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Discovery of India Building Dr. Annie Besant Road, Worli, Mumbai - 400 018. Phone : 2496 4676-80 Fax : 2497 3827 E-Mail: [email protected] Newsletter Website: www.nehru-centre.org Vol. 17 Issue 6 JUNE 2016 Price Rs. 10/- Per Copy Annual Subscription Rs. 100 Events At a Glance... India’s Defence Preparedness Cultural Wing “pa}sa Asaa $NaJauNata” A seminar on India's Defence Vice Admiral Vinod Pasricha Preparedness was organized presented a paper on the state of (A programme based on poetry and literature by Nehru Centre recently. The Indian Navy. Some excerpts from on monsoon, in Marathi language ) seminar covered all the three his speech were published in the Friday, June 3, 2016 wings of defence preparedness monthly Newsletter for October, 6.30 pm to 8.00 pm namely. Army, Navy and Air November and December 201 5 Hall of Culture Force. The first one was Army. Major Shashikant Pitre (Retd.) Air Marshal (Retd) B. N. Gokhale, Library spoke on defence preparedness PVSM AYSM VM, Former Vice of the Indian Army. His Chief of the Air Staff gave his CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOPS presentation was covered in the presentation on the state of Indian FOR CHILDREN monthly Newsletters for June, A i r F o r c e C h a l l e n g e s a n d Monday, June 6, 2016 August and September 201 5. : contd. on page 2 Make your story come alive For students, aged 8-12 years HOMAGE Tuesday, June 7, 2016: Become a journalist For students , aged 9-13 years 11.00 am to 1.00 pm Nehru Centre Library MEET THE AUTHOR “The Banyan Tree” - Nupur Sampat Saturday, June 18, 2016 For children , aged 4-8 years 11.00 am to 1.00 pm Hall of Harmony, Nehru Centre Art Gallery Chatak - 2016 (A Monsoon Show of Student Artists) Smt. Bakul Patel, Joint Secretary, Nehru Centre paying tribute to late Shri Rajni Patel, Founder Wednesday, June 15, 2016 to Member and Former General Secretary, Nehru Centre, on his 34th Death Anniversary. Also Tuesday, June 21, 2016 present on the occasion were Shri I. M. Kadri, General Secretary, Nehru Centre and staff of AC & Circular Gallery Nehru Centre. Nehru Centre Newsletter - June 2016 1 Opportunities. Some excerpts from too early in stage to deny her an and in turn affected the Iranian his presentation were published in option later on, for having enrichment plant at Natanz in 2010. the monthly Newsletter for succumbed blindly into following Incidentally it is reported that January, February, March, April some models in the western world. almost 60% of Iranian nuclear and May 2016. Following are some installations were affected by such m o r e e x c e r p t s f r o m h i s Cyber Security malware and the US computer presentation: security company Symantec had While addressing the Staff College reported that 8% of Indian nuclear Space the New Frontier in March 2000, Former Chief of installations using Siemens’ Army Staff Gen V. P. Malik rightly e q u i p m e n t c o u l d a l s o b e With such large area of interest, said “The armed Forces must be susceptible to this bug. there is now a need for bigger f u l l y J o i n t : d o c t r i n a l l y , footprint in satellite aided institutionally, organizationally, Owing to this force enhancing communication, navigation, intellectually and technically capability US has set up United remote sensing and many other because Cyber War will be to the States Cyber Command in 2009, Space based applications. Inherent 21st century what the blitzkrieg which is a joint command with a to the globalization of economy is was to the 20th Century”. The mandate to execute both, offensive competition amongst nations, importance of Cyber Warfare and defensive operations. Chinese which leads to implications of cannot be understated in today's are also known to give lot Space Security. Space as a digitally connected communication importance to Cyber warfare and continuum of air above us will then and command systems. While the refer to Cyber Warfare as the latest be a dominant medium, which net-centricity has helped in RMA. Chinese view Cyber pre- needs to be safeguarded. shortening the Observe Orient emptive attack as ‘The supreme art Decide Act (OODA) loop, Cyber of war to subdue the enemy The National Security Advisor Shri security is also the biggest without fighting’. Shivshankar Menon had signalled challenge. In the recent Russo- to be continued... a significant shift from “No First Georgia war of 2008 the reported Use” to “NFU against non-nuclear large scale hacking of Georgia's weapon states” in a speech on the essential networks, resulted in occasion of Golden Jubilee degradation of her military What Nehru said... celebrations of National Defence response. Similar Cyber assaults So far as nuclear tests are College in New Delhi on 21 October had earlier taken place against concerned, I imagine we are 2010, a doctrine Menon said Estonia in April 2007 and by the arriving probably at the end of the reflected India's “strategic culture, Israeli Air Force in their attack over present series of tests by America. I with its emphasis on minimal a Syrian nuclear reactor under do not know if the Soviet Union deterrence.” In April 2013, Shri construction at Al Kibar on 6th Shyam Saran, convener of the September 2007 in what is known will have a series of tests now. National Security Advisory Board, as 'Operation Orchard'. Experts tell me that this series of affirmed that regardless of the size tests by the U.S.A. and by the Soviet of a nuclear attack against India, be P r e s e n t l y w i t h i n c r e a s i n g Union will probably end for a long it a miniaturized version or a “big” dependence on computers and time to come this testing in as much missile, India will retaliate networking, clogging or disabling as they have achieved their massively to inflict unacceptable c i v i l u t i l i t y n e t w o r k s o f purposes. Thus virtue will come damage. communications, power grids and many others including banking and out of necessity. But it is a very Incidentally, on occasions there is finance; equally affect nation’s war painful truth that we have arrived debate as to whether a Triad is preparedness. It would be even at a stage in the world when the needed and that the Air Vector more catastrophic then, if a hacker great powers play about with these should be done away with. Instead can disable exclusive intra-nets weapons and, because they are of debating such issues, it is using embedded software bugs and afraid of each other, they take the important to develop all the three Trojans. ‘One of the great technical risk of annihilation of mankind. vectors for better and robust blockbuster in malware history is designs and keep options open for that of Stuxnet, a computer worm, June 23, 1962 n e w e r t e c h n o l o g i e s t o b e which was embedded in the configured in later years. India is Siemens’ industrial control units Nehru Centre Newsletter - June 2016 2 SKY SHOWS : ‘Edge of Darkness’ Timings 12 noon (Hindi) 1:30 pm Marathi) 3:00 pm (English) 4:30 pm Hindi) NEHRU PLANETARIUM (MONDAY CLOSED) Transit of Mercury 2016 Nehru Centre joined Nehru Science Centre, Mumbai in organizing public viewing of Transit of Mercury on 7th May 2016 at Worli Sea Face. Nehru Planetarium kept four telescopes and projected images of the sun for public viewing and carried out live webcast of the event. Staff members and amateur astronomer volunteered and showed the event to the public and answered their questions. More than two thousand people saw the event. Pooja Tolia and Karishma Dhanmeher jointly webcast the event and took series of image. At the time of transit there was a sunspot which was larger than Mercury Nehru Centre Newsletter - June 2016 3 STAR CHART FOR JUNE 2016 Month of June heralds coming of monsoon with skies cloudy most of the time However, there are times when we do get clear skies free from the pollution of dust in the atmosphere giving us some exceptional observing conditions. Saturn is at opposition on 3rd June. The ringed planet will be at its closest to Earth and its face will be fully illuminated by the Sun. It will be brighter than any other time of the year and will be visible all night long. This is the best time to view and photograph Saturn and its moons. A medium-sized or larger telescope will allow you to see Saturn's rings and a few of its brightest moons. Mercury is at its greatest western elongation on 5th June. It will be about 24 degrees from the Sun. A few days before and after this one case it well above the eastern horizon in pre dawn sky. On 10th June Moon passes within 2 deg. of Regulus (Magha). Then on next day on 11th it will be within 1.5 The map shows slightly more sky than that will be visible from a given deg from Jupiter. location. Thus the map can be used elsewhere in India at 21:00 hrs Indian Time.