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Odia Classical Singer Sunanda Patnaik passed away

Eminent Indian classical singer Sunanda Patnaik, who had carved a special identity in Odia music world, passed away following a prolonged illness. She was 85.

Popularly known as ‘Guguma’, Patnaik was undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Kolkata where she breathed her last Sunday morning.

Daughter of legendary Odia poet Baikunthanath Patnaik, the veteran singer was born November 7, 1934, and started her career in singing at the All India Radio, Cuttack in 1948 at the age of 14.

‘Rome Ranking Series’ India bags 7 medals in wrestling.

In wrestling, India has bagged seven medals in the Rome Ranking Series. The 25-year-old Bajrang Punia staged a comeback to secure a 4-3 win and clinched gold medal against USA’s Jordan Michael Oliver in the summit showdown of the 65kg freestyle category. The 23-year-old Ravi Kumar bagged the gold medal after defeating Kazakhstan’s Nurbolat Abdualiyev 12-2 in his final 61 kg category.

Earlier, Vinesh Phogat won a gold and Anshu Malik a silver in the women’s competition. In Greco-roman, Gurpreet Singh won a gold in 82 kg category. Sunil Kumar settled for a silver in 97kg category while Sajan Bhanwal got a bronze in the 77 kg category.

CSIR-CCMB workshop on genome for offering customized healthcare

Indian and US researchers, to know the genetic foundation of sicknesses amongst quite a lot of ethnic populations from other portions of the arena, participated in a workshop organised through CSIR-Centre for Mobile and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad.

The workshop focussed on working out genome data in a greater means. The 3-day workshop, began on January 16. Stepped forward data on genome can lend a hand fine-tune genome-assisted healthcare, and may even result in exact, personalised, simpler and economical approaches to healthcare.

The workshop was once attended by around 200 researchers, lots of whom are promising PhD students from analysis institutes, universities, hospitals and lifestyles science corporations in India and the USA.

This workshop organized through the Indo-US Science and Generation Discussion board, supported through the Division of Science and Generation, India, and Division of State, USA, with an intention to create fruitful collaborations between the 2 nations.

‘Apna Urea – Sona Ugle’ launched by Union Minister of Fertilizers

Union Chemicals and Fertilizers Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda unveiled the logo and brand ‘Apna Urea Sona Ugle‘ of Hindustan Urvarak and Rasayan Ltd (HURL) at a function in New Delhi. HURL is Joint Venture Company promoted by the three Maha Ratna Companies – Coal India Limited, NTPC Limited and Indian Oil Corporation Limited.

With the objective of making the country self-reliant in Urea, Government had approved the revival of three sick Urea plants located at Gorakhpur, Sindri and Barauni, which have been undertaken by HURL. The  other two plants at Ramagundam and Talcher will also commence production soon. The  country is importing 70 to 80 Lakh metric tonne of fertilizer every year.

Khagendra Thapa Magar, ‘World’s shortest man’ passes away

27-year-old Khagendra Thapa Magar, the world’s shortest man who could walk, passed away in Nepal. He was born on 14 October 1992. He stood at 67.08 cm (2 ft 2.41 in) tall and was declared the shortest man alive by Guinness World Records (GWR) in 2010 after turning 18. He made his first appearance in the GWR 2011 book, alongside Jyoti Amge, the shortest teenager (female) living.