Titan Cassini Huygens Missions   Nearly 39 years after NASA’s surveyor 1 spacecraft successfully landed on the moon an unmanned space probe of the European Space Agency Huygens made an attempt to land on Titan–another moon of Saturn on January 14, 2005. An analysis of Titan’s characteristics will help throw further light on Earth’s early history. Basically. the mission will provide scientists a glimpse into chemistry which took place on earth...

Mobile Phone Revolution Like the computer revolution, the cellphone or the mobile is creating a major revolution across the country. What started as ripple is today emerging as a giant wave bringing about virtual socio-economic change in the country. Due to its ubiquitous use the sea change is visible in every sphere of human life. In matrimonial markets, sting operations and shockingly enough in the dangerous field of terrorism, mobile is...

Mission Somayana India Marches towards Moon On August 15, 2003 Indian Prime Minister, during his Independence Day address to the nation, announced the long awaited Chandrayan/ Somayana’s 1 mission which represents India’s, foray into planetary exploration era in the coming decades. Owing to India’s indigenously developed launch vehicle and spacecraft capabilities it is confident of undertaking a complex space mission. This mission will provide a unique opportunity for frontier scientific research....

Importance of Right to Information Right to information means the freedom of people to have access to governmental information. It implies that the citizens and non-governmental organizations should enjoy a reasonably free access to all files and documents pertaining to the governmental operations, decisions and performance. In other words, it means openness and transparency in the functioning of government. Thus it is antithetical to secrecy in public administration. Now a question...

National Employment Guarantee Programme One calls slums by different names-jhuggi jhopri in Delhi, chawl in Mumbai and cheri in Chennai. Whatever be the names by which the slums of the big cities are known, they are the abode of urban poor who form nearly half the population of the big cities. Most of them are migrants from the vast countryside. The cities may not be a paradise for them but at...

A.T.M. – Automated Teller Machine   The main business of the banking industry is to give the interest on deposits & distribute the amount, so received, as loan and earn interest. After Nationalization of banks in 1969, personalise banking is converted into social banking, in which banks used their limited resources for economical and social development of the country. This chapter successfully ran for about two decades. After that, process of...