Dr K Kasturirangan has been awarded the prestigious BasavaShree award for 2020.
- Dr K Kasturirangan, who served as chairman of ISRO and Space Commission, has been credited with launching various satellites.
- He was instrumental in making India a major space power.
- And the Classical musician Pandit Rajeev Taranath will receive the prestigious Basavashree award for 2019.
Punjab become the 1st state in the country to join the Global covax Alliance.
- State govt Joining the global COVAX alliance for sourcing the immunisation shots at the best price.
IIT Ropar designed an environmentally friendly mobile crematorium system.
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Equipped with stainless steel insulation to ensure low wood consumption.
- The cart has been developed in collaboration with the company Cheema Boilers Limited.
- It works on temperature above 1000°C that ensures complete sterilization.
Pablo Picasso's painting "woman sitting near a window" has recently been sold for Rs 754 crores.
- The painting was completed in 1932.
- This is the Spanish painter's fifth painting to cross the USD 100 million mark.
- Picasso, who was born in 1881 and died in 1973.
- The same painting was acquired in London sales only eight years ago for £ 28.6 million.
Airtel Payments Bank launches 'DigiGold' platform for customers to invest in gold.
- DigiGold has been launched in partnership with SafeGold, a provider of digital gold.
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