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Thursday, 10 September 2009 |
 In a move that advances the cause of free sharing of knowledge, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) plans to put out the data collected by its Rs 386-crore unmanned moon mission Chandrayaan- I on the internet.
And setting an example to other government agencies that bury their documents in a shroud of secrecy, the ISRO will declassify the moon mission data by the end of the year.
S K Shivkumar, director, ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network, told Express on Wednesday that all the scientific data beamed from Chandrayaan-I will be put up in the public domain by the end of this year or early next year.
“During the two-day peer committee review meeting held in the city and attended by scientists from the NASA and the European Space Agency, it was decided that the data obtained from the mission would be converted to standard planetary data system format (an international standard) using software and uploaded on to the internet once the lock-in period of the data expires," said Shivkumar.
The lock-in period is set at a year from the time of collection of the data (which commenced as early as November last year). The space agency is already in the process of procuring the conversion software.
“The countries which had their scientific instruments (payloads) on board Chandrayaan-I will have the first right to access the data collected by their respective instruments.
However, in the review meeting scientists have come to a consensus that the data will be shared with each other,” said Shivkumar. |
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Thursday, 10 September 2009 |
 Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa’s eyes welled up in the Legislative Assembly when the Opposition members tried to deviate from the government’s stated agenda of discussing rural development.
Yedduurappa said: “I am unable to control myself from becoming emotional because this is the opportunity I have waited since long. I hope that this Session will help to settle many problems that are haunting the farming community since Independence.’’ “I thought the discussion would begin straight. But the situation is so pathetic that we have to beg for a debate on such an important issue,’’ the CM said in his opening remarks of the special Session.
Recalling the schemes and programmes launched by different governments at the Centre and the State for the welfare of the farmers and the villages since Independence, Yeddyurappa wondered where all the money had gone.
“We still hang on to the old rules and regulations and make the farmers to toil in the field. They have every right to decide appropriate price of their produce. But middlemen decide the price and farmers are made beggars,’’ he said.
“Let us limit our politics to the elections. Let us together work to find a solution to the problems of farmers, and to save the villages. |
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Wednesday, 09 September 2009 |
 A 28-year-old man died of influenza A (H1N1 ) in Bagalkot in Karnataka, taking the death toll in the state to 44, an official said Wednesday.
The latest swine flu victim was admitted last Wednesday to a government hospital in Bagalkot, around 500 km from here. He died last Friday.
However, the report confirming that he tested positive for the virus was received Tuesday, a health official said.
Meanwhile a central team from the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) visited Bangalore Tuesday.
The team along with health officials of the city discussed the reasons behind the large number of swine flu deaths in the state. They also reviewed the measures initiated by the state government to manage the outbreak of the virus and prevent its spread.
The review by the team led to the conclusion that a delay in treatment and a large scale floating population in the state are some of the main reasons behind the deaths, a state health official said.
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Tuesday, 08 September 2009 |
 Life returned to normal in Uttara Kannada district on Sunday with the intensity of rains reducing to a considerable extent. The entire district had been experiencing heavy rains for last many days.
Many families on the bank of Sharavati river in Honnavar taluk, which were shifted to safer places on Saturday with the fear of floods, have returned homes on Sunday.
The KPCL had warned on Saturday that it would release excess water from the Gersoppa balancing reservoir and so had warned the people living in the down stream of the Sharavati to move to safer places.
Even the district administration had warned that about 60,000 cusecs of water was likely to be released from Gersoppa reservoir on Saturday.
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Tuesday, 08 September 2009 |
 Almost a week after she fell into a defunct borewell in Indi taluk, the body of four-year-old Kanchana was brought out and handed over at noon on Sunday to her parents, after a post mortem, at Chadachan hobali on NH 13.
Efforts to rescue the child had begun on Monday evening itself, soon after she had fallen into the well in Devaranimbaragi village. All district officials, including the superintendent of police and the DC, as well as a police contingent were on the spot. The rescuers were initially hindered by the lack of material and expert support.
The hard rock bed also posed real problems even for the experts from the Hatti gold mine and the army team, which was called in to speed up the operation.
However, the experts and about 100 labourers worked day and night for seven days to bring out the body, despite it raining for three continuous days.
Now, Ramachandrappa Dolli, a relative of the dead girl on whose land the borewell was located, is apprehensive that he might face a criminal charge for leaving the defunct borewell uncovered. |
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