World’s first graffiti-busting laser helps Florence’s ‘Angels’

Florence: A beam of silver light erases scrawled black letters on Florence’s historic Ponte Vecchio, as “Angels” wielding a revolutionary new laser wage war on graffiti in the Unesco site. Gold glints in the windows of the tiny jeweller boutiques that line the medieval stone bridge, but it is the scribbled messages left by tourists,…

Non-Filers Asked To Submit Income Tax Returns Within 21 Days

If you haven’t filed your income tax return yet, you have few days left to do so to avoid legal proceedings. Individuals who have not filed their income tax returns (ITR) for the assessment year 2018-19 should do the same within 21 days to avoid proceedings under the Income Tax Act, news agency IANS (Indo-Asian…

‘Haptic baton’ offers hope for visually impaired musicians

London: A conductor’s baton has been created that allows the visually-impaired to follow its movements, opening up the potential for blind people to join more orchestras. The ‘Haptic Baton’ contains sensors that pick up even slight motions. These are then transmitted via radio signals to vibrating devices attached to musicians’ wrists or ankles. They vibrate…

Pak sending team for Kartarpur talks Move Seen As Bid To De-Escalate Tension Between India & Pakistan

New Delhi: Despite the prevailing tensions, India and Pakistan will go ahead with the March 14 meeting between officials to finalise the modalities for the opening of the Kartarpur corridor. Significantly, India had last week declared that it was not just in favour of going ahead with the Kartarpur initiative, which is meant to facilitate…