AI-based system to check mask violations

Hyderabad: The Telangana Police will soon roll-out 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 will be enabled shortly across the three police commissionerates of Hyderabad, Cyberabad and Rachakonda which cover Hyderabad and its suburbs. PTI

Taiwan sends india 10 lakh face masks

New Delhi: Taiwan has provided one million face masks to India to help protect its frontline medical personnel. The masks were brought to India by a special chartered flight and handed over by Amb Chung-Kwang Tien of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Centre to Neel Kamal Singh, Deputy Secretary-General of Indian Red Cross Society on May 8, according to a Taiwan Centre news release. TNS