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Unveiling its last petrol car, Lotus sets off in pursuit of Porsche
The Emira, which will start at around 60,000 pounds ($83,000), is the first new petrol Lotus model in more than a decade but it will be the last powered by fossil fuels.
Lotus is currently developing an electric sports car platform in partnership with Renault for the French company’s Alpine brand, and that framework will also be available to other carmakers.
Lotus and its Chinese owner Geely want to transform what is now a tiny company making some 1,500 sports cars a year into an electric powerhouse churning out tens of thousands of high-end saloons and sports-utility vehicles (SUVs) as well.
Up to 1,500 businesses affected by ransomware attack, says US firm’s CEO
One of those tools was subverted on Friday, allowing the hackers to paralyze hundreds of businesses on all five continents. Although most of those affected have been small concerns – like dentists’ offices or accountants – the disruption has been felt more keenly in Sweden, where hundreds of supermarkets had to close because their cash registers were inoperative, or New Zealand, where schools and kindergartens were knocked offline.
Safety audits mandated at all stages of road development to reduce accidents, says Nitin Gadkari
The Minister said that his vision is to achieve 50 per cent reduction in road accident deaths and zero accidents and deaths by 2030. About 60 per cent deaths are of two-wheeler riders.”
India’s COVID death rate hit record in June after calls for better data
“The Delta variant is both the most contagious variant and among the most dangerous variants in terms of infection fatality rates,” said Christophe Z Guilmoto, a demographer at the French Institute of Research for Development in New Delhi, who has studied COVID-19 mortality in India. “It did play an increasing role at the end of India’s second wave, and this may explain why the daily count of deaths in India isn’t coming down as fast as we expected/hoped.”
Delhi govt launches financial assistance scheme for families of Covid victims
”Each family in which a death has occurred due to Covid will be provided an ex gratia of Rs 50,000.”
”We are launching a portal through which such people can apply for financial assistance. Our representatives will also visit such families and get applications filled up,” he added.
The chief minister said such representatives will not reject claims of families in case any document is missing and will only facilitate the process.
There is no income criterion to apply for financial assistance under the scheme.
73 districts reported over 10 pc Covid positivity rate in June 29-July 5 week: Govt
Addressing a press conference, Joint Secretary in the health ministry Lav Agarwal said these 73 districts include Arunachal Pradesh (18), Rajasthan (10), Manipur (9), Kerala (7), Meghalaya (6), Tripura (4), Sikkim (4), Odisha (3), Nagaland (3), Assam (2) and Mizoram (1).
Ayurveda practitioners to discuss devplt, adopting uniform treatment protocol for covid-19 in kids
Last month, the Ayush ministry released detailed guidelines to deal with COVID cases in children, stressing the need for preventive treatment (Prophylaxes) as the most effective approach to protect children from this deadly virus.
COVID-19 recovered with one/two doses of vaccine have higher protection against Delta variant: Study
“The high transmissibility associated with Delta variant led to second wave of the pandemic in India which affected millions of people. Besides this, variant of concerns have been reported to show lower neutralisation to several approved vaccines. This has led to breakthrough infections after completion of vaccination regimen,” it said.
India to make CoWIN available to all countries: PM Mod
Asserting that vaccination is the best hope for humanity to emerge successfully from the pandemic, Modi said right from the beginning, “we in India decided to adopt a completely digital approach while planning our vaccination strategy”.
Monsoon to reach remaining parts of north India by July 10: IMD
Delhi, Haryana, parts of west Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, west Rajasthan are yet to see the arrival of the monsoon.
In its forecast for July, India Meteorological Department said the country as a whole will witness good rainfall this month.