** Man climbs Mount Everest within 7 weeks of recovering from Covid-19

Neeraj Chaudhary tested positive for Covid-19 on the day he was to start from Kathmandu for Mount Everest.

But that did not deter the IIT Delhi alumnus who returned to the base camp within weeks of his recovery and ultimately managed to hoist the institution’s flag, besides the tricolour, atop the summit.

** This English professor has a penchant to make films

Meet Jerrin Chandan, whose Kannada short film, titled ‘Aase,’ has made it to the semi finals at the Festival Del Cinema di Cefalu, Italy

Jerrin Chandan is the head of the English Department at St. Joseph’s Evening College, Bengaluru. Chandan, a voracious reader, has a passion for films.

** Maharashtra government planning to appoint ‘Marathi language officers’ to increase use of state language

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“To bring about the clarity, to increase the scope of the act, and to ensure that there should not be a disregard for the Marathi language in the state, the need for amendment was felt,” he said.

Desai on Monday tabled the Maharashtra Official Languages (Amendment) Bill, 2021 of the Maharashtra Official Language Act.

The bill was passed in the Assembly and the Council.

** Hyderabad physicist solves mathematical problem unsolved for 161 years

Hyderabad: 

A city-based mathematical physicist, Kumar Eswaran claims that he has found the solution for the Riemann Hypothesis (RH), the famous mathematical problem that has remained unsolved for about 161 years.

First posited by Bernhard Riemann in 1859, the Riemann hypothesis is one of the top ten unsolved mathematical problems by American mathematician Stephen Smale. In 2000, RH became one of the seven millennium mathematical problems from the Clay Mathematics Institute of Cambridge and is worth up to $1 million to the person who solves it.

Eswaran is a known mathematical physicist at Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology, Hyderabad and had placed his research titled ‘The final and exhaustive proof of the Riemann Hypothesis from first principles on the internet almost five years ago. However, editors of international journals were reluctant to put the paper through a detailed peer review.

** KL University students develop e-bike with wireless charging

Students from KL Deemed to be University have developed a unique e-Bike (electric bike) with wireless charging technology. The innovative prototype was developed by a team of six third and fourth year students from the electrical and electronics engineering department of KL College of Engineering along with a few university alumni members. 

Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh

** Chandrayaan instrument helps unravel the mysteries of solar corona

An instrument on board India’s Chandrayaan-2 mission has provided outstanding science results on the solar corona and heliophysics, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said.

Though we have a fairly good understanding of the origin of energy and other various aspects of the Sun, several potentially life-changing phenomena still remain a mystery, notes the Bengaluru-headquartered space agency.

** Bengaluru students make it to screens at New York’s Times Square

All interns were able to savour their moment of fame as part of a marketing initiative by Morgan Stanley called ‘India Interns Lights on Broadway’.

Tejaswini was among 277 college students from India who landed an internship with financial services giant Morgan Stanley, whose individual photos were beamed on a screen at the firm’s headquarters, which it says is very visible to Wall Street.