The Ministry of Human Resource Development has recruited more than 1200 highly qualified
and motivated graduates from IITs and NITs among others to teach in Engineering Colleges in
the most backward areas for the next 3 years. "

The Yuelu Proclamation, made by the UNESCO at Changsha, The People's Republic of China, in 2018, says: "The protection and promotion of linguistic diversity helps to improve social inclusion and partnerships, helps to reduce the gender and social inequality between different native speakers, guarantee the rights for native speakers of endangered, minority, indigenous languages, as well as non-official languages and dialects to receive education, enhance the social inclusion level and social decision-making ability by encouraging them to participate in a series of actions to promote cultural diversity, endangered language protection, and the protection of intangible cultural heritage "

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The Democratic Republic of Congo, supplier of two-thirds of the world's cobalt, aims to more than double royalty charges. That's bad news for electric cars: the metal is a key battery ingredient. But the move could backfire in the long-term by accelerating an already frantic search for alternatives.

Cobalt has been at the heart of the green fever in metals markets over the last year. Like lithium, nickel and even copper, its outlook has been transformed by ambitious forecasts for the growth of electric vehicles. The price of what was once an ingredient for aerospace superalloys has gone from under $35,000 per tonne a year ago to over $75,000

Cobalt is usually not mined alone, and tends to be produced as a by-product of nickel and copper mining activities. (Cobalt naturally occurs in nickel bearing laterites and nickel-copper sulfide deposits and, thus, is most often extracted as a by-product of nickel and copper.)

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Naoroji, Dutt, Ranade, Gokhale and G. Subramania Iyer were among those who grounded Indian nationalism firmly on the foundation of anti-imperialism by fashioning the world's first economic critique of colonialism. "

Researchers have developed a device that will allow scientists to monitor frogs in the wild. Described as the world's first solar-powered remote survey device that can be installed at any frog pond and which receives a 3G or 4G cellular network, it has been named "FrogPhone".

It has been developed by a team from various Australian institutions, including the University of New South Wales and the University of Canberra.

With FrogPhone, researchers can simply "call" a frog habitat. After a call is made to one of the FrogPhones already on a site, the device will take three seconds to receive it. During these few seconds, the device's temperature sensors will get activated, and environmental data such as air temperature, water temperature and battery voltage will be sent to the caller's phone via a text message.

Because frogs are most active during night, researchers are usually required to make nightly observations in order to monitor them on site. The FrogPhone will allow researchers to dial these devices remotely, and analyse the data later.

It will reduce costs and risks, including the negative impact of human presence on the field site, the researchers say. These devices also allow for monitoring of local frog populations more frequently than before, which is important because these populations are recognised as indicators of environmental health.

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