Oceans Day is celebrated every year on June 8 to conserve the water body through collective efforts and save it from the perils of human activities. World Oceans Day 2022 theme is ‘Revitalisation : Collective Action for the Ocean’. It aims at encouraging collective action for the preservation of the water body as the oceans are an essential link that ... Read More »
Yearly Archives: 2022
‘Only One Earth’: Everything to know about World Environment Day, 2022
World Environment Day is celebrated on June 5 each year, led by the United Nations Environment Programme, to raise awareness about the degrading environment and encourage people to take positive actions and help create a better future. Mankind’s progress in the last century was accompanied by a massive increase in natural resource exploitation. Each decade has seen an incremental increase ... Read More »
VIVAN celebrates its 12th Anniversary !!!
On 16th May, we celebrated our 12th Anniversary… We are 12 years young marching towards our goal with relentless commitment. We look forward to a joyful journey ahead to reach extraordinary goals that we have set for the future ! Thank you everyone one who has been a part of our company’s success over the years. We greatly appreciate and ... Read More »
To Avoid Burnout, Take a Long-term Perspective on Mental Health
Jessica Louie, PharmD, CEO and founder of The Burnout Doctor Podcast, discusses in her latest podcast how students can manage burnout. Although the words are often used interchangeably, there are key differences between them. Notably, stress is often the precursor to burnout, so managing the former can help prevent the latter. Burnout is characterized by exhaustion, cynicism, and decreased self-efficacy, ... Read More »
Benefits of Struggling!
A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared, he sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and it could go no farther. ... Read More »
Save Water today, or tomorrow you’ll pay !
It is a common saying that there is power in numbers, which means that if all of us get together and do our small parts in saving water, we will surely be able to do so collectively. While individual acts of saving water can do little, if all of us waste less water, or more judiciously consume water, it will ... Read More »
Entrepreneurism Requires More Determination Than Luck!
Entrepreneurism is actually more a function of hard work, networking, and certainly a dash of creative thinking than it is eccentricity, luck, or superior genius. Some people think of entrepreneurs as eccentric inventors who come up with an ingenious idea or get lucky when an out-of-the-box idea simply “sticks” in our increasingly viral and social-media driven environment. But entrepreneurism is ... Read More »
Value & Invest in Yourself!
If you are into financial investment, you’re probably very familiar with Mr. Warren Buffet (1951–present). He is the most successful investor in the world. His investment strategies are legendary and many people seek to learn after him. Even more respectable, he pledged to give away 99% of his wealth (more than $30 billions at the time of the pledge in 2006) ... Read More »
Powerful tool to monitor membrane proteins trafficking for drug discovery
Inside your body on the surface of cell membranes, a metaphorical communication and traffic network is underway as hormones – or chemical messengers – bind to cell membrane receptors to fine tune how the cell behaves. Once bound together, this hormone-receptor complex works to carry out a variety of functions by ferrying chemical signals from outside the cell and translating ... Read More »
Kochi Students Create Low-Cost Innovative Solution That Triples Hydroponics Yield
A group of students from the Federal Institute of Science and Technology (FISAT), Ernakulam, have developed a nutrition formula in hydroponics farming that gives three times more yield with lesser intake of water and fertilizers. The project was initiated in 2019 under the leadership of three assistant professors – Mahesh C, Bejoy Varghese and Rajesh TR. They continued experimenting even when ... Read More »