- Veteran music director Raamlaxman, best known for his work on Rajshri Productions’ blockbuster movies — Maine Pyar Kiya, Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! and Hum Saath Saath Hain — died due to a cardiac arrest. He was 78.
Narasimhan, math
scientist, is no more
Mudumbai Seshachulu Narasimhan, a towering figure
in Indian science, passed
away on May 15 in Bengaluru he would have turned 89
on June 7.
He was a world renowned mathematician of
extraordinary breadth and
depth, who made fundamental contributions to diverse fields in mathematics
such as algebraic geometry,
differential geometry, representation theory and partial
differential equations.
China’s ‘father of hybrid rice’ is dead
Mr. Yuan, who is celebrated in China as the “father of hybrid rice” for his contributions to agriculture and beloved for his simple demeanour that endured despite the many honours that came his way, was still conducting research at the Sanya Hybrid Rice Research Base until he suffered a fall in March this year.
In 2004, he was honoured with the World Food Prize “for his breakthrough achievement in developing the genetic materials and technologies essential for breeding highyielding hybrid rice varieties”.
His “new hybrid rice technology not only benefited China, but was also enthusiastically adopted in other countries,” read the citation from the World Food Prize Foundation, noting that “he and his research associates travelled to India, Vietnam, Myanmar, Bangladesh, SriLanka and the United States to provide advice and consultation to rice research personnel” and trained over 3,000 scientists from more than 50 countries
- First time investors seen aiding stock market surge In FY21. more than 14 million new demat accounts were opened, almost thrice the previous year’s 4.9 million accounts
- Hockey India on Friday won the prestigious Etienne Glichitch Award in recognition of its contribution to the growth and development of the sport in the country
WADA to use
DBS technique
The World Anti Doping
Agency (WADA), on Friday,
approved an innovative
method of screening dried
blood for banned substances which will be trialled for
the Tokyo Olympics.
The decision marks a
“very important step” in
the fight against doping, its
scientific director Olivier
Rabin said, as the Dried
Blood Spot (DBS) testing
technique will ultimately
strengthen WADA’s capacity to track down cheaters.
To start with, it will be
less intrusive for the athletes.
Some samples are taken from the fingertip,
from the earlobe, from the
shoulder, from the thigh...
the other advantage of DBS
is that from the moment
you put it on a piece of
paper, the liquid will dry
and it stabilises the matrix... you have to put that
in parallel with the increasingly elaborate doping strategies of certain athletes,
who know very well how to
use substances which stay
a relatively short time in
the body.
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