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Renowned radiologist and former Director of Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences in Hyderabad Dr. Kakarla Subba Rao passed away while undergoing treatment at Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS), Secunderabad in the wee hours of Friday. He was 96. Dr. Rao was admitted to KIMS a month ago with age-related health complications. The doctors at the hospital said he breathed his last in the early hours of Friday. Known for his efforts to transform NIMS into a super-speciality hospital, Dr. Rao was its first director between 1985 and 1990 and later between 1997 and 2004, before retiring. Dr. Rao was born on 25 January, 1925 in a middle-class agricultural family at Pedamuttevi, a small village in Krishna district. After completing his MBBS from Andhra Medical College in 1950, he did his Residency from the U.S. He was a Professor of Radiology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, before returning to India in 1985-86. Responding to a call of the late Chief Minister … [Read more...] about Noted radiologist Kakarla Subba Rao passes away

A small miracle happened at 3:31am ET on Monday morning. Ingenuity, a tiny NASA helicopter, became the first powered aircraft to fly on another planet, Mars . This engineering feat was done with Linux, open-source software, and a NASA-built program based on the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's (JPL) open-source F´ (pronounced F prime) framework. At 11-light minutes from Earth, there was nothing easy about this. True, Mars has only a third of Earth's gravity, but Mars' atmosphere has only one-hundredth of the density of Earth's air. Space Quantum sensors could soon be heading into space SpaceX launches off more Starlink satellites as part of its first ride-sharing space service European Space Agency launches recruitment drive for women, people with disabilities Moon dust is a threat to space ambition (ZDNet YouTube) Photos: Perseverance's Martian views in full-color, panorama, and more (TechRepublic) Indeed, Ingenuity is purely a technology … [Read more...] about Flying on Mars fueled with open-source software

Kindly Share This Story: By Ndahi Marama, Maiduguri Member House of Representatives, Jere federal constituency in Borno state, Hon. Ahmed Satomi has doled out N47 million to better the lives of his people, particularly the fewer privileges in the Holy Month of Ramadan Kareem. Of the N47 million, a total of N25 million was shared among 250 vulnerable individuals which cut across gender. Each went home with N100,000 cash, while the remaining N22 million was used in purchasing thousands of bags of rice, sugar and other condiments which were distributed to people of his constituent during the fasting period. Flagging off the distribution programme at the Progressives House in Maiduguri yesterday, Hon Satomi said, the exercise which would be in phases is a continuous process, as the second phase which is commencing next week is targeting medium and small scale traders to boost their businesses. Also read: Breaking: Hours after Defence Minister, Service … [Read more...] about Ramadan: Borno Rep member, Satomi doles out N47m to empower traders, donates bags of rice, sugar to constituent

Foreign investment into Vietnam up sharply One of the bright spots in the economy during the first quarter of this year was the positive results in FDI attraction and disbursement. Figures show that, in the first 3 months of the year, total foreign investment reached over 10 billion USD, up 18.5% over the same period of last year. After 5 years of operations, with steadily increasing output, the company built more factories earlier this year to meet the needs of production expansion. The average size of both newly-licensed projects and those adding capital increased strongly year-on-year, which was the main reason behind the strong increase in FDI. Another positive in the first quarter was that disbursed capital rose 6.5% year-on-year. It is forecast that FDI attraction will continue to be positive in the context of many investors shifting the location of their investment and major investors in the country expanding existing projects./. Property giants rush to develop … [Read more...] about VIETNAM BUSINESS NEWS APRIL 20

Video Player Close XI'AN, April 20 (Xinhua) -- Archaeologists have discovered a large number of millet grains from a Western Han Dynasty (202 BC-AD 25) tomb in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, providing new evidence of large-scale farming in China more than 2,000 years ago. The millet remains were found on Sunday in a pottery container excavated from the ancient tomb in the province's Gaozhuang Township, Xixian New Area, according to the excavation team from the Shaanxi Academy of Archaeology. Tian Duo, an archaeobotanical expert from Northwest University, said the discovery of the millet grains, one of the staple foods of the population in north China during the Western Han Dynasty, demonstrates that agricultural production in the area had already reached a considerable scale in the dynasty's early periods. According to the excavation team, the tomb is 4 meters long, 3 meters wide and 8 meters deep and it was found relatively well-preserved. Though the coffin of the … [Read more...] about Millet remains found in Western Han Dynasty tomb