Month: January 2021

The six-layered stencil portrait of PM Modi is made by Saran Sasikumar.

Researcher Balaram Khamari “plants” live bacteria in a jelly-like substance called agar, to create agar art in intricate patterns.

Khamari, 26, is a doctoral fellow in medical microbiology at the Sri Sathya Sai deemed university in Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh. He’s been “painting” with microbes for just over a year and already, in December, one of his art works — Microbial Peacock — won second prize at the American Society for Microbiology’s (ASM) annual agar art contest.

Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh

India, in sharp contrast, sent a gift of two million doses of Covishield vaccine to Dhaka on January 21 as well as facilitated a commercial contract of 30 million doses with the Pune-based SII.

The gadget is capable of ‘remotely’ carrying out primary health check-up, a solution which could help reach a large rural population.

Mitali Basak and Shirsendu Mitra teamed up and participated in the competition under the category of “Student Innovators” and submitted an idea of a benchtop digital setup integrated with an algorithm to record initial screening parameters like body temperature, pulse rate, eye and tongue analysis of a patient remotely, the institute has said.

Tata Power Solar on Saturday announced that it has bagged an order worth Rs 1,200 crore from state-run power giant NTPC NSE -2.13 % for setting up of 320 MW ground mounted solar project.

Chitradurga will have a pie of share in building the Ram temple at Ayodhya as Professor TG Sitharam from Talaku will be a part of the technical team which will check the quality of building the temple