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The Kerala High Court termed the Kerala government’s notification to ban online rummy was unconstitutional. Thiruvananthapuram: Online rummy enthusiasts have good news flowing out of the corridors of the Kerala High Court. A Kerala government order that banned online rummy in the state was today quashed by the High Court, terming the government order as unconstitutional. The Kerala government had brought about a ban on online rummy played for stakes by including it in the Kerala Gaming Act, 1960. The state government had stated that it had to usher in steps towards bringing about a ban as there had been various cases of suicide reported across the country owing to online rummy. The state government’s action was set aside by Justice TR Ravi of the Kerala High Court while allowing the petitions filed by online rummy gaming companies. The petitioners had pleaded that banning the game by amendment to notification under Section 14A of Kerala Gaming Act, 1960 is unlawful. They substa

The thermostatic insulin variety uses peptides from human bodies to revert the aggregation process when it is not stored in the refrigerator, says Scientist Partha Chakrabarti in an exclusive chat with Digpu News A team of scientists recently developed a thermostatic variety of insulin, which is easy to carry and has a shelf-life of at least two months. There are no strict measures to carry it around while travelling. In a conversation with Partha Chakrabarti, who is part of the team of four scientists responsible for making the thermostatic insulin, Digpu News Journalist finds out more details about this insulin formula.  Chakrabarti is the principal scientist (Cell Biology & Physiology) at the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology.  Firstly, Can you kindly explain what is thermostatic insulin? If insulin is not frozen or kept at room temperature, the individual molecule of the insulin solution sticks to each other and loses its properties. This process is called ‘aggreg

The thermostatic insulin variety uses peptides from human bodies to revert the aggregation process when it is not stored in the refrigerator, says Scientist Partha Chakrabarti in an exclusive chat with Digpu News A team of scientists recently developed a thermostatic variety of insulin, which is easy to carry and has a shelf-life of at least two months. There are no strict measures to carry it around while travelling. In a conversation with Partha Chakrabarti, who is part of the team of four scientists responsible for making the thermostatic insulin, Digpu News Journalist finds out more details about this insulin formula.  Chakrabarti is the principal scientist (Cell Biology & Physiology) at the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology.  Firstly, Can you kindly explain what is thermostatic insulin? If insulin is not frozen or kept at room temperature, the individual molecule of the insulin solution sticks to each other and loses its properties. This process is called ‘aggreg

When the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference gets underway in Glasgow in a month's time, Australian PM Scott Morrison is likely to be absent. When it comes to a good climate record, the world knows Australia has faltered. And it doesn’t come as a surprise when Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is in two minds about attending the all-important COP26 summit. The COP26 UN Climate Change Conference touted to be the biggest global climate crisis talks happening is a good number of years, is scheduled to get underway in Glasgow, Scotland on October 31st. To be hosted by the UK in association with Italy, the summit will be on for 12 days till November 12, 2021. Aussie climate record not worth writing about Scott Morrison’s reluctance to be part of such a conference of extreme significance stems from the fact that the Australian government has been facing a lot of flak for its mismanagement of climate-related work. Though he has not fully decided on travelling to Glasgow for

Congress in Kerala watches mutely as partly leaders continue to walk out of its camp The Indian National Congress, as the nation already knows, is at a crossroads. Punjab proved to be a great example. It looks like Rajasthan is also set to teach the top leadership a lesson or two in party management. Lack of vision in an era when almost everything is lost is turning out to be a bane for the grand old party. The party in Kerala too is undergoing a transformation for the worse, if the latest developments are any pointers. The party’s new leadership in Kerala, which took over from veterans who have been in the public space for long and have won polls galore, had put together a list of office bearers some time ago. The problems got kickstarted then. And, how! K Sudhakaran, the new party chief in Kerala, may have been thought of as an able man, but he is proving to be a magnet for trouble. When young dynamic V D Satheesan was chosen as the Leader of the Opposition in the Kerala Assemb

MDR or multi-drug resistant malaria is to become a big challenge for the medical fraternity. Malaria continues to take its toll on mankind and according to World malaria report 2020 and Geneva: World Health Organization, 2020, 229 million cases of malaria were reported worldwide and it led to 409,000 deaths in 2019. Malaria remained the scourge of Asia and Africa where it extracted a huge toll. In the earlier ’70s with fumigation and widespread use of DDT controlled the spread of malaria. However, the disease hit with double force and this time it became resistant to Chloroquine which was the primary drug in use for treating P.vivax and P.falciparum. The most dangerous form of Malaria is caused by Plasmodium Falciparum. P.Faciparum also causes the dreaded brain fever. Once the P.Falciparum enters the brain, the risk of morbidity is very high. Tu Youyou after receiving her Nobel Prize at the Stockholm Concert Hall, 10 December 2015. (Source: www.nobelprize.org) Youyou Tu- Saved

The stadium is being constructed at Government Boys Higher Secondary School Pulwama as part of Jammu and Kashmir's sports facility expansion plan. In southern Kashmir valley's Pulwama district, the first-of-its-kind synthetic hockey turf stadium in the Kashmir division is being built. The stadium is being built at Government Boys Higher Secondary School Pulwama at a cost of Rs 5 crore as part of Jammu and Kashmir's augmentation of sports facilities plan. District Sports Officer Pulwama calls it ‘first-of-its-kind’ stadium According to Pulwama’s District Youth Services and Sports Officer Syed Noor-ul-Haq, this would be an international level stadium with dimensions of 102x62 metres and is anticipated to be completed by October 15. While talking to media persons, he stated that there are hundreds of young people in Kashmir who are interested in hockey, but they have been unable to demonstrate their skill due to a lack of a stadium; however, now that the stadium is a