JNU SEDITION

                JNU SEDITION ROW

On 9 February 2016, some students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) held a protest on their campus against the capital punishment meted out to the 2001 Indian Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, and Kashmiri separatist Maqbool Bhat. The organizers of the event were former members of the Democratic Students Union (DSU). The event was held despite the University administration withdrawing permission for the event shortly before it was due to begin, due to protests by members of the Hindu nationalist student union ABVP.^[1][2] The event saw clashes between various student groups. A video was circulated by Indian news channel Zee news in which a small group of individuals, whom a later investigation described as outsiders to the University wearing masks, shouted "anti-India" slogans.^[3] The slogans were criticized by many individuals, including political leaders and students of JNU.

Four days after the event, JNU Students' Union President Kanhaiya Kumar was arrested by the Delhi police and charged with sedition.^[4] Two other students were arrested soon afterwards, including Umar Khalid. The arrests drew heavy criticism from many sections of society, on the grounds that the Bharatiya Janata Party government was attempting to silence political dissent. Thousands of students, faculty, and staff protested the arrest at JNU, and classes at the University were stopped for several days. The arrest was also criticized by a number of prominent scholars internationally. Protests against the arrests in were held in the University of Delhi, Jadavpur University,^[5] Osmania University,^[6] Aligarh Muslim University,^[7] Panjab University,^[8] and University of Kerala.

Investigations into the incident were carried out by the Delhi government and the University administration. Both found that the controversial slogans had been shouted by outsiders to the University. The arrested students were all granted bail, with the judge noting in one case that there was some evidence of the accused shouting slogans. However, the University inquiry found a number of students to have violated University rules and enacted sanctions, varying from fines to rustication, on 21 students. In response, the students went on an indefinite hunger strike. The Delhi High Court suspended the enactment of the University sanctions on the condition that the students end their strike. The hearing on this issue has been postponed to 19 October.

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Beautiful Turnpike

The life of just moving forward is fascinating thus it has inspired me to compile some of the best road trip. I can find online to make this gigantic bomb of wander lust for anyone who needs a little push to go out there and see the world,one pit stop at a time.

Words are powerful and so are these road qoute-
  
   "Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost in it with your soul,mind,heart and ofcourse body."
                                            -  ₹achana T@nurag

"Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey with your dear ones."
                                            -  ₹achana T@nurag

"I may not have gone where I intended to go,but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."
                                            -  Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams truly made a good statement defining how life often heads out. Sometimes when you plan a road trip, things do not go as planned & that  is alright because sometimes the best road is the ones you got lost.

So guys move out and enjoy. You are surrounded by adventure, you have no idea of what is in store for you, but you will, if you are wise & know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown.

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Awesome sights of nature

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ISRO’s past record shows that there are no failures in science, only lessons

The soft landing of a robot on the Moon might have eluded India but eventual success may not, given its space agency’s history of learning from failures.

Millions of Indians, along with a visibly emotional Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief, K Sivan, were heartbroken on Sept. 07, after Chandrayaan-2 Vikram Lander deviated from its defined path, minutes before its scheduled touchdown at the lunar south pole.

The lander soon lost communication with ISRO’s mission control complex in Bengaluru.

However, a thin ray of hope arose yesterday (Sept. 08) after ISRO announced it had located Vikram. “Right now, communication is lost, but we are trying to re-establish contact with the lander over the next 14 days,” said Sivan, in an interview to the national broadcaster Doordarshan.

Space enthusiasts hope ISRO will bounce back. Here are a few instances when it did.

The first failure

In the early 1970s, ISRO began working on the Satellite Launch Vehicle (SLV) project to develop the capabilities to launch satellites.

The first SLV-3 launch took place on Aug. 10, 1979 with the Rohini satellite. However, just 317 seconds after launch, it crashed into the Bay of Bengal due to a faulty valve. India’s former president APJ Abdul Kalam, the project coordinator of the SLV-3 mission when it crashed, had then made a speech on how to handle failure.

The failed mission set the tone for ISRO’s future achievements.

On July 18, 1980, ISRO successfully launched SLV-3 from the Sriharikota rocket launching station and the Rohini, satellite RS-1, was placed in orbit, making India the sixth member of an exclusive club of space-faring nations.

A series of unfortunate events

In rocketry, one cannot be too careful with the launch vehicle, and no one knows it better than ISRO.

ISRO’s failed missions
Mission	Launch date
GSLV-FO2	July 11, 2006
PSLV D1	Sept. 20, 1993
ASLV-D2	July 13, 1988
ASLV-D1	March 24, 1987
SLV-3 E1	Aug. 10, 1979

In 1987, the failure of the Augmented Satellite Launch Vehicle (ASLV-1) caused a massive dent in India’s space programme. The 40-tonne rocket, hailed as “a giant leap into the use of an array of hi-tech,” lost direction and plunged into the Bay of Bengal, minutes after taking off from Sriharikota.

The second ASLV launch attempt, in 1988, carrying the SROSS-2 satellite was also unsuccessful.

In 1993, ISRO witnessed another disappointment with the unsuccessful launch of its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV). This was attributed to three reasons: the gap between switching off the second stage engine and switching on the third stage engine, an error in the control software and, failure of retro-rockets to fire.

The first successful PSLV launch took place on Oct. 15, 1994. Since then, various PSLV versions have had 39 successful launches.

Another launch failure for ISRO came in 2006, when GSLV-FO2 veered off its trajectory and disintegrated due to a motor failure. The rocket was to place the Insat 4-C communication satellite in a geosynchronous orbit but later ISRO issued a destruct command after it found that the rocket was not on its intended path.

The road ahead

Experts believe ISRO’s future projects will not be hampered by Chandrayaan-2’s temporary setback.

The space agency plans to send a three-member crew to space for at least seven days under its Gaganyaan mission, scheduled for 2022. On Sept. 06, the Indian Air Force said it has completed the first level of selecting astronauts for the mission from its pool of test pilots.

“There will be absolutely no problem at all. It (Chandrayaan-2) will have no impact. The satellite missions, as well as the human space flight mission (Gaganyaan), will go very smoothly without any problem. Each mission is of a different type,” said former ISRO scientist PG Diwakar.

In 2023, ISRO intends to send an orbiter mission to study the atmosphere of Venus for its Shukrayaan mission. Aditya, or the Aditya-L1 mission to study the sun and Mangalyaan 2, are also in the pipeline.

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All is not lost, Chandrayaan-2 not a failed mission: World media, space experts

BENGALURU: International space experts and media around the world on Saturday called the communication loss with Vikram lander a "partial loss" and said "all is not lost" as the orbiter with key scientific instruments on board is still circling Moon's orbit.

Former US astronaut and space analyst Jerry M Linenger said, “India was trying to do something very, very difficult. Everything was going as planned as the lander came down. Unfortunately, it never quite made it to the hover point. That would be at an altitude of about 400 metre if it had made it to that point, and even if it had not succeeded beyond that, it would have been helpful because the radar altimeters and lasers could have been tested. This would obviously be very helpful for follow-on missions. Overall, the mission has been very successful."

He said, "The orbiter will continue to downlink very valuable information for the next year. And by all indications, all systems are go on the orbiter. I look forward to watching complete success in the future based upon lessons learned from this bold attempt.”

Writer and managing editor of Nasa Spaceflight Chris G said, "The orbiter is where 95 per cent of the experiments are. The orbiter is safely in lunar orbit and performing its mission. This is not a total failure. Not at all," Chris G tweeted.

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FDA Okays Biobeat's cuffless Blood pressure monitor

FDA Okays Biobeat's Cuffless Blood Pressure Monitor
Biobeat has received 501K clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a smartwatch and patch to monitor blood pressure and other vital signs.

This is the first FDA approval of a blood pressure monitor that does not employ a traditional cuff, according to the Tel Aviv–based company.

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