The eastern seaboard area of Africa had less rainfall. As per the study done under NASA by the Goddard Space Flight Center the decrease is because of the nearby Indian Ocean warming up. It has reduced by almost 15 per cent since year 1980. Countries like Zimbabwe, Malawi, Zambia, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Kenya had been having less rainfalls cause of the irregularities in the moisture transportation between the land and the ocean. Co-researcher Chris Funk says this is going to continue like this for next 20 – 25 years. The food production activity is definitely going to get affected due to scanty rainfall or for lack of adequate rains. The study has given warning to the agricultural sector of the East African countries.
November 16, 2009
Traveling by Train much safer
The risk of getting injured by train is less than that when travelled by car. A report which is released by the AIHW – Australian Institute of Health and Welfare showed one per 100 million train passenger being injured seriously while traveling, whereas 10 per 10 million car users get badly injured badly in road accidents. The accidents take place by car occupants mainly on public roads. Among young people of 15 – 19 years and 70 years and above are injured the highest. People who use trains for commuting are either injured while boarding the train or while getting down. They get hurt sometimes inside the train, a quarter of them get injured at level crossings. Chances of getting injured in train are lesser than that on road. Road accidents can injure car occupants by accidents with any other road transport like motor bikes riders, trucks, vans or buses. So it is safer to travel by train.
August 12, 2009
Agitation in the Valley effect on Delhi Traders
The Delhi traders are hoping that with Amarnath coming to an end with the poornima the month long agitation going on in the valley might also stop. They have suffered huge losses due to the agitation against the transfer of land rights of Amarnath shrine. This is the main season of apple but due to this agitation the Delhi traders are not able to get them. The main losses suffered during this period are by dealers of Dry fruits, Carpets, handicrafts and fruits. The apple stock is being taken care from Himachal Pradesh. Lack of supply has increased the rate of dry fruits. Dealers who have paid advance for supply are not getting the same as the national highways have been closed.
Mobile Wonder
Another interesting mobile gadget is on its way. It is called Fly SX 315. It is a clam shell. Though it looks simple, it still boasts of a lively combo of entertaining features. It is loaded with the most wanted version of mp3 player, mp3 ring tones and of course FM. It has FM schedule recording and additional feature due to which one can hear even the shows which he had missed. It has USB connectivity. It is even loaded with 1.3 mega pixel camera, as well as Bluetooth. It also has voice and video facility. It has 512 MB memory available for recording and downloads. Its introductory price is Rs 5100. What a combo of entertainment feature.
August 5, 2009
Delhi Getting ready for Commonwealth Games
Delhi the capital is hosting Commonwealth Games in 2010. But are we totally ready to take up this challenge to hold such a big event. The Government is running and rushing out the work of Commonwealth games village to accommodate all the athletes coming from different countries to participate. The village is just no where near completion even now when we have hardly left just 1.5 year or so for the games to start. The government of Delhi is constructing flyovers, starting metros, and broadening the roads all over Delhi. The connectivity of the roads from Delhi to NCR and NCR to Delhi is being improved by all means. But it will take time and Government has to rush.
Indian Institute of Space Technology
The Indian Institute of Space Technology has started a four year B Tech courses in Avionics and Aerospace and the five year integrated post graduate course in Applied Sciences. This has made IIST the world’s first Space University offering under graduate programs to the students. The first batch of the students consists of 138 students out of which 11 are women. The student studying here learns the technology and can see it in action, which is not possible anywhere else. Even at IIT they don’t provide course for avionics. IIT has course for aeronautics but in that emphasis is more on flight mechanism and not on astronautics, which is available in IIST. They are also planning to come out with three post graduate program in specific areas of interest to ISRO.
Solar Energy gives power to Dewri Gowda Village in Rajasthan
Conergy with Masonic Trust together has given power to a Dewri Gowda, remote village in Rajasthan using Solar Power. This project has been supported by Ministry of New and Renewable Energy and funds were generated last November through a golf tournament played in charity. Conergy through its SunTechnics, its subsidiary, has installed for environmentally and friendly solar power many hundred renewable energy systems. Now almost 500 families, one school in Alwar District and two temples are given solar power of 944 watts. There are many more such remote villages in our country that lack power. Similar steps can be taken to give them electricity to improve their standard of living.
Leech Therapy
Good news! For keeping skin good looking and fresh, leech therapy is in the offering. The ministry of Health has given its nod to standardize and marketing this therapy. Unami Medicine experts are reported to have finalized the procedures to be followed by leech therapists in India. They also finalized training modules to popularize leech therapy in four Unami College at Bangalore, Aligarh, Delhi and Hyderabad. This therapy lightly effective for persons suffering from arthritis, sinusitis and hypertension. The training is important to use pure leech. The medicinal leeches are in three colours brown, red stripped and olive. Emphasis is on regulation of this therapy because some venders use single leech in multiple patients this risking the transferable diseases like HIV. Clinical to know the effects of leeching on various diseases. After satisfactory results this would be launched in the markets
Steps to Fight Global Warming
Global warming is the major concern of this century. So, this year it became the major tackling issue on the World Environment Day. So, steps must be taken to fight the global warming by decreasing the levels of Carbon use or kicking off the habit of CO2 usage. So, different ways to combat it are if one travels by air with luggage weight below 20 kg, then one can save about 2 million tones a year of carbon. People should go for jogging in a park rather on electric treadmill. One should use wind-up alarm clock rather than an electric one which would save about 48g of CO2 per day. One should avoid using electric toothbrush, use train rather than car for daily commute, and etc.
June 30, 2009
Coconut water helps chikungunya patients
Coconut water can be used as therapy for patients suffering from dreaded disease like chikungunya. This water cannot be used purely as medicine to cure the disease but it definitely helps recovery faster. Dilip Kumar, the Natural Science Expert and the President of the Malaysian Dietary Supplement Association, Jagdev Singh confirmed that coconut water is good for speedy recovery in diseases like dysentery, typhoid and dysentery. The qualities of coconut oil have been known since ages for having components of anti-viral, anti-fungal and anti-bacterial. Same is the case with coconut water. Physicians of China have started advising the patients suffering from chikungunya to consume coconut water.