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** India’s Chahat Arora wins gold at Thailand Age Group Swimming Championship

Indian swimmer Chahat Arora clinched a gold medal in the women’s 50m breaststroke event at the Thailand Age Group Championship.

The Chandigarh swimmer, who won two gold medals at the nationals last year, won the yellow metal after equalling her own previous best Indian time of 33.62 seconds in Samut Prakan, Thailand.

Junior swimmers Vritti and Nina shine in SA Nationals

The country’s junior swimmers continued to make a splash in South Africa.

Vritti Agarwal and Nina Venkatesh won a silver and bronze medal respectively in the South Africa National Championships.

Vritti clocked a personal best time of 18:06.40 to grab the silver in the junior girl’s 1500m 15-16 years freestyle event.

Nina won the bronze in the 50m butterfly finals with an effort of 29.03 in Port Elizabeth.

The two are a part of the 16-member Indian junior team participating at the South Africa nationals.

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** 962 students graduate from IIM-K

The Indian Institute of Management-Kozhikode (IIM-K) hosted its 24 ^thconvocation ceremony on the campus at Kunnamnagalam on Saturday. A total of 962 students graduated from the prestigious institute by receiving their titles and degrees.

The toppers in each programme were awarded their gold medals. Devesh Bansal, Pooja Goel, Shubham Sharma, Rakesh Pendyala, Ayushi Puri, Saksham Mehrotra, Kritika Vijay Kumar, and Aijaz Fatima were the gold medal winners in different categories.

The 24 ^th annual convocation also marked the grand culmination of the IIM-K’s silver jubilee celebrations. A series of programmes had been hosted online and offline to celebrate the silver jubilee fete on the campus.

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** One Nation-One Product stall launched at Guntur Railway Station

Mangalagiri textiles, Tenali jute products and banana fibre products are being sold here

‘One station One Product’ – aimed at making a railway station a promotional hub for local products – was launched at the Guntur Railway Division on Saturday .

The initiative, announced in the Union Budget 2022-23, would be implemented for 30 days (in two spells of 15 days each), from April 9 to May 7.

A fully-functional stall is earmarked for promoting and selling the product at select stations, to give a boost to the livelihood opportunities to local artisans, potters, weavers/handloom weavers, etc.

Guntur is famous for Mangalagiri textiles and handlooms and handicrafts. To give a fillip to artisans here, the Guntur railway station has been identified for the ‘One Station One Product’ initiative.

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** NITC develops smart solar stove

Researchers at the Department of Electrical Engineering at the National Institute of Technology-Calicut (NITC) have designed and developed an eco-friendly smart solar stove with zero operating cost for domestic and roadside eateries (thattukadas).

An excellent alternative cooking system, especially when prices of domestic cooking gas are rising, the smart solar stove with multiple versions has been tested for practical feasibility and is ready to be launched in the market at an affordable price, a press release said here on Tuesday.

The Department of Biotechnology of the Union Ministry of Science and Technology had funded the project.

NITC Director Prasad Krishna launched the product on the campus. One of the product versions that can be used directly under the sun has a single and double stove suitable for domestic cooking.

Another model, which can be employed for all types of cooking purposes, has a provision to connect an LED lamp. The sufficient illumination will help vendors to extend their business operating hours during night hours.

Another model has a battery with a control unit for extending the cooking time during overcast weather.

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** New book traces journey of Manipuri cinema

Work by Meghachandra Kongbam is an authoritative account

Nobody would imagine that Manipur, whose territory is much smaller than any district of Assam or U.P. and with a population of hardly 20 lakh in those days, brought laurels for the country at several national and international film events.

The first Manipuri feature film Matamgi Manipur directed by Debkumar Bose was released on April 9, 1972, and won the national award. This film won the President’s silver medal at the 20th National Film awards.

In 1982, Imagi Ningthem directed by A. Shyam Sharma won the Grand Prix award at the festival of three continents held in Nantes, France, to become the first Indian film to win the prestigious award.

It was the only Indian film invited to the festival. Ishanou (The Chosen One) produced in 1990 and directed by Shyam Sharma was the only official selection for the Cannes Film Festival of 1991.

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** Veteran Bengali writer wins coveted O. Henry Award for 1977 story

Sahitya Akademi awardee Amar Mitra wrote Gaonburo when he was 26 years old

Amar Mitra wrote the story back in 1977, when he was only 26; today, it has fetched him the 1919-founded O. Henry Award, whose past winners include William Faulkner, Saul Bellow and Raymond Carver.

The award has reinforced Mr. Mitra’s belief that the short story — titled Gaonburo in Bangla and The Old Man of Kusumpur in English — must have some “internal force” for even the Western audience to find it relevant after 45 long years.

“It has often been hailed, at various times, as a ‘wonderful story’. Maybe it really is a wonderful story. I don’t remember the last time an Indian writing in an Indian language getting such a recognition,” Mr. Mitra, recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award and several other prestigious honours at home, told The Hindu.

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** Jubilee Mission celebrates 70th anniversary

Free OP, cleft lip surgeries, treatment for the differently abled

Jubilee Mission Hospital under the Thrissur Archdiocese (Syro-Malabar) is celebrating its 70th anniversary.

Started as a dispensary in 1951, the hospital has developed into a multispecialty hospital with 48 departments, 13 specialty and 27 superspecialty wings. It has a full-fledged research centre too.

In connection with the 70th anniversary celebrations, the hospital has initiated seven major projects, said hospital director Fr. Renny Mundankurian here on Wednesday.

The hospital will start a free outpatient (OP) wing at its Public Health Centre at Nadathara. The project will be inaugurated by Revenue Minister K. Rajan on April 13.

A special clinic, St. Giles Clinic, for the differently abled with free service of ENT, paediatrics, psychology and psychiatry departments will be opened in connection with the anniversary.

Jubilee Mission is one of the few hospitals in central Kerala that offers specialised treatment for severe burn injuries. The intensive care unit (ICU) of the burn clinic has been modernised with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) facility.

A health-care Missionary Award has been instituted in the name of Mon. Mathew Muringatheri, founder of the hospital.

A memorial oration will be held in the name of eminent cleft lip surgeon Hijri Sorab Adenwalla, popularly known as Smile Maker.

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** Award for surgeon

He received the award from AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria

Thoracic surgeon Nasser Yusuf has bagged the prestigious A.S. Paintal-RC Jain Memorial Chest Oration Award instituted by the National College of Chest Physicians.

He received the honour from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences Director Randeep Guleria during the national conference on pulmonary diseases hosted between March 31 and April 3 in Varanasi

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** HAL-Israel sign MoU for conversion civil aircraft into Multi Mission Tanker Transport Aircraft

In a move aimed at bolstering the ‘Make in India’ campaign, HAL has entered into a MoU with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) to convert Civil (Passenger) aircraft to Multi Mission Tanker Transport (MMTT) aircraft in India.

The move will provide India’s defence ecosystem with new capabilities and cost effective solutions in the market. The MoU will facilitate HAL and IAI’s decades’ long expertise in developing, manufacturing and producing leading defence platforms.

The scope of MoU also covers “passenger to freighter aircraft” conversion along with MMTT conversions.

A formal Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed in Delhi by D Maiti, CEO (MiG Complex), HAL and Yaacov Berkovitz, Vice President and General Manager, Aviation Group, IAI in the presence of Chandraker Bharati, JS (Aero), Ministry of Defence, Goveernment of India.

“We are glad to join hands with our long standing partner IAI in this venture of MMTT conversion business which is one of the strategic diversification avenues identified by HAL”, said R Madhavan, CMD, HAL.

** Use of atom for peace to increase manifold, says BARC scientist

GITAM School of Science hosts 102nd DAE BRNS-IANCAS workshop on ‘Radiochemistry and Applications of Radioisotopes’

The peaceful use of atom (atomic energy) is going to increase manifold in the coming years in areas such as power, medicine, food, agriculture, sludge hygienisation and sterilisation, said S. Kannan, director, Radiochemistry and Isotope Group at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC)-Mumbai.

He was delivering a keynote address on ‘DAE at a glance’ as part of the inaugural ceremony of 102nd DAE BRNS-IANCAS National Workshop on ‘Radiochemistry and Applications of Radioisotopes’ at GITAM School of Science (SoS) on Monday.

Participating as chief guest, Mr. Kannan said 22 nuclear power plants are currently operating in the country with a total installed capacity of 6,780 MW and 10 more are under construction. In addition, there are research reactors operating at Trombay and Kalpakkam which are used for basic and applied research, radioisotope production and testing of materials. The radio-isotopes produced from these research and power reactors are used for radiation sterilisation of medical products, production of radiopharmaceuticals, nuclear medicine and cancer treatment.

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