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Necessity of time-bound verdicts after completion of hearing

Necessity of time-bound verdicts after completion of hearing

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Five-member Constitution Bench of Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi completed hearing of long-pending case-numbers WPC 32855 and 32856 of 2009 in April 2019. But the verdict on these cases filed by registry of Supreme Court against CIC-verdicts on various aspects with regard to the administration of the top court is still awaited. Hearing of the cases may lapse in case verdict does not come before retirement of Chief Justice on 17.11.2019. There should be a set mechanism whereby verdicts by courts may compulsory be in a time-bound period of say three months after competition of hearing, but definitely before retirement of any of the bench-members. Practice may also be that verdicts on cases where hearing might have completed before long vacations (like summer vacations)...
ICMR Award to 46 scientists for excellence in biomedical research

ICMR Award to 46 scientists for excellence in biomedical research

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Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare, Dr. Harsh Vardhan conferred the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)'s awards for excellence in biomedical research on Wednesday. The ICMR awards recognise the contributions of Indian biomedical scientists undertaking pioneering work in various fields of health sciences and finding solutions for the health problems of the country. A total of 39 awards were presented to 46 scientists including 14 women scientists for 2017 and 2018.  The awardees belongs to institutions of ICMR, CSIR, AIIMS, PGI, Chandigarh, SGPGI, Lucknow, IITs, JIPMER, Puducherry, SCTIMST, Thiruvananthapuram, Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi, State and Central Universities and other reputed Institutions across the country. Dr. Harsh Vardhan congratula...
तो अब मुसलमान पहल करेंगे राम मंदिर का

तो अब मुसलमान पहल करेंगे राम मंदिर का

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 जब अयोध्या में विवादित ढांचे के स्वामित्व के सवाल पर सुप्रीम कोर्ट में चल रही सुनवाई अपने अंतिम चरण में पहुंच चुकी है। तब कहीं जाकर इस जटिल मसले  परसमझौते की एक उम्मीद जगी है। देश को लग रहा है कि यह मामला सौहार्दपूर्ण तरीके से हल होने के रास्ते पर बढ़ चला है। इस सकारात्मक माहौल को पैदा करने काकाफी हद तक श्रेय भारतीय सेना के पूर्व  जनरल श्री  जमीरउद्दीन शाह और उनके साथियों को जाता है। शाह साहब कुछ समय पहले तक अलीगढ़ मुस्लिम यूनिवर्सिटी केउप कुलपति भी थे।दरअसल  जनरल साहब की सरपरस्ती  में इंडियन मुस्लिम्स फॉर पीस नामक संस्था ने एक प्रेस वार्ता करके बताया कि अनेक मुस्लिम संगठन  मानतेहैं कि अयोध्या मसले का हल आपसी समझौते से निकाला जा सकता है। इन्होंने एक मसौदा भी तय किया है जिसके अनुसार अयोध्या में बाबरी मस्जिद की जमीन कोसुन्नी वक्फ बोर्ड के जरिए हिन्दुओं को सौंप दिया जाएगा और उसके लिए सुप्रीम...
New finding may help in developing treatment for age-related macular degeneration 

New finding may help in developing treatment for age-related macular degeneration 

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A team of scientists has unraveled the molecular mechanism behind the development of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). It has found that it develops because of abnormal activity of a set of white blood cells called neutrophils and that it can be stopped, and even reversed, by targeting it.  AMD is associated with retinal degeneration and loss of central vision and is the leading cause of blindness in the elderly. The new finding could help develop a treatment for the disease in future. The journey of discovery began with a finding that people suffering from the disease had a significant accumulation of neutrophils in the retina of their eyes. The finding was unusual as the main role of neutrophils is to help the body in its fight against bacterial and other infections and it ha...
This bio-brick can help cut pollution 

This bio-brick can help cut pollution 

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 Traditional brick kilns dotting countryside are a source of air pollution, though they are essential for supplying bricks to the country’s growing construction industry. Another source of pollution is burning of crop stubbles or agro-waste. A new type of brick – made from bio-waste – promises to address both the problems. Researchers from Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad and KIIT School of Architecture, Bhubaneshwar, have developed bricks from agricultural waste products. They have developed a process to use dry waste like paddy straws, wheat straws and sugarcane bagasse to make bricks. It involves chopping the waste to desired size and adding it to lime-based slurry to make homogenous mixture. The mixture is poured into moulds and rammed with a wooden block to make a compact b...
Delhi battles for clear skies and lungs

Delhi battles for clear skies and lungs

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Winter is nearly here and we in Delhi are waiting not to exhale, as the cold heavier air will settle and air pollution will choke us. But with a difference — there is outrage and there is action. There is even evidence that we have bent the pollution curve — though not enough, it does suggest that action is beginning to have an impact. This is what we need. I say this because often, in our combined anger, we forget to stay focused on the need to act, and in a way that we can see the difference, so that we can do more. This is critical. As only when we remain focused on what we must do, can we get our non-negotiable right to breathe. So, what has happened. First, there is public information about the state of air quality and its link to our health. Some years ago, government brought i...
बिना मानवाधिकार उल्लंघन के, व्यापार करे उद्योग: वैश्विक संधि की ओर प्रगति

बिना मानवाधिकार उल्लंघन के, व्यापार करे उद्योग: वैश्विक संधि की ओर प्रगति

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संयुक्त राष्ट्र में दुनिया भर से आए देश एक वैश्विक संधि को पारित करने के लिए एकजुट हैं जो यह सुनिश्चित करे कि जब बहुराष्ट्रीय उद्योग व्यापार करें तो किसी भी क़िस्म का मानवाधिकार उल्लंघन न हो, और दोषी को जवाबदेह ठहराया जा सके। इतिहास में ऐसे अनेक उदाहरण हैं जहां व्यापार के दौरान, वीभत्स मानवाधिकार उल्लंघन हुए। स्थानीय क़ानून भी ऐसे ग़ैर ज़िम्मेदार बहुराष्ट्रीय उद्योग को जवाबदेह ठहराने में असमर्थ रहा है। इसीलिए वैश्विक एवं क़ानूनन रूप से बाध्य संधि, की आवश्यकता है जो बहुराष्ट्रीय उद्योग को व्यापार करने दे परंतु हर प्रकार के मानवाधिकार उल्लंघन पर अंकुश लगाए और दोषी को जवाबदेह ठहराये। उद्योग द्वारा किए जा रहे पर्यावरण के अनियंत्रित दोहन और जलवायु परिवर्तन का जो क़हर है वह सबसे ज़्यादा गरीब और समाज में हाशिये पर रह रहे लोग झेल रहे हैं। इस वैश्विक संधि बैठक में दुनिया के अनेक देशों से 321 सा...
An initiative by a former AMU Vice-Chancellor General Zameeruddin Shah to Withdraw the Muslim Claim to Babri Masjid

An initiative by a former AMU Vice-Chancellor General Zameeruddin Shah to Withdraw the Muslim Claim to Babri Masjid

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An initiative by a former AMU Vice-Chancellor General Zameeruddin Shah to follow the steps of his predecessors like Saiyid Hamid, Col. Basheer Husain Zaidi and Badruddin Tyabji to Withdraw the Muslim Claim to Babri Masjid (Ather Farouqui is an eminent writer and translator who has published eight books in Urdu and two books in English, and is also the author of Islamic Banking in India at the service of Pan-Islamists which forced the UPA-II to reverse the decision to allow Islamic banking, and of Marx My Word, a unique play of Marxist dichotomy.  He has a PhD degree from JNU. For long, he has been arguing that instead of modernizing Deeni Madrasas, the government should provide Urdu education as part of the secular curriculum at the school level itself.  A Sahitya Akademi awardee, he is...
Confusing system of naming High courts : High Courts not renamed after change in name of the cities

Confusing system of naming High courts : High Courts not renamed after change in name of the cities

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Indian cities Bombay, Madras, Allahabad have since been renamed as Mumbai, Chennai and Prayag respectively long time back. But High Courts located in these cities are still officially named after old names of these cities. System should be that names of High Courts may get auto-changed with change in names of cities. It is significant that except for some High Courts, all other High Courts are named after states of their jurisdiction. An RTI response had revealed that while all the High Courts constituted after independence were named after respective main states of jurisdiction, High Courts constituted by British regime in pre-independence era continue to be named as per British legacy on basis of cities of their existence even after 70 long years of independence. Union government s...
With 86-percent Lok Sabha candidates losing security, reforms necessary to bar contesting any election for next six years by security-losing candidates

With 86-percent Lok Sabha candidates losing security, reforms necessary to bar contesting any election for next six years by security-losing candidates

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It refers to data that a vast majority of 86-percent candidates in 2019-elections to Lok Sabha lost security-deposits. Most of security-losing candidates know themselves even before filing nominations that they would be losing security. Many of such candidates are either vote-splitters or file nominations in hope of getting money from rival candidates to withdraw names in favour. Such mockery of poll-process must be stopped by making it one of the measures for much-needed and most awaited massive and consolidated poll-reform. Also all those getting votes less than NOTA should be disqualified for life to contest any election. Such a provision may pave way for an ideal two-party system which is essential for heathy democratic system. A sitting MLA, MLC or MP must resign first from earlier...