** 78% of gold medallists in RGUHS are women

Among the medical students ready to graduate from Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) on Sunday, the women have outdone the men. About 78% of the 111 students who will bag gold medals at the 23rd annual convocation of RGUHS on Sunday are women.

The three students to top the university are all women. They have bagged three gold medals each.

** HAL, IAF get integrated portal for better support

The operationalising of this portal, called HAL-Vayusena Inventory (HAVAI) portal, comes just two days after Defence Minister Rajnath Singh formally handed over the Rs 48,000 crore project of producing and delivering 83 LCA Tejas Mk-1A fighter aircraft to IAF by 2030. This portal, however, would be relevant for all projects of HAL for IAF from henceforth.

** Lens on love

After bagging accolades in festival circuit, this city-based filmmaker talks about his short movie that is now being screened on Disney + Hotstar.

As an independent filmmaker, Prataya Saha has a firm belief in the movies he makes. It’s probably this and a lot of hard work that has landed Saha’s film, The Good Wife, a spot on Disney+Hotstar.

The film which started screening earlier this week has done the rounds at several festivals and has won awards in Chicago and Toronto.

Set in Dec. ’92 in Kolkata, the stories have been inspired from Saha’s childhood. The movie revolves around the highs, lows, joys, defeat and triumphs of a simple ‘housewife’ in the course of a single day.

** ‘Research into drugs from natural products holds much promise’

Research into drugs produced from natural products and traditional medicine holds much promise to a country that has vast natural resources, B.S. Unger, scientist at Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), National Institute of Traditional Medicine (NITM), said in Chikkodi on Wednesday.

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** After ventilators, BEL produces dialysis machine

Riding on the success of producing 30,000 ventilators during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Bharat Electronics Ltd. (BEL) has launched an indigenous cost-effective haemodialysis machine as part of the PSU’s initiative to enter the medical electronics market.