तीन दिवसीय अंतर्राष्ट्रीय सिख सम्मेलन संपन्न

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पटना, 24 सितंबर :भाषा: गुरू गोविंद सिंह जी के जन्म दिवस पर मनाए जाने वाले 350वें प्रकाश पर्व के मद्देनजर गत 22 सितंबर से शुरू तीन दिवसीय अंतर्राष्ट्रीय सिख सम्मेलन आज पटना में संपन्न हो गया।

अंतर्राष्ट्रीय सिख सम्मेलन के समापन के आज अंतिम दिन बिहार के राज्यपाल रामनाथ कोविंद ने कहा कि सिखों के दसवें गुरु गोविन्द सिंह जी के 350वें जन्मोत्सव को प्रकाशपर्व के रुप में आयोजित करना राज्य सरकार के लिए एक महत्वपूर्ण चुनौती और एक सुअवसर दोनों हैं। प्रकाशपर्व के भव्य आकषर्क एवं सुव्यवस्थित रुप में आयोजित करना राज्य सरकार के लिए यद्यपि बहुत चुनौतीपूर्ण है। यह एक ऐसा अवसर भी है, जिसके माध्यम से बिहार की एक आकषर्क छवि विश्व पटल पर अंकित होगी।

राज्यपाल ने कहा कि भारत का इतिहास बिहार की कीर्ति गाथाओं से गौरवान्वित रहा है। सिख, बौद्ध और जैन धर्मो के प्रादरुभाव बिहार में ही हुये। सिख धर्म के दसवें गुरु श्री गोविन्द सिंह की जन्मस्थली भी बिहार की धरती है।

उन्होंने कहा कि गुरु गोविन्द सिंह जी के उपदेश, उनकी वीरता और समाज सेवा अनुकरणीय है। राष्ट्रीय एकता और सद्भावना के प्रति समर्पित उनका व्यक्तित्व और कृतित्व समाज के उपेक्षित और वंचित वर्ग के लिए भी बराबर सहयोगी और प्रेरणादायी रहा है। उनकी कवित्व क्षमता भक्ति और राष्ट्रीयता की अदभुत मिसाल है। काम, क्रोध, लोभ, हठ, मोह, अहंकार आदि से विमुख रहते हुए प्रेम और भाईचारा के पथ पर चलने का उनका संदेश भौतिकतावाद से त्रस्त आधुनिक मानव के लिए भी अनुपम वरदान है।

कोविन्द ने भारत के इतिहास एवं विकास में सिखों के द्वितीय योगदान को स्मरण करते हुए कहा कि भारतीय संस्कृति सदभावना और सामाजिक समरसता की संस्कृति रही है।

Scientists have discovered a kind of "sixth sense" in man

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MOSCOW, September 24 - RIA Novosti . Biologists accidentally discovered in the DNA of human gene that is responsible for the "sixth sense" - instinctive determining body position in space, whose failure leads to the development of problems with balance and sense of touch, according to a paper published in the journal New England Journal of Medicine.

"Before, I studied the work PIEZO2 gene only in mice, and meeting with patients in whom it is damaged, put me into shock. Our research shows that people are blind to the touch and can not determine the position of the body in space due to the fact that their neurons do not respond to pressure and movement of limbs, "- said Alexander Chelzer (Alexander Chelser) of the US National institutes of health in Bethesda.

Chelzer and his colleagues revealed an unexpected function PIEZO2 gene in the human body and the development of a kind of "sixth sense", reviewed the records of two patients, US hospitals are suffering from extra-heavy form of scoliosis.

Exploring their DNA, scientists came across a strange thing - it turned out that both patients PIEZO2 gene has been damaged, which was previously considered the biologists responsible for the detection of light touch. This coincidence led scientists to check whether this is not linked to a region of DNA with that of other functions of the body, breach of which can cause scoliosis.

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After receiving the consent of the patients themselves and their relatives, the researchers checked their hands and other parts of the body react to the vibration, pin pricks, cold and hot objects and other stimuli. It turned out that, in addition to the recognition of touches, PIEZO2 and played a different role in the body of work that can be generally described as a "sense of space".

It is expressed in the fact that a person who PIEZO2 is normal, pretty good understanding of where and how disposed his body, if he closes his eyes, any objects it touches and what surrounds it. Just checking this feeling is familiar to all hospitals offer neurologist touch the nose with your eyes closed or find and touch the object, located nearby.

As shown by experiments on volunteers, deprived PIEZO2, they can not even perform a simple task, if their eyes are closed. With eyes open they are easily dealt nose, objects, and go through the room, despite the deformation of hands and feet, although the balance maintained with great difficulty.

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Scientists theorize that such differences in the results of "blind" and "sighted" test due to the fact that the brains of these patients has adapted to the absence of "The Sixth Sense" and has learned to use his eyes and ears for information on body position in space and its balance sheet. Accordingly, when such patients close their eyes, they are losing the information channel for "The Sixth Sense" and the ability to sense its position in space.

The consequences of failure PIEZO2, according Chelzera actually may be much wider - the loss of "sixth sense" can act on the human body even during its intrauterine development. Without PIEZO2, as scientists believe, the embryo can not figure out how to turn and which concern the future of his arms and legs, it is likely is the cause of scoliosis and other skeletal deformities characteristic of his group studied patients.This theory scientists promise to check in the near future by experimenting with embryos.

China September 25 will start the work in the world's largest radio telescope FAST

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BEIJING, Sept. 24 -. RIA Novosti, Ivan Bulatov China plans on Sunday 25 September to include the world's largest radio telescope of the FAST, wrote in a Saturday newspaper South China Morning the Post .

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China has relocated 8,000 people for the opening of the largest radio telescope

Construction of the telescope, an area equal to the area of ​​30 football fields, began in March 2011. Telescope located high in the mountains of Guizhou Province in southwest China. The diameter of the telescope is 500 meters.The perimeter of the structure is equal to 1.6 kilometers. Total investment in the project is estimated at 1.2 billion yuan (about 180 million dollars). It will surpass the largest at this point the telescope in Puerto Rico, with a diameter of 300 meters.

"It will be a very good telescope to explore some areas of astronomy, especially for the study of pulsars and galaxies in the universe of accommodation", - he said on this occasion a professor of astronomy at Cornell University (USA) Donald Campbell.According to him, the new telescope will allow to make a significant contribution to the understanding of the structure and history of the universe.

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Chinese space laboratory "Tiangong-2" to the test in orbit

Last Sunday was completed installation of 30-ton telescope feed. It is located at an altitude of 130 meters above the surface of the telescope. The irradiator is used to collect radio waves, which it aims to dish reflector telescope, and also amplifies the signal, allowing it to record the measuring instruments.

China Central Television reported earlier, the FAST will be connected to one of the fastest computers in the world Sky Eye 1 for astronomical calculations to search for life on other planets and study dark matter. It is expected that the new telescope will greatly enhance China's ability to study outer space.

Earlier, Chinese authorities moved 9,000 people living in a radius of five kilometers from the radio telescope. They were built 600 houses in two new settlements, which are located approximately ten kilometers from their former place of residence. The construction of new housing authorities have spent about 269 million dollars.

Extremists from the "Majlis" blocked the border with Crimea from Ukraine

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Junko, September 24 -. RIA Novosti Russian-Ukrainian border in the area between the Crimea and Kherson region was blocked by the Ukraine because of the march with the participation of leaders of the "Majlis of the Crimean Tatar people", including those against whom in Russia opened criminal case.

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Total shares in about 150 people attended, including representatives of the so-called volunteer battalions, RIA news from the scene.

At 13.30 Moscow time the border was blocked: the marchers actually blocked entry from the Ukrainian border post.Representatives of volunteer battalions shouted nationalist slogans.

Now protesters are already at odds, but the border with the Ukrainian side is still closed.

The Supreme Court of the Crimea at the end of April, acknowledged the public association "Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people", identifies himself with the representative authority of the Crimean Tatar people, extremist organization and banned its activities in Russia. The lawsuit initiated by the prosecutor to ban the Crimea Natalia Poklonskaya, which has accused the leaders of the Mejlis Refat Chubarov and Mustafa Dzhemilev in the organization of energy blockade of the Crimea. Because of extremist statements, inciting ethnic hatred, in 2014, they also banned for five years from entering Russia. Against Cemil in Russia opened a criminal case.

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In Crimea, declared the impossibility of extremist activity in the peninsula

The Russian Foreign Ministry said earlier that "the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people" does not represent the Crimean Tatars, he discredited the subversive and extremist activity.

Crimea has once again become a Russian region through a referendum held after the coup in Ukraine. For the reunion with Russia have voted more than 95% of the inhabitants of the peninsula.

Corbyn calls for unity after winning Britain's Labour leadership vote

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Jeremy Corbyn was re-elected leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party on Saturday and called for unity after ending a "coup" by more centrist lawmakers who say his left-wing agenda can never deliver victory at the polls.

The veteran campaigner's triumph, by 313,209 to 193,229 votes, over challenger Owen Smith cements his authority over the divided party and will fuel a drive further left - a move many lawmakers say will see them out of power and allow the ruling Conservatives free rein over Britain's divorce from the EU.

Welcoming the result which handed him a larger share of the vote than his first leadership victory last year, Corbyn called on lawmakers and members at the party's annual conference in the northwestern city of Liverpool to come together to fight the Conservative Party and bring "real change" to Britain.

"Elections are passionate and often partisan affairs, things are sometimes said in the heat of the debate ... which we sometimes later come to regret. Always remember in our party we have much more in common than that which divides us," he said to roars from the crowd of largely his supporters.

"Let's wipe that slate clean and get on with the work we have got to do as a party together," he said, moving to ease fears that his re-election will widen the divide between the Labour Party's left and center-left wings and that he may trigger moves to force centrist lawmakers from the party.

His victory marks the next phase in a battle for control of the Labour Party.

In power for 13 years until 2010, Labour was dealt a crushing blow by the Conservatives five years later after they cast doubt on whether the party's left-wing policies would protect the economy.

The ruling party, under new Prime Minister Theresa May, still leads by seven percentage points in opinion polls and looks set to plot Britain's exit from the EU largely unopposed.

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Corbyn told the conference his anti-austerity policies had attracted thousands to Labour, helping to almost treble its membership to make it western Europe's largest, and he was ready to lead a more democratic party to election victory in 2020.

But he faces an uphill battle to win over those who voted Labour at the last election but then supported Britain's exit from the EU, after a YouGov poll showed more than half of them have now abandoned Labour.

He also has to convince many Labour members of parliament, some of whom decided not to attend the annual conference, that his left-wing policies, such as renationalisation and campaigning against nuclear weapons, can have broad appeal.

"The words are conciliatory but we need to have practical ways to put things back together and that is what we will wait to see," one senior Labour member of parliament, who declined to be named, told Reuters after the result.

Corbyn, 67, attracts a devoted following, but his election to leader last year on a wave of enthusiasm for change also unleashed a backlash against centrist lawmakers where personal attacks, allegations of anti-Semitism and abuse left little room for debate over policy.

Several in the party who once supported his candidacy as a chance to harness a growing disaffection for 'establishment politics' across Europe now rue the day they backed him.

But Corbyn tried to smooth over these divisions, calling the party "our Labour family".

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"My responsibility as Labour leader is to unite this party ... but it is also the responsibility of the whole party ... to work together and respect the democratic choice that has been made," he said in his speech.

Centrist lawmakers say now they need to take stock, with some pushing to regain some control of the party machinery and boost groups promoting more center-left policies.

"It is an understatement to say that this is not the result that many of us wanted but all of us have now got to make an individual decision about how best to serve the Labour Party and how best to make the opposition effective," Labour member of parliament John Woodcock said.

Gareth Thomas, who nominated Corbyn for last year's leadership contest only to vote for a more centrist candidate, told Reuters: "Labour will now have to unite to focus our attack on Theresa May's Tory (Conservative) Party."

But for Corbyn's supporters, his re-election gives them what some describe as their one chance to make Labour a socialist party.

"This is a fantastic result," Jon Lansman, head of a pro-Corbyn campaign group, told Reuters. "What a great base for Labour to get back into government to rebuild and transform Britain."

(additional reporting by James Davey in London, editing by Jane Merriman)

Rural Growth in Colombia: Yara Steps In to Increase Productivity

The rural community in Colombia is struggling to keep up with food production. Credit: Gerald Bermúdez/IPS

ROME, Sep 22 2016 (IPS) - Following the recent peace agreement between the Colombian government and the FARC in Cartagena which concludes a 52-year armed conflict, the country is now geared toward improving productivity in its agricultural sector. Yara International, a leader in crop nutrition and farmer support, has taken the timely step of supporting the government’s efforts on this issue.

Colombia, which relies on agriculture as the most important segment of its economy, still battles with an endemic problem of poor productivity. Due to the rugged Andean terrain covering Colombia, as well as the lack of irrigation, only roughly five per cent of the country’s land area is cultivated. The government is taking an increasing part in controlling, organizing and encouraging agriculture by giving financial support and social assistance for better housing to farmers, as well as providing them with technical help. However, foreign aid is always welcome.

The timely intervention of Yara International is contributing to enable Colombia in producing more and better foodon existing agricultural land. Having invested in Colombia for years and providing funds of USD 425 million in 2014, Yara International has become the largest investor in the South American country, supporting rural development, growing productivity and prosperity in Colombia’s countryside.