Anna Hazare Jan lokpal bill – Theme song

The Jan Lokpal Bill (Hindi: जन लोकपाल विधेयक), also referred to as the Citizen’s Ombudsman Bill, is a proposed anti-corruption law in India. It was proposed by prominent civil society activists as a more effective improvement to the original Lokpal bill, which is currently being proposed by the the Government of India. The prefix Jan was added to signify the fact that these improvements include input provided by “ordinary citizens” through an activist-driven, non-governmental public consultation. Drafted by Justice Santosh Hegde (former Supreme Court Judge and former Lokayukta of Karnataka), Prashant Bhushan (Supreme Court Lawyer) and Arvind Kejriwal (RTI activist), the draft Bill to regard a system where a corrupted  person found...

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Non-destructive methods for testing Concrete

The standard method of evaluating the quality of concrete in buildings or structures is to test specimens cast simultaneously for compressive, flexural and tensile strengths. The main disadvantages are that results are not obtained immediately; that concrete in specimens may differ from that in the actual structure as a result of different curing and compaction conditions; and that strength properties of a concrete specimen depend on its size and shape. Although there can be no direct measurement of the strength properties of structural concrete for the simple reason that strength determination involves destructive stresses, several non- destructive methods of assessment have been developed. These depend on the fact that certain...

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Averting Bridge Disasters: New Technology Could Save Hundreds of Lives

Millions of U.S. drivers cross faulty or obsolete bridges every day, highway statistics show, but it's too costly to fix all these spans or adequately monitor their safety, says a University of Maryland researcher who's developed a new, affordable early warning system.                     This wireless technology could avert the kind of bridge collapse that killed 13 and injured 145 along Minneapolis' I-35W on Aug. 1, 2007. "Potentially hundreds of lives could be saved," says University of Maryland electrical engineering researcher Mehdi Kalantari. "One of every four U.S. highway...

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