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PSLV launches 5 satellites
Sriharikota, July 12, 2010: The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Polar Satellite Launch
Vehicle (PSLV-C15) put five satellites in their precise orbits on
Monday, unequivocally demonstrating its reliability and robustness. It
was a flawless mission all the way, with the ignition and separation of
the rocket’s four stages taking place on time, the heat-shield
protecting the satellites falling off on schedule and the satellites
flying out of the fourth stage at a velocity of 27,000 km an hour. The
on-board computers worked with clock- work precision. This was the 16th
consecutively successful fight of the PSLV.
The five satellites that were injected into orbit were: ISRO’s 694-kg
Cartosat-2B; the 116-kg Alsat-2A of Algeria; a 6.5-kg nano satellite
named NLS 6.1 AISSAT-1 of the Space Flight Laboratory, University of
Toronto, Canada; a 1 kg nano satellite called NLS 6.2 TISAT-1 built by
the University of Applied Science Sciences of Switzerland; and a tiny
satellite named Studsat built by 35 students of seven engineering
colleges in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. Studsat was the centre of
attraction as the students had designed and built this pico satellite
with an imaging camera and had employed several frontline technologies.
They had also built a clean room to test the satellite and a ground station in Bangalore to receive its signals.
While the PSLV-C15 cost Rs.80 crore to build, the Cartosat-2B cost
Rs.175 crore. The PSLV - C15 Vehicle Director was B. Jayakumar, the
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Cloud services will create over 300,000 jobs in India by 2015
June 13, 2010: Sharing results of a study by Zinnov, Microsoft reiterated that India
has the potential to emerge as the global competency center for cloud
services. The Zinnov study projects that the global cloud computing market will be worth over $70 billion by 2015. India, with its ecosystem
of over 1,300 ISVs, 1.4 million developers and 11,000 plus system integrators and custom software development organizations is poised to
address this opportunity. As a result, an additional 300,000 jobs related to cloud services are estimated to be created in India over the
next five years.
Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft Corporation, said, "India will not only
see a surge in consumption of cloud services, driving growth in domestic
IT usage, but companies all over the world will look to India to support
their transition to cloud computing. "
Microsoft?s partners from industry and academia shared details of their
plans regarding Microsoft Cloud Services:
1. NIIT will train over 100,000 students on Windows Azure over the next three years
2. Cognizant announced the creation of a vertically aligned set of industry frameworks and pre-built solution accelerators to enable implementation, migration and management of cloud-enabled application portfolios built on Azure for clients both in India and globally
3. CDC Software announced the global roll out of its flagship product
'CDC Respond' (a complaint and feedback management application for banking and government sectors) on Windows Azure
4. Indian Institute of Science - Bangalore is building a large-scale application on Windows Azure to study the basic resource allocation constructs and strategies required for addressing enterprise needs with regard to cloud computing.
Source: Indian Express
Students to get free access to e-books
New Delhi, June 09, 2010 (IANS): College students across India will now get free access to e-journals and
e-books from all over the world with the human resource development ministry subscribing to them.
Over 2,000 journals have been subscribed to by the ministry under the
project titled N-List (National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content). These will be provided to
students in various colleges free of cost. “It is a part of the ICT (information and communication technology)
initiatives of the government. The resources include more than 2,100
e-journals and 51,000 e-books,” a ministry official told IANS.
The scheme covers premier technical institutions like IITs, IISc, IISERs
and NITs along with 6,000 government and government aided colleges across the country. Private institutions are also eligible for
membership on the payment of a fee. “We have already covered over 1,200 colleges across the country. They
have been given the logins and passwords,” the official said.
Government colleges have to pay Rs 5,000 as annual membership fee while
private colleges will have to pay an annual subscription of Rs 46,000.The facility will, however, be free for the students.
“For the colleges getting financial aid from the UGC, the expenditure
will be met by the HRD ministry,” the official said. The e-resources include publications from American Institute of Physics,
American Physical Society, Annual Reviews, Cambridge University Press,
Oxford University Press, Royal Society of Chemistry and Tata McGraw Hill, along with major Indian journals and publications.
IT jobs on the rise in Rajasthan
JAIPUR, May 29, 2010: With Information Technology (IT) companies recruiting
on a large scale, Rajasthan is witnessing a rise in jobs in the IT sector.
IT and ITES (Information Technology Enabled System) companies like Genpact are receiving good offshore orders and generating huge job
opportunities in the domestic market.
"The job market is very buoyant for the qualified professional. The IT
and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) sector companies are hiring in
very large amount. Even in the engineering sector for example, even in
our industry like auto components the growth is very much there.Therefore the job market is very good. Almost everyone I know in this
industry is hiring people," said Rohit Saboo, President of CII (Confederation of Indian Industry) of Rajasthan.
According to recruiters, the economic slowdown, which had hit the IT
industries globally, is almost over in India. Around 5000 vacancies are available in IT and BPO companies in the state.
NASA radar on Chandrayaan-I detects ice
on moon
Washington, March 2, 2010 (PTI): Scientists have detected more than 40 ice-filled craters
in the moon's North Pole using data from a NASA radar that flew aboard India's Chandrayaan-I.
NASA's Mini-SAR instrument, lightweight, synthetic aperture radar, found more
than 40 small craters with water ice. The craters range in size from 2 to 15 km
in diameter. The finding would give future missions a new target to further explore and
exploit, a NASA statement said, adding it is estimated that there could be at
least 600 million metric tons of water ice in the craters. "The emerging picture from the multiple measurements and resulting data of the
instruments on lunar missions indicates that water creation, migration,
deposition and retention are occurring on the moon," Paul Spudis, principal
investigator of the Mini-SAR experiment at the Lunar and Planetary Institute, said yesterday. |
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Google’s Internet bus reaches Jaipur
JAIPUR, January 20, 2010 (PTI): Google’s Internet bus, meant to take the benefits
of the Internet to the common man, began its journey in Rajasthan on
Tuesday." The bus will travel across nine districts of the State in one month and provide
Internet experience to the people of the State,” Sanjay Jain, project director,
Google India, told a press conference here. “This endeavour will provide an
opportunity to the emerging Internet users to experience and understand the
power of Internet.”
“The bus, equipped with computers and Internet facilities, focusses on the
themes of information, communication, entertainment and education. It will
travel through Jaipur, Kota, Ajmer, Bhilwara, Udaipur, Pali, Jodhpur, Bikaner
and Sikar districts,” he said. The bus would have informative contents in both English and Hindi to help the
users understand how the Internet could be used for all of their needs, Mr. Jain
said.
Beginning its journey from Chennai in February last year, the bus has reached
out to more than 4,60,000 people, visiting 70 cities across Tamil
Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Madhya Pradesh. “This year, it will travel
across Hindi-speaking States in north India in the next couple of months,” Mr. Jain said.
Solar Eclipse Today on 15th January 2010
Solar Eclipse today on 15th January 2010 started in morning at 11:59 and continued till 3:14 pm.
The solar eclipse on 15 January seen partially in India. On the day solar
eclipse 2010 “Mauni Amavasya” is also falling. Coincidently it is also the
starting of “Magh” month. That’s why it is being said that the all negative
effects of this Surya Grahan 2010 will be subdued. It is being said that the negative effect (Sutak) will start 12 hours before the
happening of the Surya Grahan.
Solar car designed by students popular at Auto Expo
New Delhi, January 09, 2010: The 10th Auto Expo stalls there is a new solar-powered car 'Advay II', designed by
a team of 16 engineering students from the Netaji Subhash Institute of
Technology, Delhi University. Built over a year, this car's yellow body does not
bear resemblance to any current car model in production. "We call this an aerofoil design, which offers minimum resistance to air, making
the car aerodynamic and faster. It is a common design followed by many prototype
solar cars," said Nikhil Gupta, a third-year student of Instrumentation and Control and team leader.
The 10th Auto Expo is being jointly organized by the Automotive Component
Manufacturers Association of India (ACMA), Confederation of Indian Industry
(CII), and Society for Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) from January 5 to
11, 2010. The teams represent engineering colleges such as Indian Institute of
Technology, Delhi, Delhi College of Engineering, K J Somaiya College, Chitkara
University and M H Saboo Siddik College of Engineering. The Design Pavilion is
reflective of the increasing collaboration of the industry and academia to
encourage students to apply their learnings as well as to develop an innovative
mindset. Source: The Indian Express.
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