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Month: November 2020
** The sultan’s kitchen: Craving Turkish food in Delhi? Here’s where you can satiate your taste buds
Chef Ahmat Algan was planning to get engaged in the spring of 2021 back home in Turkey, but the COVID-19 pandemic, as with so much else in the world, threw a spanner in the works.
** Olympic-bound race walker KT Irfan, sprinter Dutee Chand included in TOPS core group
Seven track and field Athletes were also included in the TOPS developmental group after a meeting of the Mission Olympics Cell on November 26.
** AR Rahman becomes BAFTA Breakthrough India ambassador
** Ahmed Patel and Gujarat: The national leader who never forgot his roots
** Nimisha Manjooran, a rare woman off-roader who is also a champion
Women who take to off-roading are rare in Kerala. But Nimisha Manjooran has been charting her own success through this adventurous path that not many people, especially women, have taken.
** Kashmir police officer sets up ‘wall of kindness’ for the needy
And the ‘architect’ behind the Wall of Kindness initiative is Sheikh Aadil Mushtaq, a 2015-batch Kashmir Police Service (KPS) officer from Baramulla district who is posted as deputy superintendent of police (DSP) traffic police in Srinagar.
** FC Kohli, father of Indian IT industry, passes away
Faqir Chand Kohli – FC Kohli, often called the Father of Indian IT industry, passed away on Thursday. He was 96.
FC Kohli joined Tata Electric Companies in 1951 and helped to set up the load despatching system to manage the system operations. He became director of Tata Electric Companies in 1970. He was the first CEO of TCS which pioneered India’s IT Revolution and helped the country to build the $100 billion+ IT Industry.
** Ansr acquires Bengaluru-based AI firm FastNext
The US-based Ansr on Wednesday announced acquisition of Bengaluru-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm FastNext in a cash and stock deal.
** Indigenous IJT commences spin flight testing
The indigenous Intermediate Jet Trainer (IJT), designed and developed by HAL to replace the ageing Kiran aircraft fleet of the IAF, has commenced spin flight testing in Bengaluru.