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Jul 27, 2024 | 
indianmasterminds.com | Joydeep Chakraborty
The Union Government recently appointed Mr. Manoj Mittal as the Chairman & Managing Director (CMD) of the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI). Mr. Mittal has profound experience, stretching over three decades, having served as Managing Director and CEO at the Industrial Finance Corporation of India (IFCI) and Deputy Managing Director at SIDBI.
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Jul 27, 2024 | 
indianmasterminds.com | Joydeep Chakraborty
Indian Masterminds StoriesThe state-owned banking behemoth Punjab National Bank (PNB) recently announced that it had clocked its highest-ever quarterly standalone profit at Rs 3,252 crores in April-June FY25, helped by a decline in bad loans and improvement in interest income. PNB posted a net profit of Rs 1,255 crore in the June quarter of FY24.
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Jul 20, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Joydeep Chakraborty |Guy Sobol |Fan Xia |Ning Zhang
CONFLICT OF INTEREST The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. Supporting Information Filename Description tpj16937-sup-0001-Supinfo.pdfPDF document, 3.1 MB Figure S1. Expected truncated variants of Pic14 produced in RG-pic14 mutants. Figure S2. Amino acids essential for interaction with MAPKs and phosphatase activity are conserved between Pic14 and Arabidopsis PP2Cs. Figure S3.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
biorxiv.org | Joydeep Chakraborty |Fan Xia |Ning Zhang |Guy Sobol
AbstractType 2C protein phosphatases (PP2Cs) are emerging as important regulators of plant immune responses, although little is known about how they might impact nucleotide-binding, leucine-rich repeat (NLR)-triggered immunity (NTI). We discovered that expression of the PP2C-immunity associated candidate 14 gene (Pic14) is induced upon activation of the Pto/Prf-mediated NTI response in tomato.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
digpu.com | Joydeep Chakraborty
On January 22nd, Monday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi completed the ‘Pran Pratistha’ ceremony of the ostentatiously built Ram Lalla temple at Ayodhya. The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) sent out invitations to many eminent celebrities, industrialists, and sportspersons to attend the majestic consecration event of the Ram Mandir.
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Jan 23, 2024 | 
digpu.com | Joydeep Chakraborty
If you have recently embarked on any domestic Indian flight, you must be aware of how chaotic the experience of flying in Indian airlines has become. Passengers are kept waiting for stretches of 12 to 15 hours, without any provision for food and water, until their flight finally takes off.
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Jan 21, 2024 | 
digpu.com | Joydeep Chakraborty
The latest Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2023 has revealed an alarming situation. The survey, aimed to analyse the educational abilities, enrollment and aspirations of children in rural India, ended up discovering how India’s rural youth struggle with basic maths and everyday calculations and are incompetent at reading from even sub-standard regional language textbooks.
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Jan 21, 2024 | 
digpu.com | Joydeep Chakraborty
Tokyo, Japan: On January 19th, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) got their country’s name registered on the golden pages of history by becoming the fifth country in the world to secure a successful landing on the surface of Earth’s natural satellite. Today, the name of Japan and its “Moon Sniper” has been enlisted in the elite club of countries to have landed on the moon along with the United States of America, Russia, China, and India.
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Jan 20, 2024 | 
digpu.com | Joydeep Chakraborty
The Gen Z have discovered a new trend. On TikTok, feeds related to a phenomenon named “bed rotting” have garnered more than 130 million views. Despite its distasteful name, Gen Z has been endorsing it as a positive practice or a coping mechanism to deal with the over-stimulating, relentlessly busy, and fast-paced world. What is ‘bed rotting‘?
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Jan 19, 2024 | 
digpu.com | Joydeep Chakraborty
On January 13, Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party won a third term in the country’s presidential elections — felicitating the incumbent Vice President Lai Ching-Te as the new President of Taiwan. The Doctor-turned-politician Lai Ching-Te, aka ‘Doctor William Lai,’ secured enough mandate to get promoted to the President’s chair after the outgoing leader, Tsai Ing-Wen, stepped down following her two terms in office.
