The civic agency aims to establish another 5-tonne plant at Shastri Park and a 10-tonne facility at Yamuna Vihar. These plants could process 60-70% of the waste generated in the city every day.
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Kriya Labs, a startup incubated at TBIU-IIT Delhi, has developed a process to convert agro-waste such as rice straw (parali) into pulp. This pulp can be used to make bioethanol, paper, tablewares. This initiative would mean that the farmers will also generate profits from their waste instead of burning it off. Unlike existing pulp making process, which requires heavy machinery
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai has said “AI offers us the potential for new, less invasive tests for heart health — predicting cardiovascular results from retinal images with computer vision
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The competition comprised of two events. First was a competition where students from various departments presented their innovative ideas across multiple fields.
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This newly designed device does not require electricity to operate and has a pedal operated plungers that move up and down inside of a water filled chamber.
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The Cleveland Hospital has said that it has delivered the first baby in North America after a womb transplant from a dead donor. Uterine transplants have enabled more than a dozen women to give birth, usually with wombs donated from a living donor such as a friend or relative. In December, doctors in Brazil reported the world’s first birth using
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The scientisis from Nasa have discovered high amount of methane on Mar’s surface. The high amount could indicate life on the Red planet. The discovery was made by Nasa’s Curiousity Rover. Although the gas can be generated by geological processes much of it is released by micro-organisms known as methanogens, some of which live in the guts of certain mammals.
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Based on inputs by Meeta K The doctors at Apollo hospital, Delhi, did liver transplant using 2 halves of liver donated by daughters of Al Naqeeb, a Yemeni national suffering from end-stage liver disease. The decision to use parts of 2 daughters was taken as both daughters, who are in their 20s, had less than the required volume of liver.
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A genetically modified fungus has wiped out malaria-carrying mosquitoes in a month and a half, in trial runs in west Africa. Researchers from Burkina Faso and the University of Maryland supercharged a naturally occurring parasite of the anopheles mosquitoes, a major carrier of the malaria parasite which kills 400,000 people a year. It wiped out more than 99% of mosquitoes
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Microsoft-IDC study states that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will help double the rate of innovation improvements and employee productivity gains in India by 2021. The study was based on a survey involving 200 business leaders and 202 workers in India. Those companies that have adopted the AI journey, expect it to increase their competitiveness by 2.3 times in 2021. Rohini Srivathsa,
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