ANGELA SAINI

Angel Saini Indian - Punjabi : born in London in 1980

Holds two masters degree 

Engineering from the university of Oxford

Science and Security from King's College London

Achievements: 

Worked as a reporter with BBC

2008 : Prix CIRCOM  for her investigation of fake Universities, focusing on Irish International University

2009 : Named European science Journalist of the year by the Euroscience Foundation

2012 : Association of British Science Writers  Award for best news

2015 : Won the American Association for the achievement of Science Gold Award

Author of two books

Geek Nation : How Indian Science Is Taking Over The World     (Published 2011)
Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong - and the New Research  That's Rewriting the Story
What are you ? The Mad Science Of Race - and Its Fatal Return ( Scheduled for 2019)


Sani discovers that many of society's traditional beliefs about women are built on shaky grounds
She writes " In the history of science we have to hunt for women and the story of women in science is a story of persistence
In her words
" Really , for me, writing this book has changed my life. I think of the world completely differently now. I'd read feminist literature throughout my life, but it was really the science that awakened the feminism in me because it made me see just what gross injustice had been done against women. For all intents  and purposes, we have the same capabilities as men, intellectually and cognitively , and yet we've been held back for thousands of years"

GOOGLE SCALES UP WOMAN LED START UP NERAMAI

NERAMAI  Health Analytix : A women led startup by Dr. Geetha Manjunath, who is a co-founder and CEO.

This start up ventures Google in nurturing at its 'Launchpad Accelerator' in India

This include ventures that use artificial Intelligence to detect cancer.


Google organised a ' Start Up Boost Camp'   in January where Geetha Manjunath could able to pitch her start up Nirmal Health Analytix

She received metering from the likes of  the former executive chairman of Aiphabet Mr. Eric Schmidt. Vint Cerf and Peter Norvig who are internet pioneers.and Googles director of research and an expert in artificial intelligence Peter Norvig.

At metering section Dr. Manjunath received guidance for her venture to serve rural and poor people to detect cancer free of charge

This is a six month accelerate programme matches young companies from emerging ecosystem with the best of its people, network and advanced technologies to help improve their products. It helps connect with U.S.Niramai which had developed an artificial intelligence based solution for detecting early stage breast cancer. The company calmed a free radiation procedure which is low coast  and portable solution can be deployed in even rural camps

Fimbristylis agasthyamalaensis

Researchers 
1. A.R Viji ( Post doctoral fellow)
2. T.S. Preetha

University college Thiruvananthapuram

With the backup of Kerala State Council of Science, Technology and Environment


Published in the International Journal for botanical systematics and biodiversity         ' PHYTOTAXA'






A new add on to our biodiversity reserve

Spotted at  marshy grass lands at Agastyr mala ,Ponmudi. Thituvanathapuram. Kerala, India

Classified as sedge, the grass like plant

Family : Cyperaceae
Used as Medicine or as Fodder
In India 122 species are there,  among them 87 are reported from Western Ghats

Since this species is confronted in a small area and highly prone to wild grazing , it is referred  as highly endangerd by the authors. Hence they recommenced a preliminary conservation.

Similar to F.onchnidiocarpa in its inflorescence

But detailed study lead to the conclusion that it is a new species