** A woman pilot to join MiG-29 squadron after Bison, Sukhoi, Rafale

The IAF’s women pilots are already operating the MiG-21 Bison, Sukhoi-30 and Rafale, the people said.

The force began inducting women as fighter pilots five years ago, a turning point in the armed forces.

Last year, the IAF assigned Flight Lieutenant Shivangi Singh to its first Rafale squadron based in Ambala. Ten women have been commissioned as fighter pilots after the experimental scheme for their induction into the IAF’s combat stream was introduced in 2015, a watershed in the air force’s history. Most of them started off with the MiG-21.

** Bihar now first state in country to implement ethanol promotion policy

An investor would get a 15 per cent government subsidy — a maximum of Rs 5 crore — besides exemption from stamp duty, registration and land conversion fees, electricity duty reimbursement and employment and skill development subsidy as already being given under the state government’s industrial promotion policy.

** Metakovan reveals his real identity

“This is the crown jewel, the most valuable piece of art for this generation,” Sundaresan said of the piece.

An Indian-born blockchain entrepreneur has revealed himself as the mystery buyer who paid a record $69.3 million for a digital artwork last week, describing his purchase as a shot fired for racial equality. 

Programmer Vignesh Sundaresan (inset), who is based in Singapore, said in a blog post Thursday that he had purchased the most expensive digital artwork ever sold to “show Indians and people of color that they too could be patrons” of the arts.

** Bengaluru doctors put Yemeni blast victim back on his feet

Four years after his leg was damaged by a bomb blast, 37-year-old Kasim is able to walk without support again, thanks to doctors in Bengaluru who used 3D printing to accurately assess the type and extent of his injuries.Kasim, a Yemeni national, had a fused hip and shortened left leg as a result of the injuries he suffered in the blast in 2018 and the 23 surgeries that followed. “After the incident, I suffered from depression.

 Dr J V Srinivas, lead consultant for orthopaedics at Aster RV Hospital