Twitter brings ‘retweet with comments’ to Android, web platform: Know more

The micro-blogging platform on May 12 had rolled out this feature on Twitter for iOS

Current Affairs : Twitter has made it simpler to see retweets with remarks, across the board place, in its endeavors to assist clients with following and follow discussions on the smaller scale blogging stage simple and characteristic. It had revealed this component not long ago on iOS, and now the new usefulness is additionally accessible on Twitter for Android and web.

The new usefulness permits a client to tap on the retweets word on a tweet (not the symbol) to see who have retweeted your tweet with/out a remark. Other than turning out new highlights, Twitter is additionally trying new functionalities with restricted arrangement of individuals internationally. As of late, it began testing an element that let you pick who can answer to your Tweet and join your discussion. The element is at present being tried distinctly with a constrained gathering of individuals all around on Twitter for iOS, Android, and twitter.com.

The component permits Twitter client to set the answer inclinations before posting a tweet. Those qualified to test the element get the chance to pick who can answer with three choices: everybody (the default setting), just individuals you follow, or just individuals you notice. Tweets with the last two settings will be named and the answer symbol will be turned gray out. Be that as it may, individuals will in any case have the option to see, retweet, retweet with remark, and like these Tweets.

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This element is another expansion to a few different highlights that the smaller scale blogging stage is investigating to improve the stage’s discussion taking care of limit. Prior, Twitter had revealed an element that permitted clients to alter tweet answers, in the event that they were viewed as hostile or have despise content, before distributing.

Samsung may launch Galaxy A31 smartphone with 48MP quad rear camera in June

The smartphone will come with a 6.4-inch super AMOLED display. It will be powered by MediaTek octa-core processor in India

Current Affairs : South Korean gadgets creator Samsung is outfitted to dispatch its new mid-go cell phone, the Galaxy A31, in the principal seven day stretch of June. The telephone is relied upon to cost around Rs 23,000. The gadget will sell across on the web and disconnected stages. The cell phone will accompany a 6.4-inch super AMOLED show and will be controlled by MediaTek octa-center processor in India, sources told IANS on Friday.

The Galaxy A31 is probably going to come in 6GB RAM and 128GB stockpiling variation. The cell phone would brandish a quad camera arrangement, with 48MP primary sensor. The front camera will be 20MP. The Galaxy A31 will be the third An arrangement gadget to dispatch in India this year.

This year, Samsung has propelled two Galaxy An arrangement gadgets in the nation. While the Galaxy A51 was propelled in January, the Galaxy A71 – the excellent gadget in the Galaxy A line-up – went at a bargain in February.

With 6,000,000 units dispatched universally, the Samsung Galaxy A51 has become the world’s top of the line Android cell phone model in the primary quarter of 2020.

Samsung’s A51 cell phone, which is mainstream in all areas, especially across Europe and Asia, caught 2.3 percent portion of all cell phones transported all around in the quarter, as indicated by statistical surveying firm Strategy Analytics.

Covid-19 Factoid: Share of recoveries in India’s case additions is falling

Since hitting a peak on May 17 – when 3,955 of the 4,987 cases added were recoveries – the number of daily recoveries has dropped to about 3,000, even as total cases added daily are in excess of 5,000

Current Affairs : The worldwide count of coronavirus contaminations presently remains at 5.12 million. There have been 330,768 passings around the world, and in excess of 2 million recuperations. On May 20, a little more than 100,000 cases were added to the worldwide count in a solitary day. Be that as it may, the quantity of new day by day passings has been declining, swaying somewhere in the range of 3,000 and 5,000, much lower than the pinnacle of 8,000 or more in mid-April.

In India, the affirmed case check is presently at 112,359, with 3,435 fatalities and 45,300 recuperations. Maharashtra remains the most influenced state, with its case check crawling towards the 40,000 imprint not exactly seven days after it crossed 30,000.

Here are a few insights mapping the flare-up:

1. More cases are turning deadly in North America, the most exceedingly terrible hit locale

North America, the mainland with the most elevated portion of coronavirus cases, likewise has the most elevated level of shut cases finishing down as offices. About two of every ten shut cases in this area have brought about passings. By correlation, Australia has fared the best on this measurement, with only one percent of its shut cases finishing off with passings.

It additionally has an exceptionally low number of affirmed cases, around 8,600. Asia, with in excess of 880,000 announced cases, has had a decent recuperation rate, as well – 95 percent of every single shut case in Asia have recouped from the infection.

Govt has ended federalism; makes no pretence to be democratic: Sonia

Gandhi said the migrants and 13 crore families in the bottom half of the population have been cruelly ignored by the government

Current Affairs : Congress president Sonia Gandhi scrutinized on Friday the administration’s treatment of the Covid-19 pandemic, claiming it had overlooked the “soul of federalism” and surrendered any affectation of being vote based.

Tending to a gathering of resistance groups assembled to talk about the predicament of transients because of the lockdown, she asserted that the administration is questionable about the models for lockdowns and has no leave methodology.

Gandhi said the vagrants and 13 crore families in the base portion of the populace have been savagely overlooked by the administration.

“The head administrator’s great Rs 20 trillion bundle has ended up being a coldblooded joke on nation,” she said.

Over 200 shanties gutted as fire breaks out in West Delhi slum area

No casualty, say Delhi police

Current Affairs : A fire broke out in a ghetto territory in West Delhi’s Kirti Nagar and more than 200 shanties were gutted in the blast, authorities said on Friday.

A call about the blast at the China Bhati zone behind Kirti Nagar police headquarters was gotten around 11.20 pm Thursday, following which thirty fire tenders were raced to the spot, Delhi Fire Service authorities told PTI.

The fire was managed by 2.55 am, they included

More than 200 shanties were gutted in the burst however no setback was accounted for, the authorities said.

Health Minister Harsh Vardhan takes charge as WHO Executive Board chairman

The main functions of the Board are to implement the decisions and policies of the Health Assembly and facilitate its work

Current Affairs : Association Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Friday assumed responsibility as administrator of the World Health Organization (WHO) Executive Board.

The Executive Board includes 34 in fact qualified individuals chose for three-year terms. The director’s post is held by turn for one year among local gatherings.

The primary elements of the Board are to actualize the choices and arrangements of the Health Assembly and encourage its work.

Cyclone Amphan: Bangladesh estimates damage worth $130 mn, 20 dead

As per a report in Dhaka Tribune, around one crore people in the south-western and north-western regions have been left without electricity as the storm disrupted the power supply system

Current Affairs : The serious cyclonic tempest Amphan has asserted at any rate 20 lives in Bangladesh, revealed Dhaka Tribune. The administration evaluated that the harm from the violent wind is worth Tk 1,100 crore (almost $130 million).

The outlet refering to State Minister for Disaster Management and Relief Dr. Md Enamur Rahman revealed that underlying appraisals by four services proposed that Cyclone Amphan had severely influenced 26 regions, making harm the tune of Tk 1,100 crore.

“As per an essential estimation, in view of contributions from the services of neighborhood government, farming, fisheries and animals, and water assets, the misfortunes mean Tk 1,100 crore,” Rahman was cited as saying. He further expressed that a full gauge would be accessible simply following seven days.

According to a report in Dhaka Tribune, around one crore individuals in the south-western and north-western areas have been left without power as the tempest disturbed the force gracefully framework.

Executive Sheik Hasina has guided the specialists to take brief measures to give cash and alleviation materials to those influenced by the violent wind and recreate their homes.

PMO Secretary Md Tofazzel Hossain Miah said she has been observing the circumstance and giving vital mandates.

PM Modi announces interim relief of Rs 1,000 cr to Amphan-hit West Bengal

At least 77 people have been reported killed so far in the state due to the extremely severe cyclone

Current Affairs : Executive Narendra Modi declared on Monday a development interval help of Rs 1,000 crore for violent wind hit West Bengal.

In a video message in the wake of looking into the circumstance with Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Basirhat in North 24 Parganas region, Modi likewise declared an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh to the groups of each of those murdered during the obliteration brought about by violent wind Amphan, and Rs 50,000 for the harmed.

In any event 77 individuals have been accounted for slaughtered so far in the state because of the amazingly extreme twister.

Enormous scope harm to foundation, open and private property was accounted for from North and South 24 Parganas , East and West Midnapore, Kolkata, Howrah and Hooghly regions.

“I declare a development break help of Rs 1,000 crore for the state. An itemized overview will be directed of the harm to agribusiness, power and different parts, other than harm to houses,” he said.

“In this season of trouble and gloom, the whole nation and the Center are with the individuals of Bengal,” he said.

Covid-19: 278 Maharashtra Police personnel test positive in last 48 hours

With this, the total number of positive cases among the Maharashtra Police personnel climbed to 1,666, which include 473 recovered and 16 deaths

Current Affairs : Upwards of 278 police work force have tried positive for Covid-19 in Mumbai over the most recent 48 hours, said Maharashtra Police on Friday.

With this, the absolute number of constructive cases among the Maharashtra Police faculty moved to 1,666, which incorporate 473 recouped and 16 passings. At present, there are 1,177 dynamic cases.

Maharashtra Police, in its Covid-19 related activity report, educated that upwards of 86 police faculty were harmed while on the job during Covid-19 related exercises, and 823 blamed have been captured in cases for attack on police work force during the lockdown time frame.

Upwards of 41 human services authorities have been assaulted so far in the state.

Up until this point, an aggregate of 22,543 individuals have been captured for damaging lockdown rules, 69,046 vehicles seized and Rs 5,19,63,497 fine recuperated from wrongdoers.

Maharashtra is the most exceedingly awful influenced state due to Covid-19. As indicated by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the state has announced 41,642 affirmed Covid-19 cases up until this point, which incorporate 11,726 relieved or released and 1,454 passings.

For every positive coronavirus case, 20 negative tests done: ICMR

The government, however, said the mortality rate had remained less than half of the global average of 6.65 per cent.

Current Affairs : As of Thursday morning, India detailed 112,359 Covid-19 cases with the greater part of them getting revealed in pretty much a fortnight in the midst of development of transients in exceptional trains and appearance of abandoned Indians and exiles from abroad.

The legislature, be that as it may, said the death rate had stayed not exactly 50% of the worldwide normal of 6.65 percent. “Along these lines, around 40.32 percent patients have recuperated up until now,” a senior wellbeing service official said.

For each positive test, in excess of 20 negative tests have been done, the Indian Council of Medical Research has stated, attesting there has been a 1,000-crease increment in the quantum of tests every day in the previous two months.