ARJAVA MEDIA: Thirty school students of class IX each from 33 CSIR labs across the country isolated DNA from their own saliva using the DNA isolation kits under the guidance of Dr Beena Pillai, Chief Scientist and Dr Arya Sidharthan, Science Communicator from CSIR-IGIB. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), one of the largest science and technology organisations in India, carried out scientific activity in its laboratories across the country. Its Delhi-based constituent laboratory, the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB) coordinated the activity by connecting online simultaneously to all the other laboratories of CSIR.Thirty school students of class IX at each of the participating CSIR laboratories isolated DNA from their own saliva using the...
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ARJAVA MEDIA: Hailing from a middle-class Tamil family, the 41 years old Sriram Krishan was born in Chennai. He earned a BTech degree in information technology from SRM Engineering College, Anna University. The Indian-American Sriram Krishnan will serve as a Senior Policy Advisor for Artificial intelligence at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, President-elect Donald Trump announced. Before his appointment, he worked at Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, Snapchat, and Twitter in leadership roles. Sriram Krishnan is a founding member of Windows Azure. Donald Trump will take charge of the 47th President of the USA on 20 January 2024, his second term.Hailing from a middle-class Tamil family, the 41 years old Sriram Krishan was born in Chennai. He earned a BTech degr...
Read MoreARJAVA MEDIA: “Banks have recovered Rs 14,131.60 crores from me against the judgment debt of Rs 6203 crores and I am still an economic offender. Unless the ED and Banks can legally justify how they have taken more than two times the debt, I am entitled to the relief which I will pursue,” Vijay Mallya tweeted. The Finance Minister announced in the parliament that the banks recovered 14,131.60 crores from Vijay Mallya. Two days later, Mallya tweeted on X: “The Debt Recovery Tribunal adjudged the KFA debt at Rs 6203 crores including Rs 1200 crores of interest. The FM announced in Parliament that through the ED, banks have recovered Rs 14,131.60 crores from me against the judgment debt of Rs 6203 crores and I am still an economic offender. Unless the ED and Banks can legally justif...
Read MoreARJAVA MEDIA: The decision will enhance credit accessibility for small and marginal farmers, who constitute over 86% of the sector. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) instructed commercial banks to support the agricultural sector and address the farmers’ rising input costs by raising the limit of collateral-free agricultural loans, including loans for allied activities to ₹2 lakh from the existing limit of ₹1.6 lakh per borrower. This decision acknowledges the impact of inflation and the increasing cost of agricultural inputs on farmers. It aims to provide enhanced financial access to farmers, ensuring they have sufficient resources to meet their operational and developmental needs without the burden of providing collateral.The instructions, which include waiver of collateral secu...
Read MoreARJAVA MEDIA: Banks recovered Rs 14,000 crore from Vijay Mallya while the Enforcement Directorate successfully restituted his assets to those who claimed them. Mallya took a loan of Rs 9000 crore from 19 Indian banks during 2009-2013 and ran away from India in March 2016 after realising his inescapability from fraudulent activities. Where is Vijay Mallya, a former liquor baron and now a fugitive? The government has been trying to secure Mallya’s extradition from the United Kingdom in all possible ways. When the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi met British Prime Minister Keir Starmer last month at the G20 meeting, the concern of extradition of financial offenders came up. Vijay Mallya ran away from India on March 2, 2016, to escape investigations of the Enforcement Direct...
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