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** November 10th, 2019 – On this day in 2019, Deepak Chahar created record for best bowling figures in men’s T20Is
** Gujarat scientists bag global honour
** Pune couple put pole sport ‘mallakhamb’ on US map, earn earn praise from PM Narendra Modi – Chinmay and Pradnya Patankar
** 6-yr-old Arham Om Talsania becomes world’s youngest computer programmer
** MIT Coach moves to Memphis – Sonia Raman
The National Basketball Association’s Memphis Grizzlies have hired Sonia Raman as an assistant coach, making her the 14th female assistant coach in the history of the NBA.
** Emory Honors Dr. K. M. Venkat Narayan
Dr. K. M. Venkat Narayan was selected by Emory University to receive the 2017 Marion V. Creekmore Award for Internationalization, for building a network of collaborations with global partners–high on Emory’s agenda.
** Award for Coimbatore scientist for research on sacred groves
Coimbatore-based Kannan Warrier gets Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education’s National Award of Excellence
** DRDO develops fire-fighting system for buses
The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has developed a fire mitigation system in buses, which can detect fires in less than 30 seconds and extinguish it within a minute.
** MDRF presents award to researcher from Arizona
Madras Diabetes Research Foundation (MDRF) – Dr. Mohan’s Diabetes Specialties Centre conferred the first MDRF-Distinguished Alumnus Award on Sampathkumar Rangaswamy at a function held on Monday.
Mr. Sampathkumar is an assistant professor at the Neurogenomics division, Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), Phoenix, Arizona