YEH MERA INDIA
Indian-origin led team makes mosquito cocktail
London: Mosquito bites could soon become a fading memory, thanks to a chemical cocktail made by a team led by an Indian-origin scientist to buzz off the pesky insects.
Scientists, fed by Anandasankar Ray of the University of California-Riverside, have concocted a gas that swamps the mosquito’s senses, making it impossible for them to sniff out human blood. The breakthrough could lead to new repellent lotions and sprays, as well as gadgets designed to keep mosquitoes away from humans, the journal Nature reports. The discovery would also help in providing protection against malaria, and other topical ills such as dengue and yellow fevers, according to the Daily Mail. Mosquitoes transmit deadly diseases to more than half a million people a year and cause millions of deaths around the world.
Who says city students are better?
Thane: Tribal students from the tribal taluks of Thane district including Shahapur, Murbad, Wada and Talasari over came all odds and outperformed their city counterparts in the HSC exams. The overall pass percentage of Thane district stood at 74 with 69,795 students of the total 94,158 including first timers and repeaters clearing the Std XII examination conducted by the state board.
Students from adivasi heartlands demonstrated greater academic excellence despite the lack of basic facilities such a uninterrupted power supply and adequate educational infrastructure.
Office attender clears SSC after 15 attempts
If you fail, try and try again, so said King Soloman. This seems to be the motto of 29-year-old Paresh Jangam, a peon with Saraswati Secondary High School and Junior College who cleared his SSC exam after fifteen years of attempts. Jangam scored 64% in the SSC examination. Jangam who has been working as a peon in the school since 2006 received motivation from the students passing the examination every year. After joining as a peon I could see students passing their class examination and doing well in career. Also, less salary motivated me pursue education and make a mark, he said.
‘Tihar a picnic spot for fraudsters’
New Delhi: In the wake of a media report alleging special treatment being accorded to VIP prisoners at Tihar Jail here, Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has said the jail has become “picnic spot” for scamsters.
“Tihar has become a picnic spot for the champions of scams and corruption,” BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi told reporters sarcastically.
“The central government is first trying to protect the people who are involved in corruption and scams, and if they are in jail, they are providing all the facilities,” he said.
A newspaper report said that extra liberty was being given to former Commonwealth Games (CWG) Organising Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi and other high profile prisoners at the Tihjar Jail.
It said that during a surprise visit by inspecting trial court judge Brijesh Kumar Garg, Kalmadi was found having tea and snacks with the jail superintendent, while the cells of the 2G scam accused were found unlocked.
EC to introduce EVM and VVPAT system for more transparency
New Delhi: In an effort to ensure more transparent electronic voting, the election commission is planning to introduce EVM and Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT), whose first field trials would be conducted in simulated elections at selected polling stations. In VVPAT system, when voter presses button for the candidate of his choice in the Electronic Voting Machine, a paper ballot containing the serial number, name of the candidate and poll symbol will be printed, and the voter can verify it, reports PTI. Introducing the new system to the media at the EC headquarters here, deputy Election Commissioner Alok Shukla said “extensive laboratory tests” have been conducted on the prototype of the VVPAT system by the Bharat Electronic Limited (BEL) and Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL).
World Bank & Madhya Pradesh
Bhopal: World Bank Managing Director Ngozi Okonjo Iweala has invited the state Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to WB’s headquarters in Washington to share the experience of development schemes implemented for women and children in the state. Inviting Chouhan, WB was underlined its intention to expand engagement in a wide range of sectors in Madhya Pradesh, according to a letter written to the Chief Minister by Iweala. “The WB wants to hear MP’s development experience, especially regarding development of women and children,” the letter said. “The WB holds that these innovations and learning needs to be spread,” it added. In the letter, WB MD had mentioned her experience of a field visit to MP’s Raisen district and lauded the welfare schemes being run there, a government statement said. Iweala has also appreciated Chouhan’s vision to end malnourishment among children and empower women, it added. A WB delegation led by Iweala had called on Chouhan on May 15 and praised the state government’s beneficiary schemes. Former Nigerian Finance and Foreign Minister Iweala had said that Madhya Pradesh government’s public services guarantee scheme was a major step to promote good governance. Right now, a slew of beneficial schemes-Ladli Laxmi, Mukhya Mantri Kanyadan, Gaon Ki Beti, Janani Suraksha, besides reservation for women in panchayats and civil bodies, are being implemented with the co-operation of community in MP.
Molestation to be non-bailable
Mumbai: A division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice G S Godbole of the Bombay High Court remarked molestation is a serious crime and it should be made a non-bailable offence.
Chief Justice Mohit Shah made this observation while hearing a PIL based on a newspaper report which alleged that Railway Police Force (RPF) had refused to register the complaint of a 25-year-old woman who was molested in a local train in the early hours of June 19.
The report that appeared in a leading newspaper had been converted suo motu into a PIL by the high court, which asked the government and Railways to file their replies.
The report said the victim boarded a train early morning at Nerul station in adjoining Navi Mumbai and was allegedly molested by an unidentified person in the compartment.
The woman managed to get down at the next station. Juinagar, and reported the matter to RPF personnel who asked her whether she had been robbed or raped, to which she replied in the negative.
They then asked her as why she wanted to lodge a complaint, the newspaper report said.
Finally, she went to Vashi police station, which registered a complaint against an unidentified accused on the basis of her statement. The victim has been called to identify the accused from the CCTV footage, it said.
London: Mosquito bites could soon become a fading memory, thanks to a chemical cocktail made by a team led by an Indian-origin scientist to buzz off the pesky insects.
Scientists, fed by Anandasankar Ray of the University of California-Riverside, have concocted a gas that swamps the mosquito’s senses, making it impossible for them to sniff out human blood. The breakthrough could lead to new repellent lotions and sprays, as well as gadgets designed to keep mosquitoes away from humans, the journal Nature reports. The discovery would also help in providing protection against malaria, and other topical ills such as dengue and yellow fevers, according to the Daily Mail. Mosquitoes transmit deadly diseases to more than half a million people a year and cause millions of deaths around the world.
Who says city students are better?
Thane: Tribal students from the tribal taluks of Thane district including Shahapur, Murbad, Wada and Talasari over came all odds and outperformed their city counterparts in the HSC exams. The overall pass percentage of Thane district stood at 74 with 69,795 students of the total 94,158 including first timers and repeaters clearing the Std XII examination conducted by the state board.
Students from adivasi heartlands demonstrated greater academic excellence despite the lack of basic facilities such a uninterrupted power supply and adequate educational infrastructure.
Office attender clears SSC after 15 attempts
If you fail, try and try again, so said King Soloman. This seems to be the motto of 29-year-old Paresh Jangam, a peon with Saraswati Secondary High School and Junior College who cleared his SSC exam after fifteen years of attempts. Jangam scored 64% in the SSC examination. Jangam who has been working as a peon in the school since 2006 received motivation from the students passing the examination every year. After joining as a peon I could see students passing their class examination and doing well in career. Also, less salary motivated me pursue education and make a mark, he said.
‘Tihar a picnic spot for fraudsters’
New Delhi: In the wake of a media report alleging special treatment being accorded to VIP prisoners at Tihar Jail here, Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has said the jail has become “picnic spot” for scamsters.
“Tihar has become a picnic spot for the champions of scams and corruption,” BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi told reporters sarcastically.
“The central government is first trying to protect the people who are involved in corruption and scams, and if they are in jail, they are providing all the facilities,” he said.
A newspaper report said that extra liberty was being given to former Commonwealth Games (CWG) Organising Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi and other high profile prisoners at the Tihjar Jail.
It said that during a surprise visit by inspecting trial court judge Brijesh Kumar Garg, Kalmadi was found having tea and snacks with the jail superintendent, while the cells of the 2G scam accused were found unlocked.
EC to introduce EVM and VVPAT system for more transparency
New Delhi: In an effort to ensure more transparent electronic voting, the election commission is planning to introduce EVM and Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT), whose first field trials would be conducted in simulated elections at selected polling stations. In VVPAT system, when voter presses button for the candidate of his choice in the Electronic Voting Machine, a paper ballot containing the serial number, name of the candidate and poll symbol will be printed, and the voter can verify it, reports PTI. Introducing the new system to the media at the EC headquarters here, deputy Election Commissioner Alok Shukla said “extensive laboratory tests” have been conducted on the prototype of the VVPAT system by the Bharat Electronic Limited (BEL) and Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL).
World Bank & Madhya Pradesh
Bhopal: World Bank Managing Director Ngozi Okonjo Iweala has invited the state Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to WB’s headquarters in Washington to share the experience of development schemes implemented for women and children in the state. Inviting Chouhan, WB was underlined its intention to expand engagement in a wide range of sectors in Madhya Pradesh, according to a letter written to the Chief Minister by Iweala. “The WB wants to hear MP’s development experience, especially regarding development of women and children,” the letter said. “The WB holds that these innovations and learning needs to be spread,” it added. In the letter, WB MD had mentioned her experience of a field visit to MP’s Raisen district and lauded the welfare schemes being run there, a government statement said. Iweala has also appreciated Chouhan’s vision to end malnourishment among children and empower women, it added. A WB delegation led by Iweala had called on Chouhan on May 15 and praised the state government’s beneficiary schemes. Former Nigerian Finance and Foreign Minister Iweala had said that Madhya Pradesh government’s public services guarantee scheme was a major step to promote good governance. Right now, a slew of beneficial schemes-Ladli Laxmi, Mukhya Mantri Kanyadan, Gaon Ki Beti, Janani Suraksha, besides reservation for women in panchayats and civil bodies, are being implemented with the co-operation of community in MP.
Molestation to be non-bailable
Mumbai: A division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice G S Godbole of the Bombay High Court remarked molestation is a serious crime and it should be made a non-bailable offence.
Chief Justice Mohit Shah made this observation while hearing a PIL based on a newspaper report which alleged that Railway Police Force (RPF) had refused to register the complaint of a 25-year-old woman who was molested in a local train in the early hours of June 19.
The report that appeared in a leading newspaper had been converted suo motu into a PIL by the high court, which asked the government and Railways to file their replies.
The report said the victim boarded a train early morning at Nerul station in adjoining Navi Mumbai and was allegedly molested by an unidentified person in the compartment.
The woman managed to get down at the next station. Juinagar, and reported the matter to RPF personnel who asked her whether she had been robbed or raped, to which she replied in the negative.
They then asked her as why she wanted to lodge a complaint, the newspaper report said.
Finally, she went to Vashi police station, which registered a complaint against an unidentified accused on the basis of her statement. The victim has been called to identify the accused from the CCTV footage, it said.
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