Month: November 2020
** Sanjay Gupta, Google’s chosen man to expand internet ecosystem in India
** Charles Vijay Varghese – The cartoonist-entrepreneur who sows AI in farm fields
** New genus of tree frog discovered, found in Andamans and Northeast India
** Children’s Day: How innovations by school students are helping create a better world – Nov’20
This Children’s day, here is a look at some of the noble initiatives taken by school-going students during the pandemic to solve the issues of those in-need.
Raghav Vishist, Kunal Khemani, Manya Singhal, ‘EdSync – group of 5 students, ‘Climate Catastrophe-Earth in Dearth’ Group of 5 students …
** Hasan Minhaj joins the cast of The Morning Show Season 2
Hasan joins Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Steve Carell and others, who return from the inaugural season of The Morning Show.
** ‘Brown girl, Brown girl’: Renditions of poem celebrating Kamala Harris becoming US VP-elect go viral
Penned by Chicago-base poet Leslé Honoré, the verse is a reflection on the new reality of girls of colour across the US who see Harris, the daughter of an Indian mother and Jamaican father, occupying the second-highest political post in the country.
** To commemorate Diwali, Empire State Building in New York lit up in orange – Nov 2020
This is not the first time that the iconic landmark was lit up to celebrate Diwali. This is the third year the iconic landmark turned orange for Diwali, a ritual that began in 2018.
** CSIR-SERC, Chennai Develops Indigenous Emergency Retrieval System (ERS) for Power Lines
** Jugaad provides free power to Jharkhand village
Ranchi :
Kamil Topno is no engineer. Yet, the undergraduate of Kharia Thakurain Dera village in Lohardaga has been able to light up at least 20 houses using river water that falls from a 100- ft hillock near his village.