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Reservation For General Category - What Is All The Fuss About?

The Modi government has recently passed the Bill citing 10% reservation for Economically Weaker Sections of general category on 9th of January, 2019 in the Rajya Sabha as well with 165 voting in its favor. Now, this has almost (awaiting final nod from the President of India) guaranteed amendment of certain acts in the Constitution of India, after which, its full potential can be exploited. The Bill will undoubtedly be helpful for a certain portion of population, but what is being questioned by everyone is its introduction timing and the political motive behind it. How will it help? Since a long time, demands were being raised for providing reservations to the poorer sections of the population that belongs to general category. Finally, a Bill has been passed granting the same. This seem to be a very positive sign as far as providing opportunity to the poors of a certain category are concerned.  The one who is not enjoying any benefits of caste-based reservation sy...

3 Best Websites To Learn Coding For Free - Number 2 Is Coders’ Favorite

Following this guide, you will end up learning newest programming languages such as Python, Java, PHP, C++ and many more. Coding (or Programming) is a very essential skill for everyone in this 21st century. With increase in newer technologies, we are surrounded by various types of websites and apps which make us go awe thinking how they are made. All those Apps and Websites that you use whole day long are made using specifically structured language that is understood by computers and we call it as 'Code'. Fortunately, we do not have to go and get ourselves admitted in colleges, with the advent of Internet. Almost everything that is required to make an App or a Website is available at our finger tips. I myself learnt a language called  PHP  absolutely for free and created some cool projects (I will describe them in another post) as well. I will be telling you about 3 best websites to learn coding absolutely for free. So, enough talk. Let's get munching. 1. Yo...

Afraid Of Injections? - Cost Effective Painless Injections Are Here

If you are the one haunted by thought of getting an injection from the doctor or more worst, a diabetic patient, here is a good news for you. A group of researchers from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, developed needles that are less than 1 mm in size. It can be used to administer drug painlessly into one's body. Its Development: The group fabricated a hollow Carbon microneedle array with flow channels using a conventional  C-MEMS process . The needles were initially developed from  SU-8 , which is a photosensitive polymer, in the year 2018 but were brittle and non-biocompatible. To overcome this, they were modified by a process of pyrolysis. It resulted in glassy carbon needles which were almost 300 times stronger than the originals. Being made of carbon, they were also biocompatible. Pyrolysis at 900 degree Celsius for around 60 minutes eliminated most of Nitrogen and Oxygen in the polymer. Microneedle array was inserted into Mouse skin and w...

Fake News - Discussion & Detection

Besides road accidents and pollution, a huge menace to the general public in recent past is F ake News. As such, this has become a hot topic for debates. Especially, with increase in the number of mobile devices with internet connection, they spread like a spark in the bush. Fake news not only had resulted in several cases of communal violence but also made a huge portion of general public feel insecure. Hereafter, I have tried to present a small discussion on the topic as well as some steps to detect authenticity of a news. From where do they originate? Fake news may originate from individuals that are looking forward to cause unrest among the communities. Also, a person in a pursuit of fame may project something which might not be true, in another way thus succeeding in manipulating thoughts of a certain group of people.  Some pseudo-doctors (self-proclaimed doctors) spread fake news and advice citing the names of reputed doctors in form of text messages which ...