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20 Nov

Teen from India calls for clean energy at COP26 meet

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New Delhi, Nov 20: A 15-year-old girl from Tamil Nadu had exhorted the world to move towards clean energy during the recently concluded 26th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change at Glasgow, Scotland. “I am not here to speak about the future, I am the future,” she said, encouraging the world to move towards renewable energy. The leaders who had come from across the world to attend the global meet heard her with rapt attention not without a reason: she has been recognised as the Earthday Network Rising Star by Earthday Network, an international…

30 Mar

SBI Foundation to help deploy two indigenous innovations for COVID care

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New Delhi: Bengaluru-based Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP) has inked a pact with SBI Foundation for CSR (corporate social responsibility) support towards boosting existing public healthcare efforts in light of a resurgent COVID-19 pandemic. Through this joint effort, they will bring two new, potentially life-saving technologies in assisted respiratory devices and contactless remote vitals monitoring categories for deployment across the country. The innovations developed by two of India’s medtech startups, Coeo Labs and Turtle Shell Technologies will be deployed in several cities worst affected by the pandemic. Dr Taslim arif Saiyed, C-CAMP CEO and Director said, “The C-CAMP-SBI…