240 Assistant Managers, 26 System Managers Inducted to Central Cooperative Banks

Bhubaneswar, 12/1: As many as 240 Assistant Managers and 26 System Managers were inducted today into service in different Central Cooperative Banks at the district level.    Joining an orientation programme for the new entrants virtually, which was organised at Convention Centre, Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik said that this will enable these banks to…

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Noam Chomsky among 261 academics write to President Murmu on axing of Bengal prof

Kolkata, 12/1: Academics, including linguist Noam Chomsky, have written to President Droupadi Murmu about the service termination of Visva Bharati professor Sudipta Bhattacharya and sought her intervention.   The 261 signatories have expressed “deep concern” at the termination order served to Bhattacharya, who besides being a teacher of economics at the university, is also the…

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New therapies, not tobacco ban, key to combating lung cancer: Nobel laureate Harold Varmus

Washington DC, 11/1: The key to combating lung cancer is the development of novel immunotherapies and diagnostic techniques and not a complete ban on tobacco that is impossible to enforce, says American Nobel laureate Harold Varmus.     Varmus won the 1989 Nobel Prize in Medicine – along with American immunologist Michael Bishop — for…

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