The country’s first circle-level philatelic club, to be run by the West Bengal circle of the department of posts, was inaugurated at the General Post Office on Friday.
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** Bengaluru: Engineer, 56, donates blood for 200th time in 35 years
How many times can one donate blood in a lifetime? Ask Chandrakantha KV, a 56-year-old engineer who on Tuesday donated blood for the 200th time in 35 years.
** Mann ki Baat: PM mentions Bageshwar farmer, 55, who revived ..
Fifty-five-year-old Jagdish Chandra Kudiyal, a farmer and grocery shop owner from Kumaon’s Bageshwar district, revived a spring in his locality which had been lying dead for decades.
** Healthcare for all: dream of Indian-origin doc who oversaw Tiger Woods’ treatment
Tiger Woods was taken to the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he was operated upon by a team of doctors under Dr. Anish Mahajan, who traces his roots to Jalgaon in Maharashtra.
** Manpreet Vohra appointed India’s High Commissioner to Australia
** Coronavirus | Hyderabad CSIR lab helped develop key molecule for Covaxin
Bharat Biotech had approached the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology to develop the synthetic route for the adjuvant molecule TLR 7/8 with indigenous chemicals at an affordable price and with highest purity.
The Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), a Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) lab here, played a role in the development of Covaxin, the indigenous vaccine developed by city-based Bharat Biotech International Limited
** Perseverance rover’s exciting work to happen in coming weeks: NASA’s Vishnu Sridhar
** School students in India discover 18 new asteroids
The International Asteroid Discovery Project was conducted by STEM and Space, an organisation working towards the learning of astronomy and space science in India, along with the International Astronomical Search Collaboration (IASC) as part of a NASA citizen science project.
Over the last two years, 150 students from all around India participated in this two month long campaign to find asteroids, making this the largest asteroid discovery project in India, Mila Mitra, Co-founder and Academic Head of STEM and Space, told PTI.
** NHAI creates world record by constructing 25.54-km road in 18 hours
This took place during the construction of the four-lane highway between Vijaypur and Solapur on the NH-52.
** Indian-origin Nasa scientist controlling Perseverance rover from his London flat
A Nasa professor is reportedly controlling the Mars Perseverance rover from a one-bedroom flat above a hair salon in South London.
According to a Daily Mail report, the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic has forced Sanjeev Gupta, an Indian-origin British geologist, to work from home while Perseverance rover is getting ready for exploring the Martian surface after safely landing in the Jezero Crater.