** ISRO engineer turns old car into mini-excavator

Usually, people replace their old automobile with a brand new one.

However, Ben Jacob, an ISRO engineer, decided to go the extra mile with his vehicle. The engineer altered his old car into a backhoe or mini-excavator which has become viral on social media. Hailing from Choozhattukotta village near Nemom,

Ben is now on a mission to create other useful innovations such as wind turbines using renewable energy.

** Doc who performed India’s first successful kidney transplant 50 years ago goes down memory lane

Very few people are aware that it was at the Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore, that the first successful kidney transplant surgery in the country was performed.

Dr Chandy (then principal of CMC) deputed me and Dr KV Johny to Australia and both of us spent over two years at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Adelaide where the first successful transplant in Australia was done.