Sunday, September 4, 2022

മിന്നൽ പ്രളയങ്ങളുടെ നാടായോ കേരളം? നമ്മുടെ കാലാവസ്ഥയ്ക്ക് എന്താണ് സംഭവിക്കുന്നത് | Kerala Floods

മിന്നൽ പ്രളയങ്ങളുടെ നാടായോ കേരളം? നമ്മുടെ കാലാവസ്ഥയ്ക്ക് എന്താണ് സംഭവിക്കുന്നത് | Kerala Floods

Friday, August 13, 2021

KER will continue to be in vogue for the age of admission to class I: five years

https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/kerala/age-6-or-5-govt-s-number-game-for-ist-grade-1.2859568

G.O.(MS) 117/12/G.Edn dated 12.04.2012

Government are pleased to order that existing provisions in KER will continue to be in vogue (ie. the age of admission to class I shall be five years for all the schools of the state) until the Kendriya Vidyalayas controlled by Government of India also switch over to age six as implied in the RTE Act.

http://archive.education.kerala.gov.in/Downloads2011/Order/class1admission_19.4.2012.pdf

National Education Policty 2020

The curricular and pedagogical structure of school education will be reconfigured to make it responsive and relevant to the developmental needs and interests of learners at different stages of their development, corresponding to the age ranges of 3-8, 8-11, 11-14, and 14-18 years, respectively. The curricular and pedagogical structure and the curricular framework for school education will therefore be guided by a 5+3+3+4 design, consisting of the Foundational Stage (in two parts, that is, 3 years of Anganwadi/pre-school + 2 years in primary school in Grades 1-2; both together covering ages 3-8), Preparatory Stage (Grades 3-5, covering ages 8-11), Middle Stage (Grades 6-8, covering ages 11-14), and Secondary Stage (Grades 9-12 in two phases, i.e., 9 and 10 in the first and 11 and 12 in the second, covering ages 14-18).

https://www.education.gov.in/sites/upload_files/mhrd/files/NEP_Final_English_0.pdf#page=12

Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Viswaroop of Dr. Biswaroop Roy Chowdhary

Internationally renowned medical nutritionist, Dr Biswaroop Roy Chowdhary, PhD in Diabetes, (AIU, Zambia)

From his website at https://biswaroop.com/

(AIU stands for Alliance International University, Zambia. Higher Education Authority of Zambia has deregistered privately owned Alliance International University in Lusaka for failing to maintain minimum standards and offering substandard training services.

http://www.daily-mail.co.zm/substandard-university-deregistered/

https://www.pressreader.com/zambia/daily-nation-newspaper/20180405/281968903253384

http://www.daily-mail.co.zm/no-substitute-for-quality-higher-education-in-growth-equation/

At present, this bogus university which is a degree mill is operating from Curaçao in Dutch Caribbean

http://aiuglobal.com/)

https://badscience.in/biswaroop-roy-chowdhury/

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-56845610

Chief Editor, India Book of Records, https://indiabookofrecords.in/about-us/

Chief Editor, Asia Book of Records, https://www.asiabookofrecords.com/about-us/

Dr. Biswaroop also runs training programs on medical nutrition and emergency life support for Lincoln University College, Malaysia.https://indiabookofrecords.in/profiles/

He runs a bogus university, World Records University, https://worldrecordsuniversity.co.uk/

Although domain name suggests that it is an United Kingdom entity, its copyright line says that "All disputes are subject to Faridabad jurisdiction only", which means its head office is in Faridabad, like many Chit companies in Kerala.

The house (second from left) in Faridabad's Sector 7 where over 130 chit funds had offices until 2013. (https://www.businesstoday.in/magazine/cover-story/story/faridabad-became-hub-for-chit-funds-operating-in-kerala-41065-2013-05-07)

Further the Terms and Conditions page of WRU (https://worldrecordsuniversity.co.uk/terms-conditions/) states that

Links To Other Web Sites.

Our Service may contain links to third-party web sites or services that are not owned or controlled by worldrecordsuniversity.co.uk. worldrecordsuniversity.co.uk has control over, and assumes its responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party web sites or services. You further acknowledge and agree that Biswaroop.com shall be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on or through any such web sites or services.

worldrecordsuniversity.co.uk has a menu on a completely different entity, Indo-Vietnam medical Board at https://worldrecordsuniversity.co.uk/about-ivmb/

It mentions "Its advisory board comprises of world renowned doctors who have made a mark in their own field of expertise. Some of them are

Dr John Mcdougall (USA) (may be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._McDougall & https://www.drmcdougall.com/),
Dr Leonard Horowitz (USA) (may be http://drlenhorowitz.com/),
Dr. Giang Phung Tuan (Vietnam) (may be https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/borderless-doctor),
Dr Hoang Hiep (Vietnam) (may be https://www.drhiephoanguniversity.com/),
Dr. Biswaroop Roy Chowdhury (India) (the hero),
Dr B. B. Goel (India) (http://www.lifehappy.org/content/profile/cure_fedration.asp),
Dr Ritu Nanda (India) (https://www.drritunanda.com/about.html)" She is claimed to be "A Trained Clinical Hypnotherapist and Certified Trainer from California Hypnosis Institute (CHI-USA)", but the website of California Hypnosis Institute, https://californiahypnosis.net/ (which is not authorised or accredited) clearly says that the so-called staff (https://californiahypnosis.net/teachers/) and students of this students (https://californiahypnosis.net/members/) are all Indians .

(The peculiarity of all these doctors is that none of them had undergone medical education except the first one and then also they have written books in medicine and some of them practice as quacks. Among these Dr Hoang Hiep and Dr. Biswaroop Roy Chowdhury runs their own universities.)

Further the webpage says "World Records University in collaboration with Indo-Vietnam Medical Board offers Doctorate in Nature Science and Medicine to those who want to pursue curing and reversing life style diseases like diabetes, heart diseases, etc through Whole Food Plant based diet.".

https://worldrecordsuniversity.co.uk/doctorate-in-nature-science-and-medicine/ gives more details about Honorary Doctorate in Nature Science and Medicine.

The website of Asia Book of Records (https://www.asiabookofrecords.com/medical-wing/our-patrons/) also highlights this fictitious board

Monday, June 28, 2021

Doctors having vanity degrees from diploma mills

Union HRD Minister, Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank

https://www.thestatesman.com/india/fake-degree-row-returns-haunt-ramesh-pokhriyal-nishank-1502761186.html

സംസ്ഥാന വനിതാ കമീഷൻ അംഗം ഷാഹിദ കമാസംസ്ഥാന വനിതാ കമീഷൻ അംഗം ഷാഹിദ കമാൽ

Dr. Shahida Kamal, Kerala Women's Commission member

http://web.archive.org/web/20191004034320/http://keralawomenscommission.gov.in/index.php/content/index/present-commission

https://iou.edu.gm/

Boby Chemmannur,

https://worldrecordsuniversity.co.uk/

Founder of Universal Achievers Book of Records, Dr. Babu Balakrishnan, a Multiple World Record Achiever and the First Tamizhian in the World to be honoured with Doctorate of Philosophy in Record Breaking for the Biggest Banner in the World by World Record’s University, London

Dera Sacha Sauda head and rape convict Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh did not complete high school education but never failed to prefix "Dr" since he was granted a PhD by the 'World Record University' in January 2016. However, it has now emerged that the 'university' is not recognized by the UK government where it is headquartered. To top it all, the body has now decided to "withdraw the degree" conferred upon the godman.

http://web.archive.org/web/20170912004936/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/unrecognized-varsity-to-withdraw-phd-conferred-upon-gurmeet-ram-rahim/articleshow/60416075.cms

Fake universities awarding higher degrees

International Open University (IOU), The Gambia

https://iou.edu.gm/

The Open International University For Alternative Medicines

80, Jawaharlal Nehru Rd, Esplanade, Chandni Chawk, Bowbazar, Kolkata, West Bengal 700020

https://www.altmeduniversity.com/

The Open International University for Alternative Medicines (OIUAM),

Kuttalam, Nagapattinam District, Tamilnadu - 609 801, India

http://ointunialtmed.net/phd_programme/index.html

Prof. Dr.T.Selvaraj, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., B.G.L., widely regarded as the pioneer of the holistic medical movement in India, is the Chairperson of the OPEN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOR ALTERNATIVE MEDICINES (OIUAM). An internationally renowned practitioner of Alternative Medicine, Dr.T. Selvaraj is also an Organizer, Visionary, Author, Writer, Teacher, Poet and an Editor of a Monthly Magazine (http://ointunialtmed.net/sharing_chairperson/index.html)

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/trichy/fake-university-vc-targeted-only-quacks-to-issue-degrees/articleshow/67495657.cms

The Open International University for Complementary Medicines,

Mt Lavinia, Sri Lanka

https://oiucm.net/

Code of ethics of fake university https://oiucm.net/professional-ethics/

Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank

https://www.thestatesman.com/india/fake-degree-row-returns-haunt-ramesh-pokhriyal-nishank-1502761186.html

Open University of Alternative Medicines is formed as CUG Level Prophetic Medicine University

https://oiuam.org/

List of fake universities in India identified by UGC

https://www.ugc.ac.in/pdfnews/3958086_Fake-Universities.pdf

List of unaccredited institutions of higher education, Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unaccredited_institutions_of_higher_education

Vanity record books

Universal Achievers Book of Records

https://universalachieversbookofrecords.com/

Dr. Biswaroop Roy Chowdhary,

https://biswaroop.com/

Asia Book of Records

https://www.asiabookofrecords.com

https://www.asiabookofrecords.com/about-us/

India Book of Records

https://indiabookofrecords.in/

and they have set up World Records University at https://worldrecordsuniversity.co.uk/ at the same addresses.

Tamil Nadu Book of Records

https://www.tamilanbookofrecords.com/

Monday, June 7, 2021

Covid in India

https://twitter.com/RijoMJohn

Department of Science & Technology had put together a committee, National Supermodel Committee, to study the spread of the novel coronavirus in India and to recommend policy interventions to help the government. The committee members are were M. Vidyasagar (IIT Hyderabad), who was also the chair; Manindra Agrawal (IIT Kanpur); Lt Gen Madhuri Kanitkar (Ministry of Defence); Biman Bagchi (Indian Institute of Science); Arup Bose and Sankar K. Pal (Indian Statistical Institute); and Gagandeep Kang (CMC Vellore).

Susceptible, Undetected, Tested (positive), and Removed Approach (SUTRA) is a mathematical model for pandemics, authored by M Agrawal (IIT Kanpur), M Kanitkar (Integrated Defense Staff), and M Vidyasagar (IIT Hyderabad).

https://www.sutra-india.in/

https://www.iith.ac.in/~m_vidyasagar/arXiv/Super-Model.pdf

SUTRA: An Approach to Modelling Pandemics with Asymptomatic Patients, and Applications to COVID-19

Manindra Agrawal, Madhuri Kanitkar, Mathukumalli Vidyasagar

https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.09158

All data used for modelling in SUTRA is from non-official dataset available at https://www.covid19india.org/

Crowdsourced resource based non-official data

https://www.covid19india.org/

Data sourced from state bulletins and official handles and validated by a group of volunteers and published into a Google sheet and an API

Kerala COVID-19 Tracker

https://covid19kerala.info/

Data is sourced from Govt of Kerala Directorate of Health Services (DHS) and various news outlets.

Maintained by Volunteers at CODD-K Team. Supported by Government College Kasaragod.

A citizen science initiative for open data and visualization of COVID-19 outbreak in Kerala, India

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.13.20092510v1.full.pdf

AN OPEN APPEAL TO THE HON’BLE PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA signed by 907 scientists to access to the granular testing data, clinical data, Adequately fund and widen the network of organizations to collect large-scale surveillance data based on genome-sequencing of the coronavirus, Expand the network of organizations to collect population-level data, and Withdrawal of restrictions on import of scientific equipment and reagents under "Aatmanirbhar Bharat” policy

https://sites.google.com/view/corona-appeal/home

Indian SARS-CoV-2 Consortium on Genomics or Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genetics Consortium (INSACOG) is a consortia of 10 labs across the country tasked with scanning COVID-19 samples from swathes of patients.All these 10 laboratories are required to share 5% of positive samples to INSACOG for further research and studies. Two national genomic sequencing database centers are appointed 1) National Institute of Biomedical Genomics and 2) CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology.

Indian Scientists Response to COVID-19, a voluntary group of scientists

INDSCI-SIM, a state-level epidemiological model for India, is the first detailed, state-specific, epidemiological compartmental model for COVID-19

https://indscicov.in/for-scientists-healthcare-professionals/mathematical-modelling/indscisim/

COV-IND-19 Study Group at the University of Michigan

https://umich-biostatistics.shinyapps.io/covid19/

Problems with the Indian supermodel for COVID-19

Basing public health policy on flawed models can be dangerous

https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/problems-with-the-indian-supermodel-for-covid-19/article32937184.ece

Data lapse

https://scroll.in/article/991429/ending-in-february-2021-expert-covid-committees-supermodel-flounders-as-second-wave-surges

A visual guide to the Covid crisis in India

Covid-19 in India: Cases, deaths and oxygen supply

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-56891016

Coronavirus: How India descended into Covid-19 chaos

India is a Covid disaster - it didn't have to be

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-56977653

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/13/opinion/india-coronavirus-vaccination.html

OPINION

GUEST ESSAY

How India Can Survive the Virus

Vaccines alone won’t save the country.

May 13, 2021

NEW DELHI — As of Tuesday, India had over 23 million reported cases of Covid-19 and more than 254,000 deaths. The real numbers may be much higher, as the country reported an average of more than 380,000 new cases per day in the past week.

As a virologist, I have closely followed the outbreak and vaccine development over the past year. I also chair the Scientific Advisory Group for the Indian SARS-CoV2 Consortium on Genomics, set up by the Indian government in January as a grouping of national laboratories that use genetic sequencing to track the emergence and circulation of viral variants. My observations are that more infectious variants have been spreading, and to mitigate future waves, India should vaccinate with far more than the two million daily doses now.

In India the virus was mutating around the new year to become more infectious, more transmissible and better able to evade pre-existing immunity. Sequencing data now tells us that two variants that fueled the second wave are B.1.617, first found in India in December, which spread through mass events; and B.1.1.7, first identified in Britain, which arrived in India with international travelers starting in January. The B.1.617 variant has now become the most widespread in India.

On Monday the World Health Organization designated B.1.617 a variant of concern. When tested in hamsters, which are reasonable models for human infection and disease, B.1.617 produced higher amounts of virus and more lung lesions compared with the parent B.1 virus. Global data shows the B.1.617 variant to be diversifying into three sub-lineages. In a preliminary report posted on Sunday, British and Indian scientists found the B.1.617.2 variant in vaccine breakthrough infections in a Delhi hospital.

On Monday, American researchers reported the B.1.617.1 variant to be neutralized with reduced efficiency by serums from recovered Covid-19 patients and those vaccinated with the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. Indian researchers reported similar findings in a preliminary report on April 23.

With these variants circulating through India’s still mostly unvaccinated population, public health officials here are trying to determine when the second wave might peak, how big it will be and when it will end.

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The estimates vary widely. The Supermodel Group, preferred by the Indian government, estimated cases to have peaked at about 380,000 cases per day in the first week of May. The simulation model by the Indian Scientists Response to COVID-19, a voluntary group of scientists, predicts that daily cases will reach a peak sometime in mid-May, but it forecasts a much higher peak, about 500,000 to 600,000 daily cases. The COV-IND-19 Study Group at the University of Michigan predicts a peak by mid-May with about 800,000 to one million daily cases.

All models predict India’s second wave to last until July or August, ending with about 35 million confirmed cases and possibly 500 million estimated infections. That would still leave millions of susceptible people in India. The timing and scale of the third wave would depend on the proportion of vaccinated people, whether newer variants emerge and whether India can avoid additional superspreader events, like large weddings and religious festivals.

What worries me is that we may not even be able to measure the peak cases accurately. Data show that testing is increasing at a far slower rate than cases. In this scenario, numbers will reach a plateau — not because case numbers have stopped rising but because testing capacity will be tapped out. The national average test positivity rate is over 22 percent, but several states have rates that are, alarmingly, even higher — including Goa at 46.3 percent and Uttarakhand, which hosted the Kumbh festival, at 36.5 percent. “India will have a manufactured peak of about 500,000 daily cases by mid-May,” argued Rijo M. John, a health economist.

Vaccines remain one of the most effective public health tools, and vaccination with speed is shown to significantly reduce the spread of the coronavirus. India started its vaccination drive in mid-January with a sensible plan to vaccinate 300 million people in phases — health care workers, frontline workers and then people above 60 years of age or above 45 years with comorbidities. And as a leading supplier of vaccines worldwide — India supplies about 40 percent of all the world’s vaccines — two Indian companies, Serum Institute of India and Bharat Biotech, were well positioned to execute.

But by mid-March only 15 million doses had been delivered, covering a mere 1 percent of India’s population. The vaccination drive was hobbled by messages from Indian leadership that the country had conquered the virus and by news from Europe associating fatal blood clots with the AstraZeneca vaccine, which remains the mainstay of India’s vaccination rollout.

When the second wave arrived, only 33 million people, about 2.4 percent of the population, had received one dose and seven million people had received both doses. On May 1, vaccination opened for everyone older than 18 years, but many states have reported shortages and the pace of vaccination has slowed down. Local supplies are expected to stabilize by July, but their low penetration cannot reverse the current wave of infection and death in India.

Covid-19 vaccines mitigate disease, but they may not prevent infection, especially when transmission rates are as high as they are now. Though good data is lacking, variant viruses with evasion potential may also have a role in “breakthrough” infections in vaccinated people.

The immediate need is to reduce spread by increased testing and isolation of people who test positive. Several Indian states are under lockdown. This would “flatten the curve,” allowing health care facilities and supplies to regroup. Rapidly enhancing the health care infrastructure will also save lives. India should increase available hospital beds by setting up temporary facilities, mobilize retired doctors and nurses, and strengthen the supply chain for critical medicines and oxygen.

At the same time, India cannot allow the pace of vaccinations to slow. It must vaccinate at scale now, aiming to deliver 7.5 million to 10 million doses every day. This will require enhancing vaccine supplies and doubling delivery points. There are only about 50,000 sites where Indians can get vaccines right now; we need many more. Since only 3 percent of these delivery points are in the private sector, this is where capacity can be added.

All of these measures have wide support among my fellow scientists in India. But they are facing stubborn resistance to evidence-based policymaking. On April 30, over 800 Indian scientists appealed to the prime minister, demanding access to the data that could help them further study, predict and curb this virus.

Decision-making based on data is yet another casualty, as the pandemic in India has spun out of control. The human cost we are enduring will leave a permanent scar.

Shahid Jameel is a virologist and director of the Trivedi School of Biosciences at Ashoka University in Sonipat, India.

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Sunday, September 4, 2022

മിന്നൽ പ്രളയങ്ങളുടെ നാടായോ കേരളം? നമ്മുടെ കാലാവസ്ഥയ്ക്ക് എന്താണ് സംഭവിക്കുന്നത് | Kerala Floods

Friday, August 13, 2021

KER will continue to be in vogue for the age of admission to class I: five years

Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Viswaroop of Dr. Biswaroop Roy Chowdhary

Monday, June 28, 2021

Doctors having vanity degrees from diploma mills

Fake universities awarding higher degrees

Vanity record books

Monday, June 7, 2021

Covid in India

How India Can Survive the Virus

About Me

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