Wednesday, November 7, 2007

LESSONS FROM NANDIGRAM........

Lessons from Nandigram
A gang-up of mainstream and extremist political elements on a matter that was considered troublesome but not explosive; political slowness in responding to the issues at stake and to the risks; and administrative mishandling of a volatile situation combined to produce an avoidable tragedy in Nandigram in West Bengal's East Midnapore district. Fourteen persons were killed and scores of people injured as the police — encountering brickbats, country bombs, and pipe guns — opened fire on protesters who had apparently declared five gram panchayats in the troubled area out of bounds for the administration. The anti-Left Front alliance spearheaded by the Trinamool Congress, in which naxalites, the Jamiat ulema-e-Hind, and other extremist elements have made common cause, was protesting the proposal to create a Special Economic Zone in the area, although Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has repeatedly declared there would be no forced land acquisition in Nandigram. The militant protesters, who over the last three months dug up roads and bridges, cut off communication facilities, and drove hundreds of Left Front supporters out of the area, were clearly spoiling for a confrontation with the State administration. What needs explaining is why the State government allowed the situation to reach this pass. As in a bad movie plot, the police, called in to end the lawlessness, were provoked into firing at the agitators. The CBI inquiry ordered by the Calcutta High Court should reveal what actually happened.
Land acquisition may not have been the real cause of the ugly situation that developed in Nandigram. But what the tragedy highlights is a set of contentious issues that can flare up whenever the acquisition of farmland for industry and infrastructure, with the state exercising its eminent domain, comes on the agenda. The Left Front Government in West Bengal promised that it would not acquire any farmland without the consent of the land owners but this message does not appear to have percolated down. A greater commitment to transparency might also have helped. As an editorial page article published in The Hindu on February 1, 2007 pointed out, the acquisition of farmland for industry tends to come up against "a coalition of anti-development crusaders, groups concerned over the dislocation of farm families, those worried about the impact on agricultural, particularly food, production, protectors of farmers' interests, assorted do-gooders, and plain political opportunists." What came together — unsuccessfully at Singur but explosively at Nandigram — was an extreme variant of such a coalition. What makes land acquisition a prescription for trouble is, first, the element of compulsion that comes with the exercise of eminent domain by the state, and, secondly, the flawed system of paying compensation for farmland. Clearly government policies relating to land acquisition for special economic zones and other industrial and infrastructural projects need an urgent overhaul not only in West Bengal but across the country. Nobody takes seriously the call of the Trinamool Congress for the dismissal of the Left Front Government. More disconcertingly, a usually sagacious Governor, Gopalkrishna Gandhi, stepped out of line in publicly airing his philosophical and tactical differences with the State government while expressing high-minded anguish over the Nandigram deaths. Under the Indian Constitution, it is surely not the job of a Governor to offer public judgments on how an elected government should have handled a tricky situation. What Chief Minister Bhattacharjee needs to do is not to get provoked by the opposition — he must take a cool, objective, and just stand on all matters arising out of Nandigram and learn lessons from a mishandled crisis.
now it seems that the govt. got awaken and The Lok Sabha will take up for discussion on the Nandigram issue on wednesday with the end of the stalemate over the matter and the government hoped that a resolution of the row could be reached in Rajya Sabha as well.

Sunday, November 4, 2007

Wind Power::A Growing Renewable Energy Resource

History:Wind power has been harnessed by mankind for thousands of years. Wind filled the sails of explorers and fueled trade throughout the world. The Dutch used wind to claim land from the ocean, and early European settlers in the American West used wind to pump water for farms. During the first half of the 20th century wind was used to provide electricity for many rural areas before the expansion of the electrical grid offered a cheaper and more reliable form of power.
Today:Following the energy crunches of the ‘70s, a renewed interest in wind began to develop. Spurred on by government incentives (now largely extinct), wind farms began to sprout. California leads the world for installed capacity - 44%. During 1994 California produced 3.2 billion kWh from wind power.
this energy costs $0.075/kWh, though in some areas, due to greater wind power, the price is $0.05/kWh.
By rejecting nuclear power, Denmark has made the greatest commitment to wind power of any nation. Second only to California, Denmark has 540 MW of installed capacity and produced 1.1 billion kWh during 1994. Six of the top ten wind turbine manufactureres (including #1) are Danish companies.
A wide range of generating capacities allow wind turbines to fill a wide range of applications and sites. Individual producers, generating electricity for their own home needs may use a turbine as small as 10kW (this would power one hundred 100 Watt light bulbs at peak power). Larger utility based wind farms may use turbines from 50kW all the way up to 2 MW (1 MW = 1000 kW). The typical sizes for modern utility applications are between 200 and 300 kW.
Wind power can be tapped in a variety of places.
Intermittency:One particular problem with wind energy is the intermittent nature of the resource. The wind does not always blow. This is perhaps the leading criticism of wind power today. For the home generator, batteries can be used to store the power, however this increases costs and reduces the environmental benefits. A solution is to use the electric grid as a “storage” mechanism. During times when the turbine is producing excess capacity, the electric company purchases your power. During times when you need more power than you can produce, you can “buy back” the power you sold.
As for the large utilities, wind power is not a large enough energy source at the current time for intermittency to be a problem. Given that the electric grid connects large areas of land together (1/2 a continent), it may be found that the lack of wind in one area at a particular time may be made up by wind from another area and vice versa. In other words, an overall balance in the system may be maintained.
Another way of dealing with the intermittent nature of wind power (and other renewable technologies) is to use the exectricity for electrolysis. Running a current through water results in the seperation of the hydrogen and oxygen. Using the hydrogen for fuel recombines the hydrogen and oxygen, forming water.

AN ASTONISHING DISCOVERY

A group of scientists from various universities have discovered that oxygen appeared first in Earth’s atmosphere about 50 to 100 million years earlier than was previously believed. Drilling deep into the earth’s crust they extracted a kilometre-long core of sedimentary rock.

They analyzed the amounts of the trace metals molybdenum, rhenium and uranium in the sediment. The amounts of these metals in oceans and sediments depend on the amount of oxygen in the environment.
Analyzing the layers of sedimentary rock in the sample the researchers report finding evidence that a small but significant amount of oxygen — a whiff — was present in the oceans and possibly Earth’s atmosphere 2.5 billion years ago.
The data also suggest that oxygen was nearly undetectable just before that time. For the first half of Earth’s 4.56-billion-year history, the environment held almost no oxygen, other than bound to hydrogen in water (H{-2}O) or to silicon and other elements in rocks.
Then, some time between 2.3 and 2.4 billion years ago, oxygen rose sharply in the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans. Scientists call this the Great Oxidation Event.
The scientists analyzed the drill core for geochemical and biological tracers representing the time just before the rise of atmospheric oxygen.


BEST REGARDS
ZAID KAMAAL

Saturday, November 3, 2007

123 deal...........

hi fiends i'm here again with a new problem....
so controversial nuke deal.....
i'm unable to understand why communists always oppose growth in any field?...
why they can't sustain development in any form?..
they will always oppose every good thing example are really in abundance...
here CHINA is preparing to step up its nuclear power capacity by 23 million kw by 2020..remember only chinese economy will be competing us in future...but communists hve nothing to do with economy...they fools are advocates of barter system and believe that money is the root of all the evils...
you people will be laughing but friends its true..they implented barter system in ussr in past.
so its really our hard luck friends here our economy is growing rapidly and hence our energy consumption and requirement but we dont hve any access to economical and efficient enrgy resource like nuke energy...
our nuke reactors are also dying due to lack of nuclear fuel.... but communists only know to oppose every change.... these communists must watch the reforms in chinese communism...chinese communists adopted a mild form of communism..they left many concepts which opposes growth and development and results are clearly significant..
allah..please help our nation from these narrow minded peoples...
regards..
ZAID KAMAAL

hi

hi friends........
i'm back again after very long time......so howz u been buddy...
friends today i came to know that president of pakistan imposed the state of emergency in country......
ahead of a crucial Supreme Court decision on whether to overturn his recent election win....
i always wonder why pakistani brothers keep tolerating such type of lunautic leaders...they must be thrown out of the country....
i think our indian politics is a lot more fairer and our countrymen are more aware towards their rights...i think one of the main reasons is that pakistani politics is more affected and influnced by kashmir and religion rather than development and upliftment of living standard....but if anybody does similar in india,he is criticised by both the public and press...we do hve a few setbacks but its really true that we are a great nation......
jai hind

hi

Thursday, August 9, 2007

SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD

Afoot and light hearted I take to the open road,
Healthy,Free, the world before me,
The long brown path before me leading wherever i choose.

Henceforth I ask not good fortune,I myself am good fortune,
Henceforth I whimper no more,postpone no more,need nothing,
Done with indoor complaints,libraries,querulous criticism,
Strong content I travel the OPEN ROAD.
BY WALT WHITMAN

Friday, August 3, 2007

hi friends.....

nowdays our industries are facing a serious problem......value of rupee is constantly increasing with respect to dollar......thatswhy our exporters are facing losses in their exports.....central bank i.e. resrve bank of india took some steps to resolve this but my friends i strongly believe that they are not right up to great extent......
i'm giving u reasons ...
as u all know lot foriegn firms are investing in indian markets,hence flow of dollars is from outside to market,thats the reason why the value of dollars is decreasing with respect to indian rupee.
and now see what steps resrve bank took....
resrve bank advised all banks to increase their cash reserve ratio,keep buying dollars to maintain its demand and to maintain its value.....but for this it needs lot of funds which can only be earned by increasing the interest rates........hence they are going to do a negative thing to check a negative thing...
better if they support and encourage our industries in buying foreign firms,with this we can dump extra foriegn currency outside of our markets.....hence no need to buy dollars and no need to increase c.r.r and interest rates....
best regards
ZAID KAMAAL

hello frnds

nowdays we people are facing a serious problem of inflation,though central bank is taking steps to reduce it but failed,do u think what reason can be behind this failure..

friends as u all know nowdays here agriculture is the worst occupation in todays scenario,farmers are committing suicides because they are unable to pay their debts,their crops are not so profitable due to lesser productions,because they dont have any access to the better and advanced farming technology,modern fertilizers and better seeds.....hence farmer sons are adopting other occupations......clearly thats the reason why we people have to import wheat,pulses despite of being a agricultural nation.........
clearly tahats the reason why prices of edibles are increasing....hence inflation.

so friends we need a better policy for increasing production in agricultures and we need to train our farmers so that they can use better technology to enhance their production and hence their profits...
provide them better fertilizers and advanced farming equipments...support them financially by providing subsidies on these.......
otherwise soon we will see no farmers in india........
BEST REGARDS
ZAID KAMAAL

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

a famous quote of MARK TWAIN

"With a pen in the hand the narrative stream is a canal;...that canal stream is always reflecting; it is its nature, it can't help it. Its slick shiny surface is interested in everything it passes along the banks- cows, foliage, flowers, everything..." -- Mark Twain, The Autobiography of Mark Twain.

Monday, July 30, 2007

hi frnds........

hello frnds...
today i'm feelin a li'l low coz i'm sufferin from flu but i'm also worried bout a widow of a kargil martyr......
i've listened from a frnd that the widow of a kargil martyr is forced to work as a maid in neighbours houses despite of gettin some cash and a petrol pump from the government because the money which she got was gobbled up by her in laws and petrol pump is enjoyed by the local MLA...
isnt it a fine example of our diminishin morality......

Sunday, July 29, 2007

hi frnds

now days i'm a bit serious about my life,struggling to makeover all the mistakes that i've made in past.....
but as u all know how cruel this past is!!!
it never let u go ahead without making u pay a ransom cost.....

Saturday, April 14, 2007

humour

*Break Into the House*
A man went to the police station wishing to speak with the burglar who had broken into his house the night before. "You'll get your chance in court," said the desk sergeant. "No, no,no!" said the man. "I want to know how he got into the house without waking my wife. I`ve been trying to do that for years!" ***********
*Lost Wife*The man approached a very beautiful woman in a large supermarket and asked,"You know, I've lost my wife here in the supermarket. Can you talk to me for a couple of minutes?""Why?" she asks."Because every time I talk to a beautiful woman, my wife appears out of nowhere."
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Teacher* "
If there are any idiots in the room, will they please stand up?" said the sarcastic teacher. After a long silence, one freshman rose to his feet."Now then mister, why do you consider yourself an idiot?" enquired the teacher with a sneer. "Well, actually I don't," said the student, "but I hate to see you standing up there all by yourself." ***********
*Hearing*
An elderly gentleman had serious hearing problems for a number of years. He went to the doctor and the doctor was able to have him fitted for a set of hearing aids that allowed the gentleman to hear 100%.The elderly gentleman went back in a month to the doctor and the doctor said, "Your hearing is perfect. Your family must be really pleased that you can hear again." The gentleman replied, "Oh, I havn't told my family yet. I just sit around and listen to the conversations. I've changed my will three times!" ***********
*Wedding*
Attending a wedding for the first time, a little girl whispered to her mother, "Why is the bride dressed in white?" "Because white is the color of happiness and today is the happiest day of her life." Her mother tried to explain, keeping it simple.The child thought about this for a moment,then said, " So, why is the groom wearing black?"*
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* Dream*
A woman awoke excitedly on Valentine's Day and announced enthusiastically to her husband, "I just dreamed that you gave me a pearl necklace for Valentine's day! What do you think it means?" With certainty in his voice, the man said, "You'll know tonight."That evening the man came home with a small package and handed it to his wife. With anxious anticipation the woman quickly opened the package to find a book entitled - " The meaning of Dreams".***********

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

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i'm just another traveller

╬═ Into the world I came alone

╬═ Will also leave on my own

╬═ Brought nothing when I came

╬═ Not my body, not my name

╬═ I’m just another traveler

╬═ Someday I’ll move over

╬═
╬═ I look into me for knowing

╬═ The purpose of my being

╬═ What I was I know not

╬═ What I will be I know not

╬═ I’m just another traveler

╬═ Someday I’ll move over
╬═

╬═ All the things that I stack

╬═ Will be lost when I go back

╬═ I shall take nothing at all

╬═ Just me myself and my soul

╬═ I’m just another traveler

╬═ Someday I’ll move over
╬═

╬═ The only time that I fear

╬═ Is the time I spend here

╬═ When my duty here is over

╬═ I will return to my creator

╬═ I’m just another traveler

╬═ Someday I’ll move over......................................................