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न मिलता गम – शकील बदायुनी

न मिलता गम - शकील बदायुनी

तमन्ना लुट गयी फिर भी तेरे दम से मोहब्बत है मुबारक गैर को खुशियां मुझे गम से मोहब्बत है न मिलता गम तो बरबादी के अफ़साने कहाँ जाते अगर दुनिया चमन होती तो वीराने कहाँ जाते चलो अच्छा हुआ अपनों में कोई गैर तो निकला अगर होते सभी अपने तो बेगाने कहाँ जाते दुआएँ दो मोहब्बत हम ने मिट कर …

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What is Ham Radio?

Consider this, your state has been hit by a cyclone with wind speeds measuring 300 kilometres per hour. All modern means of communication – telephone, cellphone, wireless sets – lie dead as the cyclone has destroyed all connecting stations and links. This is what happened during the Orissa cyclone. All communication links broke down as dish antennas, radio stations, telephone …

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What is HAARP?

It is an acronym for the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, an initiative to study the effect on the performance of communication, navigation and surveillance systems by simulated heating of the ionosphere. It was started in 1993 and is expected to continue till 2013. It is funded by US defence agencies. A powerful HF signal is transmitted to heat …

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What is Guano?

Guano is accumulated dung or excrement and remains of seabirds, bats and seals found along certain coastal areas and caves. It’s found mainly on the coastal islands of Peru, Africa, Chile and the West Indies. It contains about 6% phosphorus, 9% nitrogen, 2% potassium and moisture. Guano is found mixed with feathers and bones and used mainly as a fertilizer. …

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What is green fluorescent protein?

Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) is a naturally fluorescent protein isolated from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria. GFP is a fluorescent marker that makes possible the visualisation of protein in the cell. Cells can be stained by them and examined by fluorescence microscopy to reveal the location of a protein of interest. For example, glucocorticoid receptor protein is a transcription factor that …

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What is Green Energy?

Green energy, or renewable / sustainable energy, is derived from a source which meets the needs of the present without getting depleted. Green energy is looked upon as the answer to climate change and as a saviour of the world. Sources of green energy – bio-fuels, solar power, wind power, wave power, geothermal power and tidal power – have begun …

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What is green chemistry?

Green chemistry, also called sustainable chemistry, is a philosophy of chemical research and engineering that encourages the design of products and processes that minimize the use and generation of hazardous substances. Whereas environmental chemistry is the chemistry of the natural environment, and of pollutant chemicals in nature, green chemistry seeks to reduce and prevent pollution at its source. In 1990 …

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