Egyptian frigate (Alexandria) and the Indian frigate (INS TABAR) participated in the exercise
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** ‘New York was his playground’: Manipur family recalls member who died in 9/11 attack
It was a busy morning for Jupiter Yambem at New York’s Windows Of The World restaurant. The Manipur-born banquet manager was in charge of a breakfast meeting of a tech conference. A self-made man, he had worked his way up to his position at the famed restaurant, frequented by the rich and powerful.
** Railways proposes policy to lease, sell coaches to pvt parties to run theme-based tourist circuit trains
** Kalinga Literature Festival Book Awards 2020-21 announced: Full list of selected titles
Acclaimed writers Amitav Ghosh’s “Jungle Nama”; Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar’s “The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World”; Gopalkrishna Gandhi’s “Restless as Mercury: My Life as a Young Man Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi”; Gulzar’s “A Poem a Day”; Sandeep Bamzai’s “Princestan: How Nehru, Patel and Mountbatten Made India”; Shashi Tharoor and Samir Saran’s “The New World Disorder”, Bollywood actor Sonu Sood and Meena Iyer’s “I am no Messiah” are among the prominent titles selected for the awards.
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** Indian scientists develop noise control absorber mimicking beehives
Faculties at IIT Hyderabad’s Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, Dr B. Venkatesham and Dr Surya, fabricated low thickness and strong acoustic panels mimicking this property using biomimetic design methodology. The team also developed a mathematical model and calculated optimised parameters, and then fabricated the test samples using systematic, controlled parameters. Subsequently, fabrication of a large sample was done.
They have used two different approaches and their respective prototype machines with two different kinds of materials. One prototype is for paper honeycomb based on indexed Honeycomb Before Expansion process, and another prototype machine is for polymer honeycomb structure, based on hot wire technique.
** Here is India’s first e-learning platform for design education
The Designer’s Class / https://thedesignersclass.com/
** Online chess Olympiad: Indian team comprising Kerala’s Nihal Sarin to start today
** Jaiganesh Balakrishna files patents every 3 months on average
Balakrishnan is a principal architect and fellow at Texas Instruments, a company he joined soon after completing his PhD in 2002.
He today holds 75 patents. That’s an average of a patent every 3 months
** Odisha: Manda buffalo gets recognition as unique breed
The Manda buffalo found in the Eastern Ghats and the Koraput plateau region of Odisha has got national recognition as a unique breed.
The National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources (NBAGR) has declared it as the 19th unique breed of buffaloes found in the country.