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With television channels going overboard with their coverage of the ‘Big Bang’ experiment and speculating about its ‘catastrophic effect on the world’, the government has stepped in and issued an advisory to two TV channels, asking them to exercise restraint.

Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has issued an advisory to two television channels — Aaj Tak and India TV — earlier this week, for ’showing content that appears to be spreading panic and fear’.

A Ministry official said that the advisory had been sent quoting Sub Rule 6 1(O) and 6 (5) of Cable Television Network and Regulation Act 1995, related to unrestricted public exhibition; and programme affecting children, respectively.

The official added that the Ministry had issued the advisory to the said TV channels as an act of first warning to the channels on its own, though normally it acts on complaints received from people regarding objectionable content being shown on TV.

“But on certain occasions, when it is felt by the Ministry that the content regulation guidelines are being violated, we issue such advisories,” the official said.

Incidentally the airing of the Big Bang experiment on television channels and various interpretations being done on it by television channels allegedly led to the death of a farmer’s daughter in Madhya Pradesh.

Girl commits suicide fearing end of world

According to media reports, the 16-year-old girl, daughter of a farmer in Sarangpur village in Rajgarh district of MP, died after she consumed some pills on seeing the ‘world coming to an end’ prediction on the neighbour’s television.

The Indian Broadcasting Foundation and News Broadcasters Association have also been intimated by the Ministry about the advisory.

London: Of the three main past and present physicists behind the landmark proton-smashing quantum physics experiment in Geneva on Wednesday, one has a Nobel Prize, the other is waiting to find out if he has one, and the third never got one. The third man is the Bose of the ‘Higgs boson’ experiment — Satyendra Nath Bose. It is Bose after whom the sub-atomic particle ‘boson’ is named — probably the only noun in the English language named after an Indian (hence never capitalised).

The Large Hadron Collider experiment in Switzerland on Wednesday could not have happened without Bose and Albert Einstein.

In 1924, Bose sent a paper to Einstein describing a statistical model that eventually led to the discovery of the Bose-Einstein condensate phenomenon.