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विज्ञान को लोगों के करीब लाने में विज्ञान पत्रकारों और संचारकों की भूमिका अहम हो सकती है। शुक्रवार को यहां आयोजित विज्ञान पत्रकारिता और संचार पर एक संगोष्ठी में विशेषज्ञों ने यह बात जोर देकर कही है। राष्ट्रीय पोषण संस्थान की निदेशक डॉ. आर. हेमलता ने संगोष्ठी का उद्घाटन करते हुए कहा “देश के विभिन्न वैज्ञानिक संस्थानों की ऐसी कई शोधपरक उपलब्धियां हैं, जो औद्योगिक एवं सामाजिक रूप से उपयोगी हो सकती हैं। विज्ञान संचारकों को ऐसे वैज्ञानिक प्रयासों के महत्व को सरल रूप से पेश करना चाहिए। ऐसा करके वैज्ञानिक शोधों के बारे में जागरूकता बढ़ने के साथ-साथ नीति निर्धारकों को भी समस्याओं से निपटने में मदद मिल सकती है।” स्वास्थ्य को लेकर समाज में वैज्ञानिक दृष्टिकोण विकसित करने के बारे में बताते हुए संस्थान के वैज्ञानिक डॉ. एम. महेश्वर ने कहा कि “हेल्थ रिपोर्टिंग के केंद्र में लोगों के स्वास्थ्य से ज...

 A team of researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur has fabricated a new sensor for detection of nitrogen oxides - a major cause of pollution.  The sensor canoperate at room temperature and under ambient light. Tests performed under dark and illuminated conditions indicate that it has high sensitivity and could detect particulate matter as low as one part per million. Nitrogen oxides areemitted by automobile vehicles and thermal power plants and are toxic.  Conventional sensors employ metal oxides such as zinc oxide to monitor and measure Noxlevels. Nitrogen oxides react with metal oxidesand decrease the free conducting electrons in them, thereby increasing their electric resistance.The change in resistance gives a measure of nitrogen oxides levels.But conventional...

It refers to justified demand by Delhi BJP President to have National Register of Citizens (NRC) for Delhi also, following final draft of NRC for Assam having been published. Similar demand has been made by Shiv Sena for Maharashtra also. But it is unlikely that TMC-led West Bengal government may raise any such demand in fear of vote-bank anti-national politics. NRC should be there for other parts of the country especially where there are apprehensions of infiltrators having been settled even though it will be ideal to have NRC for complete country. India should adopt strict measures like in Myanmar where President of that country even did not care for demands raised in name of human rights for snatching her Nobel Prize for tackling serious threats from Rohingyas from a particular commu...

It refers to unprecedented swift order passed by a full bench of all the eleven judges of Patna High Court debarring Justice Rakesh Kumar from hearing any case including the part-heard ones because of his being harsh in commenting on corruption in lower judiciary, and even commenting adversely on higher judiciary also. His pro-public comments on extra-ordinary facilities including like huge funds spent on renovation and maintenance of official bungalows of judges are also noteworthy wherein he commented that judges are more indulged in enjoying facilities rather than discharging their duties. His comments extended even to judges of other High Courts where he mentioned about a senior judge of Allahabad High Court having managed to get her wife nominated in Rajya Sabha. It is satisfying t...

RTI fees and other government-fees requiring to paid through postal-orders should be revised to rupees fifty uniformly to prevent heavy loss in handling postal-orders 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 m...

International Institute for Holistic Research and Voluntary Action (India-Germany) , Rural Business Hub Foundation India (RBHFI), Society to Accelerate Rational Thinking for Action (STARTA) imimarla@aol.com,  dr.kamaltaori@gmail.com     Marketing the Unmarketed India A Rationalist Quest for Holistic Understanding   Q 1. Why this topic?  We intend to facilitate exploring the unexplored, seeing the unseen, experiencing the not experienced, hearing the unheard, selling the unsold, demystifying the highly mystified, grading the ungraded or wrongly graded, placing the unplaced, rooting the uprooted, positioning the un-positioned, organizing the unorganized, connecting the unconnected (for networking), awakening the dormant, re-evaluate the wrongly valued, ...

Biggest biscuit-manufacturing company of India denies media-reports about job-cut of 10000 persons, but does not rule out because of highly irrational GST tariffs affecting sale of its confectionary items where biscuits attract 18-percent GST while rusks are in 5-percent GST slab. Presently GST-tariffs are highly irrational, confusing and improper where similar items are in different GST-brackets like 5, 12 and 18 percent. GST on harmful sweets is just 5-percent while namkeens prepared and sold by local confectioners attract 12-percent. Best is to remove all confusion by putting sweets, namkeens, biscuits, rusks and all such food-items in a common GST-slab of 12-percent for single rate-structure for products made by confectioners. GST has become additional product where most local co...

Prime Minister in his Man-ki-Baat on 25.08.2019 indicated that his government is going to celebrate 150th Gandhi birth-anniversary in a big way. It is evident that new commemorative coins are likely to be issued on 02.10.2019 along with a series of commemorative postal-stamps like were issued on Gandhi birth-centenary on 02.10.1969. But it should be ensured that commemoration of the occasion through coins should be for masses also like was on 02.10.1969 when silver-alloy coins of ten-rupee denomination were provided to general public on face-value right from date of release on 02.10.1969 like commemorative postal-stamps are sold. It may be mentioned that later system of issue of commemorative coins on face-value was abolished and instead system of issuing only coin-sets at an exorbitant...