Month: October 2014
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Hundreds in Kashmir throng Amrita Hospital’s medical relief camp
12 Oct 2014, Bandipore, Jammu Kashmir Hundreds of Kashmir’s flood-victims thronged the medical relief camp set up by Amrita Hospital in Bandipore district of Jammu and Kashmir. A team of 15 medical specialists and paramedics are providing critical medical care to flood victims in the worst-affected areas of the district including Ashtingoo Ghat, Kulhama, Laharwalpora…
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Jammu Kashmir flood: MAM relief works in pictures
After the flood hit the state of Jammu & Kashmir, MAM volunteers visited different villages and distributed essential food items and blankets to the villagers. Read blogs from here. Food and Blankets distribution by MAM volunteers led by Br. Nijamrita Chaitanya and Br. Amit. Educational items for school going children being distributed …
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Home Minister flagged off Amrita Tele Medicine van to Jammu Kashmir
06 Oct 2014, New Delhi Victims of the recent Kashmir floods will receive state-of-the-art medical aid from the Mata Amritanandamayi Math (MAM), as two mobile units equipped with health and relief facilities were flagged off from the capital by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh. Hailing ‘Amma’ as humanitarian icon for her charity activities, the…
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Low-cost EEG system for epilepsy and brain-computer Interface
27 Sep 2014, Amritapuri Amritavarsham – Amma’s 61st Birthday Celebrations Amrita Centre for Nanosciences introduced Amrita Veechi, a low-cost wireless EEG system for detecting epilepsy and concussions. This device can be used via a brain-computer interface and will be very helpful in cognitive studies. PC George, Chief Whip, Kerala, unveiled Amrita Veechi during Amritavarsham 61,…
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Microbial Fuel Cell generating electricity from wastewater
27 Sep 2014, Amritapuri Amritavarsham – Amma’s 61st Birthday Celebrations The Amrita Center of Biotechnology introduced a Microbial Fuel Cell, which utilizes energy from bacterial growth in wastewater to generate electricity while simultaneously bringing about purification of the wastewater–an important step in addressing the sanitation and energy problems that are very relevant in our country.…
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Big Data Framework and Inter Operable Platform devices launched
27 Sep 2014, Amritapuri Amritavarsham – Amma’s 61st Birthday Celebrations Amrita Big Data Framework (ABDF) is an all-integrated framework for effortless Big Data analytics that can help one analyze large sets of data and eek out intelligence for improved decision-making allowing optimization and enhanced efficiency. ABDF has applications to diverse fields from medicine, engineering, social…
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GetVu’s augmented reality glasses
27 Sep 2014, Amritapuri Amritavarsham – Amma’s 61st Birthday Celebrations Imagine a fully interactive augmented reality–an extra layer on top of our world that we can see, grab and control. With GetVu’s platform, instead of using voice controls to indirectly interact with a virtual object, you could reach out and move it around with your…
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Amrita Jeevanam, a low-cost medical device for rural villagers
27 Sep 2014, Amritapuri Amritavarsham – Amma’s 61st Birthday Celebrations Amrita Jeevanam is a low-cost medical device that combines a medical device, an interface device, and mobile device all configured with Amrita’s health-awareness and monitoring program. Villages in rural India often do not have easy access to timely healthcare, village patients will greatly benefit by…
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Amrita Nidhi pension for widows and handicapped extended by 30,000 more
27 Sep 2014, Amritapuri Amritavarsham – Amma’s 61st Birthday Celebrations The Mata Amritanandamayi Math would like to extend the reach of its Amrita Nidhi pension program, from 69,000 to 99,000–30,000 more pensions. On this occassion of Amma’s 61st Birthday, certificates of enrollment and first pension checks to 100 of the new beneficiaries were distributed.
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Vidyamritam scholarship program extended from 46,000 to 51,000 beneficiaries
27 Sep 2014, Amritapuri Amritavarsham – Amma’s 61st Birthday Celebrations Mata Amritanandamayi Math extended the reach of its Vidyamritam Scholarships for the underprivileged by another 5,000. Vidyamritam started in 2007 and, through it, 46,000 children are currently receiving scholarships in the form of a monthly stipend until they finish their education. Vidyamritam’s reach was extended…