Nipah virus (NiV) infection is a newly emerging zoonosis, a disease which can be transmitted to humans from animals, that causes severe rapid, fatal respiratory and neurologic disease in both humans and animals. The natural host of the virus are fruit bats of the Pteropodidae Family, and the Pteropus genus but they are symptomless carriers… The organism which causes Nipah…
Once upon a time, the colours used during Holi were prepared from the flowers of trees that blossomed during spring like flowers of ‘tesu’ or ‘palash’ tree and known as gulal. Most of these trees also had medicinal properties and the colours obtained from them were highly beneficial to the skin and body. With the rapid commercialisation of this festival…
Aquaponics is gaining attention around the country as the future of farming. What does aquaponics stand for?? Combine fish raising (aqua-culture) and water gardening (hydroponics), you will get “AquaPonics”. It is a self-sustaining cycle where Fish supply nutrients to the plants and the plants clean the fish water. Let’s look at how much water it saves. Compared to soil agriculture, plants can only take…
