NATGRID

NATGRID
26/11 attacks on Mumbai exposed several weaknesses in India’s intelligence gathering and action networks. So, Chidambaram came up with the idea of National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID) NATGRID will integrate 21 categories of data from agencies like
1. Banks,
2. Railways and airlines,
3. Income tax department,
4. Credit card companies etc.
5. Visa and immigration
*. This combined data will be made available to 11 central agencies including the R&AW, the National Investigation Agency, the CBI, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, the Intelligence Bureau, the Narcotics Control Bureau and the Enforcement Directorate to help them prevent terrorist attacks and criminal activities.
*. NATGRID Will become fully operational in 2013-14
P. Raghu Raman is heading NATGRID.He was working with Mahindra.

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GOOGLE GLASS

An augmented reality head-mounted display (HMD). It will be hands free display of information like smartphones.Designed like a pair of glasses,this gadget will be using Android platform.
It will see a public release in 2014.
It will use voice input and output.
It will include a small screen in front of your eye and will have motion sensors, GPS and either 3G or 4G data connections.

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JUNO: Mission MARS

Juno is a mission to the planet Jupiter by NASA. Juno was launched on August 5, 2011.This spacecraft will be placed in a polar orbit to study the planet's composition, gravity field , magnetic field etc. Juno will also search for clues about how Jupiter formed.Juno was God Jupiter's wife according to mythology.
It was launched by an Atlas V551 rocket.
It will be a five-year journey to Jupiter, arriving around July 4, 2016. The spacecraft will travel roughly over a total distance of 2.8 billion kilometers .It will orbit Jupiter 33 times during one Earth year. Juno will use a gravity assist speed boost from Earth,through an Earth flyby two years (October 2013) after its launch.

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Indian Research stations on Antartica

Under Antartic Treaty of 1959,first Indian research station in Antartica was established in 1983.It was named "Dakshin Gangotri".It got buried under ice in 1989.
Second station was established in the same year.It was named "Maitri"
Recently,another station is being established.It is named "Bharathi".(2012)

India's first research station in Arctic Circle:
HIMADRI (2008).At Ny Alesund,Svalbard,Norway.

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INDIA ON "POLES'

First Indian to reach North Pole:
Sq.leader Sanjay Thapar

First Indian to reach South Pole:
Col Jatinder Kumar Bajaj
female: Reena Kaushal Dharamshaktu

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