MESRA STUDENTS DESIGN RACE CAR IN 7 DAYS
By Singh Anish Kumar, Tushaar & Anurag Shekhar
Nine students from Birla Institute of Technology (BIT) Mesra design a race car in just 7 days in a Ranchi workshop Topgear.
And what they promise is that even in Topgear at high speeds this car will not topple..something to do with technological innovations for which they have applied for a patent.
FS07, the car as it is called, is an improvisation made from a Maruti 800 and an engine from a 350 cc Royal Enfield and in July the car will participate at the Universities Formula Race at Silvestone, UK, where a 130 universities from around the world are expected to participate.
Earlier at an Auto expo 2006 the car under the name Spowdy introduced the `stability’ technology.
Said one student, “ For example when a car turns only its wheels turns but BIT Mesra students applied their minds on how motorcycles tilt while they turn and they applied the motorbike techonology to the car – in short this car actually tilts while it turns – taking care of the centrifugal forces.”
The car travels at a maximum speed of 80 kmph and they have asked permissions from the Airport Authority of India for allowing them the use of the Ranchi runway to test drive their vehicle, considering Jharkhands roads are yet not upto the mark.
The nine students behind this race car are Nirbhay Chaddha, Ankur Aggarwal, Vishal Gupta, Shweta, Pratik Dhaboo, Gaurav Jhingran, Ashish Mehta, Prikshit Gupta and Hitesh Manchanda and they have a website at www.awishcar.co.in
Currently, the car uses sheet metal which is to be replaced by FRP bodywork to make it aerodynamic.
The project has been achieved under the guidance of faculty members Dr. Arvind Kumar, DR.B.M. Karan and Dr. P.K. Barhai and is a continuing exercise with students making one innovation to this concept Formula car every year…so 90 years later the car will be called FS97!
Already the car has bagged a few awards like the most innovative car of the year contest KHOJ (Hardware category) organized by SIDBI at BIT, Mesra, and a second prize for fuel conservation at IIT Kharagpur.
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Sunday, February 25, 2007
TEN QUESTIONS FOR INDIA'S RAILWAY MINISTER
Questions IIM, Wharton and Harvard Grads didn't Ask
1) Why are all the Gareeb (Poor) Rath (Chariot) trains only from Bihar?
2) Why are there no women TTEs and few women drivers in Indian trains??
3) Why doesn't Indian railways refund train fares when trains are late and passengers remain stranded for hours daily?
4) A government for the poor do not have chairs on platforms so most passengers generally squat on platforms?
5) Aam Aadmee and cellphones go together in todays India but still no cellphone charging facility in sleeper class trains?
6) Why is it that Indian railways achieve national integration like no other...railways smell the same nationally - of bad lavatories - and the food they serve are tasteless?
7) Why is commuting by a Mumbai Central local a human rights violation?
8) Why is there so much ticketless travelling....even cockroahes and rats?
9) Rats for company if you're lucky...or else dacoits and terrorists?
10) Who is the railway minister of Great Britain?
Questions IIM, Wharton and Harvard Grads didn't Ask
1) Why are all the Gareeb (Poor) Rath (Chariot) trains only from Bihar?
2) Why are there no women TTEs and few women drivers in Indian trains??
3) Why doesn't Indian railways refund train fares when trains are late and passengers remain stranded for hours daily?
4) A government for the poor do not have chairs on platforms so most passengers generally squat on platforms?
5) Aam Aadmee and cellphones go together in todays India but still no cellphone charging facility in sleeper class trains?
6) Why is it that Indian railways achieve national integration like no other...railways smell the same nationally - of bad lavatories - and the food they serve are tasteless?
7) Why is commuting by a Mumbai Central local a human rights violation?
8) Why is there so much ticketless travelling....even cockroahes and rats?
9) Rats for company if you're lucky...or else dacoits and terrorists?
10) Who is the railway minister of Great Britain?
Friday, February 23, 2007
"Don't sell yourselves short" Obama tells Hollywood
Hollywood celebrities donate 1.3 million US dollars to Democrat Barack Obama's presidential campaign in Los Angeles. Among Obama's Beverly Hill friends are film producer Steven Spielberg and actor Eddie Murphy and tickets at the star-studded reception sold for 2,300 US dollars, the largest individual donation for a federal campaign. But BBC News reports Mr. Obama telling Hollywood, "Don't sell yourselves short...You are the storytellers of our age."
Hollywood celebrities donate 1.3 million US dollars to Democrat Barack Obama's presidential campaign in Los Angeles. Among Obama's Beverly Hill friends are film producer Steven Spielberg and actor Eddie Murphy and tickets at the star-studded reception sold for 2,300 US dollars, the largest individual donation for a federal campaign. But BBC News reports Mr. Obama telling Hollywood, "Don't sell yourselves short...You are the storytellers of our age."
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Food For Thought
Why did Moninder Singh Pandher in House No. D5, Sector 37, Noida, have three refrigerators in his bedroom?
Friday, February 9, 2007
SEZ DEBATE
MAKE FULL INDIA AN SEZ
BY SAUVIK CHAKRAVERTI
What kind of 'socialism' is it when the government repeatedly attempts to bestow favours on special interests? Indeed, it is not socialism at all, and is best termed 'clientelism', a very corrupt political practice. An idea of the government that upholds the interests of the whole society should lead the nation towards economic policies that benefit each and every Indian, without exception.
So, instead of these special economic zones (SEZs) for political clients, let us vote to declare the entire nation of India an SEZ: the biggest of its kind in the whole world. First, instead of special customs exemptions for SEZ clients, let the customs department be unilaterally abolished: free trade.
Today, Arunachal and Sikkim are tentatively opening trade along their land borders with China. With unilateral free trade, the twin coastlines of India will explode as economic engines. Landlocked cities like Delhi and Bangalore will decline. The entire nation will be a duty-free shopping area. Every shop, even the paan-bidi shop, will be a duty-free shop.
Second, as with SEZs, a 15-year tax holiday should be declared for the whole of India, so that all the people can accumulate capital. The primary task of the government in this huge, capitalistic SEZ called India would be to uphold the law; that is, to go after the crooks, murderers, rapists and other 'outlaws', leaving all 'win-win' traders free, which includes money changers, ganja dealers, bookies, hookers and, most definitely, bar dancers.
This will require a small police force under the civic control of the mayors of each Indian city and town: there will now be thousands of them, competing for citizens. Many 'little leviathans' instead of this one, big, ugly one.
The government should also fund public highways, urban streets and rural roads throughout the entire length and breadth of this huge SEZ as 'public goods': that is, 'collective property' that all the people can freely use.
To fund roads, police and defence for 15 years, the duration of the tax holiday, the government should privatise each and every asset it owns, including the Railways.
We will have liberty, prosperity, civic order, and 'public goods' instead of 'public sector' (another 'special interest') and politics will be compressed to a vanishing point.
BY SAUVIK CHAKRAVERTI
What kind of 'socialism' is it when the government repeatedly attempts to bestow favours on special interests? Indeed, it is not socialism at all, and is best termed 'clientelism', a very corrupt political practice. An idea of the government that upholds the interests of the whole society should lead the nation towards economic policies that benefit each and every Indian, without exception.
So, instead of these special economic zones (SEZs) for political clients, let us vote to declare the entire nation of India an SEZ: the biggest of its kind in the whole world. First, instead of special customs exemptions for SEZ clients, let the customs department be unilaterally abolished: free trade.
Today, Arunachal and Sikkim are tentatively opening trade along their land borders with China. With unilateral free trade, the twin coastlines of India will explode as economic engines. Landlocked cities like Delhi and Bangalore will decline. The entire nation will be a duty-free shopping area. Every shop, even the paan-bidi shop, will be a duty-free shop.
Second, as with SEZs, a 15-year tax holiday should be declared for the whole of India, so that all the people can accumulate capital. The primary task of the government in this huge, capitalistic SEZ called India would be to uphold the law; that is, to go after the crooks, murderers, rapists and other 'outlaws', leaving all 'win-win' traders free, which includes money changers, ganja dealers, bookies, hookers and, most definitely, bar dancers.
This will require a small police force under the civic control of the mayors of each Indian city and town: there will now be thousands of them, competing for citizens. Many 'little leviathans' instead of this one, big, ugly one.
The government should also fund public highways, urban streets and rural roads throughout the entire length and breadth of this huge SEZ as 'public goods': that is, 'collective property' that all the people can freely use.
To fund roads, police and defence for 15 years, the duration of the tax holiday, the government should privatise each and every asset it owns, including the Railways.
We will have liberty, prosperity, civic order, and 'public goods' instead of 'public sector' (another 'special interest') and politics will be compressed to a vanishing point.
RTI
COMPLIANCE TO RIGHT TO INFORMATION ACT
JHARKHAND GETS ZERO
Jharkhand gets zero in a survey on compliance to the Right to Information Act in a survey conducted by New Delhi's Centre for Civil Society in association with Jharkhand daily Prabhat Khabar. While Chhattisgarh and Uttaranchal get 11 per cent and 76 per cent each, although all these states were created at the same time. Jharkhand Development Report 2007 is a sequel to the Jharkhand Citizens Handbook. Now would you still say smaller states are better governed?
JHARKHAND GETS ZERO
Jharkhand gets zero in a survey on compliance to the Right to Information Act in a survey conducted by New Delhi's Centre for Civil Society in association with Jharkhand daily Prabhat Khabar. While Chhattisgarh and Uttaranchal get 11 per cent and 76 per cent each, although all these states were created at the same time. Jharkhand Development Report 2007 is a sequel to the Jharkhand Citizens Handbook. Now would you still say smaller states are better governed?
Thursday, February 1, 2007
SENIOR OIL COMPANY OFFICIALS MEET HONEST DEALERS
PROMISE TO REDUCE OIL SHORTAGES
Senior public sector oil company officials meet the protesting petroleum dealers in Patna and promise to reduce (not eliminate) shortages.
This meeting follows the protest against shortages in Bihar's three districts Muzaffarpur, Sheohar and Sitamarhi following which even the Bihar petroleum dealers association called for a complete Bihar petroleum strike if shortages do not stop and the large media reporting on the subject.
In every 12000 litre tank lorry received by the petrol pumps there is an average shortage of 150 litres.
Protesting dealers have given the company 15 days to stop the shortages.
Senior public sector oil company officials meet the protesting petroleum dealers in Patna and promise to reduce (not eliminate) shortages.
This meeting follows the protest against shortages in Bihar's three districts Muzaffarpur, Sheohar and Sitamarhi following which even the Bihar petroleum dealers association called for a complete Bihar petroleum strike if shortages do not stop and the large media reporting on the subject.
In every 12000 litre tank lorry received by the petrol pumps there is an average shortage of 150 litres.
Protesting dealers have given the company 15 days to stop the shortages.
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