Vikas Vaidya

Birds make aircraft queue up in the air By Vikas Vaidya Sometimes, aircraft have to make unscheduled or emergency landing due to bad weather. Sometimes, they have to do it because of technical snag. These things have become common now. But, on Friday, the sky of Nagpur observed a very unusual spectacle. Four civilian aircraft queued up at a low height,  due to birds! Morning flights start coming to Nagpur airport from around 7.30 am. The first aircraft started coming and asked for the clearance of runway. But, Air Traffic Control (ATC) noticed birds in large number on the runway. They asked flight Captain to wait. The staff tried to shoo birds away from the runway. But in vain! With cool and pleasant weather being experienced at Nagpur, the birds were in no mood to move. One after another the aircraft started gathering on the Nagpur sky. As per rules they had to queue up. It is called Standard Holding position. The four aircraft of different airlines had to fly in a row in Nagp...

‘Listen to adolescents, promote their positive sides’  Cut throat competition, nagging, lack of love, comparison making your child feel insecure, depressed By Vikas Vaidya Stress is on rise, parents’ communication with their children has come to zero, they do not communicate but nag their wards, cut-throat competition in the outer world making innocent children feeling suffocated, insecure. The comparison with other children by their parents taking them to depression. This can be stopped if parents would start listening to their wards and promote their positive sides instead of hammering them on bad acts. They should not treat their wards as problem child Adolescent Health Academy (AHA), Nagpur  a branch of Indian Academy of Pediatrics (IAP) working exclusively in the field of ‘Physical and mental being’ of adolescents had organised a training programme on problems of adolescents  on Sunday at Vanamati. Dr J S Tuteja, National Chairperson of AHA and Dr Preeti Ga...

                                           Shayoni (extreme right) with her mother Monaly Mukherjee Shayoni completes Science fiction and achieves merit too By Vikas Vaidya She not only study her textbooks, but she reads other books. In fact she is voracious reader. Normally children do not like Maths and Science but she loves them. She has won many debates, quiz competitions. She likes to participate in dramatics. When everybody was tense about their performance in examination, she not only did her study but she wrote a science fiction based on blackhole. Most of the students want to become doctor, engineer, CA, IAS etc, but she wants to pursue research in Science and yes she aims to join Defence services. Isn’t not this unique! Her mother Monaly with tears of happiness in her eyes says, her daughter is not demanding, she is very down to earth. This is all about Shayoni...

Pvt medical colleges, deemed institutions to have their own, NEET for GMCs only By Vikas Vaidya Supreme Court on Monday lifted the bar on declaration of results for MBBS and medical post graduate courses for which entrance exams have already been conducted in the current academic year. According to experts, though in the order of Supreme Court it is not mentioned, as discussed, the National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET) UG will be only for admission to Government Medical Colleges (GMCs). Associations of private medical and dental colleges and Deemed to be institutions will have their own tests as were conducted in the year 2012. With the judgement, the fight between MCI and private medical colleges have come to a halt. This development is being interpreted as defeat of MCI. The apex court modified its December 13, 2012 order by which it had stated that the Medical Council of India, the Dental Council of India, as well as the States, Universities and other Institutions, will b...