National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI) have cloned a female calf using cells (somatic cells )from the buffalo's urine. This is probably first case in the world across the species, in which somatic cells has been isolated from urine and cloned calf has been produced.
It is the tenth cloned calf in the NDRI, since the institute produced world's first cloned buffalo calf in 2009.
will promotion of culture and tourism in the North east India.
It was announced by Minister of Development of North Eastern Region Jitendra Singh at a two-day business summit in New Delhi.
Renowned Gandhian Narayan Desai passed away at Tapi district of South Gujarat. He was 90 years old.
He was the son of Mahadev Desai who was the personal secretary of Mahatma Gandhi.
Narayan Desai recieved many awards including Jamnalal Bajaj Award in 1999, UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize and Moortidevi Award In 2004, Sahitya Akademi Award in 1993 for his book on biography of his father Mahadev Desai and Ranjitram Suwarna Chandrak.
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley unveiled the statue of Mahatma Gandhi.
Bronze statue of Gandhi was created by Phillip Jackson, a renowned British sculptor, and will stand in the with Nelson Mandela, Winston Churchill, and Abraham Lincoln, and others.
at this occasion British Prime Minister David Cameron, grandson of Gandhi Gopalkrishna Gandhi, British Culture Minister Sajid Javid, Amitabh Bachchan, and Lord and Lady Desai, founding trustees of the Gandhi Statue Memorial Trust were also present.
Source: The Hindu, ICAR
where is National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI) situated ?
ReplyDeleteNDRI is Country's premier Dairy Research institution it has developed considerable expertise over the last five decades in different areas of Dairy Production, Processing, Management and Human Resource Development.
DeleteSituated in KARNAL, HARYANA.
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