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लुप्त हो सकते हैं 2050 तक सतलज घाटी के आधे ग्लेशियर

लुप्त हो सकते हैं 2050 तक सतलज घाटी के आधे ग्लेशियर

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जलवायु परिवर्तन का हिमालय क्षेत्र के ग्लेशियरों पर दुष्प्रभाव पड़ रहा है। एक नए अध्ययन ने चेताया है कि चरम जलवायु परिवर्तन के परिदृश्य में सतलज नदी घाटी के ग्लेशियरों में से 55 प्रतिशत  2050 तक और 97 प्रतिशत 2090 तक तक लुप्त हो सकते हैं। इससे भाखड़ा बांध सहित सिंचाई और बिजली की कई परियोजनाओं के लिए पानी की उपलब्धता पर प्रतिकूल प्रभाव पड़ सकता है। सतलज नदी घाटी में 1426 वर्ग किलोमीटर में फैले क्षेत्र में छोटे-बड़े कुल 2026 ग्लेशियर हैं। जलवायु परिवर्तन का सबसे पहले प्रभाव छोटे ग्लेशियरों पर पड़ेगा, वे तेज़ी से पिघलेंगे। इस नए अध्ययन से यह निकलकर आया है कि एक वर्ग किलोमीटर से कम क्षेत्रफल वाले ग्लेशियर वर्ष 2050 तक 62 प्रतिशत तक लुप्त हो जायेंगे। सतलज नदी घाटी हिमालय क्षेत्र की दर्जनों घाटियों में से एक है जिसमें हजारों ग्लेशियर हैं । कुछ ग्लेशियर धीरे-धीरे सिकुड़ रहे हैं जबकि कुछ अब तक अप्...
जैव विविधता पर मंडराता खतरा

जैव विविधता पर मंडराता खतरा

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हमारी पृथ्वी काफी बेहतरीन व सुन्दर है जिसमें सभी जीव-जंतुओं का अपना-अपना अहम योगदान व महत्ता है। हरे-भरे पेड़-पौधे, विभिन्न प्रकार के जव-जंतु, मिट्टी, हवा,पानी, पठार, नदियां, समुद्र, महासागर,आदि सब प्रकृति की देन है, जो हमारे अस्तित्व एवं विकास के लिए आवश्यक है। पृथ्वी हमें भोजन ही नहीं वरन् जिंदगी जीने के लिए हर जरूरी चीजें मुहैया कराती है। असल में सभी जीवों व पारिस्थतिकी तंत्रों की विभिन्नता एवं असमानता ही जैव विविधता कहलाती है। इसलिए यह कहने में कोई अतिशयोक्ति नहीं होगी कि जैव विविधता का मानव जीवन के अस्तित्व में अहम योगदान है। जैव विविधता से जहां सजीवों के लिए भोजन तथा औषधियां तो वहीं उद्योगों को कच्चा माल प्राप्त होता है। पिछले वर्ष ग्लोबल हंगर इंडेक्स ने आंकड़े जारी कर कहा था कि दुनियाभर में हर साल जितना भोजन तैयार होता है उसका लगभग एक-तिहाई बर्बाद हो जाता है। आलम तो यह है कि बर्बाद...
एक बहस वाया गांधी बनाम गोडसे

एक बहस वाया गांधी बनाम गोडसे

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यह सच है कि इसी मत भिन्नता ने गोडसे के हाथों, गांधी की हत्या कराई। किंतु सोचने की बात है कि यह कैसा मजहबी कट्टरवाद है, जो अपने ही मजहबी हाथों से अपने ही मजहब के एक दूसरे अनुयायी की हत्या करा देता है?   गांधी बनाम गोडसे यानी हिंदू बनाम हिंदू कट्टरता। जरा सोचिए, गोडसे भी हिंदू था और गांधी भी हिंदू; पक्का सनातनी हिंदू; रामराज्य का सपना लेने वाला हिंदू; एक ऐसा हिंदू, मृत्यु पूर्व जिसकी जिहृा पर अंतिम शब्द 'राम' ही था; बावजूद इसके नाथूराम गोडसे ने महात्मा गांधी को हिंदूवाद की राह में रोङा माना और हत्या की। क्यों ? क्योंकि गांधी का हिंदूवाद सिर्फ  किसी एक व्यक्ति, जाति, संप्रदाय, वर्ग या राष्ट्र विशेष से नहीं, बल्कि 'विश्व का कल्याण हो' और 'प्राणियों में सद्भावना रहे' के ऐसे दो नारे से परिभाषित होता था, पूजा-पाठ के बाद जिनका उद्घोष कराना हिंदू पुजारी आज भी कभी नहीं भूलते। गोडसे का राष्ट्रव...
Artificial Intelligence Readiness: Mind the gap

Artificial Intelligence Readiness: Mind the gap

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lobal ranking of countries in AI readiness released; Singapore leads among Asian countries; Japan and India among top 20 The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Readiness Index released by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and Oxford Insights launches has several Asian countries including Singapore, Japan and India among the first 20 in the world. The ranking examines 194 countries worldwide, assessing their governance, infrastructure and data, skills and education, and government and public services to measure how well these countries are prepared to manage the potentially transformative impacts of AI. Including countries from the Global South in its analysis for the first time, the 2019 Government AI Readiness Index shows that governments in the Global North are still bet...
Only e-scooters and auto-rickshaws from 2025: Some measures also necessary to curb pollution by cars

Only e-scooters and auto-rickshaws from 2025: Some measures also necessary to curb pollution by cars

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It refers to welcome news that only e-scooters (two-wheelers) will be sold in the country after 2025 while in respect of three wheelers, the deadline is even earlier of 2020. Since two-wheelers constitute major portion of total vehicle-sale in the country, ban on two-wheelers and three-wheelers other than driven by pre-charged electric-engines will effectively check pollution. However till phenomenon of exclusively sold e-cars becomes a dream come true, cars should be allowed to be sold only with petrol-engines fitted with CNG-kit. Production and sale of cars driven by diesel-engines should be altogether banned with immediate effect. Production of diesel-driven cars is gross misuse of having price of diesel less than that of petrol only for keeping cost of public-transportation less. ...
Compulsion of dynastic tradition in Congress deprives India of two-party system

Compulsion of dynastic tradition in Congress deprives India of two-party system

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Election-results for Lok Sabha were on expected lines ever since Sonia Gandhi forced dynastic tradition in her party by making his politically-incapable son as Congress President. Evidently politics in parties with dynastic tradition is like a political industry where it is quite natural that owner of the political industry will hand over the party to his or her legal heir only irrespective of capability. Congress is not the only such party. There are many regional parties like Rashtriya Janta Dal RJD in Bihar where also less educated or even illiterate legal heirs of party-founder took charge of the party. Sonia Gandhi could crown Rahul Gandhi as symbolic President of the party with all financial powers but creating a post of Working President to carry on actual political work in the p...
Regulation of NGOs necessary

Regulation of NGOs necessary

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Intelligence Bureau’s report indicated about misuse of Indian NGO’s for any anti-national agenda by foreign-contributors where it was revealed that India’s GDP has been adversely affected to big extent of 2-3 percent through such foreign-funding to NGOs. Many NGOs are said to have been funded for cultural evasion in India. Foreign-funded NGOs spend in rupees and receive funds in dollars by sending these foreign-contributors exaggerated photos and videos of events dramatised to get huge foreign-funding. Many NGOs are tools to divert foreign-funds of individuals. Siphoning of government-funds for NGOs run by influential ones in political and bureaucratic circles in name of their family-members should be prevented by stopping any kind of direct or indirect funding of NGOs at public-expense...
Price-rise in Amul-milk deferred till elections are over? Likely to be followed by others

Price-rise in Amul-milk deferred till elections are over? Likely to be followed by others

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It refers to Milk-giant Amul raising price of milk by rupees two per litre with effect from 21.05.2019. It seems that price-rise was deferred till 2019-elections to Lok Sabha are over. But newspaper-advertisements by Amul announcing price-rise do not give price of its six-litre pack of Amul-Gold which was earlier priced illogically at rupees 312 while six-litre milk in packs of two-litres could be purchased at much lower price of rupees 297. Even with new increased price-rise six-litre Amul Gold will cost just rupees 309 (still lower than rupees 312) if purchased in packs of two litres. Still there are milk-products like buttermilk sold by milk-companies like Mother Dairy, Amul and others which are sold in irrational packs like 180, 250, 400 or 450 milli-litres rather than normal 200 or...
Failure to pay back home-loan makes mother-daughter commit suicide

Failure to pay back home-loan makes mother-daughter commit suicide

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It refers to shocking news about mother-daughter committing suicide on 14.05.2019 in a suburb of Thiruvanthapuram for not being able to repay home-loan. This loan-system is in sharp contradiction of ancient India culture which suggested _Save something out of which you earn for difficult times and future needs_. Now liberal economy has made people acting in reverse direction by taking easy loan with excessive luring done by Banks and Non-Banking-Financial-Companies NBFCs through unending mobile-calls through call-centres. Central government should impose a total ban on telephonic-calls by Banks and NBFCs luring potential buyers of loans. These Banks and NBFCs torture loan-takers in every manner psychologically and both civil and criminal cases filed in contradiction to normal procedures...
Time for newly charged BJP government at the centre to hit sixers of reforms and fulfilling promises made in poll-manifesto

Time for newly charged BJP government at the centre to hit sixers of reforms and fulfilling promises made in poll-manifesto

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Prime Minister Narender Modi ruling BJP led central government had a well-deserved all-round land-slide victory because of first-ever multi-cornered bold steps against terror-generating Pakistan targeting militants and separatists in Kashmir valley in every possible manner. Country does hope of immediate abolition of article 370 and 35A from the constitution as also promised in BJP poll-manifesto for permanent solution of Kashmir-problem created by wrong policies of our first Prime Minister. Country also has high hopes of immediate construction of Ram-temple at birth-place of Lord Rama at Ayodhya, a fact which is even acknowledged by other countries including Srlanka and Pakistan through admitted historical facts about existence of Lord Rama. It is noteworthy that Pakistan Tourism Devel...