River Ganga Now Left With Just 15 Pct of Pure Water

River Ganga Now Left With Just 15 Pct of Pure Water

By SiliconIndia | Wednesday, 05 June 2013, 04:08 Hrs

Further, the Ministry of Environment and Forest has sanctioned projects worth Rs 2,598.47 crore under NGRBA to UP, Uttarakhand, Bihar and West Bengal and it is noted that UP got maximum funds - Rs 1,341.60 crore - from the Centre for pollution abatement works on the Ganga. But the progress is slow on the sanctioned projects.

On the other hand conservationists say that more than funds, public awareness and an administrative will is required to save the Ganga. It was seen that the Ganga water samples have shown excess content of human excreta. Though the river has high oxygen content compared to any other rivers system, the pollution is taking away from it its self-purification properties.

In another report it was stated that in the last one month, Varanasi police received numerous complaints to lodge FIRs against unnamed people for "polluting Ganga River". People are turning a blind eye to the damage caused to the environment and such is the condition of the holy river in our country. The river is believed to wash away the sins but this amount of pollution is like pushing its limits beyond its possible capacity. 

The holy river can be revived only if more efforts are taken to spread awareness and save if from pollution.

10 Major Events In Infosys' History

10 Major Events In Infosys' History

By SiliconIndia | Monday, 03 June 2013, 16:16 IST

Infosys has recalled its iconic leader N.R. Narayana Murthy for the rescue mission following the Indian giant’s underperformance in the last quarters. Murthy will make his comeback as Executive Chairman while son Rohan will assist him in this regard. The market responded with 15 percent slump in shares, following the news. 

Since its inception in 1981, there were many hands and sacrifices under one leader for which the company has been lauded for its overall efforts and contributions. Here are some thrilling events in Infy’s history compiled by Reuters that has inspired many younger generations over the years.

#1 1981 –N.R. Narayana Murthy led the team along with six other engineers in Pune to start the company. The idea of Infosys bloomed out on January 1981, when Murthy and his team mates sat in an apartment to discuss about how they could come up with a company that writes software codes. Within six months, on July 2, 1981, Infosys was registered as a private company. One of the co-founders, N.S. Raghavan’a house in Mumbai was the company’s registered office.

Murthy was said to have borrowed $250 from wife, Sudha Murthy for the starting capital of Infosys Consultants Pvt Ltd, which was its official name.

5 Little Known Indians With Amazing Tech Inventions

India was been a land of many inventions in the past. The number ‘0’, chess, first in medicine (Ayurvedha), first surgery (Sushruta), first to discover and make diamond ornaments, first to extract zinc and a lot many ‘firsts’. However for some reason, lately, Indians are growing more to be a service class population than an innovative one, and so there are not many big inventions to the name of India. And even if there are some real inventions achieved, they do not make it to main stream media, hence stick to their oblivion. Here is a small attempt to highlight some of the little known Indian inventors with amazing inventions.

#5 Ajay Bhatt

Invention: USB

Ajay V. Bhatt is an Indian-American computer architect who helped define and develop several widely used technologies, including USB (Universal Serial Bus), AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port), PCI Express, Platform Power management architecture and various chipset improvements.

5 Brightest Students of India who Won Nobel Prize

Tales of immense pain, infinite sacrifices and courage to overcome unconquerable odds are abundant in the lives of millions of students in our county. Among them, a very few with their raw talent and determination have performed exceptionally well to reach the –pinnacle of success and have brought fame to this great nation. Their academic accomplishments are so imposing that on occasions their CVs looks terrifying. Vision, perseverance, honesty, integrity, respect, and most of all the right to education are the driving force behind their exceptional feats.

Here is a brief overview of 5 exceptional achievers who were extraordinary in studies and went on to win the most prestigious prize known to mankind, the Nobel Prize, and brought great glory to our nation, as listed on Career360.

Mahatma Gandhi's Thoughts Make Debut in China

Mahatma Gandhi's Thoughts Make Debut in China

Beijing: The first Chinese version of a book on Mahatma Gandhi's thoughts was launched today, marking the debut of Gandhian philosophy in a country intensely dominated by the ideology of 'Chairman' Mao Zedong.

'Gandhi's Outstanding Leadership', written by former Indian diplomat-turned-Gandhian Pascal Alan Nazareth, was released at the Peking University's Centre for India Studies in the presence of Indian Ambassador to China S Jaishankar.

Indian IT Firms Sharply Cut Down Engineering Intake

Indian IT Firms Sharply Cut Down Engineering Intake

By SiliconIndia | Tuesday, 23 April 2013, 14:15 IST

Bangalore: IT Firms like Wipro, HCL and Infosys have significantly reduced the number of engineering talent intake. From 5 lakh freshers every year, the numbers have gone down below 2 lakhs due to certain significant reasons.

Though one of them would be the slowdown in global IT demand, the other reason is to move towards ‘sophisticated and complex’ tasks that require skilled engineers as reported by ET.