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Next Topics in Preservation Series lecture from the Library of Congress: The Digital Restoration Initiative -- Reading the Invisible Library

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Lecture Event

Science Meets Music: Technical Studies of Musical Instruments

Tuesday April 10, 3:00-5:00 pm

Whittall Pavilion (Jefferson Building, Ground Floor)

Library of Congress Jefferson Building

10 First St. SE

Washington, DC 20540

An afternoon of lectures featuring recent in-depth collaborative musical studies by curators, conservators, musicians, and cultural heritage scientists.

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Join us for the next Topics in Preservation Series lecture:

Cartography and Code: Incorporating Automation in the Comparison of Medieval Toponyms Across Maps

Wednesday, May 16, 2018
1:30 pm EDT

Library of Congress James Madison Memorial Building
Pickford Theater (third floor)

Register for the live webcast by Tuesday, May 15 at 5:00 pm. 

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April 22-26, 2019, the Library of Congress celebrates Preservation Week with programming throughout the week, including behind-the-scenes tours of Preservation at the Library, a Preservation takeover of the Library’s main Twitter account, and tips presented by Library conservators in the Baseball Americana exhibit.

Click here to register for the tours and for more information about the programs to celebrate Preservation Week.

Vivek Sharma, MD at Panasonic Life Solutions India, said these stores will serve as experience centres for consumers and influencers, He said the stores will target customers as well as builders, contractors and architects. The company has opened the first such outlet in Hyderabad will be setting up these stores in a franchise owned and operated model.

On the impact of the outbreak, the company said: "COVID-19 has affected the supply of some components to our manufacturing facilities and volume of business in 'Servicetec' segment. This is likely to impact our planned production and volume of business in excess of 10 per cent for the month of March."

LG Electronics India will donate products like water purifiers, air conditioners, refrigerators and TVs to the hospitals. Samsung India, on the other hand, will provide preventive kits to hospitals, which includes a surgeon gown, face mask, gloves, preventive eye wear, hood cap and shoe cover.

Having suffered an unprecedented sales decline of 6-7 per cent in 2019-20, the industry will be up against challenges in both supply and demand sides due to the coronavirus pandemic, Panasonic India and South Asia President and CEO Manish Sharma said.

Prasad, speaking after a virtual meeting with state IT ministers, also said India needed to capitalise on a huge electronics manufacturing opportunity that has been thrown open, as companies look to move of China in the wake of the Covid-19 virus outbreak.

Affirms Issuer Default Ratings for seven banks including these four and Bank of India, Canara and PNB

With malls and shops closed, spending avenues are practically non-existent.

Suggestions from various quarters, including from Indian Banks' Association, have come for the further extension of moratorium and the RBI is actively considering them, according to sources.

Senior SBI executives said most of those seeking deferment are retail and micro and small enterprises and are hard-pressed for resources when earning and cash flows have almost dried up.

The motor and health segments led the decline in premiums for the industry as the month saw premium fall by 9 per cent.

In addition, West Bengal will also request the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to increase the additional credit limit to MSMEs, to 30 per cent from the existing 10 per cent.

Private banks put up a better show than other card financiers

The outstanding portfolio of private banks in the credit card space has increased by 59 per cent year-on-year while other issuers saw a 20 per cent growth in 2019 over 2018.

Considers 25 fresh credit proposals from shadow banks

The lender had psoted a pre-tax loss of Rs 2,338.31 crore in the same quarter of previous financial year

There is a facility of standby line of credit for MSMEs as well as PNB COVID-19 Emergency Credit Facility (PNB-CECF), the bank said

The State Bank of India (SBI) has introduced a special deposit scheme for senior citizens with a higher interest rate

The rise in currency in circulatiom is perplexing when economic activity has nosedived. Generally, CIC should rise in tandem with growth in economic activities, as people need cash to transact

The company offers its retail customers housing and non-housing loans

In the year-ago fortnight, bank loans had stood at Rs 96.20 trillion and deposits at Rs 124.83 trillion

Besides SBI, other members of the consortium that has been cheated are Canara Bank, Union Bank of India, IDBI, Central Bank of India and Corporation Bank

The Covid-19 crisis is expected to have a heavy impact on the economy and many corporates have been cutting salaries. Some have also retrenched staff, with the unorganised sector being hit the most. The unemployment rate in India touched 27 per cent in the week to May 3, according to think-tank CMIE.

The SBI official said the employee was not attending office for the last 8-10 days and was later found to have contracted the deadly virus.

Union Bank of India announced reduction in its MCLR up to 15 basis points across all tenors, effective May 11. Overnight MCLR has been reduced by 15 bps to 7.15 per cent from 7.30 per cent and one-month MCLR by 10 bps to 7.25 per cent.

In the previous fortnight which ended on April 10, 2020, bank credit had grown by 7.20 per cent and deposits by 9.45 per cent.

​​​The CBI had recently booked the company engaged in export of Basmati rice to the West Asian and European countries and its directors Naresh Kumar, Suresh Kumar and Sangita on the basis of complaint from the State Bank of India (SBI), which suffered the loss of more than Rs 173 crore, they said.

The mineral lobby body has appealed to the Union finance ministry to exempt bauxite exports from duties

Earlier the strawberry growers here had to suffer losses following a hailstorm, now that the markets are shut, the strawberry produce is yet to be sold

Farmers hold on to stocks due to great demand for high-quality Indian produce

Global holdings of physically-backed gold ETFs and similar products jumped by 298 tonnes during the March quarter - the highest quarterly inflows for four years

Investment demand, though lower by 17%, was relatively better as sentiments towards equities turned negative and investors turned to gold's liquidity and safe haven status

Supplies remained unaffected and no unusual spike in prices says Mandi Chairman; 15 confirmed cases registered so far

The need to close the mandi arose after confirmed Covid-19 cases surpassed 80 within the APMC itself and shot past 450 across Navi Mumbai, where this mandi situated

The Delhi High Court on Monday asked the Centre and the National Testing Agency (NTA) to file their response on a plea challenging the 2019 National Eligibility-cum Entrance Test (NEET) for admissions to MBBS and BDS courses.

Beverages maker Coca-Cola’s company-owned bottling partner Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages has bucked the general trend of companies resorting to pay cuts and job cuts amid the Covid-19 pandemic, announcing 7-8% salary increment to its 7,000 direct employees with effect from April 1, 2020.