A study which was recently published in the American Society for Microbiology’s Applied and Environmental Biology journal suggested that the use of hand dryers for about 30 seconds contaminates our hands with about 18-60 colonies of harmful bacteria. The study was conducted on a rather small-scale by the team in 36 bathrooms of the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. The …

We have probably all heard the wise saying – the sky is the limit.  This would seem to have a lot of wisdom in it at first glance. Normally, it is said that sky is the limit but what exactly you are capable of doing can never be a limit. As a child, I often heard that phrase when people …

Tourists visiting Goa have one common complaint about the state- it is too littered. The plastic bags and other containers just litter the streets and beaches of our favorite tourist destination. EcoPosro came to the state’s rescue when they opened their zero waste eco store in Goa. It is Goa’s first ever store of its kind. Their mantra is Zero …

Everybody wishes to stand out from the crowd. But there is no clear way that one can go about doing so. There is a wish in everyone’s heart to be extraordinary and not be the same boring person like everyone else. Looking around us, we see all types of people; some of them are very ordinary and do all the …

People love to travel. It is one of the things that we do to get out of our boring everyday lives and bring some thrill and adventure in our routine. This benefits the managements of the tourist places as well as they reap in money from tourists. However, hordes of people gathering at a single place can have drastic effects …

The moment time comes to your mind, the first image you made your mind is a clock which is an instrument that measures and show time. For millennia, humans have been measuring time in various ways, some including tracking the movement of the sun with sundials, the use of water clocks, candle clocks and hourglasses. However, our modern-day system of …

Vaisakhi is widely-celebrated by the Punjabi community whether it is in their home state or abroad. With the celebrations comes the tradition that has been followed for years. The annual Surrey Vaisakhi Parade is one of the largest such celebration in North America. The festival draws out nearly half a million people out to the streets and about 200 vendors …

Sometimes we see the nature around us and we observe that there are many lessons that we can learn from nature. One of the key lessons is patience. We see it everywhere in nature. Right from the river slowly cutting its way through rocks to the trees patiently growing to their mighty statures, patience can be seen everywhere in nature. …

In the Ajmer district of Rajasthan, there lies a small village by the name of Chhota Narena. If you had visited the village about an year ago, you would have found yourself surrounded by huge mounds of garbage all along the sides of the streets. However, today, the whole village is totally clean and runs right along with the Swachh …

Life is full of doing and rejecting something. Doing something in life is not final and failure by noting doing anything or rejecting something is not fatal.  It is definitely a continued process.  How difficult life may have seemed, there is always something you can do and succeed at. Always say Yes to three As – Accept, Adjust and Appreciate.   …