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** India-France air exercise concludes at Jodhpur
Rafales, Su-30 MKI and Mirage 2000 aircraft participate in the exercise
Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Gen. Bipin Rawat embarked on French Air Force mid-air refueller aircraft at the India-France air exercise Desert Knight 2021 which concluded on Saturday, the IAF said.
** Falguni and Shane Peacock collaborate with Cocoon Fine Rugs for their first venture into home decor
** Indian restaurants’ global ticket – ‘Chourangi’
As soon as the lockdown lifts, restaurateur Anjan Chatterjee is hopeful of opening the doors to his ambitious Bengali restaurant, Chourangi, on Oxford Street. It has been ready since last April. “Then the pandemic happened. Now we are planning to open in June,” he says.
London
** Spotify’s ‘Mission ISRO’ tells the story of India’s space programme with verve and accuracy
** Indian-origin couple celebrates wedding anniversary with 3.3 crore jackpot win
Rapidly gaining popularity in Asia, Lottoland announced their first Jackpot winner, UK-based Shaji Matthew, originally from Kerala, India, who walked away with a massive Rs 3.3 crore.
** IIT grads, ex-Google execs ready to roll out ad-free search engine Neeva
Sridhar Ramaswamy and Vivek Raghunathan, IIT alumni and former Google executives, are ready to roll out Neeva, an ad-free, private search product, which, by the middle of this year, hopes to offer a customer-paid and customer-first alternative, at a time of growing concerns over the control wielded by tech megaliths.
** Dubai-based Indian boy creates amazing portrait of PM Modi as Republic Day gift
The six-layered stencil portrait of PM Modi is made by Saran Sasikumar.
** Art created in a petri dish in India has just won an international award
Researcher Balaram Khamari “plants” live bacteria in a jelly-like substance called agar, to create agar art in intricate patterns.
Khamari, 26, is a doctoral fellow in medical microbiology at the Sri Sathya Sai deemed university in Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh. He’s been “painting” with microbes for just over a year and already, in December, one of his art works — Microbial Peacock — won second prize at the American Society for Microbiology’s (ASM) annual agar art contest.
Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh
** How Dhaka got vaccines from India after China asked it to share trial costs
India, in sharp contrast, sent a gift of two million doses of Covishield vaccine to Dhaka on January 21 as well as facilitated a commercial contract of 30 million doses with the Pune-based SII.