When T. Siva Ramalingam had moved to the city sometime in the early 2000s, he found that not only was Chennai sweltering hot; there were also very few trees and plants in the surrounding areas that further aggravated the heat.
The idea was envisioned by V. Srinivasa Chakravarthy, who is a faculty at Computational Neuroscience lab of Department of Biotechnology, three years ago.
The seaplane is fitted with the engine of a Maruti Omni car and has a maximum speed of 100 km per hour. This comes as an advantage, for regular boats cannot operate at such an elevated speed in the backwaters.
Born to Kochi residents, Mullaparambil Thomas Joseph and Chinnamma Joseph in 1976, Clint was named after the legendary actor and filmmaker, Clint Eastwood.
A chemical engineering student at Manipal Institute of Technology, Shreya Siddanagowda had received the arms from Sachin, a B.Com final year student of Ernakulam’s Rajagiri College.
By painting his body and donning different ‘Vesha’ during the grand celebration of Sri Krishna Janmashtami for the last four years, Ravi Katapady has been collecting money for underprivileged children in need of corrective surgery in Udupi.
It all began with Nagnath Vibhute, who is a primary teacher in the government school, stumbling across a piece of information that mentioned a Marathi Vidyalaya in Australia.
The reason behind banning the sale of non-tobacco products such as toffees, candies, chips, biscuits, and soft drinks at these shops is that they attract many youngsters and non-smokers who are quite susceptible to taking up the practice.