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Indian military to use hottest chili

03/23/2010:
The Indian military will be using the hottest chili, “bhut jolokia,” or “ghost chili”, to make tear gas-like hand grenades to immobilize suspects according to reports. The “bhut jolokia,” or “ghost chili” was accepted by Guinness World Records in 2007 as the world’s spiciest chili, with more than 1,000,000 Scoville units, the scientific measurement of a chili’s spiciness. Classic Tabasco sauce ranges from 2,500 to 5,000 Scoville units, and jalapeno peppers measure anywhere from 2,500 to 8,000. The chili is grown and eaten in India’s northeast for its taste, as a cure for stomach troubles and a way to fight the crippling summer heat.

First Android Based Tablet PC For India

12/28/2009:
A small startup called Notion Ink, a Hyderabad-based technology company, has developed the first touchscreen tablet using the Google’s open source operating system Android. The touchscreen tablet uses Nvidia’s yet-to-be launched Tegra processor chips and a power saving display screen from the US based developer Pixel Qi, which will be showcased at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show in January 2010.

A Zero Emissions City in the Desert

03/06/2009:
Oil rich Abu Dhabi has taken upon itself to build a green metropolis, a zero emission city in the desert. It will take more then $22 billions to build and is planned to be completed in 2016. This could mark the worlds first car free, zero carbon dioxide emissions, zero waste city. The city will be built on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi city. The city will run almost entirely on energy from the sun, garbage will be sorted and recycled, sewage will be processed into fuel. Automated electric transports that will replace cars. The Masdar Institute is meant to be what Stanford University is to Silicon Valley.

Satyam Computer Chairman B Ramalinga Raju Resignation

01/08/2009:
One of India’s big software resource company, Satyam Computer, has gotten itself into some trouble by overstating their profits for the last couple of years. B. Ramalinga Raju., founder and chairman of Satyam, has since resignation and claimed to have inflated the revenues to show more profit. Ramalinga is currently believed to be in Hyderabad and could face 7 to 10 years in jail.

Mumbai, The City Is Fighting Back

12/05/2008:
There is a lot of information and details on why and how the terrorist got to the locations with all the armor and the Indian police unable to detect them and stop them.
How come all but one of terrorists died?
How come he is so eager to spill the beans on the plot?
And the web is filled with so many other questions like this. But, there are also questions as to Why and Who was behind the attacks on people of Mumbai, India and only with time we will know the truth.
There are a lot of things going on in the world that we are unknown to the common man and who is doing things and for what reason, all I hope that the people of India fight thur this painful event and come on top.
I know the media wants to be the first to break the news but we need to ensure that the investigators have the proper time to find the truth and nothing but the truth. Jai Hind.

Bomb Blast Across Mumbai

11/26/2008:
Late in the evening Mumbai , India’s financial capital was rocked by coordinated attacks across the city by gunmen opening fire at major luxury hotels (Taj Mahal and Oberio Hotel), restaurant, rail station, police station and other major locations. At current hotels they even took hostages. At least three top Indian police officers were killed during the attack including chief of the anti-terror squad. More then 80 are believed to have been killed and more then 200 injured. The count will probably go up as the investigation processes into the attacks.

Indian Space Research Organisation, Bhuvan

11/03/2008:
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is developing a web based information system for India that will taken on Google Earth. In Gandhinagar yesterday, ISRO chief G. Madhavan Nair announced a new program named “Bhuvan”, Sanskrit for Earth. The program will provide high resolution images of India and details of every destination. ISRO will launch an Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS) called Bhuvan and an information portal called Bhu-Sampada. The information collected will be provided different government agencies for urban planning, traffic management, crop planning, education and forest planning. Some of the data will be free to users, while high resolution images will be provided for a cost. Bhuvan will be able to provide images upto 10 metres.

Nano’s New Home Is Gujarat’s Sanand

10/06/2008:
Tata Motors announced that the new home of the Nano will be Sanand in Gujarat. Many local governments were interested in hosting the plant, but after reviewing the offer from the Gujarat Government it was decided that it offered the the best option for the project. The plant will require about 1100 acres and will produce 250,000 cars per annum and will be expanded up to 500,000 cars per annum. Until the Sanand plant’s completion, Tata Motors will have to look at existing facilities at Pune and Pantnagar to manufacture the Nano, and plans to launch the car in the last quarter of this financial year.

India To Reach For The Moon

09/22/2008:
Next month, India will attempt to launch a lunar probe that will have the mission to travel to the moon. The probe is named Chandrayaan. The planned launch dates are between October 19th to 28th with backup dates in December. Chandrayaan has to still undergo final testing like high temperatures, vibration and acoustic tests. Chandrayaan will carry 11 payloads with five from India, three from the European Space Agency (ESA), one from the Bulgarian Space Agency (BSA) and two from NASA.

Tata Motors pulls plug on Singur

09/01/2008:
Tata has suspended work on the Nano plant at Singur, Kolkata. The company silently pulled out all its staff from the besieged Singur factory on Thursday night. Now the company will have to prepare a plan to relocate the plant for the now famous Nano car manufacturing. The company will try to relocate the already trained staff at the alternate location as much as possible.