Apps don masks to promote healthy practices

New Delhi: Internet companies like Urban Company, MakeMyTrip, Dunzo, HealthifyMe and Zomato are changing their social media handles and app icons to promote wearing face masks as a hygiene practice amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Apna Mask initiative – an effort by StartUpVsCOVID (a start-up community with over 1,000 members) – is promoting homemade masks and aims to drive behavioural change to ensure that people wear masks and stay protected as they step out of their homes. PTI

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Jeweller turns vegetable vendor

Jaipur: A jeweller for 25 years, Hukumchand Soni would not have imagined in his wildest dreams there would come a time when he will have to sell vegetables to earn a living. But then these are no ordinary times. His shop-counter, which once remained covered with expensive ornaments, is now occupied by green vegetables and the jewellery scale now weighs potatoes and onions. The “GP Jewellery Shop” in Jaipur’s Ram Nagar has undergone a radical transformation to adapt to the new set of customers who visit it daily. PTI

Kerala students win top prize in hackathon

Kochi: Two students of Government College of Engineering, Kannur, won the first prize of $10,000 (Rs7.5 lakh approximately) in a global competition for developing a virtual classroom amid the coronavirus lockdown. Abinand C and Shilpa Rajeev, both doing second-year BTech (computer science) from the institution upstate, emerged toppers in the #CODE19 (against COVID-19) Hackathon for their “iClassroom”, a release issued by Kerala Startup Mission said here on Saturday. PTI

Covid mystery movie coming up in Bollywood

Mumbai: Filmmaker Pratyush Upadhyay has announced his next feature will be based on the coronavirus pandemic, and will unravel the mysteries behind the dreaded disease. Upadhyay’s yet-to-be-titled film will feature Nikita Rawal in the lead role while other details about the project will be confirmed shortly. The filmmaker suggests there are secrets about the pandemic that have been kept hidden from the public, which will form the theme of her film. IANS