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GLOBAL RECORDS : SCOTLAND: TRAVEL, TOURISM & HOSPITALITY : Glasgow Indian Restaurant ‘Swadish’ Named the Best in Scotland, as wedding venue scoops top award

 

An Indian restaurant and a wedding venue in Glasgow have been named the best in Scotland.

At the Scottish Entertainment Awards, Swadish, on Ingram Street, won the Best Indian Restaurant Award, beating off competition from across Scotland.

There was also success for another three Glasgow venues, as The Auditorium at Òran Mór was given the award for Best Wedding Venue, The Record Factory in Partick, famous for its live music, won the Best Late Night Venue award, and Connolly’s Irish Bar won the Best Irish Bar award.

Swadish has scooped other awards in the past for its fine dining experience, which brings together seasonal Scottish ingredients and traditional and modern Indian culinary techniques.

glasgowworld.com (edited)

WORLD RECORDS: INDIA 2nd : Delhi Airport Replaces Dubai as the World’s Second Busiest Airport in March: Report

The Delhi Airport was in 23rd place in March 2019 before the pandemic.

Delhi Airport was the world’s second busiest airport in March 2022 in terms of domestic and international flights handled, said Official Airline Guide (OAG), a global travel data provider, in its recent report.

Whilst Atlanta retains its position as largest, Dubai is knocked out of second place this month (March) by Delhi which moves up from third place last month (February),” the OAG’s report mentioned.

The Delhi Airport was in 23rd place in March 2019 before the pandemic, it added. In March this year, airports in Atlanta in the US, Delhi in India and Dubai in the UAE handled 4.42 million, 3.61 million and 3.55 million seats, it mentioned.

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WORLD RECORDS : INDIA PATENTS : HumCen Global Backed World Record For 100 Patent Filings in 24 Hours!

HumCen Global (P) Ltd has successfully organised a huge event on World IP Day, April 26, 2022, with the primary goal of filing 100 Indian Design patents in 24 hours. The World Book of Records (LONDON) recognized and commended this bold initiative.

The team from HumCen Global Pvt Ltd and Trichy’s K Ramakrishnan College of Technology worked tirelessly to attain this goal. As a result, the “100 Design Patent Filed within 24 hours”, this claim was a first-of-its-kind effort around the globe.

The crew works bright filing the first patent at 2:42 AM,. It was not easy, but sheer determination got the team through, and the record-breaking patent was achieved at 11:32 p.m.

As a strategic patent consulting partner of K Ramakrishnan College of Technology (Autonomous) in Trichy, Tamil Nadu, India, it was an excellent overall experience for HumCen Global Pvt Ltd in Chennai, TamilNadu, India to work for the theme IP and Youth: Innovating for a Better Future with 300+ Student Innovators cum Faculties.

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GLOBAL RECORDS: INDIA RECORDS: India-born Scientist & Conservation Biologist Kamal Bawa Elected to US National Academy of Sciences

Conservation biologist Kamal Bawa has been elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Kamal Bawa is president of the Bengaluru-based Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment (ATREE) as well as an elected fellow of the Royal Society (London) and the American Philosophical Society.

“The election is a reaffirmation of our important work on the ecology, conservation, and management of tropical forests that are declining all over the world but are critical to humanity’s well-being,” said Dr. Bawa.

A few years ago, Dr. Bawa brought together scientists from India’s leading institutions to develop the National Mission on Biodiversity and Human Wellbeing under the banner of the Biodiversity Collaborative.

The effort was supported by the office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, and is currently funded by the Rohini Nilekani Philanthropies.

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INDIA RECORDS: GLOBAL PARTICIPATION :‘Vakeel Babu’ Selected for New York Indian Film Festival 2022

The film Vakeel Babu, produced by Civic Studios and co-produced by TrainTripper Films, has landed a place at the 22nd edition of the New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF) 2022, taking place virtually from May 7th to 13th 2022.

The film will be participating in the Shorts (Narrative) category and has also been nominated in the Best Short (Narrative) category.

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The Indian Leg of the Great Backyard Bird Count, the 10th edition of Bird-O-Thon Records an Impressive 1,017 Species

A pair of bright yellow eyes stared right back at Angeline Mano, a 23-year-old birder, as she zoomed in with her binoculars. Angeline was at Stanley Reservoir in Salem, one of the largest fishing reservoirs in South India, documenting birds for the recently-concluded, annual Global Backyard Bird Count (GBCC). The bulky bird with a finely streaked breast, was a brown fish owl, perched on a branch just 10 metres away.

The India leg of the four-day event, coordinated by Bird Count India, allowed participants to count birds for as little as 15 minutes from a particular location. They upload their sightings online, on eBird (www.ebird.org/india), the world’s largest biodiversity-related citizen science platform.

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INDIA RECORDS : SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY : MEDICENE : First Surgery of Budd-Chiari Syndrome, a serious condition of Liver Disorder done by IMS-BHU Doctors

For the first time a team of doctors from the Institute of Medical Science, Banaras Hindu University (IMS-BHU) performed a surgical procedure to cure a patient suffering from Budd-Chiari Syndrome, a serious condition of the liver.

The doctors from the interventional radiology unit of the department of radio diagnosis and imaging performed the surgery.

The syndrome is a medical condition in which the hepatic veins (veins that drain the liver) are blocked or narrowed by a clot (mass of blood cells). This blockage causes blood to back up into the liver, and as a result, the liver grows larger.

Prof. Ashish Verma, head of the department of radiodiagnosis and imaging, who led the team, said, “It is for the first time that the trans-jugular intrahepatic Porto systemic shunt procedure has been done on a patient. The procedure has been performed on a young woman suffering from a condition called the Budd-Chiari Syndrome.”

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INDIA RECORDS: SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY : GREEN : Thiruvananthapuram Scientist Dr C A Jayaprakash, Principal Scientist, CTCRI and his Team Generates Electricity from Tapioca Leaves

Tapioca is in vogue in Kerala. First, the government created a buzz with its idea to make spirits from tapioca. Now, a scientist based in Thiruvananthapuram has developed a technique to produce electricity from its leaves.  The concept of clean energy from cassava leaves — ‘Cassa Dipah’ — was a by-product of the biopesticide manufacturing process, said Dr C A Jayaprakas, principal scientist at the ICAR- Central Tuber Crops Research Institute (CTCRI) here.

The CTCRI has been engaged in biopesticide production from tapioca leaves for several years. With patented technology, the centre has developed three brands of biopesticides — ‘Nanma’, ‘Menma’ and ‘Shreya’.

source/content: newindianexpress.com (edited)

GLOBAL RECORDS : ARTS & CULTURE : Regional Cinema: Unesco Glory for ‘Dostojee’, North American Awards for ‘Once Upon a Time in Calcutta’

Dostojee, set in rural Bengal, has won the children’s award CIFEJ Prize while OUATIC, a slice of urban Bengal, was awarded the Grand Jury Award at IFFLA, Los Angeles, and the Circle Award at Filmfest DC, Washington DC.

Jeete khub-i bhalo laagchhe, eta amar bachchader jonno Eid er gift (We are overjoyed with the win; this win is Eid’s gift for the child protagonists of my film)… now we are looking for theatrical distribution partners in India,” says Prasun Chatterjee, whose debut feature Dostojee (Two Friends), set in an early-’90s remote, resplendent rural Bengal along the border, is a tender tale of childhood innocence, a friendship unmarred by the pulls of religious antagonism.

It won the prestigious CIFEJ Prize, recognised and accredited by UNESCO, and picked up the Best Director award in the International Competition section of the 2022 SIFFCY (Smile International Film Festival for Children and Youth).

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INDIA RECORDS : 2 PATENTS : Arunachal Scientist Dr. Sanjeeb Kalita Bags Two Indian Patents for Diabetes Treatments

Dr. Sanjeeb Kalita has been granted two Indian patents for developing ‘Polyherbal formulation for the treatment of painful ‘Diabetic Neuropathy’ and ‘hybrid cotton patch’ and a method for its fabrication.

A scientist from the Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Bio-resources and Sustainable Development at Kimin in Papumpare district of Arunachal Pradesh has been granted two Indian patents for developing ‘Polyherbal formulation for the treatment of painful Diabetic Neuropathy’ and ‘hybrid cotton patch and a method for its fabrication’.

Dr. Sanjeeb Kalita, the scientist of the centre under the Arunachal Pradesh State Council for Science and Technology (APSCS&T) carried out fundamental research and development for both the inventions at Guwahati-based Institute of Advanced Studies in Science and Technology, official sources said on Friday.

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