IISC’s portable washing machine that runs without electricity. Keep India thinking positive.

Current washing machines have several issues. They use substantial quantities of water compared to hand washing, need electricity, and are quite expensive. Manual washing on the other hand, is tedious and time-consuming. In rural areas, this is further exacerbated by the fact that rural women must go many miles to a water source for washing, which involves time, effort, and pollutes the water. IISc has developed a portable, manually operated, cost-effective washing machine that can be ridden to the water source, which requires no electricity to run, and requires substantially less water to provide washing of similar or superior quality.

This invention by a team of three scientists -Amaresh Chakrabarti, Manish Kumar and Pulin M Raje -from the Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing (CPDM) of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) sounds just the perfect appliance for a country battling the pressure of water and power crisis.

Conceived in 2008, the washing drum has gone through many processes and is patented. The Society for Innovation and Development (SID), within the IISc campus, is now liaisoning with industry to take it to the market.

Garbage bin that rewards you with free WiFi! Be Positive..... Keep India Inspiring ...

Realizing the need of the Internet in everyday life, two commerce graduates decided to give free WiFi to people in exchange of a cleaner surrounding with an unique initiative — a ‘WiFi Trash Bin’.

“When somebody dumps trash into a dustbin the bin flashes a unique code, which can be used to gain access to free WiFi, says Prateek Agarwal, one of the two founders of the initiative. He and his partner Raj Desai  hit upon the idea while visiting the NH7 Weekender a music festival which is spread around a large area and as music festivals go is home to music food drinks and of course a lot of garbage.

Beggar's alms fund Rs 1 lakh pigeon tower. Keep thinking positive .... INDIA

BHUJ: Popat, a mentally challenged beggar, has spent nearly 40 years beneath the famous chhatris dedicated to valiant Rajput warriors of Kutch. But soon, Popat will have a concrete tower with his name engraved on it, and that too as its donor.

Priests of a famous Shiva temple in Bhuj will oversee the construction of a chabutro (pigeon-tower), which will cost Rs 1.15 lakh that pan-handler Popat has collected in the last 40 years in alms.

While Popat may not be able to even identify coins and notes, temple priest Mauni Baba has maintained a separate account of the money he has been paying for his tea since 1973.

"Popat has been coming to the temple daily since 1973. After the darshan, we offer him tea. Despite being mentally challenged, he never forgets to pay. But I have been maintaining an account of his contribution and it has swelled to Rs 1.15 lakh," said Mauni Baba of Biharilal Mahadev temple.

"We decided to immortalise Popat by engraving his name on the chabutro as the donor," Baba added.

Popat, who loiters around town, spends most of his time at Dhobi Talan near the royal chhatris. Recently, some kindhearted people arranged for his eye surgery that was performed by a Bhuj opthalmologist, Dr Sanjiv Upadhyay.

Army holds free coaching classes for Kashmiri youth . Keep positive thinking .......

SRINAGAR: Taking a step forward to establish meaningful contact with the youth, the Indian Army on Thursday announced that it has organised free tuitions classes for needy students in north Kashmir's Baramulla district.

"In a distinct initiative, Army based at Baramulla established a meaningful connect with the youth of Baramulla by organising free tuition classes for needy students of Class 10 to 12 at various Schools of Baramulla District," a defence spokesman told IANS here.
"The aim of conducting tuition classes is to provide free education to needy children of the far flung areas in order to create better future prospects for the students."

"General Officer Commanding of 19 Division, Major General Jai Singh Nain motivated the children to dream big and also urged the parents and teachers to aim at holistic development of students thereby facilitating them to become worthy citizens of the country."

Only Positive thinking can change our society. Be positive.......

First blind-friendly train arrives in Varanasi... Be Happy and Remember think positive

VARANASI: The country's first braille-embedded train, Varanasi-Mysuru Express, arrived at Cantonment railway station on Thursday morning. However, no visually-impaired passenger alighted at the Cantt railway station.

"Everyone who boarded the AC coach of the train from Mysuru were the regular passengers and no differently-abled or visually-impaired people were spotted," said an attendant, Ramakrishna. Similar views were echoed by his fellow attendant, Vijay Kurahatti. "We did not find any visually-impaired person here in the train. But, we are expecting them as this is now one of the most convenient means of transport for them," shared Kurahatti.

Green Corridor Save Life.... We did it!.... Be Positive......................

BENGALURU: A green corridor unleashed a new life for a patient of Yashwantpur's Columbia Asia Referral Hospital on Saturday morning as the corridor facilitated transport of a liver from Mysore's JSS hospital, which is 144 kilometres away, in just two and half hours.

The donor, a 38-year-old Mysorean, was declared brain dead late on Friday night after he met a road accident, following which his family decided to donate his organs saving four lives in the city.

The 58-year-old man, who received the liver is from Bellary. He was suffering from liver Cirrhosis and needed an urgent transplant, reported the hospital authority.

"There was perfect coordination among the traffic cops throughout the way to Bengaluru from Mysore and the liver reached us at the right time. We really appreciate the support provided by the police, Zonal Coordination Committee of Karnataka for Transplantation (ZCCK) and JSS hospital for helping create the Green Corridor to Columbia Asia Referral Hospital, Yeshwanthpur", said Dr Nandakumar Jairam, chairman and group medical director of Columbia Asia Referral Hospital.

Green corridor refers to a traffic-free zone facilitating fast transport of organs for transplantation. The distance of 144 kilometre

Dr Kanchan Sanyal, chief of medical services at Columbia Asia Referral Hospital, said, "The procedure of liver transplant has been smooth but such procedures take a longer period of time as it has to be done slowly with meticulous care. There has been no complication in the process."

One kidney of the donor was donated to a 31-year-old woman from Coorg, who was suffering from IGA Nephropathy and had been into peritoneal dialysis for the last two and half years. The other kidney was transported to NU Hospital in Rajajinagar for a transplant.

Dr Mallikarjuna HM, consultant nephrologist and transplant physician at Apollo Hospital, Banerghatta, said, "The transplant has been successful and the patient is stable now. It took three hours for us to complete the transplant surgery."

Dr Kiran Chandra Patro, nephrologist at NU Hospital, said, "The recipient is a 30-year-old patient with kidney defect. He had undergone a transplant before that failed. This is his second transplant after which he would get another chance to live his life to the fullest."

T Swami, ZCCK coordinator, said, "We were not able to find the matching recipient for his heart so it could not be donated. His liver and kidneys were donated to respective recipients in three different hospitals. Corneas were kept for a recipient at JSS Hospital in Mysore."