Officials of the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), western region, identified the plant as the rare 'Saussurea costus', or 'kuth', which grows only at high altitudes of 8,000-12,000 feet in very cold climate.









Dec 14 (Reuters) - The world's leading players' associations unveiled a universal declaration of player rights on Thursday designed to give athletes a global voice and protect them from the fallout from corruption and a broken anti-doping system.

MANCHESTER, England, April 28 (Reuters) - Research from Germany and Italy suggests that footballers and other athletes face a particular risk of the coronavirus infecting their lungs, raising major questions over attempts to restart professional soccer.

This decrypts witless 'packets' which are essentially shipments of data from a device to a router that are broken up into smaller parts and then reassembled at their destination. Those packets could contain anything from an email to an IP address and more. 

The WPA believes that athletes' rights to a fair trial have often been trampled on in the name of clean sport and a new anti-doping system needs to be developed to protect players rather than victimise them.

Specifically, the exploit, dubbed KrШШk allowed hackers to tinker with the encryption of data communicated between a device and the router, causing it to change from a random string of characters to all zeroes and effectively rending the encryption useless.







"Not by chance, a great proportion of professional football players claimed the occurrence of fever, dry cough and malaise (and dyspnea in some cases) immediately after, or a few hours following their last official match," note the authors.

A separate new study from Aarhus University, in Denmark, looking at how much exposure players would have to a single infected player on the field, showed that, on average, a player is positioned within an 'exposure zone' for one minute and 28 seconds during a match.



Tilottama Verma, chief of the WCCB, which functions under the ministry of environment, forest and climate change, said, 'As kuth is now cultivated in a very small area in Himachal, but its demand in ayurveda, the Chinese and Tibetan systems of medicine, is increasing, it is being trafficked across countries.

Even in the third and loosest phase, though, the guidelines call for people to minimize time in crowded areas. USA Today reported on the guidelines, and CNN's Jake Tapper tweeted details earlier.  The guidelines reportedly offer a three-phase reduction in restrictions like going to work or restaurants.



His doctor advised him to go after he displayed "persistent symptoms." His housing secretary told the BBC that Johnson is "still very much in charge of the government" despite spending the night in hospital. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is hospitalized Ten days after testing positive for COVID-19, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson was brought to a hospital for tests, his office said.

Trump also spoke to G20 world leaders, including Germany, Australia, Russia, China, Japan, India and Saudi Arabia, as well as organizations like the UN, European Commission, WHO, World Bank and the IMO, to discuss how each are dealing with the pandemic.

Brendan Schwab, executive director of the WPA, likened the institutional and state-mandated doping uncovered in Russia by the World Anti-Doping Agency and International Olympic Committee investigations to something close to "subjecting athletes to scientific experimentation in pursuit of sporting success".

Among the 17 articles laid out in the document are an athlete's right to freedom of opinion and expression, the ability to organise and bargain collectively and to have a work place free of discrimination.

Five Florida spring breakers test positive Five University of Tampa students have tested positive after traveling for spring break, the college tweeted. It comes after spring breakers in Florida were criticized last week for going ahead with their vacation plans and massing together at beaches despite social distancing guidelines and potential risk of contracting COVID-19.

'This results in scenarios where client devices that are unaffected (either patched or using different Wi-Fi chips not vulnerable to Kr00k) can be connected to an access point (often times beyond an individual's control) that is vulnerable,' researchers wrote in a research paper.

Football is a contact sport and we feel very high protection standards are required," said FIFPro secretary general Jonas Baer-Hoffmann. Soccer's global players' union FIFPro has also urged caution. "We need guidance and protocols on how to return in a healthy and safe manner.

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In their paper: "The First, Comprehensive Immunological Model of COVID-19", Paolo Matricardi, Roberto Dal Negro and Roberto Nisini raise questions over the safety of playing while the virus remains at large.