February 23, 2013
Final-year students of BTech (Chemical Engineering) at the Coimbatore campus, Dharani Sundara Rajan, Mythreyi Unni and N.S. Santhosh recently won the second prize in the 7th edition of the prestigious. . .
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February 19, 2013
“I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains, of ragged mountain ranges, of droughts and flooding rains.” The Australian poet Dorothea Mackellar thus portrayed the vast landscape of. . .
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January 31, 2013
The World Health Organization recognizes the existence of some 20,000 medicinal plants on this planet today, all having a wide range of therapeutic properties. The isolation, characterization and standardization of. . .
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January 18, 2013
In the conventional power supply scenario, the electric power feeders in different areas are manually switched off when the demand goes above the scheduled supply. This causes immense revenue loss. . .
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December 14, 2012
Vazachal is a small rainforest in Kerala near the Anamalai hills. Home to the tribal population of Kadars, it provides forest produce to this primitive tribe. First-year students of Master. . .
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December 13, 2012
Social enterprises operate as independent businesses with the goal of generating profits. However, these enterprises have a clear and explicit mission to create a positive societal impact. This cogent definition. . .
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December 12, 2012
“1.2 billion people worldwide live in areas that face water scarcity. 1.4 billion people have no access to electricity. Where on the one hand, food is wasted daily, 925 million. . .
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December 12, 2012
A three-day International Conference was organized during December 12-14, 2012, by the Amrita School of Business in collaboration with Deakin University, Australia, at Amrita’s Coimbatore Campus. The conference titled Sustainable. . .
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November 16, 2012
India is the third largest producer of coconuts in the world. Coconuts play an important role in our national economy; not only are coconuts eaten, parts of the fruit and. . .
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September 22, 2012
The number of fossil-fuel-powered personal transport vehicles in India, including cars and two-wheelers, are increasing at an alarming rate, resulting not only in traffic problems in cities, but also worsening. . .
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