Science should be without monopoly: Omar

"Underscoring the need for synthesizing science, technology and innovation for maximum benefit to mankind, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said that implications of science should be universal and without any monopoly. Addressing the 101st Indian Science Congress inaugurated by Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh here in Jammu, the Chief Minister said that the human quests since millennia can be said to involve a pursuit to improve the human conditions and existence and push the frontiers of the minds and imagination towards the innovations and scientific growth as a natural concomitant and consequence of the quest. He said that science and technology merge in the pursuit of knowledge and solutions to problems that require the application of scientific understanding ..."