Coolpad Note 3 Plus With 5.5-Inch Full-HD Display, 3GB of RAM Launched at Rs. 8,999

 

Coolpad has launched another variant of its Note 3 smartphone in India, the Coolpad Note 3 Plus.

Indian Army's Super 30 in Kashmir attains excellent results in JEE Mains

 

The result of the JEE (Mains) 2016 competitive examination has brought great cheer to the engineering aspirants of Jammu and Kashmir, especially the Kashmir valley.
15 students of the state coached under the Super 30 programme sponsored by the Indian Army, as a part of its two and a half decade old welfare initiative 'Operation Sadbhavna', have cleared this prestigious examination.
This initiative by the Indian Army was launched in 2014. It is based on the model of the Super 30 in Bihar that has attained global recognition. The Kashmir Super 30 is being run in partnership with the Centre for Social Responsibility and Leadership.

 

SURPRISING

Aadhar card downloads cross 40 Crore mark: UIDAI

 

The Aadhar card downloads have crossed the 40 crore mark while on an average 6 lakh Aadhar cards are downloaded every day.

Lenovo Vibe S1 gets Android 6.0 Marshmallow update in India

 

Lenovo Vibe S1 has joined the race of Android 6.0 Marshmallow devices in India. The Chinese tech giant has rolled out Android Marshmallow update for the smartphone, a news shared by Lenovo India's head of product and marketing, Anuj Sharma on microblogging site Twitter.

'Cactus extract can purify contaminated water'

The technology makes use of century-old knowledge that mucilage from some common cacti can clean drinking water. Using boiled prickly pear cactus to capture particles in sediment-laced dirty water makes the sediments sink, and the water at the top of the bucket becomes clear and drinkable,researchers said.

"We found there is an attraction between the mucilage of cactus and arsenic," said Norma Alcantar, from the University of South Florida (USF) in US.

"The mucilage also attracts sediments, bacteria and other contaminants. It captures these substances and forms a large mass or 'floc' that sort of looks like cotton candy," Alcantar said.

Common worldwide, cacti are a sustainable product and are not only nontoxic, but are edible and considered a delicacy. Cactus mucilage was found to be an effective oil dispersant, and could be used to clean up oil spills from seawater, researchers said.

The researchers found that cactus extract could clean recirculating aquarium water, as well as water in aquaculture tanks and ponds. They are currently studying the chemical composition of the mucilage, which is made up of carbohydrates and some 60 sugars, with the goal of synthesising it in a lab.

They are developing a prototype of a recirculating aquaculture system that uses cactus extract as a cleansing agent and they will conduct a life cycle analysis of the system.