Category: SCI-TECH

Phytomining Of Nickel Metal Out Of The Soil

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By: Prof. Nand Lal, Dean, Faculty of Life Sciences & Former Pro-VC, C.S.J.M. Kanpur University  Phytomining is a technique that uses certain plants to mine metals out of sub-economic ore bodies including soil or polluted waters. Phytominers grow a crop of a metal-hyperaccumulating plant species, harvest the biomass and burn it to produce a bio-ore.Use of phytomining has grown over the last decade, particularly in remediating contaminated lands such as mine tailings or old factory sites where metals have leached into the ground.Some of the plant species could even be used…

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Heavy Metal Contamination In Water And Risks To Human Health

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By: Prof. Nand Lal, Dean, Faculty of Life Sciences & Former Pro-VC, C.S.J.M.Kanpur University & Priti Sachan      The presence of lead in the drinking water can cause damage to the kidney, nervous system, and learning difficulties. KANPUR: Water resources in the world have been profoundly influenced over the last years by human activities, whereby the world is currently facing critical water supply and drinking water quality problems. Increased urbanization and industrialization are to blame for an increased level of trace metals, especially heavy metals in water bodies. In addition to…

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India Has Enough Limestone To Help Coal-Based Thermal Power Plants Meet The New Emission Norms: CSE’s New Report

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By: Dr. Dakter Esse, Editor-ICN North East  Study on flue gas desulphurization (FGD) systems refutes thermal power industry’s contention that the country does not have enough limestone Limestone is needed for operating flue gas desulphurization (FGD) systems in thermal power plants. FGD systems help control emissions of sulphur dioxide (SO2) from these plants.Coal-based thermal power plants have to meet new emission norms by 2022.  India is the largest emitter of SO2 in the world. Thermal power plants account for 45 per cent of total industrial emissions of SO2in the country. FGD systems in…

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Location-Hiding Technology Via Overlay Networks

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By: Er. Harendra Kumar (Special Correspondent ICN Group) & Dr. Ved Prakash Chahal (Asstt. General Director Agri. Extn.) ,ICAR, New Delhi NEW DELHI: Location-Hiding Technique is an important component of a complete solution to DoS attacks. It gives Application sites the capability to hide their locations and thereby preventing DoS attacks, which depends on the knowledge of their victim’s IP (Internet Protocol) addresses. Overlay networks have been proposed as a means for location-hiding [5,9,14]. We assume that an application is reachable only via the overlay network. As you can see an overly network…

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Antarctica Ice Shelf Cracks-Warning For The Global Sea-Level Rise?

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By: Prof. Jaswant Singh, Member-Indian Scientific Expedition to Antarctica & Arctic, Director-Institute of Earth Sciences & Executive Editor-ICN Group  Scientists believe that the entire West Antarctica Ice Sheet is likely to collapse within the next 100 years, sending a massive volume of water into the sea. The data collected by the researchers on Climate change and their forecasts based on General circulation model (GCM), Earth’s and ocean water temperature is increasing. This is not only affecting the terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem but human life also. Climate change is the challenge of our generation.…

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Chandrayaan-2 : An Unfinished Success

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By: Tarun Prakash Srivastava, Sr. Executive Editor-ICN Group LUCKNOW: India is still filled with pride, enthusiasm, zeal and excitement by giving a knock to the south pole of Moon though we could not be witnesses of successful soft landing of lander Vikram on the moon surface. Communicational disconnection from Chandrayaan – 2 just before 2.1 k.m. from its destination is little painful for every Indian but not only we Indian but the entire world knows that our efforts were sincere, perfect and serious irrespective of fact that finished success has…

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Biodegradable Plastics: Finding The Market

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By: Prof. Jaswant Singh, Member-Indian Scientific Expedition to Antarctica & Arctic, Director-Institute of Earth Sciences & Executive Editor-ICN Group  Biodegradable plastics also have versatile applications such as plastic grocery bags, disposable containers, personal care products, agricultural plastics, medical devices etc. Plastics have become a very important and essential commodity in the life of modern man because of its durability, strength, flexibility, light weight and low cost of production. Plastic in the environment has been regarded as more of an aesthetic nuisance since the material is biologically inert and nonbiodegradable. More…

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Advancement Of Technology And Human Void

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By: Maryam Hedayat Around 52.4% of the global online population access internet from their mobile devices and more than half of the global population is estimated to go online using mobile devices by 2020. LIBYA: The world is just a ‘click’ away from us. Now everything and everyone is available at the touch of a button, Bored? Just a click and all your friends in front of you, shopping mood, click and the varieties and unlimited collection on your screen, want to play video games late night, click the button and vast collection…

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Chandrayan 2 Launched Successfully From Sriharikota

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SRIHARIKOTA:Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched India’s second mission to the Moon at 2.43 pm today (July 22). The Chandrayaan-2, which will go the Moon’s south-polar region, aims to explore its surface for the signs of water and possibly new origins of energy. The Rs 978-crore Moon mission was launched from the second launch-pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, in Andhra Pradesh.The spacecraft has entered the Earth’s orbit, where it will stay for 23 days before it begins a series of manoeuvres that will take it into lunar…

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Biotechnological Advances in Agriculture

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By: Prof. R K Yadav, Dean, College of Agriculture, Lakhimpur Kheri Campus C.S. Azad Univ. of Agril. & Tech. Kanpur & Executive Editor-ICN Group KANPUR: Agriculture production in India has increased considerably during the last five decades largely due to the development and large scale cultivation of high-yielding dwarf varieties of rice and wheat, and greater applications of water and nutrients. This increase in food production has made India self-sufficient and contributed tremendously to food security. However, the population expected to reach 1.8 billion in 2050 will impose great demand for increased food…

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