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छत्तीसगढ़ राज्य अब वयस्क होने की दहलीज पर है, अपनी स्थापना के बीस वर्ष पूरा कर आज इक्कीसवें वर्ष में प्रवेश कर रहा है। अपनी विशिष्ट भौगोलिक स्थिति, संस्कृति, आर्थिक संरचना और भाषा के कारण प्रकृति ने ही इस क्षेत्र को छत्तीसगढ़ का नाम तो पहले ही दे चुकी थी, किन्तु पृथक राजनैतिक पहचान की आठ दशक की मांग के पश्चात आखिरकार 1 नवंबर 2000 के दिन मिली। पिछले 20 वर्षों में नवोदित राज्य ने विकास के अनेक सोपान तय किए हैं, इस बात से कोई इंकार नहीं कर सकता लेकिन अभी भी बहुत कुछ करने की आवश्यकता है। किसी जातक के जन्म की तरह राज्य के निर्माण के आरंभिक काल उसके शरीर को स्वस्थ रखने का होता है। इसके लिए नियमित दिनचर्या और देखभाल के अनुशासन की आवश्यकता होती है। प्रथम मुख्यमंत्री अजीत जोगी ने तीन वर्ष के कार्यकाल में ने राज्य के लिए प्रशासनिक अधोसंरचना का निर्माण किया और प्रदेश के विकास के लिए नीतियां तैयार ...

Cooperative-giant Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited (IFFCO) is once again in news with its transactions worth about million dollars with three companies based in Dubai, Switzerland and Singapore, red-flagged by Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas (DBTCA) to the US financial watchdog, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. These transactions involved IFFCO, its Dubai subsidiary Kisan International Trading FZE and commodities trading companies in Switzerland and Singapore. IFFCO through which annual fertiliser-subsidy of rupees thousands of crores is routed gifted prime-properties worth rupees hundreds of crores in New Delhi to its office-bearers with even Comptroller and Auditor General report pointing out massive irregularities in functioning of IFFCO. IFFCO controlled by a ...

I lodged a complaint-number 2263884 on 22.09.2020 on portal of National Consumer Helpline about a company registered with the portal for its not sending a duly filled 3-year maintenance-contract for my refrigerator after my giving the required cheque in name of the company on 05.08.2020 which was cleared from my bank on 25.08.2020. I sent an email to the Company on 16.09.2020 on its email ID apart from lodging request on portal Facebook-page of the Company. A company-representative on 17.09.2020 fulfilled formality of emailing a 3-year maintenance contract but without mentioning any detail of the refrigerator leaving the columns in the improperly filled maintenance-contract blank. On my taking up the matter, the calling company-representative requested me to send photos of sticker on re...

New Delhi, October 08 (India Science Wire): Every year in early October, the world is all ears as the committees in Sweden and Norway name the Nobel laureates in a variety of prizes in the sciences, literature, economics, as well as peace work. The Nobel prizes are widely regarded as the most prestigious awards given for intellectual achievement in the world. Since 1901, prizes in Physiology or Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, literature and peace have been awarded. In 1968, prize in Economic Sciences also got added to the list. The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Harvey Alter of the US National Institutes of Health, Michael Houghton of the University of Alberta, Canada, and Charles Rice of the Rockefeller University, USA, “for the discovery of...

नई दिल्ली ,08 अक्तूबर (इंडिया साइंस वायर): भारत की तटीय सीमा लगभग सात हजार पांच सौ सोलह किलोमीटर के विशाल क्षेत्र में फैली है। इसमें से लगभग चौवन सौ किलोमीटर की सीमा मुख्य भूमि से लगी है। सम्पूर्ण तटीय क्षेत्र पर चक्रवात की चपेट में आने का खतरा मंडराता रहता है। चक्रवात अपने संग भयानक गति वाली हवाएं और अत्यधिक वर्षा लेकर आते हैं, जिनसे कई बार जन-धन की बड़े पैमाने पर हानि होती है। ऐसे में, भारत के लिए मौसम का पूर्वानुमान सुनिश्चित करना अत्यंत महत्वपूर्ण हो जाता है। उत्तर हिन्द महासागर में उत्पन्न होने वाले चक्रवातों की सक्रियता अप्रैल से जून और पुनः अक्टूबर से दिसंबर तक की अवधि में अपने चरम पर होती है। यही कारण है कि अपनी दैनिक गतिविधियों के अतिरिक्त भारतीय मौसम- विज्ञान विभाग (आई एम डी ) प्रत्येक वर्ष अप्रैल से जून और अक्टूबर से दिसंबर के महीनों में मौसम पूर्वानुमान, और उसके आकलन-...

Union Minister for Information and Broadcast Prakash Javedkar on 07.10.2020 correctly analyzed regularly downgraded reporting by electronic media based on TRP rating after there were reports of paid news and fake news.   Even though the minister desired that media should be self-regulated or to be monitored by quasi-judicial body Press Council of India. But several self-acclaimed top TV-channels are now-a-days racing in shouting journalism where anchors act as self-appointed judges and panelists in themselves. At least central government can ensure either directly or through Press Council of India that no TV channel may play foul by deliberately suppress voice against view of concerned TV channel by keeping mike-volume of those having opponent views low. This is undoubtedly biased an...

Presently officers of rank of additional Deputy Commissioner of Police and Deputy Commissioner of Police are appointed as Public Information Officers and First Appellate Authorities in Delhi Police. But these high-ranked police-officers have no direct role in handling RTI applications and First appeals. These over-busy officers have to act just like post-office in responding to RTI applications and First Appeals on basis of inputs received from sub-ordinate offices. They have to unnecessarily spend their precious duty-hours along with a contingent of lower-ranked police-persons in hearings at Central Information Commission CIC. Best is to appoint Inspector-rank police-officers as Public Information Officers, and Assistant Commissioners of Police as First Appellate Authorities.   ...

New Delhi, Oct. 02 (India Science Wire): The agricultural sector plays a key role in the economy of India and twenty-five other East Asian developing countries across a distance of 18,000 km (from east to west) and 6,000 km (from south to north). The main influencing factor in Indian agriculture is the southwest monsoon season from June to September caused by the cross-equatorial winds that blow from a southwesterly direction. The source of this wind is located more than 4,000 km away from India near the Mascarene Islands in the Southern Indian Ocean (SIO). The state of agriculture that includes forestry, hunting, fishing as well the cultivation of crops and livestock production is determined by this southwest monsoon. The climate across the world is however changing in many ways ...

New Delhi, Oct. 05 (India Science Wire): A study on underwater sounds using a passive acoustic monitoring system during the winters has been able to probe sea ice melting in the Arctic and its contributing factors. The research was led by The National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) and the results reveal a decline in the sea ice concentration, thus disrupting the normal ocean circulation and the global conveyor belt, and eventually leading to changes in global climate. Initially, NIOT scientists used passive acoustic monitoring technology to detect ambient noises underwater caused by the melting of sea ice. The sound produced due to the release of tiny bubbles during sea ice melting with the spectral peak in the range of 1–3 kHz is similar to the sounds recorded in the sum...

New Delhi, Oct. 05 (India Science Wire): Microplastics are usually plastic particles of less than 5 mm. It may be primary or secondary microplastics which can be found in coastal environments all over the world. Also, the microplastics are much more hazardous than macroplastics because of their availability in all levels of marine food webs. In a study conducted by the Department of Remote Sensing, Bharathidasan University covering eight different sampling stations along a 71 km long coastline with both urbanized beaches and undisturbed coastal areas along the Indian Ocean, the researchers assessed the magnitude of the microplastic pollution problem. The study revealed that microplastic is one of the carriers of major pollution to the marine environment found along the entire Kanya...