Monday, 26 March 2012

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Bihar News, Latest News from Bihar, News of Bihar, Biharprabha News

Samastipur Jute Mill destroyed in Flames

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 02:22 PM PDT

Samastipur Jute mill, which is Bihar’s only Jute Mill and  the lone survivor among the Jute Mills of Eastern region is on the verge of destruction.  A major Fire broke out in the mill 4 days ago and it is still in flames. Around 50 Fire Trucks has been deployed but still the fire could not be controlled.  This is a major setback to the econony of a poor district like Samastipur as the Jute mill employed close to 5000 labourers.

Sources say that  one person has been dead in the fire while two others were injured. Property worth Rs 25 Crores has also been destroyed in Flames.

Pakistani officer visits Delhi Gurdwara quietly

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 08:49 AM PDT

Pakistan’s Deputy Attorney General Muhammad Khurshid Khan paid a quiet visit to one of Delhi’s famous gurdwaras, leaving officials of the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) waiting for him all day.

“I received a call from Khan Saturday saying he wants to visit Rakabganj the next day and do voluntary service. I asked him to come around 4 p.m. but he never turned up,” DSGMC chief Paramjit Singh Sarna told IANS.

He denied having any idea of Khan visiting the Rakabganj gurdwara, which is also the head office of DSGMC — the body in-charge of all gurdwaras in the capital.

According to media reports, Khan, in India as part of a delegation to attend a legal conference, visited Rakabganj Sunday noon and did voluntary shoe service.

“A delegation of Pakistan Supreme Court Bar Council was in India to attend a conference. We have no idea about their schedule,” said an official of the Pakistan High Commission.

Readers distributing newspapers in Kerala

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 06:19 AM PDT

 Newspaper readers in India’s most literate state have taken up distribution of newspapers in many places in the wake of the week-old strike by newspaper agents.

The agents, led by the Coordination Committee of Newspaper Agents’ Unions of Kerala, are currently on an indefinite strike demanding a hike in trade discount from the current 28 percent to 50 percent of the cover price of the newspaper and additional service charge for pull-outs and supplements.

Barring the capital district and Kollam, the normal distribution of newspapers to homes at dawn has stopped, leaving many an avid newspaper reader uncomfortable.

The strike is sponsored by unions affiliated to the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M)’s trade union wing CITU and they have excluded party organs from the strike.

“This is distressing ordinary people who depend on the newspaper for numerous needs, especially to convey the news of death. It is strange that the agents are continuing to distribute party organs. What sort of strike is this? We have decided to come out and start distributing papers. Let us see who will stop us,” said an angry group of people who gathered at a town near Kottayam.

In Thrissur, officials at the Taluk Office Monday took to distributing the newspapers before their office started.

In Wadakancherry near Thrissur, the police arrested two people who prevented an official of a leading newspaper organisation from distributing newspapers.

Near Chief Minister Oommen Chandy’s home in Kottayam, the police arrested three persons who prevented people from distributing newspapers. Later, the arrested were released on bail.

In Pakkil near Kottayam, the St Theresa’s Church decided to take up the distribution of newspapers through a church-based organisation.

The parish vicar, Fr Alex Kochad gave the first copy to a local village council member Monday.

Meanwhile the Kerala high court served notices to the state government and agents.

The court asked the state government Monday to let it know what steps it had taken to deal with the strike.

Meanwhile, with the papers not reaching the homes, many of the advertisers also are reluctant to put out any advertisements because they may not reach the desired sections.

Various newspaper organisations have started to give newspapers free of cost to those who come to their office.

But when they saw that a section of people were misusing this facility, they started to give the newspapers at a cost less the agents’ commission.

Kerala Labour Minister Shibu Baby John has called a meeting with the agents Monday evening to see what can be done to end the strike.

How China is invading Indian territory

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 04:04 AM PDT

China is slowly acclerating its activities along the Indian borders and often invading Indian Territories. Long-range missiles on Tibetan soil are a constant threat. Of late, a large number of Chinese troops have been spotted in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). It has commissioned an ultra modern airfield apart from a state-of-the-art railways network which could not be taken lightly.

“Chinese soldiers have forced the stoppage of road construction in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir. China disputes the sovereign integrity of India by protesting against your visit to the state of Arunachal Pradesh which is a matter of concern.”

Chinese helicopters have been spotted at Kaurik, close to the international border in the Spiti Valley in the hill state of Himachal.

Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal has urged the prime minister for construction of the Bhanupalli-Bilaspur-Manali-Leh rail link at the earliest and also a strategic world-class airfield on the Indian side of the international border in Himachal Pradesh.

“Steps should be taken for securing the national interest in view of the enhanced Chinese threats besides construction of world-class roads and bridges in the border areas,” he said.

The issue of Chinese helicopters being spotted at Kaurik, close to the international border in the Spiti Valley in the hill state, March 16 was raised in the assembly.

Ram Lal Markandey a local MLA, said the helicopters were spotted by the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP). The latest intrusion at Kaurik, some 330 km from state capital Shimla, was the second of its kind in four months, he said.

20 Indian whiz kids to showcase Talent at Emtech

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 02:25 AM PDT

Emerging Technologies (EmTech) event is starting this Tuesday on Bangalore and about 20 Indian whiz kids will be showcasing their talent in the Technology Show.

“The innovations to be demonstrated by the geeks below 35 years at the event are in the areas of web, computers, biomedicine, energy, materials and transportation,” CyberMedia publisher Pradeep Gupta, who is hosting the two-day conference, said in a statement.

Among the innovators, the 24-year-old Bangalorean Anirudh Sharma will demo his Haptic shoe for the visually impaired, while 28-year-old Chennai-based social activist Venkatesan Oosur Vinayagam will unleash his mobile ‘antakshari’ (singing competition) and 35-year-old Delhi-based Somnath Ray will display a recreated para-transit mode of mobility for the physically challenged.

In recognition of the craze for cricket in the Indian sub-continent, the organisers (MIT’s Technology Review) have dedicated a session to ‘Technology in Cricket’.

“Siddharth Khullar, a doctoral candidate in imaging science from Rochester Institute of Technology, MIT Media Lab, and Chinmaya Joshi from Pune College of Engineering will flag advances in cricketing technology that will hopefully reduce appeals and controversies in the sport,” Gupta said.

In view of the rising crude oil prices, special sessions will be held on biofuels, clean-tech, renewable energy and energy efficiency.

Sessions on sustainable development, innovation in engineering and design and technology ventures will explore solutions to spread the culture of innovation in India.

Six top scientists and research scholars from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will also share their insights into the work in digital transformation; network designs of the future and the innovation ecosystem at the conference.

The noted scientists, including two Indian Americans — Shiladitya Sengupta and Rahul Sarpeshkar — will speak on concepts and interplay between medical imaging, manufacturing inspection and video analytics, energy efficient systems in biology and the emerging nervous system of ubiquitous sensing.

The other four scientists are George Westerman of the MIT centre for digital business, Marie-Jose Montpetit of the MIT research lab of electronics, Brian Anthony of MIT’s engineering in manufacturing programme and Joseph Paradiso of the MIT media laboratory.

Sengupta works at the Harvard-MIT division of health sciences and technology and Sarpeshkar at the MIT department of electrical engineering and computer science.

Global head of General Electric (GE) research and development Mark M. Little will deliver a keynote address on emerging technologies in computing to communication, clean-tech and materials to biomedicine.

“Mark, who guides research efforts of 3,000 technologists at the $147-billion industrial behemoth, will share his mantras for achieving success in innovation in India,” Gupta noted.

Technology evangelist Narayanan Suresh will hold an informal session with National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) director V.S. Ramamurthy on technology development in India and mapping of the country’s technology needs.

Eminent scientist Y.S. Rajan will share details of India’s technology mission and spin-offs from space and nuclear programmes with about 500 innovators at the event

Leopard enters Nashik City and attacks three

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 01:59 AM PDT

Panic gripped the city as a leopard strayed into a thickly populated residential area from the adjacent jungles Monday and attacked three people, including a minor girl, police said.

According to Nashik police, a full-grown leopard entered the Ramwadi locality of the city around 6.30 a.m. and was sighted by some people going for their morning walks.

Word about the big cat sighting spread like wildfire and people started running helter-skelter to safety as the leopard hunted for small prey like dogs or goats. But the scared animal pounced on three people, including a minor girl, as it attempted to escape and bolt back to the forests adjacent to the city.

Police summoned forest department officials who arrived on the scene and initiated efforts to drive the leopard back to the jungles.

The injured trio has been rushed to a nearby hospital, and both police and forest officials assured the animal would be trapped soon.

Incidentally, just four days ago, forest officials had trapped a leopard from the Sinnar subdistrict of Nashik and released it in the jungles.

It had attacked and killed a tribal resident Kashabai Ughade of Waghdarawadi village.

Indian comes up with an Un-manned Cloud Seeding Vehicle

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 12:51 AM PDT

An Indian-promoted aviation company in New Zealand is developing what it claims to be the world’s first Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for cloud seeding.

Auckland-based Apeiron Aerospace, an innovative aerospace company focussed on delivering technology to the global UAV sector, has designed a tactical UAV system for cloud seeding as the existing process involving manned aircraft endangers the lives of pilots.

“There is a need for UAVs for cloud seeding. It is a question of pilot’s life. It becomes very difficult to control the aircraft in high turbulence,” Sanjeev Rao, director, Apeiron Aerospace, told IANS here.

The firm floated by him last year exhibited its model at India Aviation 2012 here recently. Apeiron, which has tied up with Bangalore-based Krishi Air Private Limited, feels there is a market for such UAVs in India.

“Manned aircraft are being used for cloud seeding. The pilot has to agree to go into the clouds which is very dangerous. Usually they don’t want to go,” he said.

Rao said the design exhibited at the air show was a robust one. The UAV can fly into the cloud, do the seeding and fly out.

The design was prepared six months ago, but a prototype is expected to be ready in another six to eight months. It will then be flight tested.

 

This is how the Cloud seeding works

Besides India, the company is looking at other Asian, European, American and Australian markets.

The company is also coming out with different variants of tactical UAV system, which can be used for intelligence gathering, surveillance and reconnaissance.

Apeiron will display its variants for the military at the Defexpo-2012 to be held at Delhi from March 29. He feels there is a huge market for UAVs in India, especially the military market.

“The army, coast guard and the Navy need UAVs. There is definitely a market in India and I am hopeful that we will be able to strike a deal.”

He pointed out that unlike the US and Europe, India has a fewer UAVs, but there is huge requirement of the same in India. He hoped that regulations would be relaxed to facilitate the growth of the UAV sector.

The price of an UAV to be manufactured by Apeiron ranges between $500,000 and $750,000 depending on the requirement of the customer, endurance, range and the propulsion.

The Apeiron UAV system, which includes both hand-launched and rapid response, can be used for applications like pipeline and agriculture monitoring, search and rescue, border and maritime patrol besides meteorological research and practice and defense.

Army Chief row: Defense Minister orders CBI Investgation

Posted: 25 Mar 2012 11:37 PM PDT

Defence Minister A.K. Antony Monday ordered a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into army chief Gen V.K. Singh’s allegations that he had been offered a bribe of Rs.14 crore.

Defence ministry spokesperson Sitanshu Kar told IANS here that the minister gave the orders after seeing reports of army chief’s claim in this regard.

The army chief told The Hindu Monday that a lobbyist offered him a bribe of Rs.14 crore to have tranche of 600 sub-standard vehicles of a particular make cleared for purchase.

“Just imagine, these men had the gumption to walk up to me and tell me that if i cleared the tranche, he would give me Rs. 14 crore. He was offering a bribe to me,” the army chief said.

Meanwhile, the Rajya Sabha was adjourned till noon after opposition members raised the allegations levelled by army chief Gen. V.K. Singh that he had been offered a bribe to clear a tranche of 600 substandard vehicles.

The Lok Sabha was adjourned till noon after opposition members raised the demand for separate statehood for Telangana.

As soon as the Rajya Sabha met in the morning, members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and some other opposition parties were on their feet, demanding a response from the government on the revelations made by the army chief.

The BJP had give a notice for suspension of question hour on the issue.

Chairman Hamid Ansari said all matters were discussed in the house through appropriate procedures. He urged members to allow question hour to proceed. However, as opposition members did not relent, the house was adjourned till 12.

In the Lok Sabha, members of the Telangana Rashtra Samiti and some other parties raised the demand for carving out a state of Telangana from Andhra Pradesh.

Some members also raised the allegations by Gen Singh that he had been offered a bribe to clear the purchase of substandard equipment.

Speaker Meira Kumar repeatedly urged members to allow normal functioning of the house. However, as the din continued, she adjourned the house till noon.

The BJP had earlier signaled its intention to raise allegations by Gen Singh in parliament Monday.

Party MP Prakash Javadekar said the revelations by the army chief were very serious.

“The government is neckdeep in corruption…The UPA has lost the right to continue even for a day,” Javadekar told television channels.
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