News on Science, Technology and Research in India
In this episode of Rag Rag Mein Ganga, you get to see the colors & flavours of the Kanpur city, situated on the banks of the Mighty Ganges. See Rajeev Khandelwal explore the city which is called as the Manchester of India, and its various nuances.
The cheap portable ‘Foldscope’, created by an Indian scientist, is being promoted by the central government
He told News18, “This research has elements of past. Like in the eastern world, we have the concept of ‘ananda,’ through heartfulness meditation we connect to that source of happiness. It is the opposite of pressure and anxiety. We hear of mindfulness, but with this, I have brought the aspect of heartfulness meditation.”
Based on structural similarities, scientists reasoned that the synthesized molecule may show insecticidal and repellent property against mosquitoes too. They tested their efficacy against adult females of Aedes aegypti and found that one of the molecules, named NDS-100598, exhibited higher repellence.
The annual incidence of shigellosis throughout the world is estimated to be 164.7 million, resulting in about 1.1 million deaths, primarily of children below five years and in the elderly population. Insofar as the Indian incidence is concerned, Koley said, “There is not much data but several outbreaks have been reported.”
Explaining his decision to use cow urine for green crackers, IISER chemical scientist, Prof Samrat Ghosh said it was basically due to its current popularity among scientists keen to explore the ‘big’ claims around it. “This is currently a topic of interest, so I thought to experiment with it.
The study, ‘Assessment of Water Quality and Sediment To Understand Special Properties of River Ganga,’ began in 2016 and was conducted by the Nagpur-based National Environmental Engineering and Research Institute (NEERI), a CSIR lab. The NEERI team was tasked with assessing the water quality for “radiological, microbiological and biological” parameters in the Bhagirathi (a feeder river of the Ganga) and the Ganga at 20 sampling stations.
IIT Jodhpur has signed a memorandum of understanding with NVIDIA (US based company) to install NVidia DGX-2, a state of the art machine with 512 GB of GPU memory and an enterprise grade AI infrastructure.
Kang is the Executive Director of Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, India and she is the first woman to get selected as a fellow in 359 years of history of this prestigious scientific academy.
Nearly 100 teams took part in the competition, hailing from 23 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, as well as a record number of countries, including Bangladesh, Germany, India, Mexico, Morocco and Peru.
