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Diwali

In india diwali is one of the most popular festival. We all know diwali as lighted lamps. Fireworks, sweets, relatives and happiness. During this festival people lighten up their houses, shopes , hearts and souls. Diwali is 5day celebration which occurs on the 15th day of the hindu month of kartika. It is celebrated when Lord Ram, Sita and Lakshman returned to Ayodhya after 14 years of exile. People of Ayodhya welcomed them with lighted oil lamps. That is why it is called the 'Festival of Lights'.  Diwali is festival of celebration. But this festival is turning into disaster. The fireworks and cracker are becoming dangerous and vicious. Diwali is now become festival of pollution, noise. The increasing level of air pollution. Because of this SC banned fireworks and crackers in some states. For example in  delhi the the air pollution become a serious problem. The pollution level increases. the main motto of diwali is turning into the reason of pollution. people cra...

Sustainable energy

Sustainable energy is a term used to refer to provision or development of energy that can be used by everyone without compromising future generations. Different kinds of technologies have been developed to promote production of sustainable energy. These include renewable sources like solar energy, hydroelectricity, geothermal energy, tidal power, wind energy, wave power and artificial photosynthesis. There are also technologies which have been developed to improve the efficiency of energy. Thirty years ago, sustainability of energy was nothing more than availability of energy relative to rate of use. Today though, when looked at the context of ethical framework, sustainable development includes particular concerns such as global warming and other aspects. Now, whenever people think about sustainable energy, they must also think about environmental effects as well as question of waste even when there is no environmental effect. Safety is another issue that must be looked into when tal...

Joachim frank

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Joachim frank German-born American biochemist who won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on image-processing techniques that proved essential to the development of cryo-electron microscopy. He shared the prize with Swiss biophysicist Jacques Dubochet and British molecular biologist Richard Henderson. Frank received a bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Freiburg in 1963. He then received a master’s from the University of Munich in 1967 and a doctorate from the Technical University of Munich in 1970. From 1970 to 1972, he had a postdoctoral fellowship that allowed him to travel to the United States, where he worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California; the University of California, Berkeley; and Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York. He was a visiting scientist at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Munich from 1972 to 1973 and a senior research assistant at the Cavendish Laboratory from 1973 to 1975. He then joined the Wad...

Richard Henderson

The Nashville area was originally inhabited by peoples of the Mississippian culture; Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Shawnee later moved into the region. French fur traders established a post known as French Lick on the site in 1717. A force behind the area’s settlement was Richard Henderson, a North Carolina jurist who in 1775 acquired most of middle Tennessee and Kentucky in the Transylvania Purchase from the Cherokee. In 1779 he sent a party under James Robertson to investigate the Cumberland Valley. They settled at French Lick and were joined in the spring of 1780 by another group under John Donelson. Fort Nashborough, built at the site and named for American Revolutionary War general Francis Nash, became the centre of the new community. (A replica of the fort stands in a park along the Cumberland River.) Henderson is also credited with having written the Cumberland Compact, the articles of self-government adopted by the settlers. The community was renamed Nashville in 1784. Charter...

Richard Henderson

The Nashville area was originally inhabited by peoples of the Mississippian culture; Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Shawnee later moved into the region. French fur traders established a post known as French Lick on the site in 1717. A force behind the area’s settlement was Richard Henderson, a North Carolina jurist who in 1775 acquired most of middle Tennessee and Kentucky in the Transylvania Purchase from the Cherokee. In 1779 he sent a party under James Robertson to investigate the Cumberland Valley. They settled at French Lick and were joined in the spring of 1780 by another group under John Donelson. Fort Nashborough, built at the site and named for American Revolutionary War general Francis Nash, became the centre of the new community. (A replica of the fort stands in a park along the Cumberland River.) Henderson is also credited with having written the Cumberland Compact, the articles of self-government adopted by the settlers. The community was renamed Nashville in 1784. Charter...

Richard thaler

American economist who was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize for Economics for his contributions to behavioral economics, a field of microeconomics that applies the findings of psychology and other social sciences to the study of economic behaviour. In published work spanning more than four decades, Thaler explored how economic decision making by both individuals and institutions is systematically and significantly influenced by natural human cognitive limitations and biases, among other psychological factors. His findings consistently refuted the common assumption within economic theory that individuals always act rationally and selfishly, an idealization that most economists had nevertheless accepted as valid for predictive purposes. Thaler’s identification of specific ways in which people’s real economic behaviour deviates from rational norms had important practical implications, suggesting that many public and private social policies could be made more effective by incorporat...

Jacques Dubchet

Swiss biophysicist who succeeded in vitrifying water around biomolecules, thereby preventing the formation of ice crystals in biological specimens. Dubochet discovered that water could retain its liquid form at freezing temperatures if it was cooled very rapidly in liquid ethane. Doing so preserved the natural shape of biomolecules in the vacuum environment necessary for biological imaging by electron microscopy. For his discoveries, he was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (shared with biophysicists Richard Henderson and Joachim Frank). Dubochet was raised in southwestern Switzerland. In his youth, he was diagnosed with dyslexia. He attended the Polytechnic School of the University of Lausanne (now the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne), where he received a degree in physical engineering in 1967. He then went to the University of Geneva, earning a certificate in molecular biology in 1969. He later earned a Ph.D. in biophysics from the University of Geneva and the Univers...

Rainer weiss

German-born American physicist who was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and for the first direct detection of gravity waves. He won half the prize, with American physicists Kip S. Thorne and Barry C. Barish sharing the other half. Weiss’s father, Frederick Weiss, was a Jewish neurologist, and his mother, Gertude Loesner, was a Christian actor. Shortly before Rainer’s birth, Frederick Weiss testified in court against a Nazi doctor who had performed a botched operation. Weiss’s father was abducted by Nazis, but Loesner managed to use her political connections to get him released. Frederick Weiss left Germany for Czechoslovakia, and Loesner joined him shortly after Rainer’s birth. After the announcement of the Munich Agreement in September 1938, which allowed Germany to invade the Czechoslovakian Sudetenland, the Weiss family obtained a visa to come to the United States. They arr...

Barry C. Barrish

American physicist who was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the first direct detection of gravity waves. He shared the prize with American physicists Rainer Weiss and Kip S. Thorne. Barish received his bachelor’s and doctorate in physics at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1957 and 1962, respectively. He was a research fellow at Berkeley from 1962 to 1963 and then became a research fellow at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he spent the remainder of his career. He became professor emeritus in 2005. Barish began his career in high-energy physics. He worked on experiments at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and in the 1980s he became involved in the search for magnetic monopoles. He also headed a team to design an experiment for the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC), a giant particle accelerator to be built in Texas, but the U.S. Congress cancelled t...

Kazuo Ishiguro

Japanese-born British novelist known for his lyrical tales of regret fused with subtle optimism. In 2017 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his works that “uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world.” Kazuo Ishiguro, 2005. Kazuo Ishiguro, 2005. Mariusz Kubik In 1960 Ishiguro’s family immigrated to Great Britain, where he attended the universities of Kent (B.A., 1978) and East Anglia (M.A., 1980). Upon graduation he worked at a homeless charity and began to write in his spare time. He initially gained literary notice when he contributed three short stories to the anthology Introduction 7: Stories by New Writers (1981). Ishiguro’s first novel, A Pale View of Hills (1982), details the postwar memories of Etsuko, a Japanese woman trying to deal with the suicide of her daughter Keiko. Set in an increasingly Westernized Japan following World War II, An Artist of the Floating World (1986) chronicles the life of elderly Masuji...

Kip throne

American physicist who was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the first direct detection of gravity waves. He shared the prize with American physicists Rainer Weiss and Barry C. Barish. Thorne received his bachelor’s degree in physics from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1962 and his masters and doctorate in the same subject from Princeton University in 1963 and 1965, respectively. He was a postdoctoral fellow in physics at Princeton from 1965 to 1966. That year he returned as a research fellow to Caltech, where he remained for the rest of his career, eventually becoming the Feynman professor of theoretical physics in 1991. In 2009 he became professor emeritus. Einstein’s theory of general relativity allows for a wave solution. When a mass accelerates, it causes ripples in space-time. These ripples, gravity waves, are very weak, and the earliest claimed detections of...

Climate Change.

                          Climate is weather of a place. In different areas the place has its own climate. Some has dry and warm climate, some has snowy climate all the time. Earth has its own climate. After combining the all climates of the places of earth we get the climate of earth. Climate change Climate change is a change in the usual weather found in a place. This could be a change in how much rain a place usually gets in a year. Or it could be a change in a place's usual temperature for a month or season. Changing the time of snow, rainfall  or changing weather, the increasing and decreasing in temperature of earth is climate change of earth. Climate is not like weather, it can't change in just few hours. Climate takes hundreds or even millions of years to change. Some causes of climate change are natural. These include changes in Earth's orbit and in the amount of energy coming from the sun. Ocean changes...

Dawn

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Dawn is the widely circulated and most one of the most popular English newspaper in Pakistan. Dawn  began as a weekly publication, published in New Delhi in 1941. Under the instruction Mr. Jinnah, it became the official organ of the All India Muslim League in Delhi, and the sole voice of the Muslims League in the English language, reflecting and espousing the cause of the independence of Pakistan. Dawn became a daily newspaper in October 1944 under the leadership of its editor, Pothan Joseph, who later resigned in 1944 to take up the position of the government's Principal Information Officer in part because of differences with Jinnah over the Pakistan movement. He was succeeded by Altaf hussain who as the journal's editor, galvanised the Muslims of India for independence by his editorials, which earned him ire of the Congress Party and of Lord Mountbatten, the last Viceroy and Governor General of the British Raj both of whom wanted ...

Sitaram Yechury

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Sitaram Yechury was born in Madras (now Chennai), Tamil Nadu, in a Telugu-speaking Brahmin family on 12 August 1952. His father, Sarveswara Somayajula Yechury, was an Andhra Pradesh State Road Corporation engineer and his mother, Kalpakam Yechury, was a government officer. Sitaram Yechury spent his childhood in Hyderabad. Sitaram Yechury did his matriculation from All Saints High School in Hyderabad. He came to Delhi following the Telangana Agitation of 1969 and got admitted into Presidents Estate School. Owing to his exceptional academic acumen, Yechury got all India first class first in CBSE Higher Secondary Examination in 1970. He joined the reputed St. Stephens College of Delhi University and did his B.A. (Hons.) in Economics from there. Yechury then obtained a master’s degree in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. He also pursued a Ph.D in Economics from JNU; however, he could not continue it because of being arrested during the Emergency of 1975-1977. ...

Special Investigation Team

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 Special Investigation Team. I am not aware whether the term itself has been defined somewhere. Where the facts are complicated and going through these would involve spending much judicial time, SC may appoint a body of persons, to do this spadework and come to them ,with details so culled out for further action in the matter. On $th July, 2011, the SC appointed a SIT, headed by former SC Judge to investigate into black money, stashed in foreign banks, with a direction that in their investigations the SIT would be independent, answerable only to the SC. It is not unusual for the SC to appoint  amicus curiae  to help them in certain type of cases. A SIT appointed by the Court acts in somewhat similar capacity. This is done in cases where it may be that the existing investigative agencies are not perceived to be able to conduct a proper investigation in the matter. As there is no law which specifies who can be appointed to an SIT, the appointments are at the dis...

iPhone X

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The iPhone X is billed as a future-focused device with a lot of cutting edge tech, available at a premium. It kind of reminds me of the positioning of the original MacBook Air, or the new MacBook, when those two devices were first introduced – tomorrow’s tech, available today, but for a bit more money and with a few trade-offs as a result of being ahead of its time. And the iPhone X does have trades-offs losing Touch ID is a blow, since it’s one of Apple’s strongest innovations in terms of convenience features for a mobile device, and one that has become essentially industry-standard across smartphone manufacturers. There’s also the price: At $999 to start, this is the most expensive iPhone Apple has ever sold, and with upgraded memory options it’s easily more expensive than the cheapest Mac notebook in the lineup. Apple’s putting new meaning into the term “premium” when it comes to the smartphone category, even considering some recent high-priced device releases from comp...

Swachh Bharat Abhiyan

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A pollution free clean India would be the best tribute to the nation. Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is a cleanliness mass movement organized by the government of India and takes into action by the honorable Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi. This is the most valuable expedition which everyone must be aware of for the bright future of India. This program has launched officially on 2nd October 2014 in the memory of great Indian freedom fighter Mahatma Gandhi 145th birthday. This campaign is a political free mission that immensely focuses on the welfare of the country. The primary aim of this prestigious campaign is to motivate people to make India pristine clean. Teachers, students, and common people are participating in this “Swachh Bharat Abhiyan” with big hits and fire. The main aim of cleanliness campaign is to disseminate the mission as an awareness program globally. This program involves the construction of bathrooms in public areas, promoting sanitation...

Rohingya issue of migration

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In a statement, Bangladeshi police said Rohingyas would not be allowed to travel anywhere outside of their allocated homes, not even to live with family or friends. Transport operators and drivers have also been urged not to carry refugees, with landlords told not to rent out any property to them. Analysts say the government wants to stop the Rohingya from disappearing into the general population and to keep them visible, in the hope of returning them to Myanmar - or even a third country. According to Bangladesh's Daily Star Newspaper, the new shelters will be on a site covering about 8 sq km (3 sq miles) of land, close to established camps which have been overwhelmed by arrivals from Myanmar. A total of 8,500 temporary toilets will be built and 14 "makeshift warehouses" will be set up near the shelters, the paper says. The new shelters are meant to be built within 10 days. Bangladesh faces a colossal task accommodating the now more than 400,000 Ro...

Gauri Lankesh

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Gauri Lankesh was an Indian journalist and social activist from Bangalore, Karnataka, who is best known for her strong stand against right-wing Hindutva politics. She started her career as a correspondent at various news outlets, and later followed in her father P. Lankesh’s footsteps to publish the Kannada language tabloid ‘Lankesh Patrike’, advocating equal rights for many oppressed groups, despite pressures from different sectors of the society. She vehemently criticized the caste system and the treatment of women within Hindu religion. She maintained that Hinduism, instead of being a religion, was a "system of hierarchy in society" which treated women as “second-class creatures”. She was accused of being a Naxalite sympathizer, even though she rejected it stating that her interviews of Naxal leaders were unbiased. She was named as a member of a committee formed by the Congress-led Karnataka government to convince Naxalites to give up violence and surrender. A brave ...

Tom Alter

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Tom Alter, the son and grandson of American Presbyterian missionaries who first came to India in 1916, grew up in north India in the towns of Rajpur and Mussoorie, and studied at Woodstock School. It was while teaching at a school in Jagadhri, Haryana in the early 1970s that Alter picked honed his Hindi and fell in love with the movies, in specific Indian cinema. In that era television was not common in India and so most people went to the movies, often several times a week. Alter was enamored by the films and in June 1972, after noticing a small classified ad in the newspaper, he enrolled at the prestigious prestigious Film and Television Institute of India of Pune. Alter was one of two people selected out of more than 1000 applicants that year and he learned his craft at the FTII, where he studied with the likes of Benjamin Gilani, Naseeruddin Shah, Shabana Azmi, Mithun Chakraborthy and others. After graduating from FTII, Alter headed straight to Bombay and soon got hi...

Censorship

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 Censorship may be protection from inappropriate materials, but it also limits free speech. For the limitation of free speech, it is reasonable why people are emphatically against censorship. It is understood that there is a need to filter some of the materials released in today’s society, but too much is being done by people who have no right meddling with everyone’s rights. Civilization has always been plagued by a never ending battle being fought over what is deemed right and wrong. In today’s culture, censorship oppresses everything in the media. From movies and music to television and even news stories, most of the content viewed today has been filtered one way or another. Today, censorship is in place in more ways than you can imagine. As mentioned previously, movies, music, television, and more are filtered one way or another. Some people go to such lengths as illegal means of spreading materials deemed inappropriate for a certain viewing audience. When the United St...

Satish Alekar

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Satish Alekar, author of Marathi plays like Mahanirvan (1974), Micky ani Memsahib (1973), Mahapoor (The deluge-1975), Doosra Samana(1989), Begum Barve (1979), Shaniwar - Raviwar (1980) etc. is practicing theatre in Maharashtra since 1971. He is one of the founder members of India's best-known theatre group Theatre Academy, Pune that he administered from 1973 to 92. Many of his plays have been translated and produced in several regional languages all over India. With his plays like Mahanirvan (1974) and Begum Barve (1979) he created new idiom in Marathi theatre by his unique use of black humor, language and absurdity to convey the oblique sense of reality. He also authored several short plays that are extensively staged by the experimental theatre groups all over Maharashtra for past thirty years. He recently completed his new full-length play "Pidhijat" (Dynasts) which was staged in Bengali in Calcutta (April 2003) and in Marathi in Pune, (May 2003.) Satish Alekar c...

NAMDEO DHASAL

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Namdeo Dhasal is arguably one of the most significant Indian poets of the late 20th century. His work not only captures what freedom, democracy and modernity meant for the average Indian in the decades after Independence—experiences, no doubt, fraught with contradictions—but it also displays brilliant poetic innovation. This essay attempts to situate Dhasal in the tradition of Marathi poetry and assess his artistic vision and extraordinary contribution. The evolution of Marathi poetry In order to understand of the evolution of Marathi poetry, it is critical to move beyond the restrictive understanding of literature as a written or printed object, which is integral to the colonial idea of literature. Poetry in India has always implied performance, music, retelling and improvisation as well as transmissions through oral traditions. It is constituted by intensive inter-medial, cross-lingual and cross-cultural intercourse, in short, by translational activity. Mos...