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| Jammu’s hour of glory at world’s most curious science test | | | | Munish Gupta
Jammu | Sep 10
As the entire world remained hooked to the television screens for the day to see decoding the makeup of universe, there was a Jammu connection to the world’s most expensive and most controversial experiment of Physics –indeed a moment of honour for the City of temples as the University of Jammu is one of the participants to largest particle collider test.
Jammu University too has played an important role in today’s experiment. Talking to EARLY TIMES, JU’s Head of the Department of Physics Prof Naresh Padha said that a team of Jammu University comprising more than 20 researchers was largest of all the groups working on the experiment.
According to him Jammu University has worked on two aspects, first one is on Detector fabrication and other one is Software development. He also informed that members of Jammu University along with with VECC/SINP (Kolkata) as the nodal institutions and IOP, IITB, Jammu, Rajasthan, Aligarh and Punjab universities worked in the ALICE experiment which costs around about 1 crore 92 lakh. The main object of this project is... | |
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| Vohra takes aerial feel of world’s largest rail tunnel | | | | Early Times Reporter
Srinagar | Sept 10
The red colour eight-coach Diesel Electric Multiple Unit train chugged on the Badgam-Nowgam sector of the Qazigund-Baramulla section of the Northern Railways this morning, with Governor, Mr N N Vohra, on board, reviewing the progress on the dream Railway Project in Kashmir.
As the train moved on the track, the Chief Administrative Officer, Northern Railways, Mr R K Gupta briefed the Governor on the salient features of this Railway Project of National Importance. Being in the priority sector, the funding for the execution of various works on this Project is being directly made by the Centre.
The Governor also conducted an aerial survey of the 10.... | |
| | | | Big Bang: Largest particle collider conducts successful test | | | | Geneva | Sept 10
The world's largest particle collider successfully completed its first major test by firing a beam of protons all the way around a 17-mile (27-kilometer) tunnel on Wednesday in what scientists hope is the next great step to understanding the makeup of the universe.
After a series of trial runs, two white dots flashed on a computer screen at 10:36 a.m. (0836 GMT) indicating that the protons had traveled the full length of the US$3.8 billion Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
"There it is," project leader Lyn Evans said when the beam completed its lap.
Champagne corks popped in labs as far away as Chicago, where contributing scientists watched the proceedings by satellite.... | |
| | | | Assembly polls likely in Nov | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Sep 10
Though a final word is yet awaited from the Election Commission of India but reports suggested that elections to Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly are in all possibility likely to be held in the month of November.
The Union Home Ministry is reported to have assured the Election Commission of India of sparing adequate strength of security forces for the exercise whenever the schedule is decided.
After eliciting the views of political parties on the feasibility of October-November assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir, the Election Commission today held consultations with Union Home Ministry and state government officials on security arrangements... | |
| | | | 20 in fray for post of JU VC | | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Sept 10
The University of Jammu is abuzz with hot competitive activity as a search panel constituted by the Governor (Chancellor) is on the lookout for a new Vice Chancellor for the prestigious campus which boasts of its global standards.
The incumbent Vice Chancellor of the University Prof Amitabh Mattoo is reported to have decided to hang his boots well ahead of the end of his term which is due in November. Sources said that the options were considered to grant the present VC yet second extension in term but he is reported to have declined.
The search panel constituted by the Governor –comprising Advisor to Governor Dr Sudhir Singh Bloeria, former Vice... | |
| | | | Congress in distress and disarray | | | | Nirbhay Jammual
Even after its disaster,which it suffered following upheaval over the land revocation and then on land restoration,the state unit of the Congress is yet to learn to emerge as a united team when the elections are round the corner.Hitherto it used to be factions within factions.But now His Master's Voice,as Abadul Gani Vakil,a former Social Welfare Minister,is called has hit the PCC Chief,Saif-ud-Din Soz,below the belt.Vakil has set in motion voices against Soz and his supporters without without caring about the impact it can have on the organisation.He is for one man for one post.He seems to have forgotten that he too was holding two posts,one as Minister and the other vic... | |
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