By winning a lottery of Rs 16 crore, through a compassionate access programme of Direct Relief organisation, she was able to receive Zolgensma, a gene therapy treatment at Bangalore Baptist Hospital.
Month: February 2021
** Class 10 students create a self-sanitising bench ‘SAFE’
SAFE, created by five students from Shiv Nadar School, is a bench installed with UV sterilising light to reduce the transmission of infection
** Udupi girl Shilpa Hegde in Australian Liberal Party’s decision-making panel
Shilpa, who works as an IT consultant for global company DWS, said that she feels good to be on the executive committee as her party shows concerns for the migrant population in Australia.
** IPL franchise Kings XI Punjab renamed Punjab Kings
The franchise, jointly owned by Mohit Burman, Ness Wadia, Preity Zinta and Karan Paul, is yet to win an IPL title since the event’s inaugural edition in 2008
** Indian Sign Language dictionary with 10,000 terms released
The dictionary, prepared by the Indian Sign Language Research and Training Centre under the Social Justice and Empowerment Ministry, included terms of daily use, academic, legal and administrative, medical, technical and agricultural terms, SJE Minister Thaawarchand Gehlot said releasing the dictionary virtually.
** This Hyderabad farmer has won a patent for Vitamin D-enriched rice and wheat
Chintala Venkat Reddy, who won a Padma Shri in 2020, applies natural processes and minerals to enrich rice and wheat with Vitamin D
** In telehealth, scaling up the Indian advantage
** Ankita Raina becomes fifth Indian woman to feature in Grand Slam main draw
** Coronavirus | India fastest in world to reach 70 lakh vaccinations in 26 days: Health Ministry
** HAL chairman and Walmart Executive VP among distinguished alumni awardees of IIT Madras
The awardees include Ajay Kaushal, co-founder and director of BillDesk; Yogesh Gupta, CEO of Progress Software, USA; Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, CTO, Energy and Mobility, Microsoft R&D India and Azure Global; R. Madhavan, chairman and managing director, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited; Suresh Kumar, executive vice president, chief technology officer and chief development officer, Walmart; Ravi Subrahmanyan, emeritus professor, Raman Research Institute, Karnataka; SK (KG) Ganapathi, founder and CEO, Vimaan Robotics; Jayaraman Chandrasekhar, principal research scientist, Gilead Sciences; Ram Duvvuru Sriram, chief, software and systems division, Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA; Prasanna Ramaswamy, musician, Virginia and B.S. Sathyaprakash, associate director, Institute of Gravitation and the Cosmos, Bert Elsbach.