Water-cleaning robot to debut at Basukinath Dham
Ranchi, July 25: An autonomous water-cleaning robot developed by five final-year BTech students of Dumka Engineering College in Jharkhand will be deployed to clean the Shiv Ganga pond at Basukinath Dham during the upcoming Shravani Mela, beginning July 30. Named ‘Nature’s Revival Autonomous Water Cleaning Robot’, the device will be deployed for the first time at the pond, officials said here on Saturday. Koushal Kumar, a member of the project team who has been appointed as an electrical engineer at a private firm in Pune, said the robot is equipped with three different types of motors and a photoelectric sensor to prevent collisions with hard surfaces or obstacles. The robot was built on a sturdy base of plastic drums fitted with an aluminium frame. Kumar said the robot was initially developed as a prototype for their final-year project. (PTI)
Five killed as car falls into dam in Madhya Pradesh
Rajgarh (MP), July 25: Five men were killed after their speeding car veered off the road and plunged into a roadside dam in Madhya Pradesh’s Rajgarh district on Saturday, police said. The accident occurred near Bhilkhedi junction under the Khujner police station limits, about 30 km from the Rajgarh district headquarters. The car was on its way from Pachore towards Khujner, SHO Ravi Thakur told PTI over the phone. The victims were residents of Aranya village in neighbouring Shajapur district, he added. Police, assisted by residents and the administration, launched a rescue operation and retrieved the submerged vehicle from the dam. All five occupants were found dead at the scene, Thakur said. Police have launched an investigation to ascertain the exact cause of the accident, he added. (PTI)
