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CM Pinarayi inaugurated the Nila campus and Union Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank laid the foundation stone by unveiling plaques through an online conference.

The first Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Kerala was inaugurated on Friday by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan in the presence of Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank and Sanjay Dhotre, Minister of State for Education. CM Pinarayi inaugurated the Nila campus in Palakkad by unveiling a plaque via video conference, while the stone laying was done online by Minister Pokhriyal, by unveiling another plaque.

“Today at the foundation stone laying ceremony of IIT Palakkad, I interacted with Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan and MoS for External Affairs V Muraleedhadan and other dignitaries. Starting its journey in 2015 under the supervision and patronage of IIT Madras, today four B Tech programmes, six M Tech programmes, and three M Sc programmes are on the path of constant progress. Now this building will give a new dimension to the progress,” said Minister Pokhriyal.

Actor Karthi and his wife Ranjani have become proud parents for the second time. The lovely couple welcomed a baby boy on Tuesday. Taking to his Twitter handle, Karhti announced the happy news.

“Dear friends and family, we are blessed with a boy baby. We can’t thank enough our doctors and nurses who took us through this life changing experience. need all your blessings for the little one. Thank you god!”, tweeted Karthi.

Nine new species of animals were discovered in Himachal Pradesh last year, including an insect which has been named after a high school student who spotted it, according to Animal Discoveries 2019, a report released by the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) recently.

In Kinnaur’s Sangla valley, an amoeba-like organism named Cyclopyxis leidy earlier known from France and Indonesia was reported for the first time in India. Sangla also reported a new record of another single-celled organism, Assulina quadratum, earlier known from parts of Europe.

Across the country, 368 new animal species were discovered in 2019, including 294 invertebrates and 74 vertebrates. In Kerala, a new fish was named after Gollum, a fictional character from JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, while another one was named Pangio bhujia after the popular Indian snack. A true bug found in Tamil Nadu was named after PM Narendra Modi.

The report said that during the last decade, nearly 2,500 species have been discovered in India, a mega-biodiverse country. The total faunal diversity in India now comprises around 1.02 lakh species which is 6.5 per cent of the global diversity

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