Mysore/Mysuru: Dr. KSMS Raghavarao, Director, CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysuru, has clarified as follows with regard to a statement in the recent television coverage on the Spirulina Chikkies developed by the Institute: “We have come to know that reports televised on May 9, 2020 by the some Kannada TV Channels have claimed that Spirulina…
CFTRI’s Webinar to mark National Technology Day on May 11
May 9, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: The Mysuru-based CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI) is celebrating the National Technology Day differently by organising a Webinar. The Webinar is being organised in association with Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement (SVYM), Mysuru, and will be online on May 11 at 11 am. Dr. R. Balasubramaniam, Founder, SVYM, will be delivering a lecture on…
COVID-19: CSIR-CFTRI’s biscuits reach patients at AIIMS
April 18, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: The high protein biscuits formulated by CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysuru, has reached the COVID-19 patients now undergoing treatment at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. CFTRI supplied 500 kg of high protein biscuits and 500 kg of high protein rusks to the Dietitics Department of the Medical Institute…
CFTRI and I-T Department provide nutri-rich food to migrant labourers
April 17, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysuru, joined hands with the Income Tax (I-T) Department (Karnataka and Goa) in providing relief food to the migrant labourers affected by the COVID-19 lockdown. The Institute supplied five tonnes of fruit bars, 500 kg of spirulina chikki and five tonnes of flavoured water to the I-T Department…
CSIR-CFTRI supplies hand sanitisers for field workers in Mysuru
April 16, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Mysuru-based CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI) continued extending its helping hand for fighting COVID-19 by supplying hand sanitisers for the use of field workers in Mysuru. Hand sanitisers are used when water is not available to wash hands to keep the virus at bay and are alcohol-based liquids or gels. CSIR-CFTRI prepared sanitisers…
CFTRI honours environmentalist Saalumarada Thimmakka
March 15, 2020“Nature blesses everyone who takes care of it” Mysuru/Mysore: The Women’s Association of CSIR-CFTRI, as part of International Women’s Day celebrations, honoured centenarian environmentalist and Padma Shri awardee Salumarada Thimmakka at a programme organised at the CFTRI premises in city recently. The event was celebrated as a tribute to the conservationist with the staff and…
‘Future India Talks’ lecture series at CFTRI
March 5, 2020Mysuru/Mysore: CSIR-CFTRI, as part of its lecture series ‘Future India Talks,’ has organised the third lecture of the series on the topic ‘In Science we Trust’ by Dr. Shekar C. Mande, Director General, CSIR and Secretary, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, on Mar. 9 at 11 am at IFTTC Auditorium, CFTRI premises…
National AWSAR Prize for CSIR-CFTRI Researcher
March 4, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: M.L. Bhavya, a Ph.D Scholar in the Mysuru-based Council of Scientific and Industrial Research – Central Food Technological Research Institute (CSIR-CFTRI), has bagged the third prize in the AWSAR competition held by the Ministry of Science and Technology, New Delhi. ‘Augmenting Writing Skills for Articulating Research (AWSAR)’ is being held from the past two…
Imaginative stories have no place in Science: Writer
March 1, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Maintaining that imaginative stories have no place in science, renowned Writer and Speaker Dr.G. Ramakrishna said that Science Literature would not remain true to its meaning if imaginative stories creep in. He was speaking after presiding over a seminar on ‘Scientific Stories and Science Among Common Man,’ as part of the three-day Kannada theatre…
Foundation stone laid for CFTRI’s Rice Technology Centre
February 23, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: The Foundation stone for the ambitious project of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research – Central Food Technological Research Institute (CSIR-CFTRI) — Global Centre for Rice Technology (GCRT) — was laid in the premises of CFTRI residential quarters in MG Halli, along Kalidasa Road (close to Chandrakala Hospital) here yesterday. Speaking as the chief…
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