By admin on September 4, 2009
There will be no more power dressing for Bangladesh ministers. The already power strapped nation has banned all government male employees from wearing suits, ties and jackets to cut down on energy consumption. The private sector is expected to follow….
Posted in News | Tagged Bangladesh, Environment, Good News Feed, ProPoor |
By Nihit on September 1, 2009
Sankalp India Foundation, in association with Comprehensive Trauma Consortium (CTC), has launched “CTC Disha: The State Wide Helpline for Blood”. In Karnataka, anyone looking for blood in time of an emergency can call 94800 44444 for help.
CTC Disha for Bangalore, launched in September 2006, enables people to hunt for blood by calling 1062. This helpline [...]
Posted in News | Tagged Blood Donation, CTC Disha, Emergency, India, Not-for-profit, Sankalp India Foundation |
By Nihit on August 26, 2009
Ralph Weissleder, from Harvard Medical College, has developed magnetic nano particles that can identify tuberculosis-causing bacteria in sputum. This has made it possible to diagnose tuberculosis in half an hour.
The traditional method for diagnosis takes about two weeks, as the bacteria is first spotted in sputum under the microscope, and then the suspect samples are [...]
Posted in News | Tagged Harvard Medical College, Healthcare, Innovation, Science & Technology, Tuberculosis, USA |
By admin on June 28, 2009
Here comes the latest in the wonderful series of profiles from our guest writer, Utkarsh Joshi. This is the story of Padmashree Dr. Anil Joshi, who learnt early in life that in order to develop the hill community where he worked as a lecturer, he would have to focus on rural advancement and making the best use [...]
Posted in News | Tagged Good News Feed, The Better India |
By devadutta on May 3, 2009
We have made it absolutely simple for you to send us links to awesome websites of people/organizations who are making a difference.
1. Just drag and drop the link below to your bookmarks toolbar in FireFox, Chrome, IE or Safari.
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2. Each time you bump into an amazing website which you want to tell us about, [...]
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By Nihit on April 8, 2009
Touch-screen technology will now be available to the visually challenged thanks to an invention by Jussi Rantala of the University of Tampere in Finland and her colleagues. They have created have created a vibrating touch screen phone that can simulate Braille.
This was done by using a cellphone which has a piezoelectric material built into the [...]
Posted in News | Tagged Blind, Finland, Phone, Science & Technology, Touch-screen |
By Nihit on April 4, 2009
The Boxing Day Tsunami, which killed over two hundred thousand people, prompted a research team, led by Newcastle University Mathematics professor Robin Johnson, to devise a formula that can forecast the occurrence and the magnitude of a tsunami.
“What we found was that the number and height of the tsunami waves hitting the shoreline depends critically on the [...]
Posted in News | Tagged Britain, Disaster Management, Science & Technology |