Author: Dialogue India

For a while now, the scientific community has known that global warming is caused by humanmade emissions in the form of greenhouse gases and global cooling by air pollution in the form of aerosols. However, new research published in Science by Hebrew University of Jerusalem Professor Daniel Rosenfeld shows that the degree to which aerosols cool the earth has been grossly underestimated, necessitating a recalculation of climate change models to more accurately predict the pace of global warming. Aerosols are tiny particles that float in the air. They can form naturally (e.g., desert dust) or artificially (e.g., smoke from coal, car exhaust). Aerosols cool our environment by enhancing cloud cover that reflect the sunlight (heat) back to space. As for the first, clouds form when ...

बोफोर्स मामले में भ्रष्टाचार के आरोप के बाद तत्कालीन राजीव गांधी सरकार को सत्ता से हाथ धोना पड़ा, तब से भ्रष्टाचार के मामले राजनीति में विरोधी पक्ष का सत्ता पक्ष के विरुद्ध एक प्रमुख चुनावी हथियार बन गया है।छत्तीसगढ़ प्रदेश में भी पिछले 15 वर्ष के दौरान भारतीय जनता पार्टी की सरकार के विरुद्ध विपक्ष कांग्रेस पार्टी ने भ्रष्टाचार के अनेक आरोप लगाए। अब जब कांग्रेस पार्टी लगभग तीन चौथाई बहुमत से सत्ता पर क़ाबिज़ हो गयी है, रोज़ किसी न किसी अनियमितता के प्रकरणों पर जाँच के आदेश दिए जा रहे हैं। ऐसा सत्ता बदलने के बाद हर राज्य में होता है, लेकिन कुछ अपवाद छोड़ दिए जाएं तो भ्रष्टाचार के आरोपों में घिरे किसी पूर्व मंत्री या उच्च अधिकारियों के मामले किसी निष्कर्ष तक पहुचे हो या फिर उन्हें सज़ा मिली हो, नहीं देखा। इसका मतलब क्या यह है कि भ्रष्टाचार के मुद्दे केवल चुनावी लाभ लेना या जनता में सत्तारूढ़...

It was only after revelation through RTI application that Department of Posts discontinued postal-orders in outdated denominations like rupees 1, 2, 5 and 7 because of extremely low sale-figure and high handling cost. According to an RTI response, handling cost of a postal-order was rupees 37.45 to Department of Posts alone in the year 2011-12. Handling cost for clearing-operation of banks is even extra. It is highly illogical that public-exchequer may bear such extra-ordinary loss in handling postal-orders in denominations like rupees 10 and 20. Rather it is time that higher denominations like of rupees 100, 200 and 500 may be added to avoid purchase of demand-drafts in submitting various types of fees. Government-fees below rupees 50 may either be increased or totally abolished. Or De...

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