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The mobile laboratory will be operated by city-based diagnostics company Mylab Discovery Solutions, he said, adding this would increase the testing capacity in the city.

Potoler dolma may have started as an Armenian innovation but other Calcutta communities adopted it. Muslim cooks moving between Armenian, Anglo-Indian, Jewish and elite Muslim kitchens would have spread the technique.

When the Portuguese explorer Vasco Da Gama disembarked near Calicut in 1498, he inaugurated a new phase in history. The sea routes were opened up, and the Dutch, French, Danes, and British soon followed. The coastal enclaves they founded became hubs of cultural exchange. Their economic potential attracted many kinds of people, including merchant communities, from outside and within India. ‘Creolisation’ resulted. New, unexpected cultural products sprang up from this interaction between different languages, different gods, different ways of living, and different ways of cooking and preparing food.

What was cooking in creole India’s kucinis?

Kucini Tales is a five-part flash fiction series, based on research on creolised food histories of India: the results of cultural encounters within settlements on the Malabar, Konkan, and Coromandel coasts and Bengal’s Hooghly district, founded and fought over by the Portuguese, Dutch, French, Danish, and British. Communities remember memorable events through scenarios that repeat as dramatic stories or myths. Our kucini tales are mini-scenarios, that entertain you with food stories from Creole India.

The NGO launched a helpline in this regard on Friday evening and had already received over 1,200 requests.

For 13-year-old Hemesh Chadalavada, a resident of Ranga Reddy district, Monday would have to be among the best days of his life. His dream of meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi came true, albeit virtually. He was one of the 32 awardees of the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar.

Hemesh won the award for developing a wearable device that helps those afflicted with Alzheimer’s

“This is the next step in medical care,” says Dr Kalyan Uppuluri, from K&H Personalized Medicine Clinic.

He, along with Dr Hima Challa, are the founders of the clinic, the first of its kind in the country to offer services bringing genomic medicine into clinical medicare.

Armed with degrees in medical genomics from Stanford University and Harvard Medical School respectively, they say they took a leap of faith two years ago to set up their clinic in the city.

Amid reports of oxygen shortage in hospitals during the second wave of COVID-19 across the country, the Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMS) has decided to import oxygen generation plants and containers from Germany to cater to the shortage, the Defence Ministry said on Friday.

The Indian Air Force (IAF) on Saturday airlifted the Navy’s second Deep Submergnce Rescue Vessel  (DSRV) to Indonesia as search and rescue efforts to locate missing Indonesian Navy submarine KRI Nanggalaare racing against time.

A C-17 aircraft of the IAF took off from the Hindon airbase in the outskirts of Delhi for Singapore’s Changi airport early on Saturday morning.

After loading the tanks, the aircraft is expected to land at Panagarh air base in West Bengal this evening, another official said.

The ‘INC TV’ will highlight news which the government does not allow to be published, so as to enable people to know what is happening in the country, AICC secretary Pranav Jha said.

The Congress has been accusing the mainstream media of not showing the party’s views, alleging that it is only highlighting the government’s version.