LUCKNOW: Lashing out at the Uttar Pradesh government for objecting to the surprise visit of Congress MP, Rahul Gandhi, UPCC president Rita
Bahuguna Joshi on Thursday said that it shows chief minister's insecurity over inroads being made by the Congress leader in her vote bank.
"The chief minister considered dalits and deprived sections as her vote bank and she is concerned, as she feels that Rahul Gandhi might disturb by accessing it," Joshi told in Lucknow.
"Rather than security of Rahul Gandhi, Mayawati is more concerned that by reaching the poor and deprived, he might disturb her vote bank, as she looks at things only from the angle of vote bank and not through the human angle," Joshi said.
On keeping the state government and administration in the dark, Joshi said that SPG, which looks after Rahul's security, has taken every precaution necessary, as his security is of prime importance.
"Moreover, it would not be proper to say that the police which sets the house of an opposition leader on fire at the behest of the ruling party is losing sleep over the security of Rahul Gandhi," the UPCC chief said.
Welcoming the secret visit by AICC general secretary, Joshi said that it was a good move, as besides the government and administration, the local congress MPs and leaders were also not aware of it and said, "It is like a warning that the party leader can reach anywhere anytime."
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Buy-a-CEO: One-day offer for students!!
It's the corporate version of the Indian Premier League. Three hundred students at Hyderabad's Indian School of Business will bid online to buy a day with 25 famous CEOs. Bids start at a thousand rupees. The winners have to exercise their bid before January 2010. The funds raised from the auction will go to a NGO of the CEO's choice, with the CEO matching the amount raised by the student. Aditya hopes to land Anand Kripalu, Cadbury's top boss in India. "I am from the marketing world and that's where I will head back. So I wanted to spend time with someone who has done good work in the area. It is an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity," he says. Among the big names up for the grabs are - N R Narayanmurthy, Ajay Piramal, G V Prasad, Deepak Parekh, Adi Godrej, K V Kamath, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw and Kumar Mangalam Birla. It's not just money that talks to these CEOs. Bids must include a letter by the student explaining why he or she wants a day with the CEO they're trying to nab. V K Menon, Senior Director, ISB hopes, "If a critical mass of students do this, they can come back and share their experience with their classmates or a larger group." As for students, this is a dream come true. For once, they'll be hiring some of the biggest names in the business. | |||||||||
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India capable of building N-deterrence up to 200 KT: Kakodkar!!!
Mumbai Emphasising that India's hydrogen bomb test Pokhran II was "successful" and achieved all the desired goals, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Anil Kakodkar said on Thursday that the controversy over the yield was "unnecessary" as the country has deterrence capability of up to 200 kilotons.
"Once again, I would like to re-emphasise that the 1998 nuclear tests were fully successful. We achieved all objectives in toto," Kakodkar, who was the Director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in 1998, said.
"It has given us the capability to build deterrence based on both fission and thermonuclear weapon systems from modest to all the way up to 200 kilotons and possibility of meeting all our security requirements," he said at a joint press conference with Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government R Chidambaram.
Kakodkar and Chidambaram, the chief architect of Pokhran-II, were speaking on the controversy sparked off by a former DRDO scientist and a coordinator of the nuke tests, K Santhanam who has claimed that the thermonuclear device (H-bomb) test was a failure Describing the May 1998 thermonuclear test as "perfectly successful", Chidambaram said in the last 11 years several scientific peer reviews to explain the efficacy and yield were published
Both Kakodkar and Chidambaram termed as "unnecessary", the row triggered by the remarks of Santhanam, a former DRDO scientist and a coordinator of the nuke tests and said "we are perplexed by the controversy."
"We are saddened that two of our colleagues used heavy rhetoric which is not substitute of good science," Chidambaram, who was accompanied by several BARC scientists, including its director S Banerjee, said.
"Culture of science is to have discussions in the scientific fora or peer reviewed scientific journals and they (Santhanam and former AEC Chairman and India's top physicist P K Iyengar) should have understood the proliferation sensitive nature of the information," he said.
"No one in this business would do that and our Bhabha Atomic Research Centre scientists are doing progressive work in the strategic area for the past 11 years and we are confident about the design of the device," Chidambaram said.
Santhanam had also demanded an enquiry by an independent panel of experts into the test results.
Explaining how the two-stage device needed a thorough understanding of advanced seismology and radiochemistry, Chidambaram said "our results were so accurate that we disclosed the yield on the same day of the explosion which no other country has done as science has evolved in the last two decades."
"Once again, I would like to re-emphasise that the 1998 nuclear tests were fully successful. We achieved all objectives in toto," Kakodkar, who was the Director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in 1998, said.
"It has given us the capability to build deterrence based on both fission and thermonuclear weapon systems from modest to all the way up to 200 kilotons and possibility of meeting all our security requirements," he said at a joint press conference with Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government R Chidambaram.
Kakodkar and Chidambaram, the chief architect of Pokhran-II, were speaking on the controversy sparked off by a former DRDO scientist and a coordinator of the nuke tests, K Santhanam who has claimed that the thermonuclear device (H-bomb) test was a failure Describing the May 1998 thermonuclear test as "perfectly successful", Chidambaram said in the last 11 years several scientific peer reviews to explain the efficacy and yield were published
Both Kakodkar and Chidambaram termed as "unnecessary", the row triggered by the remarks of Santhanam, a former DRDO scientist and a coordinator of the nuke tests and said "we are perplexed by the controversy."
"We are saddened that two of our colleagues used heavy rhetoric which is not substitute of good science," Chidambaram, who was accompanied by several BARC scientists, including its director S Banerjee, said.
"Culture of science is to have discussions in the scientific fora or peer reviewed scientific journals and they (Santhanam and former AEC Chairman and India's top physicist P K Iyengar) should have understood the proliferation sensitive nature of the information," he said.
"No one in this business would do that and our Bhabha Atomic Research Centre scientists are doing progressive work in the strategic area for the past 11 years and we are confident about the design of the device," Chidambaram said.
Santhanam had also demanded an enquiry by an independent panel of experts into the test results.
Explaining how the two-stage device needed a thorough understanding of advanced seismology and radiochemistry, Chidambaram said "our results were so accurate that we disclosed the yield on the same day of the explosion which no other country has done as science has evolved in the last two decades."
Chandrayaan's big discovery, water on the moon!
India's maiden mission to the moon, Chandrayaan, found first evidence of water on the lunar surface before it terminated. A joint Indo-US study published in the prestigious American journal Science has revealed this startling finding. For long scientists have believed the moon is essentially a dry, parched pockmarked landscape. But the new studies based on the images taken by Chandrayaan provide clinching evidence of water molecules being present. An analysis of Chandrayaan's images shows not drops of water, but a thin, invisible film of water molecules. This is a result of solar winds bringing in hydrogen ions which convert into water molecules on lunar rocks. The new pictures show blue patches which indicate the presence of water molecules near the poles of the moon. Chandrayaan's pathbreaking findings have been reinforced by data from two American spacecraft, Cassini and High Impact. But the clincher really came from the $100 million Indian moon mission which was recently lost in space. Now, the question - so what if there's water on the moon? Well, for one, humans can colonize the moon. Theoretically, water and fuel can be extracted. It will be quite a task, however, as several kg of soil may yield only a drop of water. Many a tear was shed when the Chandrayaan mission was terminated. But now, one can say "Chandrayaan-1 is dead, long live Chandrayaan". For many more goodies are still expected from India's short love affair with the moon. | ||||||||||
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