Indian govt dismisses ‘incorrect’ media report cautioning Covid-19’s 2nd wave Star Digital Report Star Digital Report
A forum of scientists of the Indian government today termed incorrect a media report that suggested that they had cautioned in early March about the more contagious second wave of Covid-19 but no attention was paid to it. The three scientists also acknowledged that they could not earlier predict the exact trajectory of the second wave because of the rapidly-changing nature of the virus, reports our New Delhi correspondent. The scientists are Manindra Agrawal, professor of Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur; Madhuri Kanitkar, deputy chief of Integrated Defense Staff and M Vidyasagar, professor of Indian Institute of Technology in Hyderabad.
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Virtual HR Conclave
The Institute of Management Studies (IMS) Noida organised a virtual conclave on the theme “Changing Dynamics and Sustainability in Disruptive Times”. The speakers were Dr. Kulneet Suri, Senior Director, IMS Noida; G. Sridhar GM-CSR NTPC; Aditya Pal Singh, Director, Talent Acquisition; Mahesh Munjal, CMD, Majestic Auto Limited; Abhay Kapoor, Senior HR Leader, Amazon, and Rajneesh Singh, Managing Partner, Simply HR Solution.
IIT-Roorkee holds virtual tech fest
The Indian Institute of Technology-Roorkee hosted its annual tech festival Cognizance virtually this year in March. More than 5000 students from over 500 colleges across India participated. The festival was inaugurated by Prof. A.K. Chaturvedi, Director, IIT-Roorkee).
Shahriar SheikhBahaei, Ph.D.
Dr. SheikhBahaei’s interest in neuroscience stemmed from the usual combination of an aptitude for science and a medical problem (stuttering) that brought him into bioscience at a young age. Dr. SheikhBahaei received his bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley, where he worked with Dr. Bob Zucker on the regulation of neurotransmitter release and Dr. John Rubenstein (UC San Francisco) on development of GABAergic neurons in basal ganglia. Dr. SheikhBahaei completed his doctoral studies in Neuroscience (2017) jointly under NIMH/NINDS – University College London (UCL) Graduate Partnership Program where he worked with Drs. Jeffrey Smith (NINDS) and Alexander Gourine (UCL). His graduate studies were on how astrocytic networks control activities of respiratory motor circuits within the brainstem. After short postdoctoral research at NINDS, Dr. SheikhBahaei became an Independent Research Scholar in 2019. In collaboration with the lab
Activist Sudha Bharadwaj’s health is deteriorating in prison
The health issues accrued after she took her first dose of vaccine three weeks ago.
By Sruthi Vibhavari| Updated: 1st May 2021 7:24 pm IST Activist and lawyer Sudha Bharadwaj (File Photo)
Mumbai: The health of lawyer and activist Sudha Bharadwaj has been deteriorating in Byculla prison where she is lodged, her family and friends said on Friday.
Bharadwaj had requested a medical evaluation two weeks ago, her family members who spoke to her on phone, told Indian Express. Apart from her regular diabetes, she has been suffering from diarrhoea and loss of appetite, among other health complications.
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