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January 18, 2007 हव्किंग तकेस गर्ल टू नैरोबी BY MRITYUNJAY BOSE MUMBAI: She is just 21-year-old. She speaks more than seven to eight languages: Hindi, Marathi, Gujarathi, Urdu, to name a few, and of course, English. She had been to jail thrice. She is actually a girl, who used to sell vegetables near the Indian Institute of Technology at Powai. Anees Fathima Jafar Shaikh or Salma, as she is popularly known, yesterday left for Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, where she would address a session on 'Child Street Vendors' at the World Social Forum on January 22. An elated Salma, who is the ladies wing chief of Azad Hawkers Union, hours before she left for her first foreign journey told 'The Herald': "I am going to speak on the issue of child labour. I will speak on why one becomes a child labour, what difficulties one faces as child labour. And also what are the advantages or disadvantages of being a child labour." Azad Hawkers' Union chief Daya Shankar Singh poin...

India's Anupam supercomputer is among top 500 MUMBAI: Achieving a new standard in high-performance computers, the Anupam Ajeya supercomputing system has achieved a performance rating of 9 Terraflop in high-performance Linpac benchmark. "This capability will correspond to a world ranking of around 110 in the family of top 500 super computers," according to Dr Srikumar Banerjee, Director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), which has developed this supercomputer. The Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) grid has now connected four centers – Trombay in Mumbai, Kalpakkam, Kolkata and Indore through this system. As part of its developmental initiatives, a high resolution Rutherford Backscattering Spectrometer has been designed and fabricated at the Hyderabad-based Centre for Compositional Characterisation of Materials. The spectrometer, which an energy resolution of 2KeV, can provide composition and thickness related information on ultra-thin multi-layers, comprising elements...

March 29, 2006 Fm: Mrityunjay Bose Greg-Ganguly spat enter boardroom MUMBAI: The on-field rift with former Indian skipper 'Bengal Tiger' Sourav Ganguly and his 'guru' Greg Chappell has entered boardrooms. But, in a different manner. It has now become a sort of case study for future managers of India Inc. The notorious spat is now a case study that the MBA students of the Mumbai-based SP Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR) are using to gain insights into factors affecting team performance in a business environment as part of their Organizational Behaviour course. "We are trying to get the students to look at team performances from the point of view of factors such as personality differences, leadership styles and cultural differences," said Lata Dhir, professor of Organizational Behaviour at the Institute who developed the case along with her colleague Suresh Lalwani and students Pankaj Shetty and Praveen Sareen. ...

April 25, 2006 MiG engines could be used to generate power Even as several Indian states including Maharashtra are grappling with power crisis, scientists and technocrats are coming out with new ideas to produce electricity. The new concept is a blessing in disguise. This time it is the engines of old Russian-origin MiG aircraft. The large number of unused engines of Mig-21 and MiG-27 fighter jets -- which has been replaced by newer fighter jets -- could be used for this purpose thanks to the proposal of Indo-Russian Aviation Ltd (IRAL), a joint venture company of government-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL). Nearly a year ago at Ozhar near Nasik, the idea was deliberated at a workshop hosted by Nashik chapter of Institution of Engineers. Sources in Indo-Russian Aviation Company Ltd and Institution of Engineers confirmed this development. "In fact, the Russians have set up an experimental plant and the old engines which are not used now, could be of great help,...

March 14, 2008 Replica of Shivaji's forts coming up in Raigad MRITYUNJAY BOSE RAIGAD/MUMBAI: Replicas of forts of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, one of the greatest ever war strategists is coming up at Poladpur in Raigad district of Maharashtra thanks to the efforts of a group of adventurers. Once ready, it is going to be a major tourist attraction in the coastal Konkan region and for those who are interested in military history or the Maratha warrior's life. Poladpur has historical significance as the memorial of Parmanand Nevaskar, the historian of Shivaji-era is located here. Parmanand had penned Shivbharat, considered one of the finest pieces of history. "The forts of Shivaji narrates a very rich history," says Prashant Bhutkar, the founder-member of Young Bloods Adventures, a Poladpur-based group, which is spearheading the movement on Shivaji's heritage. Talking to The Herald from Poladpur, Bhutkar said that Shivaji had been associated with more than 150 forts...

April 1, 2008 Pune property to appreciate by over 15 %: report BY MRITYUNJAY BOSE MUMBAI: With Pune emerging as a promising property market, the prices are expected to rise manifold in the forthcoming months. The demand for office space is expected to remain buoyant in the forthcoming months, with an expected appreciation of around 15 to 20 per cent in office rental values. Residential and retail prices, riding on the back of the active office sector, shall continue to attract investor interest and will witness a price appreciation of around 15 to 20 per cent and 25 to 30 per cent, respectively. The latest report of Knight Frank Research points out that the major demand drivers have been the IT/ITES sector as well as the expanding automobile industry. The Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Fund (JNNURM) fund of Rs 270 crore is facilitating the infrastructure development in Pune. Three major flyovers have become operational along with the development of newer roads while a metro r...

DESALINATION TECHNOLOGY IS NEED OF THE HOUR With the ever-increasing need for locate for potable sources of water, the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) has given extra thrust to the development of desalination technologies and technologies for better quality of life. "India receives 4000 cubic billion metre of rainfall per year and 3000 billion cubic metre goes back to the sea", says a senior scientist of BARC. The annual water consumption in India is now about 750 billion cubic metres per year for all applications including agricultural, industrial, domestic and commercial usage. Assuming a conservative figure of per capita water consumption of 1000 cubic metres per year, the water availability in the country is likely to get fully stretched by the year 2010 unless replenishment is planned right now. BARC has been engaged in R&D activities on desalination since the 1970s. The development activities in the field of desalination was initially based on thermal processes...

Plug in cars better: WWF MUMBAI: Increased use of plug-in electric and hybrid vehicles would be a way to a transport future that doesn't risk climate catastrophe, a major new World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) analysis has found. The report also finds that the electric vehicles can be three times more efficient than hydrogen-fuelled vehicles. More importantly perhaps, electric vehicles can be widely introduced using existing technologies and distribution infrastructure. The WWF study released in Gland (Switzerland) and Brussels (Belgium) also finds that cleaner power generation and more use of renewable fuels in power generation will make it certain that the comparative efficiency and pollution advantages of plug-in transport will improve into the future, while the future of liquid fuels is one of increasing resort to dirtier sources that will take more energy to turn into fuels. "Plug-in electric and hybrid vehicles also reduce the risk of conflict over less oil more and more c...

Bar girl's autobiography to be released MUMBAI: Nearly three years after the Maharashtra Government banned the dance bars in the state, a book 'Bar-Bala' penned by a former bar dancer would be released on April 11 – in which she narrates the ups and downs of her life. The writer, Vaishali Haldankar, now wants to become a lawyer and help victimized women. "It is the first-ever autobiography written by a bar singer or dancer anywhere in the world," according to Varsha Kale, the Honorary President of Bharatiya Bargirls' Union. Kale has written the preface of the book which is published by Pune-based Mehta Publishing House. Vaishali worked for about 16 years as singer in the various (around 80) liquor, orchestra and dance bars in Maharashtra and abroad. She has worked in all types of bars and her autobiography throw light on her experience of working as bar singer. One can also construct history of bars between 1989 and 2005 while reading personal story of Vaishal...

From: Mrityunjay Bose After returning from Khadakwasla NDA@ 60 years "Our great nation can advance only if we are united. Our Army, our Navy, our Air Force draw their men from all parts of the country and are a symbol of unity and homogeneity, I wish all could imbibe that spirit." These were the words of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, at the first Passing-out-Parade of the National Defence Academy (NDA) which he termed as a "Monument in the Making". Nestled in the picturesque Sahyadri ranges of Maharashtra, the NDA located in Khadakwasla near Pune, has turned out to be one of the finest military training centres of the world. The records speak for itself: as many as 30,000 of NDA's alumni had joined the armed forces and it includes nearly 1,600 cadets from friendly foreign countries. The NDA, popularly known as 'Cradle of Military Leadership', has lived up to the true spirit of its motto – 'seva parmo dharma' (servic...