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Do you know “Get ready for smart rings!”.

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Get ready for smart rings! In 2013, 23-year-old Rohildev N established RHL Vision Technologies at the Startup Village in Kochi, Kerala, to work on touchless technologies. This was a project that he had started when he was a final year student of engineering. His development,...

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Do you know “Cleaning up the lakes of India”.

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Cleaning up the lakes of India In 2012, 28-year-old Arun Krishnamurthy became the youngest recipient of the prestigious Rolex Young Laureate Award for Enterprise, for an ongoing project to restore Chennai’s Killattalai Lake to its pristine glory, Five lakes in Chennai and 17 others across...

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Do you know “Building a secular India”.

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Building a secular India Isaac Poobalan grew up in Kerala’s Vellore district, watching people of different faiths pray together in the Chapel of the Christian Medical College Hospital, where he served as a male nurse. Forty years later, as Rector of St John’s Church in...

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Do you know “Suicidal birds”.

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“Suicidal” birds In the months of September and October, hundreds of migratory birds that have never left Jatinga, Assam, drop dead suddenly. This mysterious happening takes place on a moonless night between 6 p.m. and 9.30 p.m. While the search for a totally acceptable explanation...

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Do you know “Red rain in Kerala”.

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Red rain in Kerala Idukki and Kottayam in Kerala have received red-coloured rain intermittently for close to 30 years now (from 1986 to 2012), in the period between July 25 and September 23. Trees, rocks, and even lampposts get a thick layer of red-coloured algae...

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Do you know “Only Asian in ITWA”.

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Only Asian in ITWA In June 2013, the then newly constituted board of the International Tennis Writers’ Association (ITWA), which has representatives from Europe, the North, and South Americas, and Australia, nominated The Times of India’s tennis editor, Prajwal Hegde, to the board. Hegde is...

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Do you know “Great women scientists”.

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Great women scientists Sunetra Gupta, a chemist, and physicist is a professor of theoretical epidemiology at the University of Oxford’s Department of Zoology. Professor Gupta’s main area of interest is the evolution of diversity in pathogens, with particular reference to the infectious agents responsible for...

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