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Jupiter so bright, its peering right through the clouds! You can even see three of the Galilean moons !
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Hello NDTV ! This is our research and urine was not used.
Change your stupid headline and pay your people enough so that they properly read press releases 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
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Tesla is progressive but Jio is capitalist greed?
We would certainly roll out the red carpet for
@elonmusk
especially if a progressive
@INCKerala
government comes to power in May!
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Rabid dogs and rabid dog lovers are responsible for these unfortunate deaths.
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Bangalore AQI hasnt changed much after Diwali at all. The one red-spot on the map
is that of Peenya industrial sector - not sure what is going on there.
Delhi shud introspect and tackle the true cause of its poor AQI if it wants the problem solved.
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After Vikram Sarabhai’s death, it became imperative to find a suitable heir to his throne at ISRO. Prof. Menon filled in the gap for a short term, but Indira Gandhi and Menon both wanted IISc professor and then Director Satish Dhawan. Dhawan was more than an able man, but at…
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Bharat Biotech's founder Dr. Krishna Ella graduated with a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) in 1993. He returned to India soon after and in 1996 BB is born in Hyderabad. BB launches Rotavirus, the world’s 1st clinically proven and WHO pre-qualified ....
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How amazing it would be if one day, the Indian side just doesnt turn up for this shit 🧐🧐🧐
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One.. two ....three .... four...
..areey at least 10 comrade to le aate 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
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Our latest unpaid intern. Literally asked only for fish and chips in salary. While many labs are wooing this intern, it has stated a preference for ecology dept, whr faculty r known to buy fish under ‘consumables’ category.
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We named the device MANAS (मनस्; imagination). MANAS is an acronym for Microbial Analysis in Space. 🙂🙂
An IISc and
@isro
team has developed a modular device that would allow scientists to grow microorganisms and carry out biological experiments in outer space
#IIScresearch
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For a poor country, which needs many decades of investment to create a strong R&D active industry, India has way too many socialists.
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People don’t realise that once you get rabies (i.e. symptoms appear) chances of cure are 0% - not a small number. Its actually 0%. Rabid laws and its proponents have prevented a balanced discussion on this topic. Innocent children are paying the price w their lives 😢😢
कुत्ते के काटने से बच्चे की मौत.. पालतू से लेकर आवारा तक.. बन रहे यमदूत
रेबीज पीड़ित को अस्पताल में डॉक्टर्स ने लाइलाज घोषित किया.. इसके बाद एम्बुलेंस में तड़प-तड़पकर पिता की गोद में दम तोड़ दिया मासूम ने.....
UP : गाजियाबाद में कुत्ते के काटने से 14 साल के बच्चे की तड़प-तड़पकर
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So much PR going on about Kerala & Maha ! Anyone noticed what an amazing job Karnataka has done till now? (not saying bcoz I live here).
KA has large cities etc but still has managed so well. Have spoken to the IAS officers handling situation in KA - thy r working very hard.
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Maybe because it was not a sat launch ! 😆😆😆😆
Why does a sat launch need an address to the nation, that too in election time? Model code of conduct?
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Same face with which a Bihari buys land in Bengal, a Bengali buys land in Maha, a Marathi buys land in Tamilnadu, a Tamil buys land in Punjab .....
You’ve won Kashmir but lost Kashmiris. With what face will you go & buy their land? how will you justify your betrayal? will you ever be able to look them in the eye & justify the insult. The least they deserved was a say in the matter...it’s the least to ask in a democracy
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IISc & ISRO researchers develop 'space bricks' 4 future Moon habitats. Many yrs in the making, we have now been able to make bricks that have sufficient strength.
All accolades should be reserved for the students involved and our amazing collaborators.
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Some think tht India is simply a 'construct' of the British. They dont understand the essence of Bharat whch is camouflaged in antiquity. Look at the map of 51 shakti peethas & tell me if u dnt c Bharat.This essence flows into modern day India just as a river flows into an ocean
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The left ecosystem is a deadly poison well. How they targeted an IIT professor simply because his work is not helpful in left narrative. They probably had to take it back because he was an IIT professor and he recorded everything.
What if it is a common guy?
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Who said Indian technocrats cannot rise and shine when war beckons?
Another good news from ventilator side - an IISc team has assembled ventilators in break-neck speed !
Two of my close colleagues on the team ! Go guys ... wish you best of luck.
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The entire Indian space program came out of IISc. Looks like you totally missed out the entire Rocket Boys series. If you count successful deep tech startups from IIT alums the list will be just too long for this platform. But they are also positive additions to Indian society…
@aalokelab
Curious, anything significant that came out of the result of "R&D" from the IIT and IISc ?
Is there a list pioneering innovations that revolutionized a industry from these institute in the last few decades ?
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A beautiful reminder once again of what Marxism stands for. So many poor and hard-working students had to go hungry.
#WorkersStrike
Thousands of mid-day meal workers came out today in Bihar to extend support to the All India Strike and participated in it. Here is a small glimpse.
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Indian robotics startups seem to be maturing. Addverb is one such startup. Founded by IIT KGP alum Sangeet Kr and other Asian Paints alumni, it has made strong inroads into the global market. Making robots for warehouse management is 1 of its focus areas
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Unbridled ‘love’ and activism for dogs has let the situation devolve to the extent that they have become a danger to our kids - such a situation should be unacceptable in a civilised society. But then again, activism has always been practised to an extreme in this land.
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So happy to see the IIT Kanpur logo at the back of technical product !
Ordered a bunch of N95 masks for lab usage from Swasa - an IIT Kanpur incubated startup. Had received very good reviews of this product and indeed it is so comfortable ! Tech startups will be a gamechanger.
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Don't understand all these New Zealand fan girls and boys ! Even Madagascar is doing better than them. A island nation with 5 times the population of NZ !
Looks like another case of "Best CM ever"
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Although ISRO runs on Vikram Sarabhai's vision, it was Satish who laid the tracks meticulously. The entire ISRO structure today is thanks to him. His leadership was legendary.
This photo is legendary. From L-R, Satish, Vikram and Indira Gandhi.
@isro
@iiscbangalore
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I presume most of you know abt S. Chandrasekhar, the Nobel prize winning nephew of the Nobel Laureate CV Raman.
But do u know the story of the other S. Chandrasekhar? Also, a nephew of CV Raman and almost just as illustrious, but with a diff - he returned to India ! (thread)
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Andromeda Galaxy as seen from Ladakh.
Total integration time ~ 10 mins. 135 mm F2 Rokinon lens.
Thanks
@dorje1974
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A quick visit to
@iiscbangalore
's Challakere campus yielded rich dividends. Saw the Milky Way with naked eyes after a long time. Took some images and stacked them together.😇😇 Big thanks to the astronomy club 👏👏👏
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You should give them 2 hrs Anand ! After all Nehru invented time ... did he not 🤣🤣🤣
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One of my IIT batchmates, who is now in USA, is working on Deep learning. He is now researching methods to defend deep neural networks from adversarial attacks. In a recent publication, his group has created a new method for this and named it SATYA ! Beautiful naming !
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Can you hit a fluid with a hammer and it hits you back? 🧐🧐🧐
#shearthickeningfluids
@iiscbangalore
@IiscMechanical
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I learnt so little abt the Cholas in school; but more I read about them more I am fascinated by their work. A recent paper explores the use of the golden ratio in the construction of ~1000 CE Brihadeeshwara temple. Geometric analysis by scholars of Vivekananda College, Madurai.
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Dr. Udita Ghosh has tranformed to Prof. Udita Ghosh this week. She started at IIT-BHU this week. A new journey begins for her, and from our lab, we extend her our heartfelt congratulations and best wishes. From India to France and back to Indian again, hers is a great story of...
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How did u get access to the applicant’s screen? 😂😂😂
This clearly hasnt yet been submitted !!
Gareebon se likes and RTs chahiye kya aapoko?
On our employment application, we received this response. Wondering what to do!
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So she was smoking weed 😂😂😂
Kamala Harris says she smoked weed in college while listening to Snopp Dogg and Tupac. The only problem? Neither rapper was out yet. 🤔
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I am disappointed PM
@PMOIndia
that you did not consider R&D as an essential service. 😔😔
Thanks for the lockdown, but no thanks for not considering us as essential services.
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After I am done learning about quantum mechanics from monkeys, I will surely turn to Bollywood for Indian history.
Urmila Matondkar:After end of the WW II in 1919, British knew that unrest was spreading in India&that may rise after war was over. So, they brought a law commonly known as Rowlatt Act.That 1919 law&Citizenship (Amendment)Act of 2019 will be recorded as black laws in history(30.1)
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Advocates of strays who give simple prescriptions do this do that are not willing to see the issue from the lens of others. Price is paid often by the poor who cannot afford gated communities and support.
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first that he wont be cutting short his sabbatical. Secondly that he was to remain IISc Director and become ISRO Chairman at the same time. He wont be getting two salaries, but was willing to do double the work ! Wow ! Its quite amazing that Ms Gandhi agreed to his conditions..
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Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine (TCV).
"...first company to file global patents for Chikungunya and Zika viruses and continues to cross major milestones in the development of these vaccines. "
For his work KE was awarded the distinguished alumni award by UWM in 2011.
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Sorry old man, your fantasy of rivers of blood in India, Africa etc is not coming true.
Want a lollypop instead?
It's clear why
#India
's
#COVID19
deaths are low. It's because their numbers are no good.
#Hospitals
can't identify cases due to low
#Testing
.
#Doctors
say people with
#Coronavirus
symptoms are dying but aren't being diagnosed. India is a factual wonderland
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that time he was away at Caltech for his sabbatical (also his alma mater). You would expect that some1 who has been chosen by the PM herself would be elated at the situation and would accept readily. Not Satish. He wasnt that eager ! In fact he put up a lot of conditions to …
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Anyone who has engaged in IP knows that simple funding does not automatically make the IP belong to funder ! If that were true that most IP in USA would also be managed by the Feds.
First i was surprised this was written by a prof... then i saw the affiliation..puzzle solved.
Whose intellectual property is Bharat Biotech’s publicly funded Covaxin?
Indian public deserves an answer
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Vikram Sarabhai was definitely the father of the Indian Space Program, but its architect was Prof Satish Dhawan. Interestingly when he was asked to take over ISRO he was also IISc director. All of ISRO work happened initially from IISc - which explains why ISRO HQ is situated...
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At 300 kms, satellite was a low earth orbit satellite. Their speeds can be close to 30,000 km/hr (~8.3 km/s) ! A bullet train goes at ~ 300 km/hr, which is a 100 times less than LEO sat speed. Delay of 1 milli-second implies miss by 10 m !!! Imagine that
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The recent use of scientific journals like Nature and Lancet for political propaganda is a very worrying sign for academia. If academics are unable to keep a barrier between the professional life and personal political choices, then academia’s decay is imminent.
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At astronaut designate Ajit Krishnan’s research presentation at IISc 🙂
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Its great tht most ISRO scientists rnt IIT Btechs. Its also great that IIT Btechs have charted their own successful path in terms of global leadership, startups etc. Its great to have an ecosystem whr thr r multiple paths to success. Thats what we should aspire for as a society
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Diwali was celebrated all ovr India, but air pollution have crossed danger limits only in the North, whr massive crop-related fires hav occured (& r still occuring).
Virtue signalling (or emotional jugaad) about Diwali etc is not helpful & does nothing to solve the actual issue.
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Researchers at IISc have designed an indigenous low-power AI co-processor designed for edge computing applications called Re-configurable And sparse tinyML Accelerator for infereNce or RAMAN. Led by Prof. Chetan Singh Thakur this is fruit of many years of work.
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Independent India’s first IIT, IIT Kharagpur, was built around the Hijli Jail, which housed many freedom fighters ! The symbolism of this - foundation of independent India’s own technical institute at the location where freedom fighters were jailed is something !
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Cosmic fireworks were shining down on us, so I couldnt resist.
Orion nebula (M42) from Bangalore, taken Oct 24 2022
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🧵 Our understanding of the Harappan culture has been increasing with a number of careful archaeological excavations at various sites in India. In particular, Binjor, a site in Rajasthan shows records of intense pyrometallurgical wrk & was likely an industrial center.
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References -
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Suresh, N., 2009. Today's biotech industry in India. Biotechnology journal, 4(3), p.291.
For all its good work, BB has faced a deluge of attack in Indian MSM.
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Calcutta's poverty porn is a genre of its own.
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A regular siphon needs to be initiated, but have you seen an automatic siphon?
@iiscbangalore
@IiscMechanical
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In grad school, I took fluid mechanics class & aced it. Also, aced qualifying exams,which at that time had a good fail rate.
Now that I am teaching flu mech, I wonder how I aced it without understanding so many concepts clearly. Its crazy the perspective teaching can give !
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We vaccinated our entire campus. Since the vaccination, cases have plummeted (to zero) ! Its quite heartening to see the indisputable real evidence that vaccines work.
Karnataka has also done very well once it started aggressively vaccinating.
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Read an almost 100 year old manuscript on Indian Mathematics. Written by a Brit(?). Find it interesting the amount of reading they had done on Indian mathematics - many learnt Sanskrit for this from scratch.
Manuscript clerarly mentions that 'sine' came from India. Numeral...
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So many take aways from Kabul ! But perhaps one salient point - what our forefathers braved for a millenia to keep our ideas alive ! 🙏🙏
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Along with being accomplished Indian Air Force pilots and ISRO astronauts, they are also IISc students. Teaching and interacting w them has been such a pleasure. Good luck to both.
Our heartiest congratulations to Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla & Group Captain Prasanth Balakrishnan Nair on being selected for the upcoming Indo-US Axiom-4 mission to the ISS!
It is our great privilege to host them as MTech students at IISc.
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If you are looking for an online resource for Valmiki Ramayana then look no further than the IIT Kanpur site. The entire Valmiki Ramayana is available both Sarga and Shloka-wise.
Access it here 👉
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Windy’s color scheme is far from desirable. Even at 20 deg C, which is a rather pleasant temp in Indian plains the color has an alarming red-yellow hue.
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Only CSIR stamped ‘green’ fireworks were available in Karnataka. Those whining about pollution from crackers need an understanding of scale.
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Aur ek baar phir champion .... Today's Chanakya 🙏
All India Lok Sabha Tally 2019
BJP 300 ± 14 Seats
NDA 350 ± 14 Seats
Cong 55 ± 9 Seats
UPA 95 ± 9 Seats
Others 97 ± 11 Seats
#News24TodaysChanakya
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The successful peer-review of Covaxin & recognition by WHO, will go down as a salient turning point in the history of India's biotechnology sector. Fighting against lobbies of global behemoths cudnt have been easy at all.
Peer-reviewed report published in Lancet on 11 Nov, 2021
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Our work on 'space bricks' for Mars is featured.
"IISc, Isro experts develop ‘space bricks’ for Mars" by
@Chethan_Dash
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IISc campus has some fascinating termite mounds. Now, a study on one such mound has revealed tht they have a fascinating bi-layered structure "with a dense, strong core and a porous shell tht is constantly remodelled."
Even IISc termite mounds have scientific publications 😜😜
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Have you wondered how the Serum Institute of India has been able to build such a fabulous manufacturing setup? This has been the effect of visionaries at SII who have been working on a world class manufacturing hub for decades.
Interestingly, as early as early 2000s they ...1/n
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"It was on the advice of Vandana Shiva, an Indian Environmentalist,that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa took the decision to ban chemical fertilisers in 2021...an achievement she proudly displayed on her blog."
A familiar cautionary tale - Go woke go broke
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If you get a chance do watch Rocketry. It makes up for the sins of Mission Mangal, Parmaanu and other Bollywood C-class movies 🙏
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Largest single private donation received by IISc after its founding. And that too for state-of-art biomedical R&D and healthcare services 👏👏👏
We are extremely delighted to announce that Susmita & Subroto Bagchi and Radha & NS Parthasarathy will donate Rs 425 crore to establish a multi-speciality hospital on campus!
@Susmita4Odisha
@skilledinodisha
@nspartha
#transforminghealthcare
#philanthropy
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In India, it is almost traditional, to avoid difficult conversations. Thats why people dont talk about पराली, but would rather focus their energy on a ghost problem (read crackers) - which will do nothing other than make them feel good.
पंजाब: अमृतसर में किसानों ने अपने खेतों में पराली जलाई।
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I promise that I am using your money wisely ..... really ... god promise .. 😂😂😂🤪
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About a year and four months ago, we showed that certain bacterial species can bind martian soil together in the form of a brick. This we called space bricks and it had decent compressive strength ~3-5 MPa. Enough to rival ice cubes ! Since then our work has only improved ...
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Also, this is Bombay’s historical AQI - all available free to public and yet no newspaper report seems to put things in context.
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India has now vaccinated (at least one dose) 30 New Zealands. ~ 10% of the population is now vaccinated at least once. Appears that doses are flowing in better.
As manufacture ramps up, hope rate will also ramp. Vaccinating one New Zealand a day may not be a bad target 4 India.
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Presented space bricks at a recent conference and got probably the best compliment I could ask for. A young student said that it never occurred to her tht someone can even think like this. Made my day 🙂🙂
@thebetterindia
also featured our space bricks 👇
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So many women n such inclusivity 😮😮😮
Liberal democracy slowly taking root as exiled hitler leaves for India
The new rulers of Dhaka coming out. Jamaat holds a presser on situation in the country:
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Extremely glad to note the release of our COVID19 Medical Inventory Projections dashboard. The dashboard provides projections down to the district-level about important medical requirements such as PPEs, ventilators, oxygen, masks.
Data can be used by public and admins alike.
The
@PrinSciAdvOff
notes the release of COVID-19 Med Inventory - a district-level short-term forecast of medical inventory for
#covid19
. This includes inventory for intensive, acute supportive care requirements.
Link:
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Contrary to insunations of a certain political group, Haryana has done much better on parali fires than its neighbour. This data is available of free-of-cost and is publicly accessible.
BTW, 500 kms is not even a day's work for wind.
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Raghuram Rajan is an excellent example of what can happen to an academic when he/she becomes a pure political hack. Contrary to the 'wisdom' he is dishing out, as India grows it needs more and more of its manufacturing sectors to grow. What is there is certainly not enuf....
"India should not follow
#China
's path when it comes to
#manufacturing
" says former
@RBI
Governor
#RaghuramRajan
. Listen in as he explains why
@anandmk
#IEC2022
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"to strive towards excellence in all spheres of individual and collective activity so that the 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 constantly rises to higher levels of endeavour and achievement"
-Constitution of India under Fundamental Duties
Rahul Gandhi is either completely dumb or comfortably numb when he peddles this Leftist semantic drivel that India is not a nation.
India has been described as a nation multiple times in our Constitution, most prominently in our Preamble itself & under our Fundamental duties.
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In this article, I discuss how heritage remains an inspiration and how it can help innovate for tomorrow. Lot of missed opportunities, but we can regain. Example - When u visit temples (ancient) take some time to marvel at the civil engg:
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Satellite data on fires in India at the moment (last 24 hours data). As we can clearly see a "remote" part of India seems to be entirely lit !
BTW, the real culprit is Diwali, which has not happened yet.
Data from NASA-FIRMS
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that he/she was sure of himself/herself when raising a red flag. & Remembered IISc very fondly.
I know people in India sometimes think very highly of outside institutions, but Indian institutions also excel in many ways. We need to invest & help this pursuit of excellence n/n
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Max Born was a visiting professor at IISc for about six months I believe.
Physicist Max Born and his wife Hedi Born in Indian attire, Bangalore, ca. 1937.
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Prof. Roddam Narasimha, was a giant in both his impact on S&T as well as on understanding Indic thought. One of his last projects was the translation of Yoga Vasistha. A work that had to be published posthomusly. If you want to read a balanced scientific unravelling of ancient..
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I hope that infrastructure built during covid time will become a permanent addition to the Nation's healthcare portfolio. That itself will be a huge impetus to healthcare in many places.
All cases of Varanasi Done, except one Plasma Case (AB+). Please help each other & Stay safe everyone 🙏
Image : 750 bed temporary Covid Hospital has been set up by DRDO at BHU, Varanasi. Armed Forces doctors came from all across the country 🇮🇳🙏 Har Har Mahadev.
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Chankaya was an impressive & well researched serial. Now have new found appreciation; the headgear actually was designed to mimic turbans shown in ancient sculptures ! Left a still from the serial. Right a dwarapala at Pitalgarhi caves (dating 2nd century BC I believe?).
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