University of Hyderabad wins ‘Best University’ Visitor’s Award

The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee will present Visitor’s Awards for Central Universities in the categories of ‘Best University’, ‘Innovation’ and ‘Research’ for the year 2015 at a function to be held at Rashtrapati Bhavan on February 4, 2015. This function will coincide with the third Conference of Vice Chancellors of Central Universities scheduled to be held from February 4-5, 2015.

The Visitor’s Award for the ‘Best University’ will be awarded to University of Hyderabad.

Visitor’s Award for ‘Innovation’ will be given to Prof. Vijay K. Chaudhary and Dr. Amita Gupta of University of Delhi who have invented ‘TB Confirm’, a rapid diagnostic test for Tuberculosis.

The Visitor’s Award for ‘Research’ will be presented to Cosmology and Astrophysics Research Group, Centre for Theoretical Physics, Jamia Millia Islamia for path breaking research carried out in the field of Astrophysics and Cosmology.

The ‘Best University’ will receive a Citation and Trophy while winners of Visitors’ Award for ‘Innovation’ and ‘Research’ will receive a Citation and cash award of Rs. one lakh.

The President had announced institution of these awards at the Vice Chancellors’ Conference last year with the aim of promoting healthy competition amongst Central Universities and motivating them to adopt best practices from across the world.

For selecting the winners, online applications were invited from all Central Universities for each category. A Selection Committee comprising of Smt. Omita Paul, Secretary to the President as Chairperson and Secretary, Department of Higher Education, MHRD; Secretary, Department of Science & Technology; Chairman, UGC; Chairperson and Vice Chairpersons of National Innovation Foundation; Director-General, Council for Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) and Director IIT Delhi as members chose the winners of the Awards.

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PM pays homage to Mahatma Gandhi On Martyrs' Day

The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has paid homage to Mahatma Gandhi and all the Martyrs who laid their lives for the Nation, On Martyrs` Day.

"पूज्य बापू को उनकी पुण्यतिथि पर शत् शत् नमन। My tributes to Pujya Bapu.

On Martyrs` Day I pay homage to each and every Martyr who laid his or her life for our Nation. Their bravery and courage will always inspire", the Prime Minister said. 

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Development and Environmental Concerns

In the recent times, we are facing severe environmental threats, and there is little now that can be done to rectify the damage that has become life threatening. Recent surveys and studies show that so many kinds of plat and bird species are come to the point of extinction. And on the other side, satellite studies state that the ice in the continents and on the mountains is getting converted into water at a rapid pace, resulting in the overall increase in the water levels of the sea. And on the opposite side, there is a threat of severe cold, recent studies show that the countries that used to sweat, are now experiencing severe cold that too at below minus levels because of environmental changes.

The reason for all this is that when we plan for development, we are just concerned about development at any cost. At that time we don’t pay attention to environmental issues. And when everything is over we start looking for the cause of the problem, when we can hardly do anything about the damage that has happened. Development is very important, in all areas and all over the world. But environmental concerns are even more important they are our life source either directly or indirectly.

When any country or nation is looking and planning for development, environmental issues should be taken into concern every time and in every issue. We should be able to predict the effects of the decisions and actions that we have taken on the environment. When giving permission to do anything in any matter, Govt. should look into the environmental issues and then give permission. Let it be the issue of the Real estate or Industries, They should see that no threat to environment is caused because of these developments. Environmental issues and utilization of natural resources, all should be studied well and then only should permission be given for implementation. May be at least then we can preserve the environment as it is now at least.

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Universal Nuclear Disarmament is a Must

Today’s world so many nations are facing problems of various kinds. In each nation there are problems to be solved, issues to addressed, and more reforms for betterment to be made. And in such a situation, even today there are many nations that are spending lots of money, on arms. This is really a sad situation, just because some nations are accumulating arms, and are making their armed forces stronger, the other nations in fear of them, and to make their own position stronger, they are also accumulating, arms.

This vicious cycle has no end, each one accumulating arms in fear of other. There are many severe problems in the world that need to be addressed. There are some nations where the people have no food to eat, there are some countries where education is not there, and health facilities are not there. Some countries population is ever increasing, and in some countries population is less.

If we start making a list of the problems that each country is facing, today it will be never ending. How much reasonable it is, in this situation, to spend money on arms? Not only this, today are many counties in the world facing, terrorist problems. There is only one solution for all these problems that is to universal disarmament. All the nations should come together, on one platform and should come to one conclusion that is universal disarmament.

This is the requirement of the time, if nations would do this, they can concentrate on the development aspects of their countries and how to make the life of their people better. Now many countries are wasting lot of man power and money power for arms, instead for people’s welfare. If universal disarmament is done each nation will use resources, for the progress of the country. And the world would become a better place and a peaceful place to live on.

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