{"id":95465,"date":"2020-03-04T02:01:30","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T20:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=95465"},"modified":"2020-03-04T02:01:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T20:31:30","slug":"national-science-day-celebrated-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/03\/04\/national-science-day-celebrated-2\/","title":{"rendered":"National Science Day celebrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Mar 3:<\/strong> The National Science Day- 2020 was celebrated here at the Rajiv Gandhi Government Polytechnic (RGGP) on Tuesday.<br \/>\nOrganised by Arunachal Pradesh State Council for Science and Technology, Department of Science &amp; Technology and the RGGP, the event was held with the theme &#8216;Women in Science&#8217;.<br \/>\nNational Science Day is celebrated every year on 28 February in the country to celebrate the discovery of the &#8216;Raman Effect&#8217; by India&#8217;s Nobel laureate and scientist CV Raman. The programme was rescheduled due to the capital bandh.<br \/>\nIn his address, RGGP Principal Dr AK Tripathy urged everyone, especially women, to take up science and research activities while stating that &#8220;women are generally more patient, composed, hardworking and sincere.&#8221;<br \/>\nState Council for Science and Technology Deputy Director (Technical) Debajit Mahanta urged the participants to grab the opportunity and actively participate in such programmes.<br \/>\nDuring the technical session, Scientist from the State Remote Sensing Application Center, Itanagar, Swapna Acharjee deliberated on the topic &#8216;Women in Science &#8211; Opportunities and Challenges&#8217;, while North East Institute of Science and Technology Principal Scientist Chandan Tamuly spoke on the importance of celebrating National Science Day.<br \/>\nState Council for Science and Technology Deputy Director (Technical) P Lombi and local coordinator and HoD, Science &amp; Humanities, RGGP Jitu Saikia also spoke on the occasion.<br \/>\nLater, prizes and certificates were awarded to the winners of debate and quiz competitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Mar 3: The National Science Day- 2020 was celebrated here at the Rajiv Gandhi Government Polytechnic (RGGP) on Tuesday. Organised by Arunachal Pradesh State Council for Science and Technology, Department of Science &amp; Technology and the RGGP, the event was held with the theme &#8216;Women in Science&#8217;. National Science Day is celebrated every year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95478,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-95465","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}