Argentine experts have recently discovered the near-complete remains of a new species of Jurassic-era dinosaur that stood on its rear legs and had tiny arms.The find belongs to the Abelisaurus family, “the most common carnivorous species in the southern hemisphere during the Cretaceous Period,” some 70 to 100 million years ago, paleontologist Diego Pol said. “However the fossils that we found are some 170 million years old,”…
Microplastics’ can kill pelicans, fish, and other wildlife that mistakes them for food. All of those hastily discarded plastic water bottles start to add up. Thousands of miles off the coast of California, millions of tons of plastic make up the socalled “Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” and as it breaks down, it becomes more enticing to the creatures living in the open ocean. “Most of the…
Human depredations on the sea have led to extinction of several large sea animals such as whales, sharks, rays, dolphins and turtles. Some of the animals such as whitetip sharks, American sawfish or the once “common” skate, numbers are down as much as 99 per cent. Most of the fishes the human would like to eat are vanishing fast. Number of Puget Sound’s salmon have come…
Jeddah: The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is organizing, in cooperation with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), an international conference on “Refugees in the Muslim World” to promote and create conditions for sustainable voluntary repatriation and reintegration of refugees in their country of origin. The conference will take place in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, on May 10-11, 2012, at the ministerial level with the participation of over 500 representatives…
Libreville, Republic of Gabon: The 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has announced its plan to establish a satellite channel and promote investment in the media to fight Islamophobia and enhance exchange of information among the member states. “We have a number of important proposals to strengthen Islamic media activities. They including the launch of an OIC satellite channel,” OIC Secretary- General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu stated at a conference of the…
New Delhi: The All India Muslim E d u c a t i o n a l Society is organising its 9th Educational Conference “ Iqra 2012, on 5th and 6th May in Jaipur. P a r t i c i p a n t s from all over the country will discuss their views and ideas to uplift the educational standards of Muslims in India. The All India Muslim Educational…
Inclusive growth has emerged as the key theme of the Planning in the country in the wake of high degree of inequalities. The Right to Compulsory and Free Education Act was passed two years ago and will become justiciable from April 1, 2013. Under the Act every child in the age group of 6 to 14 can demand free education from the State. It incorporates the…
Tobacco was responsible for 1,20,000 death”84,000 men and 36,000 women”adults in 2010 in India, according to a paper published in The Lancet. Oral cancer is said to cause twice as many death as lung cancer. Which means those who chewed tobacco (pan masala, zafrani patti etc) were more vulnerable to death. About 170 million Indians chewed tobacco and 120 million smoked, according to a 2009- 2010 survey. The tobacco-related cancers constitute…
‘Rise of Sea Level will Gobble Up 50 Major cities’ Neeraj Jain is a social activist and is one of the founders of the Lokayat, an activist group based at Pune taking up several causes in the public interest. Ecology is one among them. He recently made a presentation at the Poona College on the threat of Greenhouse Effect in the threeday conference on ‘Worldview of Development: Challenges and Alternative…
The Centre for Professional Development of Urdu Medium Teachers (CPDUMT) under the Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) here, has so far imparted training in teaching to 3,000 Urdu teachers in five years since its establishment. The Centre came up in 2006 and is funded by the University Grants Commission. According to Prof. Mazharuddin Farooqui,…
