Buckling up to save lives
By: Vinod Chandrashekhar Dixit Road traffic injuries are major public health problems and a leading cause of death and injury around the world. Approximately 1.2 million people are killed each year in road crashes worldwide, with up to 50 million more injured. Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari has already announced that […]
Plastic waste in space getting recycled
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor, Plastic waste is an ongoing problem not only on Earth but in space also. A team of scientists in renowned organisations is now testing a novel way to convert discarded plastic in space into useful material. For example NASA is experimenting with space management in space through the reactor project. The system will […]
Risk of stroke rises with higher screen time
By: Dr Vipul Gupta Stroke has been considered to be one of the most common and leading causes of morbidity and disability. It is estimated that, in every 40 seconds someone suffers from stroke and a person dies of stroke in every four minutes globally. While increased screen time is known to result in adverse […]
Book Review: The Last Lecture
By: Asif Rashid The Premise: The Last Lecture is a fact-based story of a Professor-cum-father Randy Pausch, the father of three children. Randy is suffering from pancreatic cancer; so fatal even doctors have lost hope and declared that he has only a few months to survive; since his last treatment didn’t work. As a tradition […]
Care for the specially abled
By: Bilal Ahmad Sofi In our society, being normal and fit is a criterion of getting respect. Anything against this is a demeaning thing. In the common parlance, handicapped people are to be marginalized and hardly to be taken into account. All human beings are same, however, specially-abled they are. In case of specially-abled people, […]
Reforestation needed badly
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor, As per studies since last decade about five million hectares of trees have been cut down every year in our country. This has contributed to extreme niche loss and a drop in large quantum of biodiversity. Every species, including the human species, directly relies on these trees to survive. The trees have given […]
Slavery in every form should end
By: Vinod Chandrashekhar Dixit On 2nd December every year we observe the ‘International Day for the Abolition of Slavery’. The focus to observe this day is on eradicating contemporary forms of slavery, such as trafficking in persons, sexual exploitation, the worst forms of child labour, forced marriage, and the forced recruitment of children for use […]
Eradicating heart diseases
By: Dr Bimal Chhajer In the course of history, we have witnessed that the number of heart problems is increasing at an astonishing rate in India (almost doubled in the last decade) even when many treatments are already available. To solve the root cause of this problem, Dr. Bimal Chhajer started SAAOL in 1995 with […]
Technology robbing children of their childhood
By: Vijay Garg Children are forgetting to talk, play, jump and read after getting mobile, computers and laptops. It is not understood that how to take back the mobile which was caught in his hand during the Corona period? Earlier, where children used to eagerly wait for the bell of their sports periods in schools, […]
Reduce Dark Data
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor, More than half of the digital data generated by companies is collected, processed and stored for single use. It is often never reused. This can be numerous nearly identical images stored in Google Photos or outdated spreadsheets from a company that will never be used again, or useless sensor data from the Internet […]
