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Air contamination in Delhi: Its Magnitude and Effects on Health

Air contamination is in charge of numerous medical issues in the urban ranges. Recently, the air contamination status in Delhi has experienced many changes as far as the levels of toxins and the control measures taken to lessen them. This blogs gives confirmation based knowledge into the status of air contamination in Delhi and its consequences for wellbeing and control measures initiated. The urban air database discharged by the World Health Organization in September 2011 announced that Delhi has surpassed the most extreme PM10 constrain by very nearly 10-times at 198 μg/m3. Vehicular outflows and modern exercises were observed to be related with indoor and also outside air contamination in Delhi. Concentrates on air contamination and mortality from Delhi found that all-characteristic reason mortality and bleakness expanded with expanded air contamination. Delhi has found a way to lessen the level of air contamination in the city amid the most recent 10 years. Be that as it may, all...

Bharatmala Project

Bharatmala will provide NH linkage to 550 districts. Highways works worth Rs 8 lakh crore are scheduled to begin before the end of 2018 under the Bharatmala Pariyojana according to an announcement by the Minister of Road Transport and Highways, Shipping, Water Resources, River Development Gangaram Rejuvenation recently. Bharatmala is a new umbrella programme for the highways sector that focuses on optimizing efficiency of road traffic movement across the country by bridging critical infrastructure gaps. Bharatmala will be a major drive for economic growth in the country, and help realise the Prime Minister's vision of a New India. The programme has been designed to bridge the gaps in the existing highways infrastructure so as to make the movement of man and material more efficient. Special attention has been paid to fulfill the connectivity needs of backward and tribal areas, areas of economic activity, places of religious and tourist interest, border areas, coastal areas and tra...

Feminism: Reel to Real Life

Feminism, a well known system, most talked topic but most underestimated system of the society. Many of us often confused by its feminine name and conceptualize it as in terms of only one side of the coin i.e. only female. But this word is more comprehensive than it appears. This term has the power of changing the whole nation, but unfortunately its power is limited to its theoretical definition only. Theoretically, it is an advocacy of female’s rights on the ground of equality of gender . It is about equality of females not supervision of females. It is about equal rights to everyone irrespective of their gender not only one gender. These days; when we are living in so called “democratic society’’, this term gets inherently and obviously some importance. But that too limited to words. Every modern human, (here modern is the word used for them who consider themselves as the knowledgeable one in terms of rights and opportunities), is now-a-days advocates about feminism as females ar...

Memory

What is Memory? Learning occupies a very significant place in one’s life and whatever is learned needs to be stored in mind so that it can be utilized whenever required in the future. In psychological terms, this faculty of the mind to store the past experiences or learning and to reproduce them for use when required at a later time is known as ‘memory’. Types of Memory Sensory or Immediate Memory: Sensory or immediate memory is the memory that helps an individual to recall something immediately after it is perceived. In this type of memory, the retention time is extremely brief – generally from a fraction of a second to several seconds. Short – Term Memory: This type of memory is also temporary, though not nearly as short-lived as immediate memory. The information temporarily stored in short term memory may last as long as thirty seconds even if the material is not being rehearsed. Around five to nine items (“the magical number, seven plus or minus two”) can be held in short...