Month: October 2009

My BroadBand problem Is over AtlastMy BroadBand problem Is over Atlast

It is almost three months that i lost my broadband connection because  the broadband provider Hathway has moved out of my city. During these day i felt very sad because not only i can’t update my blog but also i can’t surf the web. My most of the activity is all round the internet.

Meantime my friend puva helped me with his reliance net connect. Because of that i updated my blog at least once a week. thanks to him. Now after a hard fight with bsnl now i got Broadband. They trouble me  so much i went nearly 30 times to them. in reply they said they will give in two days. but the two days went with two and more and more ….. they can given this broadband in one month but instead they taken three# month to give a Telephone line and broadband this shows how lazy they are. But any way at last now i got it.

Now i am back to blogging with regular activity. Blog friends i missed you so much. Thanks for supporting me.

India looking at exploration of outer space using planetary missions including a human space flight programme with Chandrayaan-2 missionIndia looking at exploration of outer space using planetary missions including a human space flight programme with Chandrayaan-2 mission

The success of Chandrayaan I moon mission, India is now looking at exploration of outer space using planetary missions including a human space flight programme. India’s first Chandrayaan-1 mission intended to study the Moon using eleven scientific instruments built in India.

With this, preparation of a 3-dimensional atlas of the lunar surface and chemical and mineralogical mapping of entire lunar surface has been undertaken by scientists from India and abroad. India takes special interest in capacity building and services for enabling the developing countries in the application of Space technology. So far 824 scholars from 31 countries from the Asia-Pacific region and 27 scholars from 17 countries outside the Asia-pacific region have benefited from the educational activities of this Centre,

India has also been discussing at various levels the need for embarking on a human space flight programme. Exploration of outer space using planetary missions will be furthered with Chandrayaan-2 and its follow on missions.

My Diwali Wishes To You and My FriendsMy Diwali Wishes To You and My Friends

Happy Diwali!!!

Diwali is also known as the Festival of Lights. In earlier times, people touched up their homes with cotton wicks dipped in ghee or oil. In order to save environment and energy  Decorate the houses with traditional lamps rather than bulbs. In this season cut short your list of crackers and use that money in buying some useful items.

Use this opportunity to introduce our culture to others. Such an act will encourage unity and teach new morals to kids. This is the time to exchange your happiness with their gloominess. So go ahead and put a smile on at least one such pretty face.

Post Diwali pollution is always on an all-time high despite there being a ban on crackers. Say no to some big crackers which pollutes our environment. Enjoy the diwali with sweets and fun. Make this Diwali a double the joy of festivity.

Google plans to launch Google Editions of Selling e-booksGoogle plans to launch Google Editions of Selling e-books

Google plans to initially offer about a half-million books, Where readers will be able to purchase the books directly from Google or from online bookstores such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
Google plans to share the sales with both publishers and the online bookstores. For books sold directly from its Web site, the search giant said at the book fair that it would give publishers 63 percent of the sales and keep 37 percent itself.
For books sold through Amazon or other retailers, the publisher would get 45 percent, while the retailer would get almost 55 percent with a small share for Google.
The company said that consumers would be able to read the books on any connected device, including PCs, Netbooks, and smartphones. Apple iPhone users could access the e-books through their Gmail accounts.
In the first half of next year they will launch Google Editions, a new service that will deliver e-books to anyone with a Web browser.

Will Aascar Ravichandran’s dream featuring Jackie Chan in his next movie come true?Will Aascar Ravichandran’s dream featuring Jackie Chan in his next movie come true?

Earlier Aascar Ravichandran had said that his next movie will feature Jackie Chan and it would be a Hollywood project. Like all Jackie Chan movies this will also be a big budget venture by international standards. Producer Aascar Ravichandran had distributed Jackie Chan’s movies for a number of years now. The actor was also a special guest for the audio release of the producer’s latest hit ‘Dasavatharam’.

Now what we hear from the close circle of the producer is that the project is almost confirmed! Yeah folks you heard it right! The biggest stunner is the news about the film’s production cost.  Edward Tang, the script writer of Jackie Chan’s 1985 hit ‘Police Story-1’ is the one who will work on this project too. Sources say that Ravichandran will go with Jackie Chan to meet the writer soon. There are some buzz that the film’s budget is a whopping 250 crores! For which 2 NRIs will be contributing 150 crores and an Indian leading IT company will invest the remaining 100 crores.

Obama’s vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons brings 2009 Nobel Peace prizeObama’s vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons brings 2009 Nobel Peace prize

Wow!! It was a pleasant surprise decision that US president Barack Obama has awarded as 2009 Nobel Peace prize by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

The Committee given nobel peace prize to US president-barack-obama because of  special importance to Obama’s vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons. Obama,  described earlier that his dream dinner date will be nice if its with Mahatma Gandhi and it describes clearly that Obama  is following his footsteps.

The Nobel Peace prize came to him for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee endorses Obama’s appeal that Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges.

The Nobel Prize winner Venkatraman Ramakrishnan with two other scientist visited the University of Madras (Guindy campus)The Nobel Prize winner Venkatraman Ramakrishnan with two other scientist visited the University of Madras (Guindy campus)

Wow! It is proud that from my state there is one Nobel Prize winner. The Nobel Prize winner Venkatraman Ramakrishnan with two other scientist visited the University of Madras (Guindy campus). During his visit to Chennai in late 2008, Ramakrishnan had interacted with both faculty and students.

Indian-born Venkatraman Ramakrishnan on Wednesday visited the University of Madras (Guindy campus) to say Three Cheers!. It is a rare coincidence that Venky’ Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath are among the more than a dozen Nobel laureates who had visited our department over the past five decades. Steitz and Yonath had both delivered lectures at the university in January 1978,” said a proud professor D Velmurugan, head of the department, pulling out a bound copy of the proceedings of an international symposium on Biomolecular Structure, Conformation, Function and Evolution,’ published in 1978.

Ramakrishnan had visited the university twice once in 2002 and lately in December 2008 to deliver a memorial and endowment lecture instituted in the name of the eminent molecular biophysicist G N Ramachandran, the founder of department, who had missed the Nobel narrowly. However, when Ramakrishnan came to deliver the endowment lecture, he had already made significant progress in the field of crystallography and ribosome.

Normally scientists don’t share with others the progress in any study that they are undertaking. However, when Ramakrishnan was here he was quite open about his research in crystallography and ribosome and the progress made, which is a rare quality recalled G Shanmugam, former head of department of crystallography and biophysics.

ICC ODI and Test Cricketer of the Year goes to Dhoni and Gautam GambhirICC ODI and Test Cricketer of the Year goes to Dhoni and Gautam Gambhir

The awards were given away for performances between August 2008 and August 2009. The winners were selected by an elite panel that included Clive Lloyd, Anil Kumble, Mudassar Nazar, Stephen Fleming and Bob Taylor.

Indian opener Gautam Gambhir was named the ICC Test Cricketer of the Year. Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni was adjudged the ICC ODI Cricketer of the Year, while Mitchell Johnson won the Cricketer of the Year award. Sri Lanka’s Tillakaratne Dilshan was adjudged the ICC Twenty20 International Performer of the Year.

Rahul Dravid announced Australia’s Peter Siddle as the ICC Emerging Player of the Year. Kiwis claim award: New Zealand bagged the Spirit of Cricket award. Receiving the prize from Haroon Lorgat, CEO, ICC,

Pakistan’s Aleem Dar walked away with the Umpire of the Year prize. Ireland captain William Porterfield was named the ICC Associate Nations’ Cricketer of the Year.

The ICC Test team of the Year:

M.S. Dhoni (capt.), G. Gambhir, A. Strauss, A.B. de Villiers, S. Tendulkar, T. Samaraweera, M. Clarke, Shakib-ul-Hasan, M. Johnson, S. Broad, and D. Steyn; 12th man: Harbhajan Singh.

ODI team of the Year:

M.S. Dhoni (capt.), Virender Sehwag, Chris Gayle, Kevin Pietersen, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Yuvraj Singh, Martin Guptill, Andrew Flintoff, Nuwan Kulasekara, Ajantha Mendis and Umar Gul; 12th man: Thilan Thushara.