plans to
observe May 26 as ‘black day’
The Samyukt Kisan Morcha,
an umbrella body of over 40
farmers’ unions, on Saturday
announced that it will observe May 26 as ‘black day’,
marking six months of their
protest at Delhi’s borders
against the Centre’s three
farm laws.
Mars landing gives China’s
space programme a leg up
China landed a spacecraft on
Mars carrying its first Mars
rover in a big boost to its
space ambitions, the country’s space agency said on
Saturday.
China had in July last year
launched its first Mars mission, called Tianwen1,
meaning Questions to Heaven, carrying a lander and
rover. Tianwen1 had been in
orbit since February, and on
Saturday, a lander descended successfully on to the surface of the red planet carrying a rover named Zhurong,
named after a god of fire for
a planet known in Chinese
as the planet of fire. Only the
Soviet Union and the U.S.
had previously carried out a
successful landing on Mars.
- Neera Tanden appointed
White House senior adviser
- Two tornadoes that struck
central and eastern China
killed at least 12 people and
injured more than 400,
authorities said Saturday.
Violent winds of more
than 260 km per hour blasted the central city of Wuhan
on Friday night.
IITM develops algorithms
for lensless cameras
A team of researchers from
Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) and US based Rice University have
together developed algorithms for lensless and miniature cameras.
The lensless cameras
have numerous vision applications in sectors including
augmented reality, virtual
reality, security, smart
wearables and robotics
where cost, formfactor and
weight become major constraints. A spokesperson for
IITM said in a release, “IIT
Madras and Rice University
researchers have developed
a deep learning algorithm
for producing photorealistic images from the blurred
lensless capture.”
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