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21 Jan

10th round of talks between Government and Farmers Unions held in Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi

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Next round of dialogue to be held on 22nd January 2021 Union Minister for Agriculture Shri Narendra Singh Tomar, Union Minister for Railways, Commerce and Industry and Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Shri PiyushGoyal and Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Shri Som Prakash participated in the 10th round of talks with the representatives of 41 Farmers’ Unions at VigyanBhawan, New Delhi today. At the outset Shri Tomar greeted the Farmers’ Unions on the occasion of 354th Prakash Parvof Shri Guru Govind Singh Ji and thanked them for keeping the agitation peaceful. Shri Tomar said that the…

21 Jan

Don’t blame Children, Society should take responsibility for children’s development: Jaadoo Director

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Panaji : “Every kid or student is like a bottle with a different shape and a different lid. When they fail to learn, at the end, the blame should not go to them but the teachers and society who failed to open the lid and pour something inside the bottle.” This is the message given by Shoorveer Tyagi, director of the IFFI 51 Indian Panorama Non Feature Film, Jaadoo. He was addressing a press conference at 51st International Film Festival of India today, January 20, 2021 in Panaji, Goa. Jaadoo is a multilayered film which portrays the world of children,…

21 Jan

Film theatre industry to stay despite OTT and TV channels: G P Vijayakumar

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OTT enables average and small budget films too to gain global viewership “Need more producers with a professional approach to filmmaking” “There was a big opposition when OTT made its initial appearance citing that it will end theatrical releases and shut movie businesses. However, the traditional film industry, theatres and blockbuster movies will continue to stay despite OTT and TV channels being around. They only complement the entertainment business of cinema financially, making it more lucrative. The viewership on OTT is ever increasing at a faster pace which is pegged at 20 per cent now. OTT enables even average and…

21 Jan

DST INSPIRE faculty from Chennai working on alternative anti-cancer therapy using transgenic zebrafish

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Scientists are exploring an alternative anti-cancer therapy that involves targeting tumor generated the formation of new blood vessels which allow the delivery of oxygen and nutrients to the body's tissues, technically called angiogenesis. Angiogenesis is critical in the growth of cancer because tumors need blood supply to grow. Tumors trigger the growth of blood cells by giving off chemical signals that stimulate angiogenesis. Deregulation of angiogenesis is the main reason for tumor growth and progression. Inhibition of tumor angiogenesis has become a popular anti-cancer strategy after chemotherapy. However, the clinically approved anti-angiogenic drugs are ineffective due to parallel activation of…

21 Jan

Dr Harsh Vardhan unveils posters to address vaccine hesitancy and misinformation

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New Delhi (India Science Wire): India has begun one of the world’s biggest COVID-19 vaccination programs. While countries across the globe are asking India for access to vaccines, there are incidences of misinformation-driven vaccination hesitancy in the country. To address this, Dr Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, launched Information, Education and Communication (IEC) posters prepared by the Health Ministry. Dr Harsh Vardhan said “Let us put a STOP to these falsehoods”. He appealed to people to seek the correct information from credible and authentic sources such as the Health Ministry, Press Information Bureau (PIB), Ministry of…

21 Jan

Focus on management of adverse events in COVID-19 vaccination

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New Delhi (India Science Wire): The operation guidelines prepared by the Central Government for the COVID-19 vaccination programme currently underway, provides a detailed roadmap to ensure a robust surveillance system to monitor adverse events post immunization and better understand the safety profile of the vaccines. The recommended measures take into account the need to rapidly detect and promptly respond to adverse reactions since otherwise it can undermine confidence in the vaccine and immunization programme as a whole. Programme managers have been advised to be extra careful since the process involved vaccination of a large population within a short period. It…

21 Jan

Researchers identify phenotype to boost ‘nitrogen use efficiency’ in rice

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New Delhi : Crops take only about 30% of the nitrogen fertilizer added and the rest gets washed away to cause pollution, ill-health and climate change. Improving this poor ‘nitrogen use efficiency’ (NUE) was a major global challenge for decades, as there were no simple visual cues or genetic means to differentiate between high and low NUE cultivars in any crop. A team of researchers led by Prof. Nandula Raghuram from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, (GGSIU) New Delhi, has found the ‘phenotype’ or the visually identifiable features determining NUE. They also identified some associated genes that could help in…

20 Jan

Gujarat Governor Acharya Devvrat presides over 10th convocation of Gujarat Tech-nological University with Chief Minister Vijay Rupani as Chief Guest

The News Horizon0 CommentsEducationChief Minister Vijay Rupani, Gujarat Governor Acharya Devvrat, Gujarat Tech-nological University

“Students should prove significance of degree by achieving purusharth in nation’s development with a humane approach” – Governor Acharya Devvrat Youth should move on from patenting to production, from imagination to innovation, from jobseekers to job-givers” “Prime Minister Narendra Modi as Chief Minister had set up Gujarat Technological University for students get best education at doorstep” “BJP Government give stress on technical education in state” – Vijay Rupani Gandhinagar :Gujarat Governor Acharya Devvrat called upon graduating students at Gujarat Technological University (GTU) at its 10th annual convocation here today to achieve purusharthin the nation’s development with a humane approach. He…

20 Jan

Madhya Pradesh village celebrates ‘Jal Utsav’ to welcome tap water connection

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Yes! The smile is for real for the four-year-old ‘Muskaan’. It’s a first time in her life she is seeing tap water connection in her household. As her mother prepares to worship the tap, she could barely wait for the ‘pooja’ to be over, and insists to open the tap to enjoy & feel the first gush of water. Finally, her patience paid off; With one swish of the tap, clean water gushed out & Muskaan bursts into giggles and claps. “I can drink water during my playtime without pestering my mother for it”- gleefully chirps Muskaan! This is how…

20 Jan

Women in aviation creates history

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4 female pilots of the airline air-India created history by tottering around the whole globe in a go. Flying the route over the North Pole. Covering over 14,000 kms, they flew the airline’s first direct flight from Bengaluru to San-Francisco. Capt Zoya Aggarwal says “flying from two diametrically points which SF to Bengaluru, if you see the globe they’re on two exact diametric points’’ by all women pilots who successfully did it, which is amongst one of the world’s longest flights. The flight was significantly for two reasons first, it’s the longest non-stop commercial flight by any Indian airline and…