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Over the next few days, the trustees will send a notice related to the voting process and unitholders' meet to the participants in the six schemes being closed. The notice will be sent for each scheme separately, the fund house said in a letter to its distribution partners. … [Read more...] about Winding-up process to be delayed in absence of investors’ authorisation: Franklin Templeton MF

> The present national educational curriculum focuses on practical and biological aspects of menstruation and personal hygiene rather than MHM. There is a lack of information on psycho-social changes and reproductive health or skills-based hygiene education and low capacity among teachers/frontline staff on MHM. … [Read more...] about Menstrual Hygiene Day 2020: Awareness must start at school — here is why

The MegaLab Mumbai is the latest initiative of the IIT Alumni Council with an aim to design and establish the largest genetic testing laboratory for COVID-19 and other infectious diseases like tuberculosis with an end-to-end capacity to carry out over 10 million tests a month. It will comprise three independent lines -– 1 million tests per month, 3 million and 6 million tests per month. … [Read more...] about IIT Alumni Council to set up mega lab in Mumbai to conduct 1 crore COVID-19 tests a month

Patrick Jouin: Well, just to show objects is a little bit dry. For me, it’s important to show the life around the objects. I had a show at Centre Pompidou, and I really focused on the process and technology of the design. To invent anything very well you have to understand the processes. We are using technology that was invented centuries ago or more — a thousand years ago. And we develop and develop and push hard to make something new; it can be like poetry. So here I wanted to show that, but also the gesture of an object. Functionality is important. But design goes deeper than that. I’m looking at the pleasure and beauty of gesture — like a dancer. Pleasure is itself a function. … [Read more...] about Patrick Jouin, France’s Anti-Philippe Starck, On His First Solo Show in NY [Slideshow]

Does that mean Looney Tunes Cartoons has a shot at giving us anything to rival enduring classics such as The Great Piggy Bank Robbery and What’s Opera, Doc? Certainly not. From an artistic standpoint, channeling someone else’s work from another era is inherently constricting, no matter how well you do it: Bob Clampett and Chuck Jones, after all, did not make their names directing new Felix the Cat cartoons. You can bring back Bugs and Daffy over and over again—next year, they’re set to costar with LeBron James in a long-overdue Space Jam sequel—but you can never fully reignite the alchemy of the past. … [Read more...] about HBO Max’s new Looney Tunes get back to basics—and that’s refreshing