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Old Posted Mar 5, 2007, 12:20 PM
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Friday, March 2, 2007 (Thiruvananthapuram):


For the first time ever, Finance Minister P Chidambaram has allocated Rs 50 crore for ISRO's manned space initiatives in an indication that India is very serious about its manned space faring ambitions.

If all goes according to plan, a 50 metre tall and more than 400 tonne rocket will put an Indian in space.

The Geostationary Launch Vehicle is being fine tuned by ISRO for India's first manned space flight, possibly in 2014 from Sriharikota.

The new national effort was announced by the Finance Minister in his budget speech.

ISRO is also developing a fully autonomous orbital vehicle to carry a two-member crew into a low Earth orbit.

Crew module

The mission, which will place India in the league of Russia, USA and China, is estimated to cost about Rs 10,000 crore but will be a boon for the domestic industry.

"We have carried out a detailed feasibility study of carrying humans into orbit and bringing them back using existing vehicles. We feel by using the GSLV Mark II it is possible to undertake this mission but a lot more technology has to be developed. This is quite exciting and challenging for our youngsters who are joining and hopefully we feel we will be able to do it by 2014," said B N Suresh, Director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Center, Thiruvananthapuram.

Work has begun at the highly guarded facilities at Thiruvananthapuram. NDTV was shown the first drawings of the crew module and the escape vehicle if something goes wrong in the manned flight.

It is the life support system that will take most development.

Hardware like heat resistant tiles to protect astronauts on the return to Earth have already been developed and the success of the satellite recovery experiment earlier this month demonstrated India's capability in re-entry technology.

Finally a capsule six times heavier will take Indians into space.

A new race to space has begun with India and China vying to find their place. All what happens at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre will decide how soon and how fast India moves in this demanding area.

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Russian company for the Rs 4,350-crore project.

Monday March 5 2007 10:20 IST
T'PURAM: Rosoboronexports State Corporation, a Russian state enterprise that had evinced interest in setting up the deepwater container transshipment hub at Vizhinjam, has found supporters in organisations representing Malayalis who have relations with Russia.

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Following the clearance fiasco, the government had decided to go in for fresh bids. Several firms, including Jupiter Infrastructure of former BPL head Rajiv Chandrasekhar, have evinced interest in the project.

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Visit To Estuary Islands....

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Old Posted Mar 8, 2007, 1:15 AM
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Palayam Mosque

This is just meters away from the Church posted above

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Subin, Nice collection!
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Those are not mine. I found those from Flickr
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Kowdiar palace. The seat of the most powerful kingdom Kerala had ever witnessed

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