By MuslimMirror.com
Guwahati : Dr Rezwan Hussain, Managing Director, RA SciTech Solutions, delivered the keynote address on ‘Biotechnology – prospects of employment and entrepreneurship in the sector’ at the Star Talk Two event held in Guwahati on Sunday. The programme was organised by the Stars of North East under its Star Talk programme in which useful knowledge is disseminated and analysed for the benefit of the society.
After explaining the basics of biotechnology, Hussain went on to discuss issues like crop selection for better yields, micro propagation of plants and tissue culture. He let the audience know that today each segment of biotechnology is denoted by a colour e.g. green is agricultural biotechnology, red is medical biotechnology, white is industrial biotechnology, and blue is marine biotechnology.
Hussain revealed that a team led by Prof. Utpal Bora from the Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering at IIT Guwahati have taken the first successful step in treating peripheral nerve damage which can result from traumatic injuries caused by accidents, physical conflicts, bullet wounds, as well as during surgical interventions. This biotechnological synthesis has taken the medical circles by storm and brought IIT-G to limelight across the world.
A TechCamp was organised in Guwahati by Cova Network and its partners on September 9 & 10 in Guwahati. A ten-member team of Stars of North East attended the workshop. On behalf of the team, Nazneen Zaffar, presented a report of the Tech Camp to the audience. Urging users to be alert about fake news on social media, Zaffar said, “When eye catching headlines and visuals pop up on your social media feed, it’s wise to take a moment to reflect before liking or sharing them. According to the German computer magazine c’t, users should suppress the impulse to click and spend at least a couple of minutes trying to verify the authenticity of the claims being made.”
Other issues such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, Blog, YouTube, and Podcast were also discussed in which Syed Mohsin Raja, Siddarth Pratim Dutta, Rezina Begum, Salma Hussain, and Ikram Hussain provided useful inputs.
The Group decided to hold a daylong workshop on ‘Digital & Social Media’ soon for the benefit of a larger number of users in the city. It was also resolved to include talks on “Grooming a Sports Person” by Nazneen Zaffar and “ABC of Public Speaking” by Tinat Atifa Masood in the ‘Star Talk Three’ to be held during October 2017.