Tatsat Chronicle Magazine

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Rogue drones

Rogue Flying Objects

October 9, 2022
On a hot summer morning in June 2020, at around 5 am, Border Security Force (BSF) sentries manning a border outpost at Pansar in Rathua village in Jammu, which is at touching distance from the Pakistani post across the international border, picked
sanitation workers

Death Of The Invisible

August 1, 2022
Even as India marks 75 years of independence with Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, the Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment, Virendra Kumar, informed Parliament on July 18 that 347 people deaths during hazardous cleaning of sewers and septic tanks in the past
agriculture sector

Seeding a Tech Revolution

Nearly 43% of India’s population is dependent on agriculture and farming for livelihood, with the sector contributing a shade over 20% to the country’s GDP, but due to the lack of technology integration and a robust value chain, the agriculture sector and
green-money

Green is the Colour of Money

Prime Minister Narendra Modi sprang a surprise at the climate change conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, last November by announcing that India will achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2070. Since then, the government has taken a series of steps in that direction.
apple farmers in the Kashmir

Bitter Harvest

March 3, 2022
In a few months’ time, apple farmers in the Kashmir Valley would be gearing up for another cycle of flowering and fruiting of the cash crop. But, most likely, they will be weighed down by the thought of stacks of unsold crates
oil palm cultivation

Oily Dilemma

February 6, 2022
The mission announced in August 2021 to bring an additional 6.5 lakh hectares under oil palm cultivation by the end of March 2026 is necessary to reduce the country’s dependence on imported edible oil but its extension to the Andamans should be
ECONOMIC-SPRING

Economic Spring On India’s Horizon

January 20, 2022
In August 2021, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced that the government would bring about an amendment in the appropriate law to negate the effect of the capital gains tax imposed by Pranab Mukherjee, finance minister in the UPA government, on several
gadget-banks_The-optimist

Time To Flip Thinking

September 21, 2021
“Learning is an activity of thought. It is not stuffing the mind with facts.” — University Education Commission,1948-49 Teaching, learning, flipped classrooms, smart classrooms, online classes, blended or hybrid teaching, or concepts like learning management. A host of new-fangled technological and management
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Devil’s In The Data

August 3, 2021
In the 2017 Economic Survey, the official annual statistical Bible of India, the finance ministry indirectly admits that its figures related to GDP (economic) growth may be wonky. In Chapter 3, which focuses on demonetisation, it states: “It is clear that recorded