Engineers Day ?

Did You Know ,yesterday was Engineers Day: Sept 15th. Happy Engineer’s Day.
You Know Why: Today is the 146th birthday of “Bharata Ratna” Sir M. Visveswaraiah,
About Bharata Ratna Sir. M. VISVESWARAIAH.
It is believed that, Japan had asked for his brain after his death to research on his intelligence.
He is the man who

• Designed a New System of Automatic Waste Weir Flood Gate.
• Introduced the Block System of Irrigation.
• Prepared a Scheme for Flood Protection work and underground drainage for Hyderabad City.
• Started State Bank of Mysore
• Established Mysore University and the State Engineering College in Bangalore.
• Designed and constructed Krishnarajasagar Reservoir.
• Mahanadi flood control work in Orissa
• Establishment of All India Manufactures’s Organisation, and was President from 1941-1954
• Selected the proper site for a new Railway bridge to river Ganga in Bihar.
• Director in the Tata Iron & Steel Co. Ltd., Bombay from 1927-55.
• Travelled extensively in Europe, Canada, UK and visited U.S.A. five times and Japan twice with a view to gain knowledge and experience for developing our country.
• Honors for Sir. M. Visveswaraiah.
  

Honorary Membership of London Institution of Civil Engineers.
C.I.E. (companion of the Indian empire) at Delhi Darbar.
K.C.I.E. (Knight Commander of the order of the Indian Empire).
D.Sc. – Calcutta university.
LL.D. Bombay University.
D.LITT. Benares Hindu University.
Elected as an Honarary of the Institution of Engineers ( India ).
D.Sc. Allahabad University. Life Member
D.Sc. Andhra University.
Doctorate – LL.D. Mysore University.
D.LITT - Andhra University.
Awarded the Honorary Fellowship of the Institute of Town Planners, India.
“Bharata Ratna” Title.
D.Sc. – Jadhavpur University Calcutta.
Durga Prasad Khaitan Memorial Gold Medal by the Royal Asiatic Society council of Bengal.
Fellowship of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

His learned discourse on economic planning in India entitled 'Planned Economy for India and Reconstructing India' was the first available document on the planning effort of the country and it is still held as the parent source matter for economic planners.

To commemorate the birthday of Bharat Ratna Sir M Visvesvaraya, the Council of the Institution decided to observe September 15 as the Engineers' Day every year. This is celebrated throughout the country through all the Centres of the Institution with learned discourses on a theme specified by the Council every year.

Interesting:
1)Founder of State Bank of Mysore
2)His profile
3) Is it not apt that we honour this genius by christening this International Airport of Bangalore at Devana Halli after his name and call it the Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya International Airport?...Read the complete Article of petition to karnataka Govt here and if you feel it is justified the feedback your decidion here at petitiononline.

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Intenet Explorer 7

After several years of drought for an explorer from the microsoft stable, all is set for the release of the next version of IE.Although it was said IE 7,the next version will be available only with Windows Vista,later it came down to XP SP2 too.The IE7 beta is expected to release this summer.Going through some of the features....

Visual Enhancements
Tabbed browsing ,that enable users to browse and manage multiple sites in a single view.The problem with multiple browser windows is that it consumes lot of space on the task bar and often irritates users in browsing.

Toolbar Search Box ,This is a small box that lies at the Top-Right end of browser.I think it is similar to the Search engine tools available with Mozilla FireFox browser.
Cleaner Interface ,the menus and address bar,standar Buttons etc., are rearranged keeping easy accessibitly in mind.
Apart from these Shrink-to-Fit Printing,RSS Feed Support,Auto Web Feed Detection etc , etc are promised to be in visual enhancements.

Security Enhancements
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