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The Indian Television Academy (ITA) School of Performing Arts is a school formed as an initiative of The Indian Television Academy and founded by Anu Ranjan and Shashi Ranjan in 2001. It was created with the aim of standardizing the Indian television industry. [1]

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Nihar Ranjan Jana is an Indian neuroscientist and professor at the IIT Kharagpur, known for his studies on E3 ubiquitin ligases, protein homeostasis and neurodegenerative disorders. Jana is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, in 2008 and TATA Innovation Fellowship in 2014 for his contributions to Neurodegenerative diseases.

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