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Welcome connecting Vaisho Devi shrine with New Delhi through Vande Bharat Express

Welcome connecting Vaisho Devi shrine with New Delhi through Vande Bharat Express

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Indian Railways deserves all compliments for connecting Vaishno Devi shrine (Jammu and Kashmir) with New Delhi with most modern and comfortable Vande Bharat Express with inaugural run from New Delhi on 03.10.2019 during auspicious Navratras. It will be a still better gift for devotees travelling through Vande Bharat Express if they are provided with added service of auto-booking of helicopter-service between Katra and Vaishno Devi for desiring passengers. Likewise collaboration can be made with some air-conditioned guest-house (private or government) for comfortable stay provided with bus-service between Katra railway-station and the collaborated guest-house for desiring passengers. Rather a package-tour between New Delhi and Vaishno Devi can be designed by IRCTC comprising of travel th...
Noble way to save environment from poly-packing of milk

Noble way to save environment from poly-packing of milk

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Mother Dairy has given newspaper-advertisements on 02.10.2019 motivating people to buy Token-Milk to discourage use of plastic in poly-pack milk. Evidently Token-Milk is quite cheaper than poly-pack milk of same standard because of saving of packing-cost. But big question is that poly-pack milk is available in too many variants and qualities, while Token-Milk is available only in one variety that too only on selected Mother Dairy booths and not with private retailers selling poly-pack milk in all varieties and variants that too also of other milk-giants like highest-selling brand Amul. It is noted that since last few days, all milk poly-packs have print that packing is made of recyclable plastic Best way to conserve environment is that customers may be given bags of environment-friendly...
ODF India is an immense achievement, but it must be made sustainable: CSE

ODF India is an immense achievement, but it must be made sustainable: CSE

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India, as per official claims and proclamations, is all set to become open defecation free (ODF) on October 2, 2019, a day that marks the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. In the past four years, India has built 100 million toilets in about 0.6 million villages, and another 6.3 million in its cities. By all accounts, it is an incredible feat. As per a 2019 report of the Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) for water supply and sanitation, of Unicef and the World Health Organization (WHO), between 2000 and 2014, open defecation decreased by some 3 percentage points a year, while between 2015 and 2019 it reduced at over 12 percentage points a year. According to government estimates, by February 2019, over 93 per cent of the country’s rural households had access to toilets; over 96...

Thanks to Ayushman Bharat – Life Turns Normal to this Remote Islander

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52 Year Old Ratan Barai from Andaman and Nicobar hails from a poor family and was suffering from Myocardial Infarction. He was admitted to the G B Pant Hospital in Port Blair pain on the left side of the chest and profuse sweating. He also had Diabetes Mellitus. Investigations revealed Acute Anterior Wall Myocardial Infarction. He was stabilized with medical management and later referred to cardiologists in the mainland for further expert treatment. Since there is no treatment facility for heart ailments in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, all such patients travel to mainland India for treatment in cities like Kolkata and Chennai. For RatanBarai this was difficult as he did not have enough money. However when he learnt of the cashless insurance protection through Ayushman Bhara...
Abolish useless practice of having Oath Commissioners and Notary Public

Abolish useless practice of having Oath Commissioners and Notary Public

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It refers to Rajasthan High Court on 25.09.2019 directing action against two Oath Commissioners having attested an affidavit while the applicant was out of the country. Such an illegal practice is quite common when usually Oath Commissioners and Notary Public fulfill formality of attesting documents without verifying the person or signature whose signatures are to be attested. Central government has done away with many outdated laws and practices having been continued in free India as British legacy even after seven long decades of independence. Time has come to abolish the totally outdated and useless practice of having Oath-Commissioners and Notary Public who are mostly in malpractice of charging fees much in excess than rupees 20 and 30 respectively as fixed by the government. Many f...
Technology awards presented to four labs

Technology awards presented to four labs

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President of India Ram Nath Kovind and Minister for Science and Technology, Earth Sciences Dr. Harsh Vardhan on Thursday presented the Technology Awards and other prizes for excellence in science and technology, instituted by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).   The winners of the CSIR Technology Awards are - Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow; Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute, Bhavnagar; Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research, Dhanbad; and National Aerospace Laboratories, Bengaluru.  The awards were instituted in 1990 to foster and encourage multi-disciplinary in-house team efforts and external interaction for technology development, transfer and commercialization . Prof. Amitabha Chattopadhyay of Centre for Cellular and Mol...
CSIR announces the winners of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar prize for 2019

CSIR announces the winners of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar prize for 2019

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Twelve scientists from different institutions across the country have been chosen for the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar prize for 2019. The award winners include  Dr. Kayarat Saikrishnan of Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune and Dr. Soumen Basak of National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi (biological sciences),  Dr. Raghavan B Sunoj of IIT, Bombay and Dr. Tapas Kumar Maji of Jawahar Lal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bengaluru (Chemical Sciences), and Dr. Dishant Mayur Bhai Pancholi of Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, and Dr. Nina Gupta of Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata (Mathematical Sciences).  The other winners are: Dr. Dheeraj Kumar of International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi and Dr....
New-designed portal www.pgportal.gov.in for lodging complaints not working properly

New-designed portal www.pgportal.gov.in for lodging complaints not working properly

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Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (Government of India) has on 25.09.2019 introduced a new-designed version of www.pgportal.gov.in for lodging complaints about listed public-authorities in the option-list, but only with cosmetic changes. But the new-designed portal is not working properly because option-list of listed public-authorities not appearing. Department should immediately resolve the problem. This portal should be made more user-friendly by auto-emailing responses on lodged complaints without requiring to visit the portal to know the response. Bar on special characters used in posted submissions should be removed for ease of commoners not having much knowledge of internet and typing. This portal should restore resolution of suggestions posted on the por...
India should raise issue of drastic change in demography in Pakistan in counter to Pakistan crying on alleged atrocities on minorities in India

India should raise issue of drastic change in demography in Pakistan in counter to Pakistan crying on alleged atrocities on minorities in India

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Ever since articles 370 and 35A have been repealed from Indian constitution by India through two-third majority in both Houses of Indian Parliament even with many opposition parties (except of course Congress, the generator of these poisonous provisions under Prime Ministership of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru), Pakistan is crying like anything on all global forums, though in vain, about alleged atrocities by India on Kashmiris allegedly for their being Islamic. Even though India through its bold stand has gained support globally even from unexpected sectors including Islamic world, yet sharper weapon of grilling Pakistan on drastic change in demography of Pakistan after independence with Hindu minority shrinking from 15-percent at time of independence to now at about just 1.5-percent is not ...
With top-ranking politicians now under ED scanner, annexures to NN Vohra report on politicians-criminals nexus be made public

With top-ranking politicians now under ED scanner, annexures to NN Vohra report on politicians-criminals nexus be made public

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Enforcement Directorate under present Central Government is acting freely in right direction by boldly acting against top-ranking politicians of the country to expose open secret of their ultra-richness which till now was hided by investigating agencies because of their hi-fi status. It is high time that Central Government approaches Supreme Court for lifting stay on making public annexures to report submitted by NN Vohra Committee set up to probe nexus of criminals and politicians. Presently only final report but only with recommendations has been published. But annexures which contains names of several hi-fi politicians was not done by the then Central Government. Subsequently a stay-order was obtained from Supreme Court on publication of the annexures under the changed era of transpa...