Bangalore to get first aerospace institute of India

B D Narayankar

Press Trust of India

Bangalore, Sep 16: The silicon city will soon have India's first academy to generate manpower for aviation and aerospace industries.

"The Indian Institute of Aerospace Engineering and Management will start its first academic programme –– an MBA specialising in aeronautics management -- from September 25," former chairman and Managing Director of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited Krishnadas Nair told reporters here today.

The academy would offer both undergraduate and post-graduate courses in various branches of aeronautics, aerospace and civil aviation with the intention of bridging the skilled manpower gap, he said.

"The centre will be first of its kind in the country... China has six dedicated universities for aerospace and India has none," Nair said.

He said IIAEM is being launched by collaborative efforts of all leading aerospace organisations, airports and airlines in the city. "The centre will meet human resources requirements," he added.

"The centre will be inaugurated by former ISRO chairman and Planning Commission member Dr K Kasturirangan on September 25," Nair said.

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B'lore to host civil aviation centenary

B D Narayankar

Press Trust of India

Bangalore, Sep 16: The regional centenary celebration of civil aviation in India will be held in the city on September 19 to project and plan the potential for growth in the sector.

The event would give a platform for chalking up plans for civil aviation players and organisations to develop regional airports into a business centres, former Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) Chairman and Society of Aerospace Technologies and Industries (SIATI) President, C G Krishnadas Nair, told reporters here today.

Holding the mega event in Bangalore was appropriate as the city is called as the 'Aerospace Capital of India,' Nair said. As part of the regional centenary celebrations, a seminar on "Strategies for Growth in the current decade 2011-12" will also be organised, he said.

Nair said India has recovered from the worldwide economic slowdown and recorded a growth of 15 per cent in the civil aviation sector since then, "which is the highest in the world".

"Passenger traffic at Bangalore International Airport (BIA) is almost 12-13 million. In next 10 years it will be double ... so there is scope for second runway and expansion along with commercial activities there," he added.

Expert presentations and panel discussions on civil aviation in India and Karnataka, infrastructure development, networking of regional airports with metro airports and views by private airlines would also be included in the seminar, Nair said. The mega event would be inaugurated by Civil Aviation Minister Vayalar Ravi, he said.

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Fix iron-ore reserve price as per market practices: BCIC

B D Narayankar

Press Trust of India

Bangalore, Sep 16: The Bangalore Chamber of Industry and Commerce today appealed to the Centre to fix reserve price for iron ore grades in e-auction at current market prices to save the steel industry from collapse.

"The reserve price is being fixed disregarding prevailing market prices for similar grades in view of the scarcity of the material in the market and the dire need of the steel industry," BCIC said in a statement issued.

While industry awaited the e-auction, 'arbitrary' fixation of reserve price for low grade iron ore deterred steel companies from bidding for this ore, BCIC said.

Industry sources said the mechanism for fixing base price seems to be on pro-rata basis as against the market practice.

BCIC said as per international practice, difference in prices for every 1% Fe is about USD 6 per tonne of iron ore as low grade iron ore fines (Fe-60% and
below) have to be beneficiated before use in steel manufacture.

"Benefication does not recover 100% Fe and results in loss of more than 30% of the input quantity of Iron ore," it added.

Moreover, additional fuel in the form of metallurgical coke is needed to use low grade fines. That is why a discount of USD 6 per tonne is offered in the international market, BCIC said.

In a recent auction of low grade iron ore by NMDC, it was sold at Rs 1,410 per tonne. Difference in prices of high grade iron ore to low grade was Rs 1,470 (USD 30.75) for a difference of 6% Fe either USD 5.1 (US) for every per
cent fall in Fe, BCIC said.

The just concluded auction saw only Rs 162 discount (USD 3.39) for 6.1% Fe either USD 0.57 for every per cent fall in Fe. Evaluation showed more than 75% premium on low grade iron ore is charged compared to that of NMDC, BCIC said.


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K'taka pathetic in dealing with cases against SC/STs: Study ‎

B D Narayankar

Press Trust of India

Bangalore, Sep 16: The performance of the Karnataka government in discharge of its duties under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities Act) was "pathetic" as it stands sixth in the country as far as crimes against SCs and STs are concerned, according to a report.

The overall conviction rate for the crimes against SCs and STs in 2010 was five per cent and seven districts had zero per cent conviction rate during the same period, the Karnataka State Report on implementation of SCs and STs(Prevention of Atrocities) Act in the State in 2010 said.

In Tumkur, which is one of the 15 districts declared by the government as an area prone to atrocities against SC/STs, 101 cases were disposed off in 2010 without a single conviction by the special court, the study said.

The undivided Gulbarga district and Bangalore city top the number of cases reported in the past three years, it said, adding that Mandya has seen a surge in number of cases reported and is second highest in 2010 with 87 cases (39 cases in 2009 and 29 cases in 2008).

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Meanwhile, Energy Minister Shobha Karandlaje gave a call today to provide emotional support to SCs and STs to bring them to mainstream after releasing the report here.

Karandlaje said that she would suggest to the government to implement the recommendations made in the report. The recommendations include setting up of exclusive courts to deal with such cases, judges with the right aptitude and understanding and time-bound completion of trials (within a year).

Though the government is supposed to prepare an annual report on implementation of the SCs and STs (Prevention of Atrocities) Act in the state, it had not done so for the past three years, the study said.

The government is also supposed to hold half-yearly review meetings but only one such meeting was held in the last three years, instead of six meetings, the study said.

Hassan and Chickballapur are additions in the top ten districts with the maximum atrocities against SC/STs. After a steep increase in such incidents, they take their place alongside districts such as Bangalore, Gulbarga, Bellary and Mysore, which consistently feature in the top ten, it added.

"Awareness should be created regularly and systematically among school and college students on the Act and Ambedkar Jayanthi should be used to conduct debates and other programmes to highlight the Act," Opposition leader in Legislative Council, Motamma said.

A group consisting of organisations and individuals working on human rights and RTI in Karnataka namely, Anti-Corruption Forum (ACF), Buddhist League, Karnataka Dalit Mahila Vedike (KDMV), National Campaign for Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR), OpenSpace, Rural Education and Development Society (REDS) and Sanchaya Nele compiled the report.

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Darshan''s bail plea adjourned to Sep 19 ‎

B D Narayankar

Press Trust of India

Kannada actor Darshan's bail plea has been adjourned to September 19 by a local court in Bangalore on Wednesday.


Darshan was was arrested for allegedly assaulting and threatening his wife Vijayalakshmi.

Principal Sessions Judge R B Budihal adjourned the bail plea to that date after ordering issue of notice to the Public Prosecutor Agasi Mani.

Darshan had filed the plea before the sessions court after his application was rejected by the First Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Venkatesh Hulagi on Tuesday, who said he did not have the jurisdiction to handle a case filed under IPC Section 307 (attempt to murder).

Darshan's attempts to secure bail suffered a setback despite his wife retracting her statement in court on Tuesday saying she had sustained head injuries during a fall in the bathroom. This ran contrary to her allegations in a police complaint on September 8 that he had assaulted her and threatened her with a revolver.

Darshan was arrested on September 9 and produced before a magistrate, who remanded him to judicial custody.

Several leading Kannada film personalities had tried to bring about a patch up between Darshan and his wife.

Police had on Tuesday requested the court to drop IPC Sec 307 (attempt to murder) against Darshan, who is now undergoing treatment for asthma and jaundice in a hospital.

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Cambridge Varsity inks collaboration with city-based institute ‎

B D Narayankar

Press Trust of India

Bangalore, Sep 14: A landmark collaboration between Cambridge University and the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (inStem) was signed here today.

The MoU was signed by Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz and Dean of NCBS Professor Satyajit Mayor and Dean of inStem Professor Jyotsna Dhawan have for a collaborative initiative in therapeutics and translational sciences.

"This is an initiative to set up a centre for chemical biology and therapeutics which will look into small molecules which can be used to to probe the inner working of the cell. The idea is to use these molecules to spearhead a drug discovery programme," Dhawan told PTI.

She said this programme was first of its kind to start off with a focused programme on cancer therapeutics using chemical biology approaches.

Professor Borysiewicz said apart from generating new fundamental knowledge about biological systems involved in human diseases, the initiative will also serve to strengthen links between the University of Cambridge and India in the fields of biomedical and health research.

Talking about the benefits of the programme, Dhawan said the idea was to work on different types of cancer and look for molecules that could be used as drugs. "The process could be long and painstaking one," she informed.

While the process of discovery of drugs is taking place, the centre will have the benefit of setting up a programme to train a large number of students in therapeutics and translational sciences, Dhawan said.

"The idea is that somebody comes to NCBS and participates with scientists to build a new programme which will benefit in discovering new drugs," she added.

The short-term benefits of this programme for students and trainees would be the basic understanding of biology of cancer cells, Dhawan said.

She also said as many as 10-20 students would be trained over the period of two years, but the numbers would go up to 100 in few years time depending upon the size of the programme.

Replying to a question, Dhawan said since NCBS has a large infrastructure, it will take up the programme through internal funding. "But will be applying for funding in future depending on the success of the programme and what kind of infrastructure we have," she said.

Dhawan also said the PhD level training programme may continue for 4-5 years, but short-term training programme may extend upto two weeks.

The initiative will be spearheaded by Professor Ashok Venkitaraman, Ursula Zoellner Professor of Cancer Research, University of Cambridge and Director, Medical Research Council (Cancer Cell Unit).

Talking about tie up, Dhawan said it was an exciting possibility to partner Cambridge University as it was an 800 years old university and had immaculate reputation.

"More than anything else, we are excited to work in association with Professor Venkitaraman, who is the product of CMC (Vellore) and has been spearheading these types of efforts (therapeutics and translational sciences) in Cambridge University," she said.

Professor Venkitaraman said the programme will provide significant long-term competitive advantages to biomedical researchers in India, with important future benefits for the health and wealth of the nation.

"We view this very important collaboration as mutually beneficial and an example of how the best in basic research can address important biomedical questions," Professor K VijayRaghavan, Officiating Director of inStem and the Director of the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) added.

Professor Borysiewicz said Cambridge and the Tata Institute, of which NCBS is a part, have a long history of connections. "TIFR’s founder Homi Bhabha studied and worked in Cambridge, as have many NCBS and inStem faculty," he said.

"I have heard much about the excellence of biology in the NCBS-inStem campus and I look forward to see this for myself and sign this important MoU. Cambridge will do all it can to facilitate the success of this effort," he added.

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Reddy arrest politially motivated, says BJP ‎

B D Narayankar

Press Trust of India

Bangalore, Sep 15: BJP's Karnataka unit today termed as politically motivated the arrest of former minister and mining baron G Janardhana Reddy by CBI in connection with illegal mining, as the agency had not probed allegations of Congress leaders involved in it.

Speaking to reporters, state unit BJP Spokesperson Ayanur Manjunath alleged Congress was unnecessarily probing Reddy's alleged involvement in illegal mining activities, despite there being no mention of his name in the FIR.

He said Reddy's arrest was politically motivated as CBI has not conducted any probe into allegations of Congress leaders alleged involvement in illegal mining.

"Why have they only targeted Reddy? Even Congress MLAs and leaders also are involved in fleecing the country's natural resources, he said.

The meeting,which discussed strategies for the Sep 26 Koppal bypoll and ways to strengthen the party, felt Reddy's arrest and former minister Sriramulu's resignation of his assembly membership would not have any impact on the bypoll result.

Manjunath said Sriramulu resigned as he was indicted by former Lokayukta Justice Santosh Hegde in his report on illegal mining. "He is not against BJP," he added.

People in Bellary and surrounding districts are aware that Reddys and Sriramulu are not against BJP, Manjunath said.

Manjunath said Opposition Congress and JDS would not be able to give a tough fight to BJP as they lacked strong leaders.

He attacked State JDS President H D Kumaraswamy for reporte reportedly calling Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda a coolie. "The Chief Minister is coolie for 6.5 crore people of the state, but Kumaraswamy's family had been working for their own benefits. In a democracy a Chief Minister is a coolie working for people's betterment," he added.

BJP state President K S Eswarappa and former Chief Minister Yeddyurappa also attended the meet.

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