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Workshop on bioinformatics held

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February 10, 2012

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Mangalore, February 10: A one day workshop on 'Biological Databases and Sequence Analysis Tools' was conducted by St Aloysius Institute of Management and Information Technology (AIMIT), St. Aloysius College, Centre for Bioinformatics, supported by the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India.

The aim of the workshop was acquainting students with the available Biological resources on the World Wide Web and demonstrating the practical applications of Bioinformatics by providing hands on training on the same.

As many as 50 students from third year B Sc Biotechnology and one faculty member from St. Aloysius College, Mangalore attended the workshop. The aim of the workshop was to introduce the applications of Bioinformatics and provide hands on training on the various tools and analysis packages.

The workshop was inaugurated by Rev Fr. Denzil Lobo, Director of AIMIT. Students were introduced to various Biological databases by Prof Deborah Vijay, Department of Bioinformatics, AIMIT. Students were then acquainted with the Structural databases and Molecular visualization tools by Ms. Shreya John DCruz, student of 4th Semeter Msc Bioinformatics. This was followed by a lecture on Alignment and Analysis of Biological sequences by Mr. Lanwin Lobo, Lecturer, Department of Bioinformatics, AIMIT. During these sessions various concepts such as biological databases, visualization tools and sequence alignment algorithms were discussed. The morning session concluded at 1:00 PM with an interactive Question and Answer session where the resource persons clarified the doubts and queries of the participants.

The afternoon session began at 1:45 PM where participants were given demonstrations and hands on session on various databases, visualization tools and sequence alignment and analysis tools. This was followed by a talk on “Higher Education, Research and Career prospects in Bioinformatics”, delivered by Prof. Santosh Rebello. The workshop concluded at 5:15 PM with the distribution of certificates to all the participants

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April 1,2020

Bengaluru, Apr 1: The price of petrol and diesel will go up by Rs 1.60 and Rs 1.59 per litre, respectively, from Wednesday. This is in line with Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa’s decision to hike the rate of tax on petrol from 32% to 35% and diesel from 21% to 24%.

He had announced this in his March 5 Budget for 2020-21 fiscal. At present, a litre of petrol costs Rs 71.97 and diesel Rs 64.41 in Bengaluru.

The government decided to roll out the hike from Tuesday midnight going into Wednesday, April 1, after briefly considering a postponement in view of the COVID-19 crisis. 

Finance Secretary (Budget & Resources) Ekroop Caur confirmed to DH that the hike will be rolled out. 

The 3% hike on fuel tax was a key resource mobilisation measure that Yediyurappa announced in his Budget. The hike is expected to fetch the government Rs 1,500 crore. 

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July 10,2020

Mangaluru, Jul 10: A 58-year-old official of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) has died due to the coronavirus infection, taking the death toll in the paramilitary force because of the disease to nine, officials said on Friday.

Assistant Sub Inspector K B Premsha, posted in the CISF unit that guards the Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL), passed away at a local hospital on Thursday, they said.

He was admitted to the hospital on July 5 with fever. His COVID-19 test report arrived on July 7 and it was positive. Premsha breathed his last on Thursday, officials said. He was a resident of Kodagu in Karnataka.

This is the ninth COVID-19 death in the force that has recorded 1,137 cases till now, according to an official data.

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They said that 20 personnel tested COVID-19 positive on Friday while 22 have recovered over the last 24 hours.

The about 1.62-lakh strong CISF is the national aviation security force guarding 63 airports at present and it is also tasked to guard vital installations in the aerospace and nuclear domain.

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