Former Governor of Bihar and Jharkhand M Rama Jois passes away on Tuesday at his residence in Bengaluru.
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** HAL aims to drive up indigenised content of LCA Tejas
** New Covid-19 testing kit to be made in Bengaluru
Thermo Fisher Scientific, an international firm, will be manufacturing a new Covid-19 testing kit in Bengaluru.
The kit, which has been titled CoviPath, contains the assays and controls for RT-PCR testing.
** Lessons from a lotus seed: Bringing makhana to South India
How love for Bihar’s staple makhana helped build an all-woman enterprise in a small hamlet in interior Karnataka
Raksha and her father Gopinath Shenoy, also an entrepreneur, decided to run their operations out of Miyar, a few kilometres from Karkala. And that is how Nummy (short for naturally yummy) makhana was launched in August last year. In less than a year, this small-town business is already shipping its products across the country, as well as to retail outlets in Telangana, Maharashtra and Karnataka.
** Delhi Institute of Medical Representative opens first Karnataka branch in Mangaluru
Dr Ganapathi Bhat, founder of Mangala Hospital and Mangala Kidney Foundation along with other dignitaries on Wednesday inaugurated the branch, located on the 1st floor of Pam Arcade, Kottara Chowki here.
The Mangaluru branch of the Delhi Institute of Medical Representative is its first in Karnataka.
** NIMHANS uploads 250 genome sequences
‘India has contributed over 7,000 sequences on the global database’
The genome sequencing lab at NIMHANS has uploaded results of nearly 250 genome sequences on the global genomic database so far, said V. Ravi, nodal officer for genetic confirmation for SARS-CoV-2 in Karnataka
** Rare illness: Kid wins lottery for Rs 16 crore drug
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.
** 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.
** Coastal Karnataka’s first CNG station commissioned in Mangaluru
The Netravathi service station of the Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) at Adyar on the Mangaluru-Bengaluru National Highway 75 became the first station of the coastal belt supplying CNG to private and commercial vehicles. GAIL Gas Ltd, a subsidiary of GAIL India Ltd., supplied CNG to it. It is priced at ₹55 a kg.