Quick notes: AIIMS quota order, amphibious bicycle...

• The Supreme Court verdict against reservation in specialty and super-specialty courses in engineering and medical colleges, including AIIMS, is generating political heat from expected quarters. This proposition is now binding on courts of lower, coordinate and later jurisdiction. 



• Google Science Fair (GSF) 2013 has announced the 15 global finalists. Out of them, seven are of Indian origin.



• The Integral Coach Factory has joined hands with IIT Madras to design solar-powered coaches that will draw power from the sun for interior lighting and cooling.



• It took Mohammad Saidullah three days and just over $130 dollars to create his amphibious bicycle which he named after his wife Noor. Professor Anil Gupta has been traversing India in search of inventions that are changing the lives of the country’s rural poor.