Month: March 2021

The CO17 variety with a duration of 135 days was ideal since there was no side branching, and was suitable for mechanical harvesting and high-density planting wherein one lakh plants are raised per hectare, Prof. Somasundaram said.

The 32-year-old India skipper is also the fourth most followed sportsperson on Instagram

India captain Virat Kohli has recorded another century, albeit not on the pitch this time, as he became the first cricketer in the world to have 100 million followers on social media platform Instagram.

The 32-year-old Kohli is also the first person in the Asia-Pacific region to achieve the feat.

Javadekar made this announcement at a programme organised by the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) in Kolkata.

The country’s first circle-level philatelic club, to be run by the West Bengal circle of the department of posts, was inaugurated at the General Post Office on Friday.

How many times can one donate blood in a lifetime? Ask Chandrakantha KV, a 56-year-old engineer who on Tuesday donated blood for the 200th time in 35 years.

Fifty-five-year-old Jagdish Chandra Kudiyal, a farmer and grocery shop owner from Kumaon’s Bageshwar district, revived a spring in his locality which had been lying dead for decades.

Tiger Woods was taken to the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he was operated upon by a team of doctors under Dr. Anish Mahajan, who traces his roots to Jalgaon in Maharashtra.

Bharat Biotech had approached the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology to develop the synthetic route for the adjuvant molecule TLR 7/8 with indigenous chemicals at an affordable price and with highest purity.

The Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), a Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) lab here, played a role in the development of Covaxin, the indigenous vaccine developed by city-based Bharat Biotech International Limited