Pune Dec 28 PTI At least 49 female students and two staff members of the Government Medical College at Miraj in Maharashtras Sangli district have contracted the coronavirus infection officials said on TuesdayThey said all the coronavirus positive students fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and the infected staff members were admitted to the hospital attached to the collegeA total of 51 people - 49 female students and two staff members of the college - have tested positive Most students are asymptomatic while some have mild symptoms but all are stable All including the staffers have been admitted to the hospital attached to the college said Jitendra Dudi Chief Executive Officer Zilla Parishad SangliEarlier the dean of the institute Dr Sudhir Nanandkar said the infection was reported in one section of the hostel where students used to gather for meals PTI SPK KRK RSY RSY

Dehradun Nov 23 PTI Intensifying their agitation for the dissolution of the Devasthanam Board a group of Chardham priests gheraoed the official residence of Uttarakhand Agriculture Minister Subodh Uniyal here on TuesdayThey also staged a dharna outside the ministers residence and performed shirshasana headstand to press their demand for the withdrawal of the Uttarakhand Char Dham Devasthanam Management Act 2019Uniyal met the protesters and asked them to wait till November 30 after which a major decision about the board could be takenPriests of the Chardham -- Kedarnath Badrinath Gangotri and Yamunotri -- have long been demanding the dissolution of the Devasthanam Board that they see as an encroachment upon their rightsConstituted during the chief ministership of Trivendra Singh Rawat the board is mandated to run the affairs of 51 temples in Uttarakhand including the ChardhamSoon after taking over former chief minister Tirath Singh Rawat announced during Kumbh that the temples will be removed from the boards control But he had to step down before he could keep his wordThe priests under the banner of Chardham Teerth Purohit Hak Hakookdhari Mahapanchayat will also gherao the state assembly during its winter session starting December 7 in GairsainThe protesters said they will take out an Akrosh rally from the Gandhi Park to the secretariat here on November 27 and observe it as a black day The state cabinet had given its nod to the creation of the Devasthanam Board on November 27 2019Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has constituted a high-powered committee to look into the issue and thrash out a solution that is acceptable to all stakeholdersThe committee has already submitted its interim report to the state government but Dhami said a decision will be taken after it submits the final report PTI ALM DIV DIV

Gurgaon Aug 31 PTI A 13-year-old Dalit girl from north Delhis Narela was allegedly raped and killed at neighbouring Gurgaon by a relative of her landlord officials said TuesdayThey said landladys brother Praveen Verma has been arrested on the complaint of the girls father who made a PCR call when the accused allegedly tried to force the family to cremate the bodyIn an FIR filed with the police the girls father has said On July 17 my landlords wife said that her sister-in-law has given birth to a child and she was taking my daughter along with her to her brothers home in Gurgaon She also said that my daughter would stay there and could play with the daughter of her brother However around 3 pm on August 23 the father was informed by his landlord that his daughter has died the FIR sates Around 7 pm they took the body in a private ambulance to the girls Narela residence for cremation it addedWhen the father got suspicious he made a PCR call and Narela police station staff reached the spot and took the body to the Babu Jagjivan Ram hospital in Jahangirpuri the FIR statedThe father has alleged in the FIR that landladys brother Praveen Verma along with others has killed his daughterThe Gurgaon Police said it has registered a case under sections 302 murder and 120B punishment of criminal conspiracy of the Indian Penal Code and SCST ActThey said further sections were added in the FIR after the postmortem report confirmed sexual assault and Verma was arrestedEarlier this month a nine-year-old Dalit girl was alleged rape and killed in Delhi Cantt areaThe girl died under suspicious circumstances even as her parents alleged that she was raped and forcibly cremated by a crematoriums priest in southwest Delhis Old Nangal village PTI NIT NIT TIR TIR

New Delhi Aug 24 PTI Indian scientists have for the first time repaired aero-engine components through emerging additive manufacturing or 3D printing technique that can significantly reduce repair costs and overhaul time the Department of Science and Technology DST said on TuesdayThey indigenously made powders suitable for the additive manufacturing process called the Directed Energy Deposition processNickel-based superalloys are widely used in aero-engine components Despite having exceptional properties they are prone to damage due to extreme operational conditions Manufacturing defects during the casting or machining process are other major causes of rejection and tons of such unused components are scrapped due to minor defects it saidA team of scientists from the International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials ARCI an autonomous RD Centre of the DST indigenously developed powders suitable for additive manufacturing using inert gas atomizer available at the ARCI by melting unused scrap materialUtilising this the ARCI is developing the laser-DED process for the repair of aero-engine components made of Ni-based superalloysFurthermore the ARCI team developed a technology to refurbish pinion housing assembly critical component in helicopters used for power transmission to the main fan by machining out the damaged layer and rebuilding it using laser cladding process followed by final machiningLaser cladding and laser-DED both processes are the same In general for two-dimensional deposition surface coating the term laser cladding is used and for the manufacture of three-dimensional parts the term laser-DED is used A patent has been filed for the same the DST saidA post-clad heat treatment method was also designed to minimise microstructural inhomogeneity and ensure minimal substrate properties variationThese laser-clad repaired prototypes were found to be free from distortion and exhibited excellent performanceThe team has also developed repair and refurbishment technologies for other industrial sectors such as refurbishing diesel engine cylinder heads made of grey cast iron and refurbishing shafts used in the refinery This work has been published in the journal Transactions of The Indian Institute of MetalsThus the impact of repair and refurbishment technology developed by the ARCI can be best realised in the aerospace sector due to expensive materials manufacturing costs and stringent quality checks PTI PR IJT

Jaipur Aug 24 PTI Three children of a family drowned in a pond in Rajasthans Barmer district police said on TuesdayThey had stepped out of their home in Taku Beri village unsupervised on Monday afternoon the police saidThe family informed the police later in the day as the kids did not returnOn the basis of a mobile phone and slippers a search operation was started to find the children in the pond The bodies were found on Tuesday morning SHO of local Sindhari police station Mani Ram saidThe bodies have been kept at a mortuary for post-mortem examination the police said PTI AG IJT