Thumbay Hospital, the first academic hospital established by Thumbay Group under its healthcare division, celebrated with joy of crossing treatment of 4 million patient visits from 175 nationalities, Dr Thumbay Moideen, founder president said, “It was a great achievement by our team of healthcare professionals who have put all their efforts to serve the community.
Category: Education
** IIT Ropar develops ‘AmbiTag’ to record real-time ambient temperature
Project Director Dr. Pushpendra P. Singh, said the device will be made available to all companies involved in COVID-19 vaccine transportation at a production cost of ₹400
Indian Institute of Technology in Punjab’s Ropar has developed a first-of-its-kind Internet of Things (IoT) device – AmbiTag.
** Vinay Nandicoori is new CCMB Director
Well-known molecular biologist and scientist at the Department of Biotechnology’s lab, National Institute of Immunology Vinay K Nandicoori is the new Director of Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) here, it was formally announced on Tuesday.
** Water campaign fetches student Forbes honour
Environmentalist Garvita Gulhati, a 21-year-old student of PES University, was nominated for ‘Forbes 30 under 30 Asia 2021’.
After learning that millions of litres of water are wasted each year in India, left unsipped in glasses in restaurants, Garvita started her youth-led organisation.
** IIT Mandi researchers say have decoded key coronavirus protein
In a study published in the journal ‘Current Research in Virological Science’, the researchers have described the shape and properties of the C-terminal region of non-structural protein 1 (NSP1) present in the coronavirus.
** Centre to help kids orphaned by Covid-19 with education loan, health insurance: PMO
The PMO has stated that children having lost parents to Covid will get free health insurance of Rs 5 lakh till 18 years, with the premium being paid from the PM CARES fund.
** Former Anna University Vice-Chancellor M. Anandakrishnan no more
Renowned educationist M. Anandakrishnan died in the city early on May 29, after battling against COVID-19. He was 93.
He served as Vice-Chancellor of Anna University and was chairman of the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
A Padma Shri recipient, he is survived by his wife Jayalakshmi Anandakrishnan and four sons – Ramu, Ravi, Satyan and Sridhar.
** Day of lunar eclipse 1,402 years ago marked Chalukya king’s victory over Vardhana emperor
Inscriptions on a copper plate owned by Mumbai-based Raghuveer Pai became a vital link in establishing the day and year in which Chalukya king Pulakeshin II emerged victorious over emperor Harshvardhana.
** Mathematician M.S. Narasimhan passes away
He made fundamental contributions to diverse fields in mathematics
Mudumbai Seshachulu Narasimhan, a towering figure in Indian science, passed away on May 15 in Bangalore; he would have turned 89 on June 7.
** Indian English is a Prakrit, not a creole, says linguist Peggy Mohan
Her new book speaks of how Indian languages evolved via generations of migratory patterns
Migration has shaped the arc of Indian history in myriad ways, from the day the Vedic Aryans first alighted from their chariots to the arrival of Namboothiri Brahmins in Kerala to the Persianised Turkic conquerors of the Middle Ages.
For linguist Peggy Mohan, all this finds a strong echo in the evolution of the subcontinent’s languages. In her new book, Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India Through Its Languages, she delves into the often surprising sounds and structures of what we conventionally call Indo-Aryan and Dravidian languages, and relates these to the deep pasts of their speakers.