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‘Astrome’, a women-led startup, has developed an innovative wireless product that gives fibre-like bandwidth at fraction of the cost of fibre. This helps telecom operators deliver reliable low-cost internet services to suburban and rural areas.

One of the authors says that this was the first time a new species was discovered by an all-Indian research team from the Western Ghats.

A new sub-species of the six line blue butterfly named Nacaduba sinhala ramaswamii has been discovered from the south Western Ghats and it adds to the butterfly fauna of India as well as that of the Western Ghats of Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Four researchers – Kalesh Sadasivan and K. Baiju from Travancore Nature History Society (TNHS), Rahul Khot from Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) and S. Ramasamy Kamaya Naicker of Vanam in Theni described the species. It was published in the Journal of Threatened Taxa in March, 2021.

Year-long study to document diversity of damselflies, dragonflies
The Kole wetlands, spread over Thrissur and Malappuram districts, is home to 30 species of dragonflies and 14 species of damselflies.

The 44 species of odonates, belonging to 33 genera and eight families, were documented from the Kole wetlands, a Ramsar site, during an year-long study to document the diversity of odonates and seasonality.

Data on UNICEF’s website shows that India had received 10 million doses of vaccine from COVAX, the most of any country.

India itself has received more than a third of the nearly 28 million Indian-made AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses delivered so far by the global programme for poor countries, according to data from UNICEF and vaccine alliance Gavi.

Bengaluru-based voice automation company, Vernacular.ai’s AI voice assistant VIVA, which understands 16 languages and more than 160 dialects, is being implemented across banks in rural India.

The dream of building a startup took Sourabh Gupta and Akshay Deshraj, IIT-Roorkee alumni, to Bengaluru. 

The Vanavarayar Foundation will organise a lecture on ‘Trade and Technology in Sangam Period’ here on March 31 (Wednesday) as part of its series of monthly lectures on history and culture.

Professor K. Rajan, who has been part of many archaeological excavations in the State, will deliver the lecture at Purandaradasar Hall, R.S. Puram between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m., a release said.

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In rural India, the National Food Security Act of 2013, which entitles three-fourths of all households to 5 kg of wheat or rice per person per month at Rs 2 and Rs 3 per kg, respectively, has further reduced the demand for millets.