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New Delhi, March 04: Indian Scientists have indigenously designed and developed a low-cost optical spectrograph that can locate sources of faint light from distant quasars and galaxies, regions around supermassive black-holes around the galaxies, and cosmic explosions. Named Aries-Devasthal Faint Object Spectrograph & Camera (ADFOSC), the instrument was designed and developed by Aryabhatta Research Institute of observational sciences (ARIES), Nainital, an autonomous institute of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India. It is about 2.5 times less costly compared to imported ones and can locate sources of light with a photon-rate as low as about 1 photon per second. The spectroscope, the largest of its kind among the existing astronomical spectrogr...

Union government should constitute National Eunuch Commission. Unrestricted admission to any educational institution (private or public) for free education to eunuchs be made compulsory without needing any reserved quota. Government should be duty-bound to make eunuchs join mainstream with parents of new-born eunuch child neither allowed nor necessitated to deject their eunuch-child to be handed over to isolated society of old eunuchs for begging, dancing or resorting to some anti-social activities. Rather criminal action should be taken against those parents who may disown transgender-child. Eunuchs forcing parents to part away with transgender-children should likewise be arrested and punished with stringent-most framed legal provisions. Nothing can improve till effective measures are tak...

It refers to welcome decision to merge Rajya Sabha TV and Lok Sabha TV to a unified Sansad TV. It will save huge funds in running two TV channels with same purpose. Direct telecast of live proceedings of two Houses of Parliament can be done according to importance of proceedings being conducted in two Houses of Parliament. However excerpts of proceedings of two Houses can be shown at prime time not only on Sansad TV but also on various Doordarshan channels. Same merger-plan can be considered for too many Doordrashan channels according to viewership-statistics of Doordarshan channels. There may be several Doordarshan channels which may not have significant viewership. Continuing with such Doordarshan channels is waste of public-money. Union Ministry of Information and Broadcast should...

Indian Post should extend system of sponsorship for issuing sponsored postal-stamps on commercial lines like is presently done in case of post-cards and Inland-Letter-Cards. Sponsored postal-stamps with some minimum stipulated number can carry advertisements or other messages desired by sponsors to be endorsed by a committee of the Department with sponsorship-charge fixed per printed stamp. System will give dual-edged enormous extra revenue-earning firstly from sponsorship and secondly by making sponsoring companies shifting from private courier-companies to premier postal-services provided by India Post. To induce newness in system and for earning extra revenue through philately, India Post should traditionally issue an altogether new definitive series of postal-stamps and postal-stati...

Presently there are only a few departments like Income Tax Department which informs online RTI applicants about disposal of their RTI applications through emails and SMS-alerts. But most public-authorities like banks do not have such a user-friendly practice requiring RTI applicants to again and again go the RTI online portal for checking status of online filed RTI applications. Rather system should be for auto email of RTI responses and orders of First appellate Authority without at all requiring to go to RTI online portal to check status. Odisha is the worst example with absolutely meaningless and useless online RTI portal which is just a show-piece wherein RTI applicants have to compulsorily send a signed copy of downloaded filled-up form to the concerned public authority along with ...

New Delhi, Mar 02 (India Science Wire): India is the third-largest producer of e-waste and has generated 3.23 MMT E-waste in 2019 alone. Paltry e-waste management makes the situation even more challenging. Notably, e-waste contains several toxic materials such as lead, cadmium, chromium, brominated flame retardants, or polychlorinated biphenyls. Therefore, unregulated accumulation, landfilling, or inappropriate recycling processes poses a severe threat to human health and the environment. On the contrary, e-waste can also be considered an “Urban Mine” for metal recovery and energy production. Led by Professor K.K. Pant, his research group in the Catalytic Reaction Engineering Laboratory at Chemical Engineering Department, Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) Delhi, has developed...

नई दिल्ली, 03 मार्च (इंडिया साइंस वायर): पृथ्वी पर अलग-अलग प्रकार से जीवन का विकास हुआ है, जो मानव के अस्तित्व में आने के साथ ही उसकी आवश्यकताओं को पूरा करता रहा है और आज भी कर रहा है। प्रकृति में अनेक प्रकार के जीव-जन्तु हैं, जो पारिस्थितिक तंत्र के अनुरूप विकसित हुए हैं, और उनका जीवन तब तक सामान्य रूप से चलता रहता है, जब तक पर्यावरण अनुकूल रहता है। लेकिन, मनुष्य ने विकास के क्रम में न केवल पारिस्थितिक तंत्र को बिगाड़ा है, बल्कि वन्यजीवों और समुद्री जीवों के अस्तित्व का संकट खड़ा कर दिया है। मानवीय गतिविधियों के कारण पूरी दुनिया में वन्यजीवों की संख्या लगातार कम हो रही है। इस संकट को देखते हुए हर साल 03 मार्च को वन्यजीवों और वनस्पतियों के महत्व पर जागरूकता बढ़ाने के लिए विश्व वन्यजीव दिवस मनाया जाता है। विश्व वन्यजीव दिवस का मुख्य उद्देश्य वैश्विक स्तर पर वन्यजीवों के संरक्षण की द...

नई दिल्ली, 2 मार्च (इंडिया साइंस वायर): जैव प्रौद्योगिकी का सबसे बड़ा जलसा ग्लोबल बायो इंडिया, 2021 का नई दिल्ली में सोमवार, एक मार्च को उद्घाटन हुआ। केंद्रीय विज्ञान एवं प्रौद्योगिकी, पृथ्वी विज्ञान और स्वास्थ्य एवं परिवार कल्याण मंत्री डॉ. हर्ष वर्धन ने इसका उद्घाटन किया। इस अवसर पर केंद्रीय वित्त मंत्री निर्मला सीतारमण मुख्य अतिथि रहीं। इस तीन दिवसीय आयोजन में जैव प्रौद्योगिकी के विभिन्न पहलुओं पर चर्चा की जा रही है। इस आयोजन में, पहले सत्र की चर्चा इसी विषय पर केंद्रित थी कि कैसे भारत का 'मेक इन इंडिया' अभियान उस 'आत्मनिर्भर भारत अभियान' में बदल गया, जो देश को आत्मनिर्भरता और लचीलापन प्रदान करने का आधार बन गया है। इस सत्र में, राष्ट्रीय प्राथमिकताओं को रेखांकित किया गया। इसमें दर्शाया गया कि भारत ने कोविड महामारी से उत्पन्न चुनौती को कैसे आपदा स...

New Delhi, March 02 (India Science Wire): Data and artificial intelligence are the fastest growing clusters and these sectors need to be included in schools, colleges, and university curricula, said Director IBM Research India, and CTO, IBM India and South Asia, Dr. Gargi B Dasgupta. She was discussing the jobs that would stay for the next ten years, at a special lecture on National Science Day (NSD) on the theme ‘Future of STI: Impacts on Education, Skills and Work’. She spoke about the future of jobs and the urgency of science, highlighting the recent study by the World Economic Forum (WEF) on the new emerging job clusters and the skills required for tomorrow's economy. She said that the fourth industrial revolution is creating demand for new skill sets, displacing exist...

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 may be added to avoid purchase of demand-drafts in submitting various types of fees. Government-fees below rupees 50 may either be increased or totally abolished. Or De...