President Pranab Mukherjee arrived here on Sunday for a four-day state visit during which India and Vietnam are expected to sign agreements on oil exploration and air connectivity. The President will also visit the historic city of Ho Chi Minh. The visit marks the 40th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the two nations. Mr. Mukherjee was received at the Noi Bai International Airport by the Vietnamese Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs and Chairman of President’s Office Dao Viet Trung and was given a guard of honour.
Andhra Pradesh’s new model for sale of sand for construction is expected to fetch over Rs. 4,000 crore this year according to the economic advisor to the State, C Kutumbarao. It could be one among the new revenue sources besides sale of Red Sander logs in the international market which would fetch another Rs. 2,000 crore per annum. Given the financial situation we are in, the budget allocation for farm loan waiver was only limited to Rs. 5,000 crore.
Eminent educationist and former education adviser to the Union government Kireet Joshi passed away here on Sunday after battling cancer. He was 83. Mr. Joshi breathed his last at around 5 a.m. on Sunday at the Ashram Nursing Home where he had been undergoing treatment for the past few months.
“Microorganisms are the best chemists on the planet,” declared Michael A. Fischbach, a chemist at the University of California, San Francisco. For evidence, Fischbach points to the many lifesaving drugs that microorganisms produce. In 1928, for example, Alexander Fleming discovered that mould wafting into his lab produced a bacteria-killing chemical that he dubbed penicillin. Later generations of scientists found drug making microorganisms in more exotic locales. In 1951, a missionary in Borneo named William Bouw shipped a box of jungle dirt to Edmund C. Kornfield, a chemist at Eli Lilly. In that soil, Kornfield discovered a species of bacteria that made a potent antibiotic, later named vancomycin.
Loading of commands for inserting India's Mars spacecraft into the Red Planet's orbit began on Sunday before noon and it will take about 13 hours to load these time-tagged commands into the spacecraft, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) officials said. ISRO Chairman K. Radhakrishnan earlier said that while “the primary objective” of India's Mars Orbiter Mission was to put the spacecraft into a Martian orbit, its scientific objective was empirical observation of the planet. The ISRO-built orbiter carries five instruments to detect methane on Mars, to study its geological activity, to study the Martian atmosphere and so on.
Japanese actress and singer Yoshiko “Shirley” Yamaguchi, who was nearly executed in China at the end of World War II, has died at the age of 94 after a life as dramatic as any of her films. Yamaguchi, who was born to Japanese parents in pre-war Manchuria, where her father worked for the railway, entertained Chinese and Japanese audiences posing as a Chinese under her assumed identity Rikoran or Li Xianglan.
Technological and procedural delays in identifying the intended beneficiaries of the National Food Security Act (NFSA) has seen the agencies involved — the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD), the Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL), the nodal agency to provide enumeration devices and data entry operators, and state officials -- indulge in a blame game. For the Socio-Economic Caste Census survey, proposed as the basis of the identification process, enumerators used scanned images of handwritten data from the National Population Register (NPR) to verify household members’ basic details. They were accompanied by data entry operators (DEOs) who entered the responses into a tablet computer.
While accepting Common But Differentiated Responsibility (CBDR), the world should look at a new climate treaty which is binding but also reflects the ground realities, according to Connie Hedegaard, Commissioner for Climate Action, European Commission. At a media interaction here on Friday, Ms. Hedegaard said the world was changing and a new treaty could have a differentiated approach to different emerging economies. “The first thing we need is to have a more constructive and a more ‘un-ideological’ way of discussing that.”
Having instituted a preliminary enquiry into the Rs. 1,700-crore land deal between Tata Realty and Unitech in 2007, the CBI is now scrutinising the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) report on the issue. The agency is probing if the land deal had any link to the allocation of Dual Technology Spectrum to Tata Teleservices in 2008. The SFIO report had raised questions over the deal.
Young Indian shuttler H.S. Prannoy clinched the maiden title of his career after winning the $1,25,000 Indonesian Masters Grand Prix Gold, following his straight-game victory over local favourite Firman Abdul Kholik in the final here on Sunday.
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