Kerala University’s aspirations to make its Karyavattom campus ‘green’ have shown encouraging signs with efforts being made from within to adopt sustainable practices and implement a source-level solid waste management system on campuses. Despite the university lacking a sustainable solid waste management protocol, the Department of Sociology has successfully turned its premises into a zero-waste institution through two years of focused efforts that involved doing away with plastics and other non-biodegradable products with eco-friendly alternatives. According to Antony Palackal, head of the department, careful planning that included a ‘waste audit’ preceded the implementation of Project Dhatri action research project. On a normal working day, the department used to generate nearly a quarter of a bucket of food wastes and 25 to 30 plastic wrappers. The quantity of wastes used to increase by around five times during seminars and open-defences that were ... » Learn More about KU’s green campus aims find roots from within
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KU to bridge industry-academia divide
The University of Kerala has set its sights on bridging the industry-academia divide by deciding to appoint adjunct faculty comprising industrialists and other experts in various disciplines. The endeavour is aimed at nurturing industrial collaboration for research pursuits. An academic-industrial meet will also be organised this year to identify various research areas under the university’s study departments with the support of industrial and academic experts. The announcements find place in the university’s budget for the 2021-22 fiscal that was presented by Syndicate finance committee convener K.H. Babujan at a meeting of the Senate on Wednesday. The ₹1.67-crore deficit budget estimated a revenue of ₹705.43 crore and an expenditure of ₹707.1 crore. ‘Navodhana Veedhi’ The university’s plan of developing the Karyavattom campus as a model one, replete with adequate infrastructural facilities including hostels and theatre classrooms in each of the study departments, found prime ... » Learn More about KU to bridge industry-academia divide
Biden will keep the pressure on Xi
Neither Biden nor his successors can any longer ignore the threat China has come to pose to the US in both economic and military fields, observes Virendra Kapoor. IMAGE: US President Joe Biden speaks about his administration's plans to respond to the economic crisis, in the State Dining Room at the White House, January 22, 2021. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters The contrast between the inaugural of a new American president in 2021 and 2017 could not have been starker. Four years ago, Donald Trump speaking from the same pulpit had laid bare the contours of what would become his presidency's signature legacy of hate, division, disruption and crony capitalism. Rancour and bitterness were the tools he employed to arouse his support base of 'deplorables' against anyone who opposed his brand of populism. On the other hand, on Wednesday, January 20, 2021, from the same Capitol Hill, from where a fortnight earlier Trump had despatched his stormtroopers to ransack the two legislative ... » Learn More about Biden will keep the pressure on Xi
Macao starts vaccination of mainland-made COVID-19 vaccines, chief executive goes first
Video PlayerClose MACAO, Feb. 9 (Xinhua) -- China's Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) on Tuesday started vaccination using mainland-made COVID-19 vaccines at a major local public hospital, with Macao SAR Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng being the first one to be vaccinated. Several leading officials of the SAR government were also vaccinated, together with representatives of prioritized groups including front-line workers in anti-epidemic efforts and groups that are at high risk in terms of occupational exposure, including police, staff of customs, hotels and airports as well as medical workers. These people will take the second dose of the vaccine after three to four weeks. Officials of the SAR government took the lead in vaccination in an effort to convey their confidence in the vaccines, said Ao Ieong U, secretary for social affairs and culture of Macao, at the launch ceremony, calling for residents in Macao to be vaccinated. The first batch of the inactivated COVID-19 vaccines ... » Learn More about Macao starts vaccination of mainland-made COVID-19 vaccines, chief executive goes first
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Sunil Mittal’s $2 bn gamble on space
Bharti Global is planning to put up more satellites and has set a stiff deadline to launch commercial Internet services by October in the UK, Alaska, northern Russia and northern Europe. IMAGE: Sunil Mittal is planning to invest $2 billion on a once bankrupt low earth orbit constellation satellite company OneWeb. Photograph: Kind courtesy Oneweb.world.com Space wars are here again, but with a difference. Pitted on one side is India's telecom czar Sunil Mittal who has taken a big gamble by buying a 50 per cent stake in the once bankrupt low earth orbit constellation satellite company OneWeb. The company, Bharti Global, is planning to invest $2 billion (of which it has already put in $500 million) to put up more satellites and it has set a stiff deadline to launch its commercial Internet services by October next year in the UK, Alaska, northern Russia and northern Europe. Taking him on will be the formidable tech entrepreneur Elon Musk whose competing broadband offering ... » Learn More about Sunil Mittal’s $2 bn gamble on space
HC sets aside fresh notices served on DMK MLAs
The Madras High Court on Wednesday set aside fresh show cause notices issued by the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly’s Committee of Privileges to DMK president M.K. Stalin, 18 other legislators from his party and expelled MLA Ku.Ka. Selvam in September 2020 for having displayed gutkha sachets in the House in July 2017. In her orders, Justice Pushpa Sathyanarayana observed that the Assembly should not only commence its proceedings with the Speaker reciting a couplet from Thirukkural every day, but “the legislators should also follow the Thirukkural in their day-to-day life both inside and outside the Assembly”. The original notices issued in 2017 were quashed by the first Division Bench of the High Court in August 2020 after observing that they suffer from a foundational error of assuming that the display of gutkha sachets, to attract the attention of the House to their availability in bunk shops despite a ban, was per se prohibited under the law. The Bench, however, granted ... » Learn More about HC sets aside fresh notices served on DMK MLAs
Best from science journals: Meet the fastest snapper
(Subscribe to Science For All, our weekly newsletter, where we aim to take the jargon out of science and put the fun in. Click here .) Snappers of the sea Published in Current Biology The fastest snapping claws on Earth belong to male amphipods ( Dulichiella cf. appendiculata ) which are microscopic, shrimp-like creatures. Scientists noticed that they can repeatedly close their claws in less than 0.01% of a second. The claws make up a third of the male's body weight and researchers say they are still trying to figure out why these creatures invest so much into this action and whether it plays into male-female interaction or territorial disputes. Watch video here Good news from Africa Published in PNAS The level of dangerous nitrogen oxides has reduced across the north equatorial part of Africa. But how was this possible when the region has seen an increase in human population and fossil fuel use? Researchers found that the reason was a decline in the longtime ... » Learn More about Best from science journals: Meet the fastest snapper
Democratic congressman sues Trump over role in Capitol riot
For Quick Alerts Subscribe Now Bengal minister Jakir Hossain injured in bomb attack in railway station View Sample For Quick Alerts ALLOW NOTIFICATIONS For Daily Alerts #Donald Trump Speaker Pelosi proposes 9/11-type commission to probe US Capitol storming #Donald Trump Impeachment is not the final word on Capitol riot for Trump #Donald Trump Greatest witch hunt in history of US, Trump says after acquittal in impeachment trial #Donald Trump Donald Trump acquitted in second impeachment trial #Donald Trump Rioters acted on Trump's 'orders,' Democrats say in trial #Donald Trump Donald Trump can't hang on to lawyers after false election claims Just In 3 hrs ago Sandeep Nahar suicide: Abetment case against wife, mother-in-law 3 hrs ago Unnao: 3 girls found with hands and legs tied; 2 dead, 1 hospitalised 4 hrs ago Telangana Guv ... » Learn More about Democratic congressman sues Trump over role in Capitol riot
Cross-border WMPs gain traction in Bay Area
Rising economic activity, an expanding affluent population and policy incentives are providing new momentum for cross-border financial products in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, according to a study by consultancy Bain& Co. In a survey conducted among 3,000 retail customers and small and medium-sized enterprises in the region, a majority expressed a strong interest in purchasing cross-border wealth management products. Currently only fewer than 20 percent of the respondents have such an asset allocation. Among retail customers in the Chinese mainland who do not own Hong Kong wealth management products, 70 percent expressed interest in purchasing one in the next three years. Encompassing Hong Kong, Macao, and nine cities in Guangdong province, the GBA has a population of more than 70 million and annual gross domestic product growth of roughly 8 percent over the past decade. There is already an infrastructure for some cross-border trading in stocks (Stock ... » Learn More about Cross-border WMPs gain traction in Bay Area