Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Gujarat IAS officer ties the knot at a mass wedding ceremony
Instead of going for a pompous ceremony, an IAS officer from Gujarat opted for a simple platform for his marriage and was one of the 35 men who tied the knot at a mass wedding ceremony in Bhiloda taluka on April 24, 2012. Vijay Kharadi, who cleared his IAS exams in 2009 and presently posted as Deputy Collector in Narmada district, married Seema Garasia at a simple function organised by his tribal Dungri Garasia community.Hailing from tribal dominated Khedbhrama taluka of Sabarkantha district, the 28-year old Kharadi tied the knot with Seema, a tribal woman from Vijayanagar of the same district, on Akshaya Tritiya day today, family sources said.
Avoiding a pompous ceremony, Vijay Kharadi preferred to keep his big day a low key affair with only close family friends invited to the venue. "My brother is tying the knot today at a simple mass wedding ceremony being held in Sabarkantha," Shirish Kharadi, brother of the groom said. "Spending on extravagant weddings is sheer waste of money. My brother wished to set an example by getting married at a simple ceremony," he said. Vijay Kharadi's mentor at Sardar Patel Institute of Public Administration (SPIPA), JM Acharya said "Vijay is tying a knot at a very simple ceremony being held near his home town. He hasn't changed one bit after he became an IAS officer... he is the same down to earth Vijay I knew." He (Vijay) had joined SPIPA in 2006 and cleared IAS in 2009, he said adding that prior to coming here he had done BE-Computers from a leading private university in the state. "Never deterred by challenges in life, Vijay cleared the IAS examination in third attempt and since then the only change I see in him is that he has become more innovative in what he does," Acharya said.
FIRST CORRUPT PRESIDENT OF INDIA..
The president is eligible for only 2,000 sq ft bungalow in any part of the country if he/she wants the government to hire a home for him/her, after retirement. Otherwise, he/she is entitled to a government-owned Class V bungalow (around 4,500 sq ft) if it is available. He/she is not eligible to build a home on government land. Some former defence personnel from Pune who are campaigning against this illegality are taking strong objections to the fact that Ms Patil is constructing her house on government land, when hundreds of jawans and officers are facing official accommodation crisis.
This revelation under the Right to Information (RTI) Act was procured by Col Suresh Patil (retd) and founder of Justice for Jawans (JFJ), RTI activist Anup Awasthi and Indian Ex-servicemen Movement (IESM) who are campaigning against Ms Patil’s ‘snatching’ away land meant for soldiers and officers.
Earlier Rajendra Shekhawat, the MLA son of President Pratibha Patil from Amravati, courted controversy on February 15 when local police seized unaccounted cash of Rs.1 crore from a car headed for his home, But he is still MLA only
An RTI activist from Pune, Col Suresh Patil (retd) remarked, “Dr Rajendra Prasad donated his land to Vinoba Bhave and here we have Pratibhatai Patil taking away the land for of her own men
UPA2 will go down in history as most disgraceful govt & pratiba 1st corrupt president of India not as 1st lady President (Kudos to Congress and UPA)
ஆசியாவிலேயே பெரிய சோலார் பவர் ஸ்டேஷன்!!!
இருக்கும்.
சூரிய ஒளி மின்சார உற்பத்தி அதிகரித்தால்... டீசல், நிலக்கரி... போன்ற பொருட்களுக்கு தேவையே இருக்காது. அதனால், அரசுக்கு பெரிய அளவில் வரி வருவாய் இழப்பு ஏற்படும். கூடவே டீசல், நிலக்கரி... இறக்குமதி மூலம் அதிகாரிகள் மற்றும் அரசியல்வாதிகளுக்கு கிடைத்து வரும் கமிசனும் கட் ஆகிவிடும் என்கிறார்கள் விவரமறிந்தவர்கள். அதனால்தான், இந்த விஷயத்தில் அடக்கி வாசிக்கின்றன மத்திய, மாநில அரசுகள்.
Monday, April 23, 2012
எரிமலையாக வெடிக்கும் அழகிரி, ஸ்டாலின் மோதல்-தத்தளிக்கும் கருணாநிதி!
மகன்கள் மு.க.அழகிரி, மு.க.ஸ்டாலின் இடையிலான பதவிப் போர் பெரும் உச்சத்தை எட்டியுள்ளது. இவர்களுக்கு நடுவில் மாட்டிக் கொண்டு இரு தலைக் கொள்ளி எறும்பு போல தத்தளித்து வருகிறார் கருணாநிதி. எத்தனையோ பெரிய பெரிய எதிரிகளை, சவால்களை, சங்கடங்களை, சஞ்சலங்களை, சலசலப்புகளைப் பார்த்தவர் கருணாநிதி. ஆனால் இன்று அவரது பிள்ளைகள் ரூபத்தில் எழுந்து நிற்கும் சவாலை சந்திக்க முடியாமல், முடிவு காண முடியாமல் பெரும் குழப்பத்திலும், கலக்கத்திலும் இருக்கிறார் கருணாநிதி. தற்போது இந்தப் பிரச்சினை மேலும் ஒரு புதிய மெருகோடு வெடிக்க ஆரம்பித்துள்ளது. மதுரைக்கு வந்த ஸ்டாலினுக்கு உரிய மரியாதையை அழகிரி ஆதரவாளர்கள் கொடுக்கவில்லை என்பதே புதிய சர்ச்சை. இதுதொடர்பாக அழகிரி ஆதரவாளர்களுக்கு தலைமைக் கழகம் நோட்டீஸ் அனுப்பியுள்ளது. இதற்கு அழகிரி கடும் கண்டனமும், எதிர்ப்பும் தெரிவித்துள்ளார். இந்த விவகாரத்தில் திமுக தலைவர் கருணாநிதி வீட்டில் பெரும் பிரச்சினை வெடித்ததாக கூறப்படுகிறது. அழகிரி விவகாரம் தொடர்பாக மு.க.ஸ்டாலினை சமாதானப்படுத்த கருணாநிதி முயன்றபோதுதான் பிரச்சினை பெரிதாகி விட்டதாக செய்திகள் கூறுகின்றன. இந்த நிலையில் திடீரென மு.க.அழகிரி சென்னைக்குக் கிளம்பி வந்தார். அவர் கருணாநிதியை சந்தித்து இந்த விவகாரம் தொடர்பாக பேசவுள்ளார். 2 நாட்கள் சென்னையிலேயே முகாமிட்டிருக்கப் போகும் அவர் இந்த விவகாரத்தில் ஒரு முடிவைத் தெரிந்து கொண்ட பின்னர் டெல்லி புறப்படப் போவதாக கூறப்படுகிறது. மேலும், தனது மத்திய அமைச்சர் பதவி, தென் மண்டல திமுக அமைப்பாளர் பதவி ஆகியவற்றை ராஜினாமா செய்யப் போவதாக அவர் ஏற்கனவே கருணாநிதியிடம் கூறி விட்டதாகவும் தெரிகிறது. இதனால் அழகிரியை எப்படி கருணாநிதி சமாதானப்படுத்தி அமைதிப்படுத்துவார் என்பது பெரும் எதிர்பார்ப்பை ஏற்படுத்தியுள்ளது. கருணாநிதி வீட்டுக்குள் நடந்து வரும் இந்த சண்டையால், திமுகவினர் அனைவரும் பெரும் அதிர்ச்சியிலும், குழப்பத்திலும் உள்ளனர். எதிரிகளுடன்தான் நாம் இத்தனை நாளும் மோதி வந்தோம். ஆனால் இன்று நமக்குள்ளேயே மோதிக் கொண்டிருக்கிறோமே என்று அவர்கள் புலம்புகின்றனர்.கட்சி நலனை மட்டும் கருத்தில் கொண்டு, கருணாநிதி மிகவும் துணிச்சலோடு, அதிரடியாக சில நடவடிக்கைகளை எடுக்க முன்வர வேண்டும். அப்போதுதான் இந்தப் பிரச்சினைக்கு முடிவு வரும் என்று அவர்கள் கூறுகிறார்கள்.
Friday, April 20, 2012
India Joins the Big League With Agni-V ICBM
India’s Agni-V missile, with a range of 5,000 kilometers, lifts off from the launch pad at Wheeler Island in Odisha coast.
India (on April 19, 2012) made a giant stride when it test-fired nuclear-capable Agni-V Inter- Continental Ballistic Missile that has brought China within its reach with a strike range of over 5000 km. The surface-to-surface Agni-V was launched from a mobile platform from the Wheeler Island off the Odisha coast at 8:07 a.M. That placed India at the threshold of an elite five-member club that possesses ICBMs. The 17.5 metre-tall and two metre-wide missile with a launch weight of around 50 tonnes, including a 1.5 tonne dummy warhead, blasted off from the island launchpad leaving behind an orange plume. It rose to a height of 600 km before re-entering the atmosphere to hit a target over 5000 km away in the Indian Ocean, defence sources said.
Earlier, the missile was to be launched on April 18, 2012 evening but it had to be put off due to bad weather. The sophisticated missile can carry a nuclear warhead of more than one tonne. This is the first time India has produced a missile that has brought China within its range and it is being considered a big deterrent capability though government itself does not specifically mention any target.
"We had a successful launch of Agni-V," Defence Research and Development Organisation chief V K Saraswat said after the three-stage solid propellant missile was test-fired . Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Vice President Hamid Ansari, Defence Minister A K Antony and BJP President Nitin Gadkari congratulated the defence scientists on their achievement.
Agni-V had a smooth and perfect vertical lift-off from the launcher and a thorough analysis was done to assess its health parameters after retrieval of data from the wide range of sophisticated communication network systems, Saraswat said. "It was a perfect launch and the missile hit the pre-determined target and the mission met all its parameters, Integrated Test Range Director S P Dass said. "We can call it an ICBM as it has the capability to travel from one continent to another," Dass said.
Three ships located in midrange and at the target point tracked the Vehicle and witnessed the final event, a DRDO statement said. All the radars and electro-optical systems along the path monitored all the parameters of the Missile and displayed in real time, it said.
The high speed on board computer and fault tolerant software along with robust and reliable bus guided the Missile flawlessly, the DRDO said. Saraswat said the DRDO would conduct two more validation tests before starting the production of this missile. "Today, we have done a great event for the country. All the team work that has gone in for the last three years has given a fruitful result," Tessy Thomas, Chief Scientist, Project Agni-V, said.
"All aspects such as payload, engineering, speed and other mechanisms were integrated in the missile and they performed successfully," Avinash Chander, Chief Controller Research and Development (Missile Systems). A senior DRDO scientist said that the missile would be ready for induction into the armed forces by 2014. "The 5000-plus kilometre range fulfills our strategic needs and moreover we are developing a deterrent capability," former DRDO chief M Natarajan said.
Natarajan said DRDO has developed a missile to meet the country's strategic needs and identified threat perceptions and this missile answers all those. Hailing the successful launch of the indigenously developed missile, Prime Minister Singh said it represents another milestone in India's quest to add to its security preparedness.
Defence Minister Antony described the maiden test flight of Agni-V as an "immaculate success" and a "major milestone". "The nation stands tall today. We have joined the elite club of nations (to possess the ICBM capability)," Antony told Saraswat on phone after the test flight of the missile was declared successful.
"This launch has given a message to the entire world that India has the capability to design, develop, build and manufacture missiles of this class, and we are today a missile power," Saraswat said. The missile achieved exactly what we wanted to achieve in this mission. This missile from the drawing board to launch pad has happened in about three years," Chander said.
Preparation for Agni-V test had gathered momentum after India achieved successful results from the first development trial of Agni IV, which has a strike range of more than 3,500 km, from the same launch pad on November 15, 2011. Apart from Saraswat, who is also the scientific advisor to the Defence Minister, a host of top defence scientists, military officials and functionaries of concerned agencies were present at the site to monitor, supervise and witness the maiden test of the new generation missile. Top scientists present at the test site said at least 20 laboratories of the DRDO were engaged for several months to prepare the state-of-the-art missile. About 800 scientists, staff and support personnel had been engaged to make the first ever launch of the Agni-V a success, they said. Unlike other missiles of indigenously built Agni series, the latest one - Agni V - is the most advanced version having several new technologies incorporated in it in terms of navigation and guidance, warhead and engine, said a scientist associated with the project.
"The three propulsion stages, developed completely indigenous by DRDO, performed exactly the way they are intended to. The indigenous developed Composite Rocket Motors have performed well and made India completely self-reliant," the DRDO said.
Agni-V had a smooth and perfect vertical lift-off from the launcher and a thorough analysis was done to assess its health parameters after retrieval of data from the wide range of sophisticated communication network systems, Saraswat said. "It was a perfect launch and the missile hit the pre-determined target and the mission met all its parameters, Integrated Test Range Director S P Dass said. "We can call it an ICBM as it has the capability to travel from one continent to another," Dass said.
Three ships located in midrange and at the target point tracked the Vehicle and witnessed the final event, a DRDO statement said. All the radars and electro-optical systems along the path monitored all the parameters of the Missile and displayed in real time, it said.
The high speed on board computer and fault tolerant software along with robust and reliable bus guided the Missile flawlessly, the DRDO said. Saraswat said the DRDO would conduct two more validation tests before starting the production of this missile. "Today, we have done a great event for the country. All the team work that has gone in for the last three years has given a fruitful result," Tessy Thomas, Chief Scientist, Project Agni-V, said.
"All aspects such as payload, engineering, speed and other mechanisms were integrated in the missile and they performed successfully," Avinash Chander, Chief Controller Research and Development (Missile Systems). A senior DRDO scientist said that the missile would be ready for induction into the armed forces by 2014. "The 5000-plus kilometre range fulfills our strategic needs and moreover we are developing a deterrent capability," former DRDO chief M Natarajan said.
Natarajan said DRDO has developed a missile to meet the country's strategic needs and identified threat perceptions and this missile answers all those. Hailing the successful launch of the indigenously developed missile, Prime Minister Singh said it represents another milestone in India's quest to add to its security preparedness.
Defence Minister Antony described the maiden test flight of Agni-V as an "immaculate success" and a "major milestone". "The nation stands tall today. We have joined the elite club of nations (to possess the ICBM capability)," Antony told Saraswat on phone after the test flight of the missile was declared successful.
"This launch has given a message to the entire world that India has the capability to design, develop, build and manufacture missiles of this class, and we are today a missile power," Saraswat said. The missile achieved exactly what we wanted to achieve in this mission. This missile from the drawing board to launch pad has happened in about three years," Chander said.
Preparation for Agni-V test had gathered momentum after India achieved successful results from the first development trial of Agni IV, which has a strike range of more than 3,500 km, from the same launch pad on November 15, 2011. Apart from Saraswat, who is also the scientific advisor to the Defence Minister, a host of top defence scientists, military officials and functionaries of concerned agencies were present at the site to monitor, supervise and witness the maiden test of the new generation missile. Top scientists present at the test site said at least 20 laboratories of the DRDO were engaged for several months to prepare the state-of-the-art missile. About 800 scientists, staff and support personnel had been engaged to make the first ever launch of the Agni-V a success, they said. Unlike other missiles of indigenously built Agni series, the latest one - Agni V - is the most advanced version having several new technologies incorporated in it in terms of navigation and guidance, warhead and engine, said a scientist associated with the project.
"The three propulsion stages, developed completely indigenous by DRDO, performed exactly the way they are intended to. The indigenous developed Composite Rocket Motors have performed well and made India completely self-reliant," the DRDO said.
Gujarat: 24-hour power supply in over 18,000 villages
As the hot summer triggers increased use of electricity, load shedding and power cuts in rest of the country, the power-surplus Gujarat is sitting pretty, defining the season differently. Gujarat has emerged as the largest solar power maker in India with more than 18,000 villages of the state receiving 24-hour electricity.
"Earlier, the electricity used to go off often and we had to draw water manually. Now everything is okay," Raaysan village resident Gitaben Nayi said.
While round the clock power supply has made life a lot more comfortable in villages, the Jyoti Gram scheme has also given a huge boost to rural economic activities.
Before the government scheme was implemented, Prabhudas Prajapati's flour-unit received electricity for just eight hours a day and at odd hours. However, today he has been able to expand his business due to uninterested power supply.
"The situation is good. Customers are also happy and I don't have to stay up all night to work," Prajapati said.
The uninterrupted power supply has helped Amrut Patel's spice grinding unit in Shertha village too.
"The electronic weighing machine can be operated, there's electricity in the unit and we can work even till midnight," Entrepreneur Amrut Patel said.
Gujarat Energy Minister Saurabh Patel said that the reason why there is no power shortage in the state is because the government don't have a policy paralysis.
"The reason why there is no power shortage is because we don't have a policy paralysis. Our plans have been as per schedule and have been implemented," Saurabh Patel said.
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