International players in the food industry continue to innovate, by adding local ingredients and flavours in order to entice Indian foodies, who are yet to fully embrace global cuisine in its original form.
"We (India and Singapore) share our food. Am absolutely fascinated by the Indian cabbage and spices and we are now experimenting with spices and ingredients available in other countries, hence, sharing the cuisine," says Chef Benjamin Seck of Singapore based True Blue Cuisine restaurant who was here on a short visit. Read more
Source : daily.bhaskar.com
India is yet to utilise its solar potential; at present, solar power (photovoltaic and concentrating solar thermal power) contributes a mere 0.4 per cent of the total power generation.
1.43 lakh units for economically weaker sections: R.Vaithilingam
One of the stalls at the exhibition at Municipalika that got under way on Monday in Chennai. Photo: S.S.Kumar.
The State will get an additional 1.85 lakh housing units in the next five years at a cost of Rs.17,230 crore. Of these, 1.43 lakh units would be for the economically weaker sections, R.Vaithilingam, Minister for Housing and Urban Development said on Monday.
Speaking at the inauguration of Municipalika, ‘10 international conference and exhibition on good urban governance for safe, healthy, green, inclusive and smart cities', he said 39,000 units were for other income groups divided into low, medium and high. Read more
Source : thehindu.com
As children move from concrete to abstract concepts in learning, educators are constantly experimenting with ways to make the subject more ‘real' for children.
Bindu Thirumalai
With innovations in technology, educators have been exploring possibilities of using simulations for science and graphic calculators for mathematics, to bring alive and animate certain phenomenon or concepts. Read more
Source : thehindu.com
A knowledge economy like ours has to understand the new knowledge society that civil society is seeking to create
One of the ironic things about the new year is that we actually think it is new. We expect new thoughts, new models and new rituals and all we get is the re-treading of old ideas. Last few days saw the celebration of a whole series of events around innovation. There was the venerable Indian Science Congress celebrating its 99th session. I want to look at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s speech as a part of the landscape of current thought. Read more
Source : asianage.com
Bhubaneswar: Director General of Indian Council of Agriculture and Research (ICAR) S Ayappan has underscored the importance of scientific research in the field of agriculture and the challenges it is facing presently.
While speaking on 'Feeding Crores for Ever' during the 99th Science Congress at the KIIT University, Ayappan said that the work of the scientists in the areas spanning pesticides, agricultural machines, rural development, renewable energy sources, materials technology, molecular plant breeding and genetically improved grains is changing our agriculture and spearheading a remarkable silent revolution which is shaping our country's progress through this decade of innovation. Read more
Source : indiaeducationdiary.in
One of India’s most important industries has a knackered balance-sheet
ONE recent evening in Mumbai a tangerine Lamborghini could be seen taxiing past a sign prohibiting bullock carts, wheeling left and then letting rip on the Sea Link toll-bridge, one of the city’s few bits of decent infrastructure. For three miles all the driver’s Michael Schumacher fantasies must have came true. But by the fourth he drove off the bridge back into reality: roads whose surfaces often wash away during the monsoon and whose repair is said to be in the hands of mafias. The supercar returned to rickshaw speed.
For the past half decade India’s infrastructure industry has enjoyed a Sea Link moment; a blast of growth when one could imagine that the private sector could deliver all the new roads, bridges, power stations and airports that the country needs so badly. The government says the boom will continue. Over the next five years it predicts that infrastructure investment will reach a new high relative to GDP, with some $1 trillion spent, half of it by the private sector. The trouble with this rosy prediction is that the balance-sheets of many Indian infrastructure firms are as potholed as the roads they resurface. Read More
Source: Economist.com
Bangalore : KSRTC and BMTC were able to rake in the moolah in 2011
The Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) and the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) continued to remain among the top State Road Transport Corporations which posted profits in March 2011. While KSRTC posted Rs 62.05 crore, BMTC was not far behind with Rs 50.35 crore. 
The Corporations’ profits would not have been achieved without the introduction of new initiatives and innovations in public transportation. With the implementation of ethanol-blended bio-diesel buses, the State Corporations moved a step further than their counterparts in other states, towards providing cleaner and greener mass transport. Read more
Source : deccanherald.com
An initiative taken by the district administration in Kolhapur to protect the girl child has succeeded in arresting the rising incidents of female foeticide
India is facing a severe problem of declining percentage of the girl child in the 0-6 age group. In many rural and even urban parts of India, extensive misuse of the technology such as sonography machines to easily identify the sex of the foetus has become a common technique and also an unethical practice for the doctors and radiologists to earn easy money. While sex determination and sex selection is a criminal offence in India, it has not stopped doctors and even parents from indulging in this horrific practice. The reason — if no one complains, no one can detect, as the crime is done with mutual consent from both the parties — the doctor and the patient.
As per the PCPNDT Act, every pregnant Ultrasound Sonography (USG) test needs to be recorded and reported to appropriate government authorities in the ‘F’ form as prescribed in the law. But the responsibility of such record generation lies with doctors and radiologists. In the case of sex selection, such records were either not generated or falsely reported. Read more
Source : informationweek.in
What is it about India that all sensible policy changes have to happen only through fudge and illegality?
India is urbanising at a rate where we will need 15 new cities every year for the next 20 years. Despite some illegalities, Lavasa is a pilot project to learn from.
Our cable TV revolution happened by tossing cables from tree-top to buildings. There was no law to enable it. Our capital market was democratised by Dhirubhai Ambani, who sought to lower capital costs by converting debt into high-priced equity through dubious means. His son Mukesh brought mobile telephony to the masses by pressuring the NDA government to lower licence fees through a legal fudge: labelling fixed line telephony, which attracted lower licence fees, as wireless in local loop. Read more
Source : firstpost.com
At the United Nations, a new exhibit from the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum — "Design With the Other 90%: Cities" — highlights the types of innovations from developing markets that are improving the ability of citizens to live in densely-populated, urban environments where resources ranging from water to education are in scarce supply. At a time when the conventional wisdom holds that the flow of innovation is from the developed world to the developing world, is it really possible that any of these innovations — many of them specifically created for the world’s worst “slums” — will ever make their way to the United States?
A child living in a slum plays on a swing under a bridge on the bank of Bagmati River in Kathmandu October 17, 2011. (NAVESH CHITRAKAR - REUTERS)
Already, some areas of the U.S. might have more in common with the vast urban slums of the developing world than many of us might be willing to admit. (If you visit the exhibit at the UN, check your preconceptions at the door.) For example, in one of the maps created for the exhibit called Informal Settlement World Map — a team of researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Design mapped out the growth of slum households worldwide, based on five different criteria: inadequate housing, insufficient living space, insecure land tenure, lack of access to water and lack of access to sanitation. While the bulk of these “slums” are located in regions we might expect — Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and South East Asia — there are also glowing orange triangles of slums stretching from the California-Mexico border all the way to Texas and then up and down the Eastern Seaboard. Read more
Source : washingtonpost.com
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