Mumbai to have satellite mapping to avoid Encroachments

Posted on November 23, 2009 by Rashid Faridi

The city would soon have satellite mapping and land audit to avoid encroachments on open spaces, as per Maharashtra government’s mission to make the financial capital slum-free. Satellite mapping and third party land audit would be conducted, an official of the Housing department said. The city would also have Slum Free Directorate to deal with increasing slums and encroachment on open spaces.  Considering the industrialisation in cities like Pune, Nagpur, Aurangabad, Chavan mooted extending the rental housing scheme for the cities.

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Indian students design satelite set for launch

Posted on November 22, 2009 by Rashid Faridi

A team of engineering students from southern India have been designing a small light-weight satellite that is set to be sent into space soon. The Indian Space Research Organisation is supporting the project in the hope that it will encourage more students to be more interested in space technology.About 40 students, mostly engineering under-graduates from seven top colleges in Bangalore and Hyderabad are working together at Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology in Bangalore.Under the guidance of the research organisation, the students hope to build one of the smallest satellites ever designed. It will be used for remote-sensing applications. It will orbit the earth at an altitude of 700 kilometers and will send 30 minutes of data everyday.The students have already built a master-control ground station to track the location of the satellite in space. The satellite is expected to be launched before the end of the year through the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle.Once the satellite is launched and placed in its final orbit, all its systems will be monitored by the students themselves.

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Treatment for Type 2 diabetes available at PGI Chandigarh from next week only for Rs. 20000

Posted on November 15, 2009 by Rashid Faridi

After successful tests by a team of doctors of the Department of Endocrinology, PGIMER, a rare technique of curing Type 2 diabetes through bone marrow derived stem cell transplantation will now be available.

It is expected to be a breakthrough in treatment of patients suffering from this more common type of diabetes at a cost of Rs 20,000.

Acknowledging the technology, a research paper ‘Efficacy of Autologous Bone Marrow Derived Stem Cell Transplantation in Patients with Type 2 diabetes mellitus’ by a team of doctors, led by Dr A Bhansali will be published this month in an international journal published in the US—Stem Cells and Development.

Of the ten patients on whom this test was conducted in December 2006, two were able to discontinue insulin completely after six months. The insulin requirement came down by 75 per cent for five others while the remaining three did not respond to the treatment.

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Rapid Star Formation Spotted In ‘Stellar Nurseries’ Of Infant Galaxies

Posted on November 13, 2009 by Rashid Faridi

According to scientists at Durham University the Universe’s infant galaxies enjoyed rapid growth spurts forming stars like our sun at a rate of up to 50 stars a year.The findings show that “stellar nurseries” within the first galaxies gave birth to stars at a much more rapid rate than previously expected, the researchers from Durham’s Institute for Computational Cosmology revealed.The research looked back 12.5 billion years to one of the most distant known galaxies, about one billion years after the Big Bang…

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