Good Samaritan: The word "nirman" means to "create" and that
is what the initiative "Nirman" is aimed at - to create a new generation of leadership to take up social challenges
like poverty, food shortage, energy crisis, child deaths, global warming, unemployment, and others.
Read more .....
Expert speak: Former Chief of the Army Staff Gen V K Singh, a day
before he hung up his uniform, impressed upon cadets at the National Defence Academy on the need for military leaders
to have right kind of moral and ethical values.
Read excerpts from the address delivered by Gen Singh at the passing out parade
of the 122nd course of the NDA on May 30, 2012 .....
Innovation: Four final-year mechanical engineering students of the Pune
Zilla Shikshan Mandal's College of Engineering at Manjri in Pune have designed an agro-scooter which is a multi-purpose
vehicle that can perform 12 different farming operations.
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Fiction: A crude translation of one of poet-philosopher Rabindranath
Tagore's short stories. The story "Feast of the rats" is about a group of school students who have not yet seen their
new Sanskrit teacher, but yet taken a dislike for him. They undergo a change of heart subesquently.
Read the full story .....
Colours: For the youth, life is a splash of colours. Whether
on or off the campus, living is sheer fun, joy and laughter.
Share some light moments here .....
Brain Teaser: Never ask a mathematician his age, or for that
matter, the age of any of his family members. This is what my friend Ajit faced when he wanted to know the ages
of our Mathematics teacher's three children. Instead of giving Ajit a straight reply, the teacher told him to
determine the ages by looking at the house number and his oldest child's love for adventure sports.
Can you help Ajit in detrmining the ages?
Please help .....
History: Here is the text of Swami Vivekananda's famous Chicago speech
through which he introduced Hinduism at the Parliament of the World's Religions on 11th September, 1893.
Read more .....
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This scooter is not merely for riding!
Four final-year mechanical engineering students of the Pune Zilla Shikshan Mandal's College of
Engineering at Manjri in Pune have designed an agro-scooter which is a multi-purpose vehicle that can perform 12
different farming operations.
Among other things, the agro-scooter can be used to lift water from a well and irrigate land, spray
pesticides, cut fodder and even generate electricity.
This agro-scooter has been designed by Vishal Sable, Tushar Dhere, Nemuddin Sayyed and Pooja Yadav. The
quartet developed the vehicle as part of their final year project.
Before launching on the project, the students met several farmers in order to get to know their
requirements. They got hold of an old scooter and set to work on it. All that they now required was a reciprocating
pump, a 500-watt inverter, bike tyres, drums and a car battery. Their agro-scooter was ready at a cost of
Rs 35,000!
A centrigugal pump installed on the scooter helps in lifting water from a well to irrigate the land - something
which can be very useful to a farmer who is hampered by hours of load-shedding. The vehicle also has an inverter
which supplies power to small electronic gadgets. A separate pump and blower fitted to the scooter enables the
vehicle to spray pesticides. In addition, equipments fitted to the scooter can enable it to perform functions
of a vacuum cleaner, fodder cutter, battery charger and a flour mill.
The students say that they have designed the vehicle in such a manner that it is just 25 per cent of the
cost of other cultivators but does a lot more.
The students claim that many farmers have approached them and expressed a willingness to buy such a vehicle.
They plan to make customised agro-scooters depending upon individual requirements - this will reduce the cost
and besides, not every farmer would require the vehicle to perform all the twelve functions.
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Some useful links for
your career:
- Union Public Service Commission - www.upsc.gov.in
- IIT-Kharagpur - www.iitkgp.ac.in
- Indian Statistical Institute - www.isical.ac.in
- Indian Institute of Technology Madras - www.iitm.ac.in
- Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - www.iimahd.ernet.in
- Indian Institute of Mass Communication - www.iimc.nic.in
- IIT Bombay - www.iitb.ac.in
- Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad - www.ismdhanbad.ac.in
- Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi - www.bitmesra.ac.in
- Central Institute of Fisheries Nautical and Engineering Training - www.cifnet.nic.in
- Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad (Deemed University) - www.iiita.ac.in
- Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi - www.cmfri.com
- Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai - www.tiss.edu
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