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Male model faces jail time for impersonating police officer in uniform he bought online

Jordan David Hans Gill, 29, appeared in the ACT Magistrates Court on Tuesday where he also admitted to sending threatening emails to a police officer.




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Dorset James Lattimer faces jail over fake Lord's Cricket ground pavilion dead man pass

James Lattimer, 51, bought the cheapest possible ticket to enter the Lord's Cricket ground on August 15 last year before sneaking his way into the pavilion.




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American Express customers face higher Platinum Card fees from June

From June 11, Amex's card will be made from metal rather than plastic, and cost £575 a year compared to £450 now.




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Scammers use Facebook and Instagram to market stolen personal details, consumer group Which? Reveals

A Which? investigation found 50 discoverable profiles, pages and groups advertising stolen identities. Scammers are using Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to market stolen information.




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Charlize Theron covers every inch of her face as she steps out for takeaway sushi

The actress, 44, pulled a black baker boy hat over her eyes and wore a black face mask to protect herself from coronavirus as she stepped out in West Hollywood on Friday.




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Power firms will face fines for outages and disruptions

Minister R K Singh said most of the states have agreed on 24/7 power for all. 'The consumers should not be asked to pay for theft committed by others,' he added.




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Mamata Banerjee faces development challenges in her second stint as CM

Allegations of corruption dented image of her party and opposition made it a prime issue during elections




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Premier League clubs 'face spending MILLIONS' to fly players back to UK in time for training

Football is currently suspended but some clubs have returned to isolated training with the Premier League hoping they can resume the season in June.




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NASA tests VIPER rover's 'moon shimmy' in conditions that mimic the lunar surface

NASA's VIPER practiced its 'moon shimmy' in a lab that replicates the lunar surface. The rover rolled over a large soil bin allowing scientist to see how it will fare on the moon.




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Scientists untangle mystery of how ice forms on Mercury with surface temperatures over 750 degrees

A team of scientists from Georgia Tech have come up with a new explanation for how ice forms on Mercury despite scorching surface temperatures that can reach 750 degrees Fahrenheit.




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Scientists create the first geological map of the lunar surface

The lunar map, called the Unified Geologic Map of the Moon, has been created by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), NASA and the Lunar Planetary Institute.




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Uber will require all drivers to wear face masks in the wake of the coronavirus crisis

The feature is planned for the US, but 'similar markets' will also see the feature introduced, it is believed. Exact timings and locations for its roll-out have not been revealed.




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Welcome to the DARK side! Facebook rolls out desktop redesign with Dark Mode feature 

Facebook has rolled out a desktop redesign to all of its users that includes the Dark Mode feature. The update also improves loading speeds and makes it easier to create Groups and events.




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Controversial face recognition company Clearview AI pledges to stop selling tech to private firms

According to legal documents first reported by Buzzfeed, the company is ending non-government related contracts in response to class-action lawsuits and scrutiny from regulators.




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Andy Robertson's toes 'face the wrong way', claims Liverpool star's former team-mate Jake Livermore

West Bromwich Albion midfielder Jake Livermore recalls how he took the young left back under his wing when he arrived in Yorkshire as a quiet teenager from Scotland.




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Premier League clubs 'face spending MILLIONS' to fly players back to UK in time for training

Football is currently suspended but some clubs have returned to isolated training with the Premier League hoping they can resume the season in June.




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Sergio Aguero admits he finds it difficult to face Virgil van Dijk as he labels him one of the best

Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero has heaped praise on Virgil van Dijk, admitting the Liverpool defender's physical attributes make him extremely tough to play against.




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Raheem Sterling 'closing in on £100m deal to become new face of Puma'

The Manchester City forward, who would become Puma's highest-paid footballer should the deal go through, is also being pursued by rivals Adidas, New Balance and Under Armour.




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Manchester City set to face victims of Barry Bennell in High Court

Manchester City will face a High Court trial over damages claims from eight men who were sexually abused by paedophile football coach Barry Bennell.




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Facebook crack down on fake news campaign aimed at discrediting Manchester City

EXCLUSIVE BY MIKE KEEGAN: Users were directed to bogus stories which reported persistent slurs against the Premier League champions.




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Derby face Charity Commisson probe over sponsor 32Red's cash for their Community Trust programme

EXCLUSIVE BY MATT HUGHES: Derby County are being investigated by the Charity Commission over links between the club's community programme and main sponsor 32Red.




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Manchester United hope to have Harry Maguire, Aaron Wan-Bissaka and Daniel James back to face City

Manchester United will give Harry Maguire, Aaron Wan-Bissaka and Dan James as long as possible to prove their fitness for the Old Trafford derby on Sunday.




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Championship clubs face civil war with talks over uniform wage cuts on brink of collapse

EXCLUSIVE: The EFL set the PFA a deadline of Friday to endorse their proposals for League-wide cuts and deferrals, but sources indicated that the players' union would reject this request.




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Best of BS Opinion: War with the virus, Jio-Facebook deal, and more

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces of the day




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House builder says cancer patient MUST buy their home or face losing deposit despite coronavirus.

Craig Aynsley, 46 from Northumberland, has been unable to work for five years after two separate battles with cancer - but thought his life had turned a corner last year after finding his dream home.




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Two years of Modi government @Facebook

The PM has had 179 million interactions in the last two years; his cabinet ministers too have taken a lot to the social media platform




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Chevrolet Cruze Facelift Showcased at Auto Expo 2016

#first2expo- With the biggest media crew on ground, CarDekho brings to you the most extensive coverage of Auto Expo 2016. General Motors has showcased the new Chevrolet Cruze at the ongoing Auto Expo. The car was recently launched with a price ...




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Puducherry assembly polls: DMK MLA Nazeem faces tough battle as he aims for sixth consecutive term

Nazeem, first elected to the assembly from Karaikal as a 29-year old DMK worker in 1991, retained the seat in all subsequent elections




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Facetime With Uncle Sam

A number of government surveys are conducted in face-to-face interviews for a variety of reasons. Sometimes, physical material must be collected or the survey is too long and complex to conduct by telephone or mailed questionnaire. The results are some of the richest and most complete survey data available.




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Indian faces trial for spying on Sikhs and Kashmiris in Germany

An Indian national will stand trial in Germany accused of spying on Sikh and Kashmiri communities for New Delhi's secret service, a court said Friday. Federal prosecutors allege the suspect, identified as 54-year-old Balvir, has been working with the Indian foreign intelligence agency Research & Analysis Wing since 2015. "He allegedly provided information about figures in the Sikh opposition scene and the Kashmiri movement and their relatives in Germany, and passed this on to his handlers who were working at the Indian consulate general in Frankfurt," the higher regional court in the city said in a statement. The trial will open on August 25. The same Frankfurt court convicted an Indian couple for spying on the same communities last December.




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2 arrested in slaying of Michigan guard over face mask order

Two men were arrested Friday in the fatal shooting of a security guard who demanded a woman wear a mask while shopping at a store. Genesee County authorities said Ramonyea Bishop, 23, was taken into custody at an apartment in Bay City. His alleged accomplice, Larry Teague, 44, was arrested Thursday near a motel in Houston. The men and Sharmel Teague, the wife of Larry Teague, are charged with first degree murder in the May 1 shooting of Calvin Munerlyn at a Family Dollar store in Flint. Munerlyn was shot at the store just north of downtown Flint a short time after telling Sharmel Teague's daughter she had to leave because she lacked a mask, according to Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton. Teague argued with Munerlyn, 43, before leaving. Two men later came to the store and allegedly shot the security guard to death.. Bishop's sister, Brya Bishop, was previously charged with tampering with evidence, lying to police and being an accessory to a felony. Leyton has said she attempted to




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COVID-19: Indian-origin woman faces charges for refusing to wear face mask in Singapore

A 40-year-old Indian-origin woman in Singapore was charged with five counts, including use of criminal force, in a court here on Saturday for refusing to wear a face mask for protection against COVID-19 and assaulting a police officer who tried to ascertain her identity. Kasturi Govindasamy Retnamswamy was arrested after the incident that happened at a shopping mall on May 7 and was captured on video. Retnamswamy, who is a Singaporean, was remanded at the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) for psychiatric evaluation after the incident, reported The Straits Times. She was taken to a court on Saturday and faced five charges, including use of abusive words and criminal force against a public servant. The next hearing is scheduled for May 22 after her remand in the IMH. According to the police statement on Friday, the woman insulted the mall staff and hurled abuses at a security officer who was trying to get her to put on her mask correctly. The widely-shared video of the incident shows a ..




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Telangana police to rollout AI-based system to check face mask norm violations

The Telangana Police will soon rollout an Artificial Intelligence (AI)- based system through CCTVs to check face mask norm violations. Describing it as a first such initiative in the country,State DGP M Mahendar Reddy has tweeted that the system shall be enabled shortly across the three police commissionerates of Hyderabad, Cyberabad and Rachakonda which cover Hyderabad and its suburbs. He said the initiative involved leveraging computer vision and deep learning techniques on closed cirucuit television (cctvs) "#AI based #FaceMaskViolationEnforcement is being rolled out by TS police. Leveraging ComputerVision & #DeepLearningTechnique being implemented on surveillance CCTVs across the cities is #FirstOfItsKind in INDIA. Shall be enabled shortly across the 3Commissionerates *Hyd,Cyb&Rck," he said. The state government, which has made wearing a mask mandatory in public places, on Thursday issued orders imposing Rs 1000 as fine for those not complying with it. "In ...




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Entrepreneurs in rural belts switch to making face masks amid COVID-19 crisis

A number of entrepreneurs based in rural areas of the country have taken to manufacturing face masks amid dwindling demand for their regular produce in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, an official said on Saturday. Around, 500 rural entrepreneurs have so far produced and sold 3.5 lakh such masks under the Start-up Village Entrepreneurship Programme (SVEP), he said. They produce around 2,500 masks per day for health professionals, policemen, media personnel and cleaning staff, the official said. In West Bengal, 38 entrepreneurs manufacture nearly 600 masks a day in blocks of Dinhata, Pathar Pratima and Manikchak in different districts of the state. The entrepreneurs, trained under SVEP -- under the National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) -- have sold 49,000 masks in the state till date, he said. Apart from West Bengal, the programme is active in the rural belts of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Jharkhand and Haryana, he added. The masks are made in hygienic ..




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Faceless citizens


While the economy has strangled the livelihood of North Indian vendors in Mumbai, a politician has muffled their voice. And the media and policymakers are looking the other way, writes Kalpana Sharma.




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Congress faces stronger Opposition, rising dissent in AP

The Congress performance in Andhra Pradesh in the Lok Sabha poll may have been impressive, but party leaders are worried about the results of the assembly election, which turned out to be below their expectations. Though the Y S Rajasekhar Reddy-led Congress swept back to power, winning 157 seats in the 294-seat assembly, the party failed to secure an absolute majority.




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Karnataka CM faces revolt by senior BJP leaders

Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and Karnataka Power Minister K S Eshwarappa has alleged that liquor had been used to woo voters to vote for Chief Minister B S Yedyurappa's son B Y Raghavendra, who won the recently-held Lok Sabha polls from Shimoga.Eshwarappa's comments come in the wake of Yeddyurappa's allegations about the senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader not doing enough to ensure that his won wins by a larger margin.




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Tracking Chennai’s faces in Parliament


Continuing the focus on how Members of Parliament from key urban constituencies have fared in the 15th Lok Sabha, Lavanya Donthamshetty shines the spotlight on the leaders from Chennai.




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Why Doesn't Facebook Have a Dislike Button?

Supporters of a "dislike" button, which Facebook does not have, say the culture of Facebook has become too nice. WSJ's Andy Jordan reports from San Francisco on what some creative contrarions are doing to game the Facebook system to "get" a dislike button.




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Can’t Unlock Your iPhone’s Face ID with a Mask On? There’s a Mask For That

The coronavirus pandemic means we must wear masks. It also means unlocking an iPhone with Face ID is a challenge. WSJ’s Joanna Stern tracked down a woman who created a mask to get around it.




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Old conflict resurfaces at Athirappilly falls


Kerala's electricity board is preparing to build the seventh dam across the 144-kilometers-long Chalakudy river. The fate of the picturesque Athirappilly waterfalls hangs in the balance, with locals battling against the project. Sudhirendar Sharma has more.




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DISCOMs face a stark future


The energy sector is undergoing a massive transformation, with large customers option for direct access from producers and those in the middle looking for decentralised storage and consumption. Between these forces, the old distribution business faces serious risk, says a report from the Prayas Energy Group.




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Leopards face sustained threat


A recent clubbing to death of a leopard was a reminder of the creature's vulnerability and frailty of its habitat. According to one estimate, India has lost atleast 3189 leopards during 1994 to 2008. Malini Shankar has more.




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Facebook arrests: Could you be next in line?


It is not just the loose definition of Section 66A of the IT Act, its frequent clubbing  with sections of the IPC relating to cognizable offences poses a grave threat to the freedom of all citizens, finds Tanvi Bhatikar.




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Remote adivasis face health care chasm


Despite crores of rupees having been spent in name of tribal and other development programmes in one block of Palakkad district in Kerala, the region suffers from poor access to decent health care. 80 per cent of the adivasi population here are living in abject poverty. M Suchitra reports.




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Kali river dam proposal resurfaces dubiously


The Karnataka Governor, T N Chaturvedi, recently asked the state government for an explanation on why the state wants the central government to clear the Dandeli dam on the river Kali. This, in light of the fact that state government departments had themselves recommended and shelved the project earlier. An India Together report.




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Horrifying face of the dammed river


Incessant rainfall in the catchment area of the Sardar Sarovar dam, coupled with less water being allowed to flow into the Narmada main canal led to an unusual overflow in early August, despite upstream dams not recording downstream releases. Himanshu Upadhyaya reports on the devastation in the Narmada valley.




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Sugar co-ops face a downturn


Maharashtra's sugar cooperatives helped raise hundreds of thousands of farmers out of high-risk choices, and brought a measure of economic security to the sugar belt. But over the years, big farmers have hijacked the original premise of the cooperative movement, and the region's prosperous past is now fading. Gagandeep Kaur reports.




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क्या है Face Mask पहनने का सही तरीका, ध्यान रखें ये बातें

दुनियाभर में मास्क पहनने को लेकर जरूरी एडवाइजरी जारी की गई है. N-95 और सर्जिकल मास्क की कमी नजर आ रही है जिसके चलते लोग घर पर ही मास्क बना रहे हैं.




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Hyundai ने लॉन्च की नई SUV Tucson facelift, नहीं बढ़ाएगी Kona EV के दाम

हुंडई (hyundai) ने कहा कि नई टक्सन में एडवांस टेक्नॉलजी और डिजाइन है. साथ ही इसका परफॉर्मेंस भी काफी बेहतर है