Raipur, December 15, 2010
You would have come across many people with same eye color as their mother or the same hair color as their father. But have you ever thought why does it happen? It is because the traits of the parents pass to the children through gene transmission. If you want to fetch detailed information about this mechanism then you would have to go through the genetic science that is actually the study of heredity or inheritance.
Professor BN Singh, ex-head and coordinator Department of Zoology Banaras Hindu University (BHU) and expert in population and behavioural genetics says that students are fast developing interest towards genetics, but admits that those studying in small towns and remote areas need awareness about this subject.
When asked how to create interest in school students about genetics, Professor Singh said, “Genetics is applied to the study of the living system from viruses to bacteria and from plants to humans. Hence, it should be introduced to the students as an intact part of human life. We would have to cite some practical examples like simple experiment on peas done by Gregor Mendel - the father of genetics so that the students could feel connected with the subject.”
When asked how the tribal-populated states like Chhattisgarh can be benefited by genetics, Professor Singh said, “Genetics not only play important role in preventing the occurrence of hereditary problems in humans, but it also increases crop production and helps in developing better varieties of plants. If research and development works in genetics would be encouraged in Chhattisgarh then the problems pertaining to genes in humans residing in the remote areas would be detected and the experts would be able to figure out its effective solution. Chhattisgarh being the rice bowl of the country could also get advanced varieties of seeds and plants besides better yield.”
Professor Singh informed that presently the intense research works in genetics are being carried out in - BHU Banaras, Osmania University Hyderabad, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) Mumbai, Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences (CBS) functioning under University of Mumbai (Vidyhyanagari campus) and Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) Hyderabad and Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research Bangalore.
2540 candidates appear in RSU’s first PhD entrance
Raipur, December 15, 2010
About 2540 candidates appeared in Pt Ravishankar Shukla University’s (RSU) first PhD entrance examination that was organised in the varsity campus on Wednesday. There was a mixed response from the candidates who appeared in the exam as some did not like the question pattern while others felt that two hours was not sufficient for both objective and subjective type questions in one paper.
The candidates who appeared for science subjects in the first shift from 10-am to 12 pm admitted that the questions were really tough. “We had anticipated that the questions would be difficult, but we are confident to secure better marks because we attempted all the eight short answer type subjective questions correctly,” the candidates aspiring to pursue their PhD in chemistry, computer science, electronics, biotechnology, pharmacy, physics, statistics and maths said.
Each of the short answer type questions contained five marks and the candidates were asked to write answer in 150 words.
The students who appeared in the second shift of the exam for Arts subjects comparatively looked relaxed. The candidates for home science, ancient history, education, English, geography, Hindi, history, philosophy, physical education, political science, Sanskrit, social work and sociology said that both the objective and subjective questions of their papers were easy to attempt. They hoped to score more in objective type questions. The entrance paper contained 30 objective questions with two marks each.
However, the candidates of commerce, economics, law, library and information science, linguistics and management subjects informed that the questions were challenging and not easy to solve. “It really required thorough study to solve such questions,” they said.
In the morning, in spite of clear information regarding seating arrangements according to the roll numbers and classrooms, some students looked confused and were continuously inquiring from each other about their rooms. The varsity had made arrangements in 30 classrooms while about 80 invigilators were engaged for the entrance exam.
RSU’s INSPIRE Camp II begins
Raipur, December 15, 2010
Pt Ravishankar Shukla University’s (RSU) five-day Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) Internship Winter Camp II commenced on Wednesday. The varsity’s vice chancellor Professor SK Pandey urged the participating students to listen the lectures of the experts of keenly so that they could make their mindset about their career firmly in future.
The information about the lecture programmes and activities during the camp by
The convenor of the camp - Professor AK Pati, HoD School of studies in Life Sciences from RSU imparted information about the lecture programmes and activities during five days and asked the students not to hesitate in raising questions if they would not comprehend or have any doubt.
He informed that besides lectures, the students would ample opportunity to know more about the specific subjects from the experts during interactive sessions.
Professor BN Singh, ex-head and coordinator Department of Zoology Banaras Hindu University (BHU) and expert in population and behavioural genetics was the first speaker on the day-one of the camp. Professor Singh imparted lecture on subject - Mendel’s experiments with Pisum sativum and principals of inheritance.
He informed the students how the renowned scientist Gregor Mendel in 1865 proposed that hereditary traits passed from parents to offspring were the result of unseen “factors” that contained the information from generation to generation. Mendel came to the conclusion by crossbreeding pea plants, Professor Singh said said.
“By far, the scientists have only scratched the surface of the genome while more exciting facts are waiting but everything should be done with caution and responsibility,” he said.
The second lecture of the day was imparted by Professor KVR Murthy from Sayajirao University of Baroda Gujarat and Secretary of Luminescence Society of India (LSI) on subject - Luminescence day to day life and light emitting diodes and applications role of nano phosphorous.
Professor Murthy informed how advanced explorations in LEDs technology can bring revolution in the field of light and energy and would help the humans to preserve the traditional form of energy as well protect the environment.
In the evening, Professor Durga Prasad Dewangan from Physical Research Laboratory Ahmedabad replied answers to the questions of the students during the interactive session.
50 encroachments removed
Raipur, December 15, 2010
The municipal corporation on Wednesday removed fifty encroachments from Malviya Road, Amardeep talkies road and Shastri Bazar. The action was taken against the makeshift shops at the roadsides besides kiosks and pan thelas who were hampering the normal flow of traffic in these areas, informed the civic officials.
BJP corporators to campaign for party candidates today
Raipur, December 15, 2010
The BJP corporators at the RMC would campaign on Thursday for their party candidates who are contesting in Birgaon Municipal Council elections. In this regard, the BJP state secretary Sanjay Shrivastava and leader of BJP corporators Subhash Tiwari jointly convened a meeting of the party corporators on Wednesday. The corporators also decided to attend Hanuman jagran mahayagya and massive religious meeting in the capital on December 19, 2010. Both Shrivastava and Tiwari appealed to the party corporators to inform about the mahayagya to their ward residents so that they could attend it at large number.
Last day of discount in property tax extended till Dec 31
Raipur, December 15, 2010
Considering massive response to its discount offer of 6.25 percent on property tax, the municipal corporation has extended the last date of the offer till December 31, 2010. The civic commissioner Om Prakash Choudhary has appealed to the citizens to take the benefit of the discount at large number. The discount offer will be strictly for the current financial year and if the taxpayers wish to clear their property taxes of previous fiscals then they would have to pay it according to the municipal norms along with fine if any. Choudhary has also asked the officials to attach the properties of the major defaulters who have not paid their property taxes for the past several years. In this regard, he directed the municipal’s Revenue officials on Wednesday to prepare the list of such defaulters and serve notices for attachment of their properties. He said the municipal had incurred huge revenue loss due to the tax evaders but now they would either have to pay their taxes with fine or the RMC would attach their properties.
RMC imposes Rs 20500 fine on Tandoor dhaba
Raipur, December 15, 2010
The municipal corporation has imposed Rs 2000 fine on one Tandoor dhaba located at Pachpedi Naka due to spurious food stuffs and unhygienic condition of its kitchen. The municipal health team raided the dhaba on Wednesday after receiving several complaints against it regarding substandard food and insanitation. The team found that the dhaba had unclean kitchen and stale food stuffs. The health team warned of sealing the dhaba next time if it would find similar condition there.
You would have come across many people with same eye color as their mother or the same hair color as their father. But have you ever thought why does it happen? It is because the traits of the parents pass to the children through gene transmission. If you want to fetch detailed information about this mechanism then you would have to go through the genetic science that is actually the study of heredity or inheritance.
Professor BN Singh, ex-head and coordinator Department of Zoology Banaras Hindu University (BHU) and expert in population and behavioural genetics says that students are fast developing interest towards genetics, but admits that those studying in small towns and remote areas need awareness about this subject.
When asked how to create interest in school students about genetics, Professor Singh said, “Genetics is applied to the study of the living system from viruses to bacteria and from plants to humans. Hence, it should be introduced to the students as an intact part of human life. We would have to cite some practical examples like simple experiment on peas done by Gregor Mendel - the father of genetics so that the students could feel connected with the subject.”
When asked how the tribal-populated states like Chhattisgarh can be benefited by genetics, Professor Singh said, “Genetics not only play important role in preventing the occurrence of hereditary problems in humans, but it also increases crop production and helps in developing better varieties of plants. If research and development works in genetics would be encouraged in Chhattisgarh then the problems pertaining to genes in humans residing in the remote areas would be detected and the experts would be able to figure out its effective solution. Chhattisgarh being the rice bowl of the country could also get advanced varieties of seeds and plants besides better yield.”
Professor Singh informed that presently the intense research works in genetics are being carried out in - BHU Banaras, Osmania University Hyderabad, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) Mumbai, Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences (CBS) functioning under University of Mumbai (Vidyhyanagari campus) and Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) Hyderabad and Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research Bangalore.
2540 candidates appear in RSU’s first PhD entrance
Raipur, December 15, 2010
About 2540 candidates appeared in Pt Ravishankar Shukla University’s (RSU) first PhD entrance examination that was organised in the varsity campus on Wednesday. There was a mixed response from the candidates who appeared in the exam as some did not like the question pattern while others felt that two hours was not sufficient for both objective and subjective type questions in one paper.
The candidates who appeared for science subjects in the first shift from 10-am to 12 pm admitted that the questions were really tough. “We had anticipated that the questions would be difficult, but we are confident to secure better marks because we attempted all the eight short answer type subjective questions correctly,” the candidates aspiring to pursue their PhD in chemistry, computer science, electronics, biotechnology, pharmacy, physics, statistics and maths said.
Each of the short answer type questions contained five marks and the candidates were asked to write answer in 150 words.
The students who appeared in the second shift of the exam for Arts subjects comparatively looked relaxed. The candidates for home science, ancient history, education, English, geography, Hindi, history, philosophy, physical education, political science, Sanskrit, social work and sociology said that both the objective and subjective questions of their papers were easy to attempt. They hoped to score more in objective type questions. The entrance paper contained 30 objective questions with two marks each.
However, the candidates of commerce, economics, law, library and information science, linguistics and management subjects informed that the questions were challenging and not easy to solve. “It really required thorough study to solve such questions,” they said.
In the morning, in spite of clear information regarding seating arrangements according to the roll numbers and classrooms, some students looked confused and were continuously inquiring from each other about their rooms. The varsity had made arrangements in 30 classrooms while about 80 invigilators were engaged for the entrance exam.
RSU’s INSPIRE Camp II begins
Raipur, December 15, 2010
Pt Ravishankar Shukla University’s (RSU) five-day Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) Internship Winter Camp II commenced on Wednesday. The varsity’s vice chancellor Professor SK Pandey urged the participating students to listen the lectures of the experts of keenly so that they could make their mindset about their career firmly in future.
The information about the lecture programmes and activities during the camp by
The convenor of the camp - Professor AK Pati, HoD School of studies in Life Sciences from RSU imparted information about the lecture programmes and activities during five days and asked the students not to hesitate in raising questions if they would not comprehend or have any doubt.
He informed that besides lectures, the students would ample opportunity to know more about the specific subjects from the experts during interactive sessions.
Professor BN Singh, ex-head and coordinator Department of Zoology Banaras Hindu University (BHU) and expert in population and behavioural genetics was the first speaker on the day-one of the camp. Professor Singh imparted lecture on subject - Mendel’s experiments with Pisum sativum and principals of inheritance.
He informed the students how the renowned scientist Gregor Mendel in 1865 proposed that hereditary traits passed from parents to offspring were the result of unseen “factors” that contained the information from generation to generation. Mendel came to the conclusion by crossbreeding pea plants, Professor Singh said said.
“By far, the scientists have only scratched the surface of the genome while more exciting facts are waiting but everything should be done with caution and responsibility,” he said.
The second lecture of the day was imparted by Professor KVR Murthy from Sayajirao University of Baroda Gujarat and Secretary of Luminescence Society of India (LSI) on subject - Luminescence day to day life and light emitting diodes and applications role of nano phosphorous.
Professor Murthy informed how advanced explorations in LEDs technology can bring revolution in the field of light and energy and would help the humans to preserve the traditional form of energy as well protect the environment.
In the evening, Professor Durga Prasad Dewangan from Physical Research Laboratory Ahmedabad replied answers to the questions of the students during the interactive session.
50 encroachments removed
Raipur, December 15, 2010
The municipal corporation on Wednesday removed fifty encroachments from Malviya Road, Amardeep talkies road and Shastri Bazar. The action was taken against the makeshift shops at the roadsides besides kiosks and pan thelas who were hampering the normal flow of traffic in these areas, informed the civic officials.
BJP corporators to campaign for party candidates today
Raipur, December 15, 2010
The BJP corporators at the RMC would campaign on Thursday for their party candidates who are contesting in Birgaon Municipal Council elections. In this regard, the BJP state secretary Sanjay Shrivastava and leader of BJP corporators Subhash Tiwari jointly convened a meeting of the party corporators on Wednesday. The corporators also decided to attend Hanuman jagran mahayagya and massive religious meeting in the capital on December 19, 2010. Both Shrivastava and Tiwari appealed to the party corporators to inform about the mahayagya to their ward residents so that they could attend it at large number.
Last day of discount in property tax extended till Dec 31
Raipur, December 15, 2010
Considering massive response to its discount offer of 6.25 percent on property tax, the municipal corporation has extended the last date of the offer till December 31, 2010. The civic commissioner Om Prakash Choudhary has appealed to the citizens to take the benefit of the discount at large number. The discount offer will be strictly for the current financial year and if the taxpayers wish to clear their property taxes of previous fiscals then they would have to pay it according to the municipal norms along with fine if any. Choudhary has also asked the officials to attach the properties of the major defaulters who have not paid their property taxes for the past several years. In this regard, he directed the municipal’s Revenue officials on Wednesday to prepare the list of such defaulters and serve notices for attachment of their properties. He said the municipal had incurred huge revenue loss due to the tax evaders but now they would either have to pay their taxes with fine or the RMC would attach their properties.
RMC imposes Rs 20500 fine on Tandoor dhaba
Raipur, December 15, 2010
The municipal corporation has imposed Rs 2000 fine on one Tandoor dhaba located at Pachpedi Naka due to spurious food stuffs and unhygienic condition of its kitchen. The municipal health team raided the dhaba on Wednesday after receiving several complaints against it regarding substandard food and insanitation. The team found that the dhaba had unclean kitchen and stale food stuffs. The health team warned of sealing the dhaba next time if it would find similar condition there.
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