An Indian scientist based in Abu Dhabi has been awarded the prestigious Sheikh Mubarak bin Mohammed Prize for discovering 11 species of insects.
Dr Anitha Saji, scientist at the Environment Agency — Abu Dhabi (EAD), said insects are an important component of biodiversity and crucial for ecological balance.
This comes after the US Consulate General launched its Madras Week celebrations with a virtual tour titled ‘America in Chennai — Sites, Streets, Structures’.
According to Prof. Suresh Sethuraman: “Chennai boasts of several sites, streets, and structures that have strong ‘America’ connections – the St. Mary’s church within Fort St. George where Elihu Yale of Yale University fame got married in 1680, the Ice House on Kamarajar Salai where ice from Massachusetts was stored in the 19th century, the YMCA building opposite the Madras High Court built with financial aid from the US in 1900, to name only a few.
Tripathi plays diverse roles with such finesse making him perfect for this award, IFFM director Mitu Bhowmick Lange added.
The Hindi Academy hosted the Mathrubhumi Bhushan award-giving ceremony at the Jal Bhushan Convention Center in the governors official headquarters here on Wednesday at Malabar Hill.
Maharashtra governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari presented the awards to the veterans of the armed forces in various fields, including the Mathrubhumi Bhushan, Shiksha Bhushan, Sahitya Bhushan and the Social Service Bhushan.
The subject of this book is intimately tied up with the author’s own identity. She belongs to the Bene Israel Jewish community of Ahmedabad in Gujarat.
Esther David’s new book, Bene Appétit: The Cuisine of Indian Jews, exemplifies this spirit of continuity. Published by HarperCollins India, it explores “how Indian Jews have preserved their food habits in a multicultural country like India, which has diverse cuisines.”
For the past four years, every weekend, Kranthi has been hosting a party in Chicago. A virtual one, of course, where he serves fun, Telugu banter with peppy Tollywood numbers as he turns into a radio jockey for NRI Telugu Radio for ‘Weekend Party’. Before the ‘pardy ends’, this 31-year-old techie who works for an MNC in the Windy City in the US slips a few pieces of info into the conversation with his listeners.
Noted Odia fiction writer Paramita Satpathy will get the prestigious Sarala Puraskar for her novel ‘Abhipreta Kala’.
The annual Sarala Puraskar, instituted by eminent Odia industrialist Bansidhar Panda and his wife Ila Panda in 1980, has been continuously awarded by the Indian Metals Public Charitable Trust, according to a statement on Thursday.
Newly established facility at P.K. Roy Memorial will strengthen the infrastructure and fetch a better NAAC ratings.
A state-of-art Geological Museum and Microscopic Lab established in the Geology department of Dhanbad’s P.K. Roy Memorial College was inaugurated on Friday by Anjani Kumar Srivastava, vice chancellor of Binod Bihari Mahto Koyalanchal.
Clip of performance at Tokyo Aquatics Centre goes viral on social media