The franchise, jointly owned by Mohit Burman, Ness Wadia, Preity Zinta and Karan Paul, is yet to win an IPL title since the event’s inaugural edition in 2008
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** Indian Sign Language dictionary with 10,000 terms released
The dictionary, prepared by the Indian Sign Language Research and Training Centre under the Social Justice and Empowerment Ministry, included terms of daily use, academic, legal and administrative, medical, technical and agricultural terms, SJE Minister Thaawarchand Gehlot said releasing the dictionary virtually.
** This Hyderabad farmer has won a patent for Vitamin D-enriched rice and wheat
Chintala Venkat Reddy, who won a Padma Shri in 2020, applies natural processes and minerals to enrich rice and wheat with Vitamin D
** In telehealth, scaling up the Indian advantage
** Ankita Raina becomes fifth Indian woman to feature in Grand Slam main draw
** Coronavirus | India fastest in world to reach 70 lakh vaccinations in 26 days: Health Ministry
** HAL chairman and Walmart Executive VP among distinguished alumni awardees of IIT Madras
The awardees include Ajay Kaushal, co-founder and director of BillDesk; Yogesh Gupta, CEO of Progress Software, USA; Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, CTO, Energy and Mobility, Microsoft R&D India and Azure Global; R. Madhavan, chairman and managing director, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited; Suresh Kumar, executive vice president, chief technology officer and chief development officer, Walmart; Ravi Subrahmanyan, emeritus professor, Raman Research Institute, Karnataka; SK (KG) Ganapathi, founder and CEO, Vimaan Robotics; Jayaraman Chandrasekhar, principal research scientist, Gilead Sciences; Ram Duvvuru Sriram, chief, software and systems division, Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA; Prasanna Ramaswamy, musician, Virginia and B.S. Sathyaprakash, associate director, Institute of Gravitation and the Cosmos, Bert Elsbach.
** India develops its own varieties of gerbera
Now, India has its own gerbera varieties as scientists at the Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR) have developed six indigenous varieties of this flower, used extensively in decorations and bouquets.
** A.P. tops in cocoa production, thanks to tech support
What started with a modest cultivation in 1990s has transformed Andhra Pradesh into a leading producer of cocoa in the country now. The State’s cocoa production stood at 10,903 metric tonnes (MT) during 2020-21 as against the total production of 27,072 MT in the country.