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- India’s Mars Trip gets 125 crores
- Holy Bodh Gaya to shine on Solar Lights
- Meet few Indians rocking in American Media
- Thank You India, says Japan for Tsunami Relief
- KBC Winner Sushil Kumar to invest in Real Estate in Bihar
- India teaching Industrialization to European Nations
- Babul Supriyo and Kailash Kher to present in Bihar Diwas Carnival
- TIME magazine hails Sachin for this ton of tons
| India’s Mars Trip gets 125 crores Posted: 18 Mar 2012 06:06 AM PDT
The allocation was a part of the total plan outlay of Rs.5,615 crore for the department of space. The mission envisages launching an orbiter around Mars using the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle rocket during November 2013, as per the budget papers. The Mars orbiter will have a provision for carrying nearly 25 kg of scientific payloads on-board. The space department got a sizeable increase in its annual plan outlay. It was allocated Rs.5,615 crore as against a revised estimate of Rs.3,432 crore for 2011-12. The total plan expenditure towards rocket technology is Rs.1,969.52 crore and towards satellite technology is Rs.1,038.56 crore. The department of atomic energy (DAE) too got an increased plan outlay for the next fiscal. For the DAE, the budget estimate for next fiscal is Rs.11,673 crore as against the revised estimate of Rs.9,895 crore for 2011-12.  |
| Holy Bodh Gaya to shine on Solar Lights Posted: 18 Mar 2012 06:00 AM PDT
Preeti Singh, the chairperson of the Bodhgaya Nagar Panchayat, said: "The objective behind installing the solar streetlights is to save power and ensure uninterrupted lighting arrangement in the heritage city." The cost of installting 470 solar lights is expected to be around Rs 5.3 crores and is getting financial support from UK-based Department for International Development The eight stretches identified for the project are from the Bodhgaya Nagar Panchayat office to Surajpura (50 lights) and Tika Bigha (30), Sujata Bypass to old block office (90), Bhagalpur Road (100), Root Institute to Mor (17), Daheriya Bigha to Tekuna Mor (100), Ningma monastery to Rampur (33) and Hotel Embassy to Miyan Bigha (50). Electric poles with an underground cable network will be laid every 30m on the identified roads. At least 83 mini high- mast lights would also be installed in the Bodhgaya Nagar Panchayat area, including the periphery of Kalchakra Ground and primary health centres.  |
| Meet few Indians rocking in American Media Posted: 18 Mar 2012 05:41 AM PDT Indians may be a poor country in the world, but when it comes to money, power and influence, Indians stay ahead with others. With two of them governors, four billionaires and over a score sitting in high places in government, Indian Americans not only keep making news but have also emerged as major players in American media. Take Indian-born Aparism Bobby Ghosh, for instance, who was last week named by Time magazine as ‘Editor-at-Large’. In naming Ghosh, Time Managing Editor Richard Stengel, called him “one of Time’s greatest assets and this past year was one of his best yet.” Then there is Fareed Zakaria, who too was introduced as Editor-at-Large of Time Magazine in October 2010 after spending 10 years overseeing all of Newsweek’s editions abroad. Called “the most influential foreign policy adviser of his generation” by Esquire Magazine, Zakaria hosts what has been dibbed one of the most intelligent shows on American TV, ‘Fareed Zakaria GPS’ on CNN every Sunday. Equally ubiquitous is Sanjay Gupta, the multiple Emmy-award winning chief medical correspondent for CNN. A practicing neurosurgeon, Gupta has reported from earthquake- and tsunami-ravaged Japan, earthquake devastated Haiti and covered live the unprecedented flooding in Pakistan. Vinnie Malhotra, a former programme development executive at ESPN and long-time ABC News producer, has just joined CNN as senior vice president for development and acquisitions. Last month, Raju Narisetti, credited with creating Mint, the successful business daily out of Delhi, returned to the Wall Street Journal, where he had spent 23 years earlier, as Managing Editor of its Digital Network. Nisid Hajari, Managing Editor of Newsweek is busy writing “Midnight’s Furies,” a dramatic history of the Partition of India and Pakistan, told through the characters of Gandhi, Jinnah, Nehru, Churchill, and Mountbatten. Rajiv Chandrasekaran is the National Editor of The Washington Post, where he has worked since 1994. His first book “Imperial Life in the Emerald City:Inside Iraq’s Green Zone” published in 2006 won the 2007 Samuel Johnson Prize and was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Awards for non-fiction. ESPN’s sports anchor Kevin Negandhi is the first anchor of Indian-American descent to be on a national sports network in American Television history and Ali Velshi, son of Murad Velshi, the first Canadian of Indian origin elected to the legislative assembly of Ontario, serves as CNN’s chief business correspondent. Other names include Davan Maharaj, managing editor of the Los Angeles Times; Stephanie Mehta, Fortune magazine Executive Editor overseeing technology, and Nikhil Deogun, Senior Vice President and Editor in Chief Business News, CNBC, the most-watched business TV network in the world. Peter Bhatia, editor of The Oregonian, one of America’s top regional newspapers, is the first South Asian to run a major US daily. Hundreds of lesser known Indian Americans are among the producers, reporters, copy editors and production assistants, bringing Americans their daily news -showing how far Indian-American have come in the media world where only a few of them commanded bylines in the 1990s  |
| Thank You India, says Japan for Tsunami Relief Posted: 18 Mar 2012 05:32 AM PDT A year after being ravaged by a devastating tsunami, Japan is organising an exhibition here called Japan Next to thank India for its support. The three-day exhibition at the Ambience Mall starting here Friday will showcase Japanese products that are well-regarded in the Indian market. “…we deigned the campaign to express Japan’s gratitude to the world for support after last year’s earthquake,” Kenichiro Takemura, representative of Intellectual Property Strategy Headquarters of the Cabinet Secretariat of Japan, said in a statement. A massive earthquake hit Japan and triggered a powerful tsunami last March, leaving more than 15,000 people dead and thousands more injured or missing. “We hope the exhibition will serve to further strengthen the friendly relations between the two countries while expressing Japan’s appreciation to the Indian people for the support received following the earthquake and communicating Japan’s strong determination to rise above adversity and rebuild,” added Takemura. Products on display include automobiles and consumer electronics, ecological products and new Maruti Suzuki car. Also brands like Canon, Casio, Hitachi, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Sharp, Pigeon, Toshiba, Toyota Kirloskar Motor and Yamaha will participate in it. The exhibition also marks the 60th anniversary of Indo-Japan diplomatic ties.  |
| KBC Winner Sushil Kumar to invest in Real Estate in Bihar Posted: 17 Mar 2012 11:33 PM PDT
“The real estate sector pays back heavy dividends and it is a sunshine sector in Bihar hence this idea,” said Sushil, who got Rs.3.5 crore after tax deductions, said here. Sushil, who hails from East Champaran in Bihar, used to work as a computer operator before his big win in the fifth season of the game show. He was in the city for a felicitation programme and for him, city’s fabled Bhool Bhulaiyan proved to be a tough nut to crack. Sushil Thursday got lost in the Bhool Bhulaiyan and had to be brought out by the guide who was stationed outside. The Bhul Bhulaiyan, part of the Bara Imambara is a labyrinth of hundreds of narrow stairway passages, some of which have dead-ends, some end at precipitous drops, while others lead to entrance or exit points. Once out, a sweating Sushil admitted that “getting lost was frightening, but the structure was a marvel”. A self confessed foodie, Sushil, however, could not make it to the non-vegetarian eateries of old Lucknow due to the traffic snarl ups owing to the cabinet swearing in earlier in the day. “I wanted to try out the tunde kebabs and more but you can’t help it,” he said while gesturing to the traffic jams across the city.  |
| India teaching Industrialization to European Nations Posted: 17 Mar 2012 10:29 PM PDT India is teahing the lessons of Industrialization to European nations. India has been the top international investor in Britain for three consecutive years, union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said here Saturday. Talking to media persons, the finance minister said: “European nations have taught us industrialization in the last 150 years. But now, the economic scenario has been reversed. India has been among the top international investors in the United Kingdom and is hence providing employment to Britons.” Mukherjee was talking to media after delivering the keynote address as the chief guest at the convocation of the Institute of Management & Technology here.  |
| Babul Supriyo and Kailash Kher to present in Bihar Diwas Carnival Posted: 17 Mar 2012 09:43 PM PDT Bihar Diwas in Patna would be celebrated with all gaiety and zeal. A bunch of function have been organized at Gandhi Maidan and S. K. Memorial Hall, starting from March 22. A number of Celebrity singers including Babul Supriyo , Kailash Kher,Ravindra Upadhyay and Sumedha Karmahe would be presenting in the 3 day Carnival beginning on March 22. On the second day, Bollywood singers Ravindra Upadhyay and Babul Supriyo along with Sufi singers Murtaza Khan and Rabbani Khan are scheduled to captivate the audience with their scintillating performances. On the concluding day on March 24, Kailash Kher and Sumedha Karmahe (of Sare Gama Pa challenge 2007 fame) would gift Patnaites a memorable evening with their enchanting performances.  |
| TIME magazine hails Sachin for this ton of tons Posted: 17 Mar 2012 09:26 PM PDT Hailing Sachin Tendulkar’s feat of scoring 100 centuries, Time magazine has joined issue with those seeking his retirement saying the Indian cricket legend has “earned the right to keep going, to keep achieving.” “For Tendulkar, arguably cricket’s greatest-ever batsman, the pursuit of this ‘ton of tons’ has been unusually tortuous,” noted the US magazine’s Indian-born editor-at-large Bobby Ghosh in an article hailing “Ton-dulkar! A New Landmark For Cricket’s Greatest.” But “His talent is so immense, there was never any doubt he would get there, it was only a question of when and where,” he said writing about “Tendulkar, cricket’s greatest batsman, reaches another mark.” “Now that he has, some will cavil that the occasion did not match the achievement: he got the runs against Bangladesh, one of the minnows of the game,” Ghosh said dismissing it as “all nonsense” as “Great sporting achievements set their own landmark: they don’t need to occur on especially haloed turf and at an especially propitious hour.” “If history is any guide, now the pressure’s off, Tendulkar will hit a purple patch of form, scoring hundreds with his customary aplomb,” Ghosh wrote. “That’s a terrifying thought for bowlers everywhere, and a delicious prospect for all those who love the game, for when Tendulkar bats without a monkey on his back, he elevates the sport into art,” he said. Arguing that Tendulkar is “fit, and his legendary appetite for runs remains undiminished,” Ghosh said, “Having borne the weight of his nation’s dreams for so long, and with such uncomplaining grace, Tendulkar has earned the right to keep going, to keep achieving.” “Don’t encumber him now with speculation of retirement. Let Sachin play,” he exhorted.  |
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