Welcome to the New Year 2007

Chandrayan - Now with a purpose

In 2003, India announced its mission to Moon.The then Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee said a Moon flight would showcase India's scientific capabilities.India considered funding this space program to be a matter of prestige.The mission was named Chandrayan and planned to execute it in 2008 or so.Now in Dec 2008,ISRO has added one more objective to its mission, Possibility of bringing Helium-3 to Earth and use it for energy production.The advantage behind the Helium-3 is its non-radio active behaviour due to the presence of 2 protons and 1 neutron[instead of two].So the fuel from it will be environment friendly.Earth has very minute amounts of Helium-3 in natural form.Whatever is available now,comes as a byproduct of other chemical reactions.When it comes to Moon it exists in abundance in the topsoil of the moon, where solar winds from the sun have deposited it for billions of years.A rough calculation says 30 metric tons of this isotope of Helium could generate as much electricity as the United States consumes in one year.Millions of tons of this isotope is available on the Moons surface.

With most of the fossil fuels nearing extinction ,USA,Russia and China have already realised the importance of this resource and have expressed their interst over this untapped resource.USA made a step forward and showed signs of establishing a reactor on the Moon's surface to extract the Helium-3,before to is sent to Earth for use.Just a few kilograms of fuel could produce gigawatts of electricity.Now India wants to utilse its Chandrayan trip to explore the possibility of utilising this invaluable resource.With this India too joined the race with USA,Russia and China for Helium-3 on the Moon.Hope the research will yeild positve results.

The Hindu-Hitachi Scholarships

What for : Technical Training in Japan
Where : Japan
Ed Qualification : BE or Bsc[Engg] or equivalent
Age limit : Shouldn't have completed 30 on 31-03-2007
Number of Scholarships : 03
Where to get the application Forms: At all The Hindu Branch offices[For addresses see the below link to PDF file]
Last Date for the completed application forms to reach the Hindu Chennai office: 30-12-2006
For more/exact details click here

Yahoo Messenger Profiles

People using Yahoo Messengers at the public places like Internet Cafes,Colleges etc need to bit careful, so that their IDs will not go into wrong hands.Whenever you log in to the Yahoo Messenger, a folder by the name of the Yahoo ID is created under the profiles folder of the Messenger installation.The Messenger uses this to store all the settings,archive messages etc. for that user.When you sign out of the messenger the folder continues to exist and it can be used by mischievous people .So as soon as you sign out, make sure you delete the folder create by your ID.You need not worry about this when the machine you are using is your personal box.

తెలుగు పద్యము - మా నాన్న

Kota Purushotham, a native of Tirupathi came up with a book Telugu Padhyamoo - Maa Naanna.This book contains Padhyalu written by him and a collection of others.Kota Purushotham says,in his childhood days his father Kota Venkatiah Naidu used to tell many good things about the society,Telugu language etc., which will be of great interest to the children of that age.As he grew up his fathers words impacted him a lot in developing his love for the Telugu Language.Now he has compiled writings into a fine book called,Telugu Padhyamoo - Maa Naanna.
Along his own writings he has also included the writings of greats like Sankarambadi Sundarachari , Rayaprolu Subba Rao,Velugu Venkata Subba Rao,VemulaPalli Srikrishna etc., to make this a full fledged book.He wants this book to be read by each and every person to understand and taste the greatness and sweetness of this language.To inculcate the habbit of reading among the School going Children he came up with a generous move of distributing two copies of this book to each school.To get the free copies , the HeadMaster of the School has to write to the following address.

Address
Kota Purushotham
9-66-15A
New Maruthi Nagar,
MuthyalaReddy Palli
Tirupathi

Source:http://www.andhrajyothy.com/