** WII designs mobile app to count Haryana’s monkey population, a first
In the first phase, the application will be available for the forest field staff and later will be opened to NGOs and the general public, with the consent of the Haryana wildlife department.
** Meet Tanay Manjrekar, the first Indian to ride a HyperLoop
Pune, Maharashtra
** Two inscriptions dating back to 14th and 18th centuries discovered in Rajanukunte : November 2020
Karnataka
Both pertain to land grants in the erstwhile ‘Yelahanka Nadu’
** Indian Photo Festival 2020: In frame, on screen : November 2020
The Indian Photo Festival goes virtual this year, and will begin with a conversation between master lensmen Raghu Rai and Sebastiao Salgado on November 12
The sixth edition of the Indian Photo Festival (IPF), which has been held in Hyderabad annually since 2015, takes on a virtual hue this year.
** Over 100 scientists from Tamil Nadu among top 2% in the world : November 2020
Tamil Nadu is home to at least 100 of the top 2% scientists in the world, according to a database developed by Stanford University .
The scientists are ranked as per their specialisation, based on the citation scores and the number of papers they have produced so far. The list also provides details of when the scientists published their first and latest research article.
** WhatsApp payment service goes live in India – November 2020
** India’s first batch of homegrown asafoetida
source: thehindu.com
** Newly discovered primate in Myanmar ‘already facing extinction’
** When Joe Biden spoke of distant relatives living in Mumbai
When he visited Mumbai as Vice President in 2013, he narrated a story of when he received a letter in 1972 from someone by the last name of Biden from Mumbai, saying his “great, great, great, great, great grandfather” had worked in the East India Company.