Tarla Dalal dead
Noted
food writer and celebrity chef Tarla Dalal passed away here on Wednesday after
a brief illness. She was 77.
Ms. Dalal
has been on the culinary landscape for the last 40 years and was a famous face
on televised cookery shows. She wrote more than 100 cook-books and was awarded
the Padma Shri in 2007.
ISRO raises Mars spacecraft’s orbit
The
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully boosted the orbit of its
Mars spacecraft by firing the 440 Newton engine aboard it at 1.17 a.m. on
Thursday. The engine sizzled with life for seven minutes from 1.17 a.m. and
this raised the Mars orbiter’s apogee from 23,566 km to 28,825 km from the
earth and its perigee from 247 km to 252 km. ISRO scientists sent the command
for firing the engine from the state-of-the-art ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and
Command Network (ISTRAC) situated in Bangalore.
This is
the first of the six tricky orbit-raising manoeuvres that ISRO will perform as
its Mars spacecraft circumambulate the earth during the next 25 days. The
second orbit-raising manoeuvre will take place Friday early morning. The sixth
and last orbit-raising operation will be done on December 1 when the Mars
orbiter will be shot out of its earth-orbit into a sun-centric orbit. From then
on, the spacecraft will coast around the sun for 300 days before the ISRO tries
to capture it in the Martian orbit on September 24, 2014.
The
ISRO’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C25) on Tuesday put the Mars orbit
into an earth-bound orbit with a perigee of 247 km and an apogee of 23,566 km.
K.
Radhakrishnan, ISRO Chairman, told The Hindu on Thursday that the ISRO
fired the liquid engine on board the Mars orbiter for seven minutes starting
from 1.17 a.m. and this firing boosted the spacecraft apogee from 23,566 km to
28,825 km.
“At 2.15
a.m. tomorrow (Friday), we will fire the engine again for about 582 seconds,
for almost ten minutes, and we will raise the apogee to about 40,000 km from
the earth,” said Dr. Radhakrishan.
The ISRO
had earlier calibrated the 440 Newton engine before starting to fire it on
Thursday early morning.
Yogesh Malik Resigned as CEO of Uninor
Yogesh Malik resigned as the Chief Executive Officer of
Uninor, Norwegian telecom giant Telenor’s India unit on 7 November 2013.
Sigve Brekke, Executive Vice President and Head of the Telenor Asia operations appointed as the acting CEO of Uninor.
About Yogesh Malik
• He has almost 20 years of extensive telecom experience.
• He was previously held executive positions at Telenor Group headquarter in Norway,
• He was served as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Telenor Group companies in Ukraine and Bangladesh.
• His extensive career in the telecom industry also includes experience from AT&T, Tata and Ericsson in India and Sweden and for the international mobile operator TIW (today known as Vodafone) in Canada, China, Brazil and the Czech Republic.
• He is responsible for developing a highly efficient operating model that has made Uninor a preferred choice for customers in the hypercompetitive Indian market.
Sigve Brekke, Executive Vice President and Head of the Telenor Asia operations appointed as the acting CEO of Uninor.
About Yogesh Malik
• He has almost 20 years of extensive telecom experience.
• He was previously held executive positions at Telenor Group headquarter in Norway,
• He was served as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Telenor Group companies in Ukraine and Bangladesh.
• His extensive career in the telecom industry also includes experience from AT&T, Tata and Ericsson in India and Sweden and for the international mobile operator TIW (today known as Vodafone) in Canada, China, Brazil and the Czech Republic.
• He is responsible for developing a highly efficient operating model that has made Uninor a preferred choice for customers in the hypercompetitive Indian market.
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