SCIENCE & DEVELOPMENT

A Curious Business Model!: India Will Pay $ 2 billion Micron Will Have Complete Ownership Investing Less than a Billion

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×THE deal with Micron during PM Modi's visit to the US has made headlines as a major technological breakthrough and a new dawn for India's electronics chip-making industry. Implicit in this hurrah for the Micron deal is that India has completely missed the bus on the key technologies involved in electronic chip making.

Forest (Conservation) Amendment Bill 2023: Massive Attack on Forests and Rights, Fillip For Corporate-Security State

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×THE BJP government is continuing its relentless assault on the country’s environment and natural resources, especially on forests, with resultant severe impacts on forest-dependent tribals and other forest-dwellers. At the same time, the government proclaims its commitment, loudly but falsely, to environmental protection!

COWIN’s Data Breach: Risking the Security and Privacy of Our Citizens

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×THE leak of personal and sensitive data of the people registered on the COWIN vaccination portal makes clear that its database has been breached. Personal and sensitive data of individuals, including name, gender, date of birth, address, Aadhaar number, mobile number and the location of their vaccination centre, all of which can be accessed through a Telegram bot got leaked.

India’s Worst Train Accident in 20 Years: Privileging Vanity over Safety

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×THE three-train accident involving the Shalimar Coromandel Express, Yashwantpur Howrah Superfast Express and a goods train, is India's biggest train accident in the last 20 years. Confirmed deaths – as of June 7, 2023 – are 288 persons.The accident occurred near Balasore – Bahanaga Bazar Station – when the Coromandel Express from Howrah going towards Chennai crashed into a goods train.

China’s Large Passenger Jet Enters Commercial Service: Lessons in Self-Reliance for India

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×IT has been some time coming, but China’s first large home-made passenger jet finally entered commercial service last week on May 28, 2023 on a China Eastern Airlines flight from Shanghai to Beijing. The C919 jetliner, with a 156-168 seat capacity and a nominal range of 4000-5500km, is made by State-owned Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China or COMAC.

Beyond the Brand: Biosimilars for Affordable Health Care

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×SERENDIPITY and experimentation with what was available often showed us humans that plant products could help treat or prevent certain diseases. But the first modern drug was by Friedrich Sertürner in 1804, who extracted the main active chemical from opium in the laboratory and called it morphine.

Coronation of Charles III Reminds Us of Britain’s Bloody History of Genocide, Slavery, and Loot

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×ON May 6th, Charles III was crowned king of the United Kingdom after the sun had decisively set over the British Empire. The ceremony reminded us again of the connection of the British Crown with the colonial loot and slave trade, the foundations of the British Empire.

Information Wants to be Free: Remembering Assange on Press Freedom Day

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×MAY 3rd is World Press Freedom Day, a reminder that the role of news organisations is to speak truth to power. Not to manufacture consent – to use Chomsky’s famous words – for the government and the ruling classes. While doing that, I want to remember two men who exemplify the need to speak the truth: Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame and Julian Assange of WikiLeaks.

Dropping Evolution from School, Now Killing Vigyan Prasar

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×IT was shocking and disturbing to learn from the press article titled “An Institution Dies” in The Statesman of April 24, 2023 that there is a proposal to close Vigyan Prasar, by August of this year. Vigyan Prasar (VP) was set up in 1989 with a mandate for science popularisation, communication and building scientific temper.

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