July 19, 2021 -

India’s Payal Kapadia wins best documentary award in Cannes 2021

July 19, 2021

Director Payal Kapadia’s, “A Night of Knowing Nothing” won the Oeil d’or (Golden Eye) award for best documentary at the 74th Cannes Film Festival. The Mumbai-based filmmaker’s first feature bagged the prestigious prize in a formidable field made up of 28 documentaries presented across various sections of the festival. A Night of Knowing Nothing screened …

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2-Indian organisations win UNDP Equator Prize 2021

July 19, 2021

Aadhimalai Pazhangudiyinar Producer Company Limited and Snehakunja Trust are among the 10 awardees of the prestigious Equator Prize 2021 for their work in the field of conservation and biodiversity. The UNDP gives a biennial award to recognize community efforts to reduce poverty through the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. Buy Prime Test Series for …

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Haryana to introduce ‘One Block, One Product’ scheme

July 19, 2021

The Haryana government will soon introduce the ‘One Block, One Product’ scheme, to encourage and promote small industries in the rural areas. Under the scheme, the state government plans to connect every block of the state with some industrial vision and the government is working expeditiously on this scheme. Buy Prime Test Series for all …

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IOA names B K Sinha as Press Attache of India’s Olympic contingent

July 19, 2021

Indian Olympic Association has appointed retired IPS officer B K Sinha will perform the dual role of Security as well as Press Attache of the country’s contingent at the Tokyo Games, which begins on July 23. Sinha is a former Haryana DGP and also a recipient of the President’s Police Medal. Buy Prime Test Series …

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Microsoft acquires cybersecurity firm RiskIQ for $500M

July 19, 2021

Microsoft has reached a deal to acquire RiskIQ, a San Francisco-based provider of cybersecurity services, including malware and spyware monitoring and mobile app security. RiskIQ’s services and solutions will join Microsoft’s suite of cloud-native security products, including Microsoft 365 Defender, Microsoft Azure Defender, and Microsoft Azure Sentinel. While Microsoft hasn’t valued the deal, Bloomberg reported …

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IIT-Madras develops AI algorithm called ‘NBDriver’

July 19, 2021

Indian Institute of Technology Madras Researchers has developed an Artificial Intelligence-based Mathematical Model called ‘NBDriver’ to identify cancer-causing alterations in cells. The algorithm uses a relatively unexplored technique of leveraging DNA composition to pinpoint genetic alterations responsible for cancer progression, which is difficult using present methodologies. Understanding the underlying mechanism of these alterations will …

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35% of India’s tiger ranges are outside protected areas

July 19, 2021

Thirty-five per cent of India’s tiger ranges are outside protected areas and human-animal conflict affects over 75 per cent of the world’s wild cat species, according to a WWF-UNEP report. The report “A Future for All – A necessity for Human-Wildlife Coexistence”, examined rising human-wildlife battle, and has discovered that marine and terrestrial protected areas …

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India’s first monk fruit cultivation exercise begins in HP’s Kullu

July 19, 2021

The ‘monk fruit’ from China, which is known for its properties as a non-caloric natural sweetener, was introduced for field trials in Himachal Pradesh by the Palampur-based Council of Scientific Research and Industrial Technology Institute of Himalayan Bio-resource Technology (CSIR-IHBT) in Kullu. The field trials have begun three years after the CSIR-IHBT imported its seeds …

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Google Cloud launches second ‘Cloud Region’ in India

July 19, 2021

Google Cloud has announced the launch of its new Cloud Region in Delhi NCR, for customers and the public sector in India and across the Asia Pacific. With the new region, the customers operating in the country will benefit from lower latency and higher performance of their cloud-based workloads and data. This new Google …

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Bangladesh Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus to get Olympic Laurel

July 19, 2021

Bangladeshi Nobel Peace Prize winner, Muhammad Yunus will receive the Olympic Laurel at the Tokyo Games, the second time the trophy will be awarded. Yunus, whose pioneering micro-lender has been hailed for cutting poverty across the globe, will be honoured for “his extensive work in sport for development. The 81-year-old economist-turned-globe-trotting celebrity speaker won the …

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Daily Archives: July 19, 2021

India’s Payal Kapadia wins best documentary award in Cannes 2021

2-Indian organisations win UNDP Equator Prize 2021

Haryana to introduce ‘One Block, One Product’ scheme

IOA names B K Sinha as Press Attache of India’s Olympic contingent

Microsoft acquires cybersecurity firm RiskIQ for $500M

IIT-Madras develops AI algorithm called ‘NBDriver’

35% of India’s tiger ranges are outside protected areas

India’s first monk fruit cultivation exercise begins in HP’s Kullu

Google Cloud launches second ‘Cloud Region’ in India

Bangladesh Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus to get Olympic Laurel

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