Serving as a legal professional for nearly seven decades, Sorabjee occupied the office of the Attorney General of India twice — first from 1989-90 and then from 1998-2004.
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** Have delivered 813 tonnes of oxygen since April 19: Rail Board Chairman
Fourteen Oxygen Expresses have already completed their journey and five more loaded trains are on the run carrying 342 tonnes of liquid medical oxygen in 18 tankers.
** Chandigarh Diary: All that is happening in the ‘Land of Five rivers’
PGIMER professor wins public health award
While a PGIMER professor won a public health award by the American Thoracic Society, the Panjab University Senate elections scheduled for May 3 have been postponed.
Professor Digambar Behera, senior professor and head, Department of Pulmonary Medicine at Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER) has been awarded the ‘ATS Public Service Award-2021’ by the American Thoracic Society.
** Medical runner ‘Sevabot’ to reduce human interference in surgical wards
The product is an advanced version of Karmibot, the humanoid developed by Asimov to reduce human role in Covid wards.
** On this day in 2010: Suresh Raina became first Indian player to smash T20I hundred
02nd May 2010
The attacking left-hand batsman achieved the feat against South Africa in the T20 World Cup in 2010. In the match, South Africa had won the toss and opted to bowl first.
** International bodybuilder Jagdish Lad succumbs to COVID-19
Maharashtra
** Mango museum to come up in Lucknow
The Mango Museum is coming up at the Central Institute for Subtropical Horticulture (CISH) office at the Central Institute for Subtropical Horticulture (CISH) office at Rehmankhera in the Kakori block of Lucknow.
** IIT-Bombay finds innovative way to generate oxygen
An official statement claimed that initial tests conducted at the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay have shown “promising results”.
Amid the shortage of medical oxygen for treating COVID-19 patients, the IIT-Bombay has come up with an ingenious solution to help address the issue by converting a nitrogen unit into an oxygen generating unit, the institute said on Thursday.
The pilot project, which has been tested successfully, relies on a simple technological intervention of converting a Pressure Swing Adsorption nitrogen unit into a PSA oxygen unit, according to an official statement.
** Herpetologist Deepak Veerappan has a snake named after him
Xylophis deepaki has iridescent scales and is just 20 cm long
In the first four months of 2021, the Western Ghats presented new butterflies, frogs, fruit flies, and even a freshwater crab. Joining the list is a tiny snake of just 20 cm length with iridescent scales – Xylophis deepaki, first stumbled upon in a coconut plantation in Kanyakumari, is now reported to be an endemic species of Tamil Nadu and has been sighted in a few locations in the southern part of the Western Ghats. The species is named in honour of Indian herpetologist Deepak Veerappan for his contribution in erecting a new subfamily Xylophiinae to accommodate wood snakes. The team suggests the common name Deepak’s wood snake.
** Former national selector Kishan Rungta dies of COVID-19
Rungta served as a national selector from Central Zone in 1998. He played 59 first class games between 1953 to 1970, scoring 2717 runs.
Former BCCI selector and Rajasthan captain Kishan Rungta died of COVID-19 at a hospital in Jaipur.