In Manipur, complete statewide lockdown and curfew will  begin from 2.00 P.M. today for 14 days. A State Cabinet Meeting chaired by the Chief Minister held last evening reviewed the COVID-19 situation in the state and decided to implement the complete lockdown as a preventive measure.

After the Emergency Cabinet Meeting held last evening, Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh announced that there will be a 14-day lockdown in the entire area of Manipur from this afternoon. The Chief Minister said that the decision to implement complete lockdown has been taken after some people, who do not have travel history, were found positive of COVID-19 in the state. He said, the government will enforce the lockdown and curfew strictly and appeal to the people of the state to cooperate with the decision of the government.

Union Minister of Electronics and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad has said that India will soon put in place a robust personal data protection law. He said, it will not only address the data privacy related concerns of citizens but also ensure availability of data for innovation and economic development. Mr Prasad said, in view of these concerns, the digital platforms having presence in many countries must become trustworthy, safe and secure. He was speaking at the virtual meeting of G-20 Digital Economy Ministers yesterday, hosted by Saudi Arabia which is holding the presidency of G-20. Mr Prasad told the Ministers of the G-20 countries that it is time to acknowledge that digital platforms anywhere in the world have to be responsive and accountable towards the sovereign concerns of countries including defence, privacy and security of citizens.

The Union Minister also emphasized the need for building trustworthy Artificial Intelligence systems that can transform the society. In the wake of global pandemic like COVID-19, Mr. Prasad strongly emphasized the need for building a resilient global supply chain. He shared the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for making India an attractive destination for investment closely integrated with global supply chains.

Mr  Prasad also told the global gathering about how India under the leadership of the Prime Minister has managed the COVID-19 crisis far better than many other countries. The Union Minister shared India’s digital innovations that helped  fight against COVID-19. He also spoke about initiatives like Aarogya Setu mobile app, geo-fencing system for monitoring quarantined patients and COVID-19 Savdhan bulk messaging systems during the meeting.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone for Manipur Water Supply Project today through video conferencing.

The Governor, Chief Minister of Manipur and his cabinet colleagues, MPs and MLAs are expected to join the program from Imphal. The Centre initiated the Jal Jeevan Mission to provide safe and adequate quantity drinking water to every rural household of the country by 2024 with the motto “Har Ghar Jal”. The Mission is based on a community approach to water and has information, education and communication as key components of the mission. It looks to create a Jan Andolan for water, thereby making it everyone’s priority. There are about 19 crore households in India and only 24 percent have Freshwater Household Tap Connections.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that there is global optimism towards India, as it offers a perfect combination of openness, opportunities and options. Delivering the keynote address at the India Ideas Summit hosted by the US-India Business Council, USIBC yesterday, Prime Minister Modi noted that in the last six years, efforts have been undertaken to make the Indian economy more open and reform oriented.

Hailing India as a land of opportunities, the Prime Minister said there are extensive opportunities to invest in a variety of sectors in the country. He said, there are about half a billion active internet users in the country now and over half a billion more people are being connected. He also mentioned opportunities in the frontier technologies of 5G, Big Data analytics, Quantum Computing, Block-chain and Internet of Things.Speaking about the historic reforms recently undertaken in the agriculture sector, Prime Minister said that there are opportunities to invest in areas including agriculture inputs and machinery, agriculture supply chain, food processing sector, fisheries and organic produce.

Noting that the health care sector in India is growing faster than 22 per cent every year and the progress of Indian companies in production of medical-technology, tele-medicine and diagnostics, the Prime Minister  said now is the best time to expand investment in Indian health care sector.The Prime Minister also listed several other sectors which offer tremendous opportunities to invest like energy, infrastructure, roads, highways and ports, civil aviation amongst others. He mentioned that India is raising the FDI cap for investment in defence sector to 74 per cent and two defence corridors have been established to encourage production of defense equipment and platforms.

The Prime Minister also talked about India’s rise in Ease of Doing Business rankings of the World Bank. The Prime Minister highlighted that even during the  pandemic, India has attracted foreign investment of more than 20 billion dollars between April and July this year. The Prime Minister said that India has what is needed to power the global economic recovery.  Calling USA and India as natural partners, he said, this partnership can play an important role in helping the world bounce back faster after the pandemic. Reaching out to the American investors, he said that there has never been a better time to invest in India. The Prime Minister congratulated USIBC on its 45th anniversary this year.

External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar has said that India and the US have the ability by working together to shape the world. Participating in the India Ideas Summit yesterday hosted by the US -India Business Council virtually, Mr Jaishankar said, India and the  US are working on maritime security, counter- terrorism, connectivity, how to respond to the Corona virus pandemic, issues like climate change and knowledge economy. He said, India and the US  need to resolve the pending problems in trade relations and move into something bigger.

Hailing India as a land of opportunities, the Prime Minister said there are extensive opportunities to invest in a variety of sectors in the country. He said, there are about half a billion active internet users in the country now and over half a billion more people are being connected. He also mentioned opportunities in the frontier technologies of 5G, Big Data analytics, Quantum Computing, Block-chain and Internet of Things.Speaking about the historic reforms recently undertaken in the agriculture sector, Prime Minister said that there are opportunities to invest in areas including agriculture inputs and machinery, agriculture supply chain, food processing sector, fisheries and organic produce.

Noting that the health care sector in India is growing faster than 22 per cent every year and the progress of Indian companies in production of medical-technology, tele-medicine and diagnostics, the Prime Minister  said now is the best time to expand investment in Indian health care sector.The Prime Minister also listed several other sectors which offer tremendous opportunities to invest like energy, infrastructure, roads, highways and ports, civil aviation amongst others. He mentioned that India is raising the FDI cap for investment in defence sector to 74 per cent and two defence corridors have been established to encourage production of defense equipment and platforms.

The Prime Minister also talked about India’s rise in Ease of Doing Business rankings of the World Bank. The Prime Minister highlighted that even during the  pandemic, India has attracted foreign investment of more than 20 billion dollars between April and July this year. The Prime Minister said that India has what is needed to power the global economic recovery.  Calling USA and India as natural partners, he said, this partnership can play an important role in helping the world bounce back faster after the pandemic. Reaching out to the American investors, he said that there has never been a better time to invest in India. The Prime Minister congratulated USIBC on its 45th anniversary this year.

External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar has said that India and the US have the ability by working together to shape the world. Participating in the India Ideas Summit yesterday hosted by the US -India Business Council virtually, Mr Jaishankar said, India and the  US are working on maritime security, counter- terrorism, connectivity, how to respond to the Corona virus pandemic, issues like climate change and knowledge economy. He said, India and the US  need to resolve the pending problems in trade relations and move into something bigger.

Kim Kardashian West has shared a message about her husband Kanye West and mental health.

In an Instagram Stories post on Wednesday, Kardashian West acknowledged that West has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and said it’s “incredibly complicated and painful” for many to understand.

“As many of you know, Kanye has bi-polar disorder. Anyone who has this or has a loved one in their life who does, knows how incredibly complicated and painful it is to understand,’ she wrote. “I’ve never spoken publicly about how this has affected us at home because I am very protective of our children and Kanye’s right to privacy when it comes to his health. But today, I feel like I should comment on it because off the stigma and misconceptions about mental health.”

By Udbhav Bhargava

Researchers from the following 3 organizations have developed an engineered magnesium alloy with significantly improved properties.  Indian Institute of Technology Madras, University of North Texas, and  U.S. Army Research Laboratory. 

Declined industrial application – The need to develop Magnesium

The current industrial application of wrought magnesium alloys in structural components is very limited due to their;

• Poor strength
• Poor ductility
• Yield strength asymmetry
• Lack of high strain rate super-plasticity.
• The density of Mg is 2/3rd of aluminium and 1/4th of steel

Description of scientific terms

Ductility is a measure of the capacity of a material to endure substantial plastic deformation until breaking or rupture.

The yield strength or yield stress is a material property and is the stress that corresponds to the yield point at which the material begins plastically deforming itself. The yield strength is used to calculate the maximum permissible load in a mechanical device, as it represents the upper limit of forces which can be applied without permanent deformation. A material will bend elastically until the yield point, and return to its original shape when the stress applied is removed. After reaching the yield point, some fraction of the deformation is permanent and non-reversible, and is known as plastic deformation.

Approach of the research team, the scientists used a magnesium alloy containing elements of rare earth such as Gadolinium (Gd), Yttrium (Y), and Zirconium (Zr). To produce an ultrafine grained variant of this magnesium alloy, the alloy was subjected to a thermo-mechanical processing technique (severe plastic deformation and ageing treatment).

The team then developed the nano-precipitates and ultrafine intermetallic compounds in the ultra-fine-grained magnesium alloy which were thermally stable. Using this method, the group has been able to achieve the highest combination of strength-ductility and highest super-plasticity strain rate of all the current magnesium alloys recorded in the literature to date.

The new engineered alloy is – 

• Strong
• Lightweight
• Highly ductile
• Its super-plasticity is achieved at higher strain-rates.

Why is this development significant? 

Such properties minimize overall time, energy and costs of manufacture. Vehicle emissions account for around 27 per cent of global emissions of carbon dioxide. Countries all over the world are focused on growing these. The reduction of the carbon emissions of vehicles by using lightweight material in their body has been a primary priority of the researchers. Light-weight vehicles require less energy (fuel) to run, and are thus one of the methods to improve the energy efficiency of automobiles. The new Magnesium alloy in automotive and aerospace parts will replace steel and aluminum alloys.

By Udbhav Bhargava

An observatory to allow visitors to see Gangetic Dolphins in the Vikramshila Gangetic Dolphin Sanctuary would be established shortly. People could watch Dolphins in the river aquatic activities from an observatory tower to be constructed as part of the Sultanganj-Aguwani Ghat Bridge in Bhagalpur, Bihar. The observatory on four storeys will be 40 feet high, with the bridge passing through its centre.

The observatory building will be transparent, with glass from all sides to ensure that the dolphins can be watched without disturbance. The observatory ‘s structural architecture is such that it supports eco-tourism. There would be no deleterious or negative impact on the ecology of the river, as the observation deck is being built on a bridge over the Ganga.

The Gangetic dolphin-Platanista gangetica Indus river dolphin-Platanista gangetica minor The Ganges river dolphin is found primarily in the Ganga and Brahmaputra rivers and their tributaries in India , Bangladesh, and Nepal. The Indus river dolphin is now only present in the main Indus River canal, and in Punjab in the River Beas. The gangetic dolphin is both the national Aquatic animal of India and the National Mammal of Pakistan (Indus Dolphin). These dolphins breathe after rising to the surface and locate objects through echolocation. They prefer water depth greater than 5ft and maximum of 8fts. This range corresponds to the depth range, where they can feed on enough fish. They live in an area where little to no current exists which helps them to save energy. They can dive into deeper waters, if they feel threatened. The dolphins swim up to the edges from the no-current zone to hunt for fish and return.

Endangered

The population of the endangered Gangetic river dolphins was found in the Ganga and its two main tributaries, Gandak and Ghaghra, at almost 1,000 km length. The presence of 1,548 Gangetic dolphins in Ganga, Gandak, Kosi and Mahananda rivers is a sign of a healthy river ecosystem according to a survey in 2019.

Facing various threats

These dolphins unintentionally get killed after being extricated in fishing nylon nets, and are killed by poachers for their flesh, fat and oil. Boats and Machines hamper their echolocation abilities.  Lowering of water levels due to sandbars in river, reckless use of water in irrigation, multiple dam projects significantly lower the inhibitability.

Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy and the same continues.Experience comes and grows within and out of a person. Preaching someone also requires having yourself preached at the initial stages of the upbringing of life. Every person who teaches you something was once a learner who has done mistakes and grew from it. Experience makes a person productive with the effective tone they put into what they are pursuing. To be effective, you structure the learning process, explain why your inputs are important, give clear instructions, check for understanding, and handle questions. This is referred to as directive coaching style. On the other end of the continuum, you have facilitative coaching style.

As we’ll see , people with or without experience have to go through the same process as all the others do. While few things do change or remain in this process of naive from fully known person. While directive style lies on positional power, facilitative style draws on personal power. In different coaching situations, depending on requirements, you draw on elements of both direction and facilitation. As a frontline leader, it is extremely important to widen your repertoire by honing your skills of facilitative coaching.

Mark Twain once said” Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.”

Schooling isn’t proposed to admonish the world rather it plans to grant information and create knowledge. Schooling has two social point as a primary concern get ready to assume one’s job on the planet’s work and assist in helping society in the wake of tutoring is finished.

Schooling alludes to the straightforward demonstration of sending a child to a school with the goal of bestowing information and getting taught. Education then again is about the way toward learning and building up one’s scholarly capacities from an all encompassing perspective, for which tutoring is neither an adequate nor an important condition.

The insignificant demonstration of sending a kid to class doesn’t naturally convert into instruction. The expectation for the benefit of various partners like school specialists, guardians, educators, the youngsters themselves and the administration strategy creators assumes a significant job.

The school specialists need to guarantee legitimate framework in school like quality instructors, writing boards, classes, toilets and so on. The instructors need to appropriately oversee the understudies and set up an affable relationship which energizes addressing, understanding and learning. . Guardians need to give a helpful domain particularly at home so kids get the chance to concentrate without getting occupied by other work. Government strategy producers need to motivating force the schools to convey best training to all youngsters without separation based on social, monetary or sexual orientation status.

In developing nations like India, governments have made education essential free and obligatory. This has guaranteed access to schooling . Be that as it may, by and by, the learning results are poor particularly among provincial youngsters and those with a less privileged foundation. Such youngsters sooner or later dropout or are elevated to higher classes without securing any huge instruction. Along these lines, the simple demonstration of tutoring doesn’t convert into training in regard of such youngsters. in numerous schools educator non-attendance is a significant issue. Indeed, even the nature of educators is inadequate. Numerous schools exist on paper without considerably appropriate framework. In the Schooling procedure there is an excess of spotlight on repetition learning instead of spotlight on basics. Genuine instruction would come just when the understudies create basic reasoning and imaginative resources.

Recently a decent schooling has been deciphered as a decent order over English language, even at the expense of a kid’s native language. This makes a feeling of inadequacy in the youngster towards their own nearby language. Not simply that, this is done at the expense of redirecting consideration from increasingly significant subjects like maths, sciences and so on. Therefore, we get an informed workforce useful for section level, low innovation occupations in BPOs, as agents and officials in MNCs, government workplaces, yet not sufficient researchers and specialists in the genuine sense who can review novel papers and accompany licenses.

By and by, a furious rivalry has begun among guardians to get their children educated at an exceptionally youthful age. The children are given colossal measure of schoolwork and need to convey large, overwhelming sacks. There isn’t sufficient spotlight on outside games. Sports are required for learning estimations of cooperation, authority or more all to build up a solid body and brain. Tutoring would convert into instruction when a balanced character is created by fusing sports and extra-curricular exercises in the prospectus.

Finally, schooling necessities to concentrate on instilling virtues and quality of character in understudies. The valid, comprehensive instruction ought to incorporate building up a city sense and an awareness of other’s expectations towards one’s nation and society. Along these lines we will get instructed residents who are an advantage.

A portion of the approaches to guarantee schooling prompts genuine instruction could be things like guaranteeing higher instructor understudy proportion, occasional preparing of educators so they know about new academic methods and devices, following the training excursion of an understudy utilizing on the web apparatuses, expanding consumption on essential and auxiliary instruction as a level of GDP, reasonable(free schooling) and so on.

The popular film 3 Idiots had a similar idea in it. Sonam Wangchuk the individual from whose life Aamir Khan’s character was roused is Guinness record holder from maximum number of inventions. Mark Zuckerberg a school drop out made a program that is presently a virtual reality where new individuals are going along with it regular.

Schooling isn’t planned to lecture the world rather it means to give information and create knowledge. Schooling has two social point as a top priority get ready to assume one’s job on the planet’s work and assist in helping society in the wake of tutoring is finished.

“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind,” said Mahatma Gandhi

The death penalty is the punishment of death which is for the most part granted to those liable of deplorable wrongdoings, especially murder and kid assault. In India, this discipline is known as “hanging by the neck” till the passing of the lawbreaker. In different nations, shooting, hot seat, and so forth., are the different gadgets utilized for the reason. As of now 58 countries effectively practice it, and 97 nations have abrogated it.

The designer of the Constitution, Babasaheb Ambedkar, conceded in the Constituent Assembly that individuals may not follow peacefulness by and by however “they absolutely hold fast to the rule of peacefulness as an ethical command which they should see the extent that they can.” With this at the top of the priority list, he stated, “the best possible thing for this nation to do is to nullify capital punishment through and through.”

The Indian Penal Code perceives the death penalty under eight areas (121, 132, 194, 302, 303, 305, 307, and 396) for various offenses. Article 21 of the Indian Constitution gives that “no individual will be denied of his life and individual freedom with the exception of as indicated by the method built up by law.” Annulment of capital punishment is to a great extent observed as a stage in light of a legitimate concern for human poise in accordance with Article 5 of International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966 and its convention in 1989, in addition, obviously, Article 3 of Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

It has been said that death penalty is severe, that it is as indicated by the law of wilderness – “tit for tat”, and “tooth for a tooth”. It is called attention to that there can be no more spot for it in an edified nation. Also, judges are not faultless and there are occasions where honest individuals have been hanged to death because of some blunder of judgment. Sociologists and abolitionists call it is as “legal homicide”. Human traditionalists contend that there are a few reasons why the death penalty must be nullified.

Right off the bat, it supports a “culture of brutality”. Furthermore, it has no hindrance esteem: its utilization has not been appeared to have achieved a noteworthy diminishing in wrongdoing. It is the assurance of discipline that has the impact of hindering wrongdoing, not the quantum of discipline. Thirdly, it is unavoidable; when done, it can’t be fixed.

The Supreme Court says that psychological oppression is the root motivation behind why the death penalty despite everything exists in India. The beast of fear mongering has spread its bleeding wings in a large portion of the nations. Psychological oppression remains on a by and large extraordinary plane and can’t be contrasted with murders submitted due with individual enmity or over property and individual questions. The supporters of capital discipline contend that, it is an inescapable and an essential discipline to be granted to those infamous hoodlums with no mercy. Ajmal Kasab and Afzal Guru are the two latest fear mongers worth referencing.

The milestone situations where the capital punishments were granted in India are Ranga Billa case, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi Assassination case, Laxman Nayak case and most as of late in 2004 Hatab instance of West Bengal where blamed Dhananjoy Chatterjee was held tight 14 August, 2004. It is said that capital punishment is minimal more than judicially endorsed murder. Equity K.T. What might be compared to life detainment.

In spite of the distinctions of suppositions, it is ordinarily concurred by both the gatherings of supporters and abolitionists of the death penalty that it ought to be granted to the guilty parties in the “rarest of the rarest” cases and sadly, since India has become the simplest objective of numerous fear based oppressor gatherings, the time has not yet sought India to annul the death penalty.

The world is moving ceaselessly from utilizing capital punishment. The European Union has made “abrogation of capital punishment” an essential for enrollment. The 65th United Nations General Assembly casted a ballot in December 2010, for the third time, for abrogating capital punishment and required a worldwide ban on executions. Acquittal International reports that 140 nations — more than 66% of the world — don’t utilize capital punishment any more. India needs to perceive this worldwide pattern, and act in sync with it. President Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam proposed that Parliament ought to consider the abrogation of capital punishment through and through.