Outgoing British Deputy High Commissioner calls on Minister
The Hindu
The duo had played a major role in identifying four areas of collaboration in October 2019
Jeremy Pilmore-Bedford, British Deputy High Commissioner (Bengaluru), called on Minister for Higher Education and IT&BT and S&T C.N. Ashwath Narayan at Vikasa Soudha on October 7. They discussed collaboration in cyber security, telecom, research and development, electric vehicle policy, vaccine research and development, among other things.
This was scheduled as a farewell meeting as Mr. Pilmore-Bedford is returning to the U.K. During the meeting, Mr. Pilmore-Bedford expressed gratitude to Mr. Narayan for the cooperation extended towards various collaborative engagements.
A crowd comprising farmers, researchers, professors, students, and horticulture enthusiasts thronged the ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR), Hesaraghatta, Bengaluru, on Friday for the inaugural ceremony of the Triphal Diversity Show which showcased 300 mango, 100 jackfruit, and 100 banana genotypes in collaboration with ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Tiruchirappalli.
The State government on Friday constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by Additional Director-General of Police, Manish Kharbikar of the Economic Offences division of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to probe the alleged multi-crore scam in the government-run Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation.