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नई दिल्ली, 17 नवंबर (इंडिया साइंस वायर): कृषि अनुसंधान के क्षेत्र में भी अब ड्रोन्स के उपयोग के रास्ते खुल गए हैं। नागर विमानन मंत्रालय और नागर विमानन महानिदेशालय (डीजीसीए) ने कृषि अनुसंधान गतिविधियों के लिए हैदराबाद स्थित अंतरराष्ट्रीय अर्ध-शुष्क उष्ण कटिबंधीय फसल अनुसंधान संस्थान (इक्रीसैट) को ड्रोन की तैनाती करने के लिए सशर्त मंजूरी दे दी है। इससे कृषि संबंधी शोध कार्य, आंकड़ों के संग्रह और फसलों की निगरानी का कार्य पहले से अधिक सटीक तरीके से हो सकेगा। इस संबंध में नागर विमानन मंत्रालय द्वारा जारी एक आधिकारिक बयान में कहा गया है कि दूरस्थ पायलट विमान प्रणाली या ड्रोन का उपयोग करके इक्रीसैट अपने रिसर्च फील्ड के भीतर कृषि अनुसंधान गतिविधियों के लिए सशर्त रूप से आंकड़ों का संग्रह कर सकता है। संस्थान को दी गई ड्रोन के उपयोग की यह छूट फिलहाल छह महीने की अवधि के लिए वैध है। यह छूट संस...

This question is natural for any human being and is asked in every generation by many of the youth. I remember it troubled me a lot when I was young. I don’t think I could have found the answer on my own because some basic philosophical knowledge about us and the universe is needed, but luckily I landed up in India and was even luckier to become familiar with India’s profound wisdom. This philosophical knowledge is contained in the Vedas and has painstakingly been memorized by Indian Brahmins and handed down to us over many millennia. One could call the Vedic mantras as a “revelation” because the ancient Rishis clearly stated that they are apaurusheya, which means that they are not created by humans. This revelation however is not comparable with the so called revelations of Christia...

Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha secretariats should put comparative figures of activities of members as Parliamentarians regularly updated on their respective websites. Such activities may include their attendance-records, number of questions asked and bills presented, participation in Parliamentary debates, utilisation of MPLADS funds, attendance in meetings of Parliamentary committees, number of adopted villages under Aadarsh Gram scheme and all other such activities. Making comparative study of all such activities of Parliamentarians will make them behave as Parliamentarian in a responsible manner and will induce competition to work more effectively as Parliamentarians. Political parties then will be compelled to give party-tickets only to better-performing Parliamentarians in their earlie...

नई दिल्ली, 16 नवंबर (इंडिया साइंस वायर): चक्रवात या फिर भूकंप जैसी प्राकृतिक आपदाओं अथवा मानव जनित व्यवधानों के कारण ट्रांसमिशन लाइन टॉवरों के गिरने से बिजली आपूर्ति बाधित होती है। ट्रांसमिशन लाइन टॉवरों के फेल होने की स्थिति में बिजली संचरण त्वरित रूप से बहाल करने के लिए भारतीय शोधकर्ताओं ने इमरजेंसी रिट्रीवल सिस्टम (ईआरएस) नामक स्वदेशी तकनीक विकसित की है। ईआरएस एक हल्का मॉड्यूलर सिस्टम है, जिसका उपयोग चक्रवात या भूकंप जैसी प्राकृतिक आपदाओं, अथवा मानव निर्मित व्यवधानों के दौरान ट्रांसमिशन लाइन टॉवरों के गिरने के तुरंत बाद बिजली को बहाल करने के लिए अस्थायी समर्थन संरचना के रूप में किया जाता है। दो से तीन दिनों में बिजली की बहाली के लिए आपदा स्थल पर ईआरएस को शीघ्रता से असेंबल किया जा सकता है, जबकि स्थायी बहाली में कई सप्ताह लग सकते हैं। यह तकनीक वैज्ञानिक तथा औद्योगिक अनुसंधान प...

New Delhi, Nov 16 (India Science Wire): Throwing away cucumber peels after preparing your salad could be a past phenomenon. Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur have developed cellulose nanocrystals from cucumber peels with high cellulose content, compared to other peel wastes, which can be used to create food packaging materials. While single-use plastic is consciously being avoided by consumers, they remain largely in circulation as food packaging items. Natural biopolymers are unable to make a way in this industry as they lack strength, elongation, barrier property, optical property, and in some cases even biological safety. The cellulose nanomaterial developed by Prof. Jayeeta Mitra and research scholar N. Sai Prasanna at IIT Kharagpur’s from raw cu...

It refers to Justice UU Lalit recusing himself from the three-member bench of Supreme Court set up to hear writ filed against Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister who made public his charges against a Supreme Court judge. But it was a welcome initiative of Justice UU Lalit who mentioned reasons for recusal that he had earlier been a lawyer for one of the parties involved in the case. Otherwise it is a usual practice that recusing judges do so without giving any reason for recusal. It should be made compulsory for all judges from Supreme Court to trial-courts to record reason for recusal from the case on the file. Moreover any such recusal should be informed immediately on setting up the bench or listing of such a case before a judge so that a new bench may be there for hearing without requirin...

नई दिल्ली,11 नवंबर (इंडिया साइंस वायर): यदि आपके स्वास्थ्य से जुड़ी सूचनाओं से लैस एक मजबूत डेटा प्लेटफॉर्म और जीन अनुक्रमण (Gene Sequencing) को जोड़ दिया जाए, तो इससे न केवल रोगों के निदान में सुधार हो सकता है, बल्कि बीमारियों के प्रभावी उपचार का मार्ग भी प्रशस्त हो सकता है। इसके पीछे दृष्टिकोण यही है कि सभी के लिए समान उपचार के बजाय व्यक्ति के आनुवंशिक एवं शारीरिक गठन के अनुसार दवाओं का उपयोग रोगों के उपचार में अधिक प्रभावी हो सकता है। इस नये दृष्टिकोण पर अमल करते हुए भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान (आईआईटी) के पूर्व छात्रों की परिषद (IIT Alumni Council) ने मेगास्कोप (MegaScope) नामक एक नयी पहल की घोषणा की है। आईआईटी एलुमनी काउंसिल द्वारा जारी एक ताजा वक्तव्य में कहा गया है कि यह पहल प्रिडिक्टिव, प्रिवेंटिव और पर्सनलाइज्ड हेल्थकेयर सुनिश्चित करने के लिए डेटा आधारित प्लेटफार्म के निर...

New Delhi, Nov 12 (India Science Wire): Sodium Dodecyl Sulphate or Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (SDS) is widely used in soaps, toothpaste, creams and shampoos, laundry detergents in households, agricultural operations, laboratories and industries. Its subsequent disposal in waterways causes harmful effects on aquatic organisms, environmental microcosms, and associated living organisms. It also deteriorates the quality of drinking water. Until now, there were no specific biosensors developed to date for the detection of SDS with high precision. A team of researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT-R) claimed to have developed the world’s first specific reliable bacterial biosensor to detect the presence of SDS. According to the researchers, they genetically redesigned DN...

BJP top leadership deserves all compliments for playing its cards well when it gracefully crowned Nitish Kumar (JDU) as Chief Minister even though BJP got much more than seats in state-assembly than JDU. It is evident that BJP will be in a dominant role in running government in Bihar, with ultimately aiming to become single party to rule Bihar in future with the only available leader Nitish kumar in JDU already publicly stating that he will not contest any election in future. Even now BJP will be in role of Lord Krishna as charioteer in running government in Bihar with Nitish Kumar in role as Arjun of Mahabharat. On the other side, BJP rightly declined to bow to ungenuine demand of Shiv Sena in Maharashtra in Bihar-like political scenario, because Shiv sena if getting Chief Ministerial ...

Presently many public-sector banks have collaborated with private-sector Insurance-companies for providing single-window service for banking and insurance. This wrong practice should be replaced by promoting public-sector LIC of India by terminating collaborations by all public-sector banks with private-sector Insurance-companies. Instead all branches of various public-sector banks should be authorized as agents for public-sector LIC of India by giving lucrative incentive-points to branch-managers and bank-employees bringing new LIC-policies. Every branch of each Public-sector bank should be linked to nearest LIC-unit. Even special LIC counters can be opened at select branches of various public-sector banks. Such a system will enable public-sector LIC of India to expand business manifol...