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It refers to reports that one more young 17-year old girl from an affluent Jain family in Surat now going to become monk. In November 2018, another young IAS aspirant girl from a very well-to-do Jain family from Surat left coaching-classes become Jain monk. Two other school-going sisters from another affluent Jain family of Surat have finally decided to become Jain monks even though their parents gave them full opportunity for change of mind by sending them for an extra luxurious world tour. Only some time back, a topper in examinations left all materialistic world to become Jain monk. Leaving materialistic life and adopting spiritualism by become Jain monk does give much required mental peace in present era full of tensions. But if such trend becomes a latest craze amongst intelligent st...

किसी उबड़-खाबड़ सड़क पर गाड़ी का टायर अचानक पंक्चर हो जाए तो मुश्किल खड़ी हो जाती है। भारतीय शोधकर्ताओं ने इस मुश्किल से निजात पाने के लिए नैनोटेक्नोलॉजी की मदद से ऐसी तकनीक विकसित की है, जो टायरों की परफार्मेंस बढ़ाने में उपयोगी साबित हो सकती है।  केरल स्थित महात्मा गांधी विश्वविद्यालय के यूनिवर्सिटी सेंटर फॉर नैनो-साइंस ऐंड नैनो-टेक्नोलॉजी के शोधकर्ताओं ने रबड़ से बनी हाई-परफार्मेंस नैनो-कम्पोजिट सामग्री विकसित की है, जिसका उपयोग टायरों की भीतरी ट्यूब और इनर लाइनरों को मजबूती प्रदान करने में किया जा सकता है।  नैनो-क्ले और क्रियाशील नैनो-क्ले तंत्र के उपयोग से इनर लाइनर बनाने के लिए विकसित फॉर्मूले को गैस अवरोधी गुणों से लैस किया गया है। इससे टायरों के इनर लाइनर की मजबूती बढ़ायी जा सकती है। इंटरनेशनल ऐंड इंटर यूनिवर्सिटी सेंटर फॉर नैनो-साइंस ऐंड नैनो-टेक्नोलॉजी (आईआईयूसीएनएन) ने टाय...

Both House of Parliament on 23.07.2019 witnessed noisy scenes by opposition-members demanding personal appearance of Prime Minister to give clarification on yet another big lie of Donald Trump out of about 12000 he has so far spoken as US President. Opposition-demand apparently looked justified because habitual liar Donald Trump named specifically Prime Minister Narender Modi having asked Donald Trump to mediate with Pakistan on Kashmir issue. But US President is biggest powerful person in the world, and for all diplomatic reasons, clarification by Prime Minister Narender Modi personally would have annoyed Donald Trump which would have cost India heavily in many aspects. Not only Government of India through late-night instant press-release followed by categorical denial by Indian Foreig...

It refers to justified and logical demand raised by BJP Parliamentarian Vijay Goel in Rajya Sabha on 24.07.2019 for re-spell British-distorted spelling of Delhi as Dilli. But re-spelling should be Dehli which means entrance, and was a common household name till several decades after independence. Even Dilli is the distorted name. Many other countries like Bangladesh and China have already respelled names of their capitals as per actual pronunciation. Central government should also accept resolution by West Bengal state-assembly to re-name the state to remove confusing pre-fix West and to have a name in Bangla rather than English. Only old-timers know that since western part of pre-independence undivided Bengal came to India, the state was named as West Bengal, and East Bengal turned int...

Central government should refer names of those self-acclaimed intellectuals who have written to Prime Minister on mob-lynching etc allegedly on minorities and Dalits (and not on those many from minority section who brutally killed people from majority community) to Intelligence Bureau for finding their real motives. Intention was clear when convenor of press-conference on 24.07.2019 declined to respond to media-persons on incidents of Hindus having been brutally killed by Muslims. Such people are not less guilty than elements like Akbaruddin Obassi always provoking Muslims against Hindus through his poisonous speeches. Enquiry should also be made and public-land snatched from NGOs who were liberally granted huge pieces of land and funds by earlier UPA and Congress governments because of...

Press Council of India Chairman Justice Shri Chandramauli Kumar Prasad has sought the response of the Finance Ministry over the complaint of restricting the entry of media persons. He is also seeking the response of the state governments where the entry of media persons has been restricted. Justice Prasad told this to a joint delegation of the National Union of Journalists (India), Delhi Journalists Association (DJA) and Delhi Chapter of the Indian Federation of Working Journalists (IFWJ) that called on him at his office. The delegation comprised of NUJ (I) National President Shri Ashok Malik, DJA President Shri Manohar Singh, DJA general secretary Shri Pramod Kumar; and Shri Rajeev Ranjan Nag, Ira Jha and Habib Akhtar from the IFWJ. “We have received representations from various med...

It refers to media-reports indicating that estimated rupees 12000 crores proposed to be earned by imposing surcharge on tax-payers in higher slabs may adversely affect investment in India. India tuned up with most other countries in the world when Raja Challiah committee report was implemented by bringing highest Income-Tax slab down to 30-percent. Tax-system should be simple-most abolishing concepts of cess, surcharge and subsidies to the extent possible. In present system with persons having assessed income upto rupees five lakhs per annum totally exempted from Income Tax, a person having income say rupees 501000 will evidently try to evade rupees 1000 from income because otherwise he would be getting exemption only on income upto rupees 250000. Basic exemption-limit should be same fo...

It refers to government-reply in Parliament that a total of 9385 cases of tax fraud involving amount of rupees 45683 crore has been detected by the tax authorities under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime since its rollout from July 1, 2017 out of which, 1,593 tax fraud cases involving an amount of Rs 6520.40 crore have been detected in April-June. It has become a common practice to sell GST-invoices to those availing false Input Tax Credit (ITC) when consumers do not insist on taking invoices or leave these invoices by getting some petty discount. These unused GST invoices are purchased by manufacturers to avail false ITC further leading to creation of unaccounted money thus evading even Income Tax also. ITC should be available only for trading purpose, and not for manufacturin...

टीबी या क्षय रोग एक गंभीर संक्रामक बीमारी है जो मरीज के संपर्क में आने से दूसरे लोगों में भी फैल सकती है। भारतीय आयुर्विज्ञान अनुसंधान परिषद (आईसीएमआर) के शोधकर्ताओं ने अब दो ऐसे टीकों का परीक्षण शुरू किया है जो टीबी से बचाव में मददगार हो सकते हैं।  आईसीएमआर ने सोमवार को इन दोनों टीकों के परीक्षण के लिए मरीजों का पंजीकरण शुरू कर दिया है। यह टीका ऐसे लोगों को टीबी के संक्रमण से बचाने में उपयोगी हो सकता है जिनके परिवार का कोई सदस्य पहले से टीबी की बीमारी से ग्रस्त है।  टीबी के बढ़ते दायरे को देखते हुए इस बीमारी से बचाव के लिए जिन टीकों का परीक्षण किया जा रहा है उनमें से एक वीपीएम1002 है, जिसे पुणे स्थित सीरम इंस्टीट्यूट ऑफ इंडिया ने बनाया है। जबकि, दूसरा टीका एमआईपी है। परीक्षण में अधिकतर ऐसे लोग शामिल होंगे जिनके परिवार में कोई सदस्य टीबी से पीड़ित है ताकि अन्य लोगों में भी संक्रमण का...