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1st issue of November 2013 A Fortnightly publicAtion oF the high commission oF indiA, london Vol. 11 Issue: 21 IAF gets fourth Manna Dey Many nuances of airlifter P2 passes away P5 Naldhera P8 Indian mission heads for Mars India is the first Asian country and the fourth in the world to launch a probe to the Red Planet ndia’s first Mars orbiter success - Its scientific mission will be to explore fully began an arduous 400 mil - the Mars surface features, morphology, Highlights of India’s lion km long journey to Mars on or the study of organisms, mineralogy, Mars mission November 5, making it the first the study of minerals, and Martian n India is the first Asian country and IAsian country and the fourth in the atmosphere by all Indian-made scientif - the fourth in the world to under - world to undertake a mission to the Red ic instruments. take a mission to the Red Planet in Planet in the hope of finding methane According to Indian Space Research the hope of finding methane and and minerals. Organisation (ISRO) officials, the Mars minerals. India’s `4,500 million (about $72.9 orbiter will orbit the Earth till November n The cost of India’s mission to Mars million) Mars orbiter was successfully 30 and then its motors will be fired to is `4,500 million. placed in orbit by an Indian rocket in push it towards the red planet. n The Indian-made rocket - Polar what scientists said was a flawless launch. For nearly 300 days the motor will be Satellite Launch Vehicle-C25 Exactly at 2.38 p.m., the Indian-made off while the spacecraft floats through (PSLV-C25) is around 44 metres rocket — Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle- the inky void towards Mars. When the tall and weighs around 320 tonnes. C25 (PSLV-C25) standing around 44 spacecraft nears Mars, the motors will be n The scientific mission will explore metres tall and weighing around 320 restarted and fired again to carry out the Mars surface features, morphol - tonnes — rose from its launching pad manoeuvres to put it in Martian orbit ogy, or the study of organisms, min - slowly, and then gathered speed as it around September 2014. Following that, eralogy, the study of minerals, and zoomed into the skies on a plume of fiery the on-board instruments would carry Martian atmosphere. orange flames. out their jobs. PSLV-C25 Mars Orbiter Mission Spacecraft — n The rocket will cover a distance of The expendable rocket, costing around The Mars mission blasted off from the Mangalyan, successfully launched from about 400 million km. `1,100 million had a single but impor - first launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Sriharikota. n The Mars orbiter will orbit the tant luggage, the 1,340-kg Mars orbiter Space Centre in Andhra Pradesh. At it as “a landmark in our space pro - Earth till November 30 and then its costing around `1,500 million. Around around 44 minutes into the flight, PSLV- gramme”. motors will be fired to push it `900 million has been spent on augment - C25 spat out the Mars orbiter. “Now it will be complex mission to towards the red planet. ing the ground support/tracking systems. Minutes after its launch, Prime take the Mars orbiter from the Earth’s n When the spacecraft nears Mars, the The orbiter now heads to the Red Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh in a orbit to Mars orbit,” K. Radhakrishnan, motors will be restarted and fired Planet that gets its red hue from the tweet congratulated ISRO scientists for ISRO Chairman, said post launch. again to carry out manoeuvres to iron in its soil. Mars is the fourth plan - “successful initiation of Mars Mission According to him, in September 2014 put it in Martian orbit around et from the Sun and the planet closest and wishes for its successful future”. the orbiter will be around Mars and it September 2014. to Earth. President Pranab Mukherjee described will then be placed in Mars orbit. Indian multi-culturalism exemplary: Vice President ‘Management of diversity to ensure the integration of minds and hearts has been India’s national priority’ he success of Indian multi-cul - turalism is an example for the Twhole world to establish a peace - ful and harmonious society, Indian Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari said in London. Vice President Ansari was addressing a gathering at the Nelson Mandela Lecture Hall at Said Business School in Oxford, England on ‘Identity and Citizenship: An Indian Perspective’ on November 1. “Different religions and cultures can co-exist peacefully in a successful dem - ocratic system.” (Left) Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari delivering a lecture on ‘Identity and Citizenship: An Indian perspective’, at Nelson Mandela Lecture Hall in London; (Right) Vice President Ansari and his wife Salma Ansari at the new building of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies in London. “The size and diversity of the Indian Minister of State for Human Resource Development Jitin Prasada and Director Dr. Farhan Nizami CBE are also seen. landscape makes it essential. A popula - tion of 1.27 billion comprising of over absolute terms to around 160 million,” at three or four levels, namely individ - accepted as an ongoing national prior - 4,635 communities, 78 percent of he added. ual, group, regional and national.” ity,” the Vice President said. whom are not only linguistic and cul - Vice President Ansari said every soci - “The Indian approach steers clear of “Integration is not a process of conver - tural but social categories. Religious ety has three or four levels of identities notions of assimilation and adaptation, sion of diversities into a uniformity but minorities constitute 19.4 percent of and to accommodate them in a harmo - philosophically and in practice. Instead, a congruence of diversities leading to a the population; of these, Muslims nious way is a challenge. the management of diversity to ensure unity in which both the varieties and account for 13.4 percent amounting in “In every society, we have identities the integration of minds and hearts is similarities are maintained,” he added. []1st issue of November 2013 2 ‘Weave disaster strategies into developmental programmes’ Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh lauded the response to Phailin cyclone which helped in saving lives of thousands of people Union Minister for Railways Mallikarjun Kharge launching the High Speed Rail Corporation of India Ltd in New Delhi. ndia needs to mainstream disaster risk reduction strategies into its development programmes as High Speed Rail extreme weather events are on the Corporation of Irise, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan India launched Singh said on October 28. Addressing the 5th meeting of the UNION MINISTER for Railways National Disaster Management Mallikarjun Kharge on October 29 Authority (NDMA) in New Delhi, the launched the High Speed Rail Prime Minister stressed the need to Corporation of India Ltd (HSRC), a improve the country’s disaster man - subsidiary of Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd. agement capabilities. (RVNL) and tasked to develop High The meeting was held to review the Speed Rail (HSR) Corridors in India devastating Uttarakhand floods of June to run passenger trains at speeds up to and the cyclone Phailin which battered 350 km per hour. Odisha and Andhra Pradesh in Inaugurated at the two-day interna - October. tional technical conference on “High “We are aware that the world over, Speed Rail Travel; Low Cost Solution” extreme weather events are on the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh chairing the fifth meeting of the National Disaster in New Delhi, the Minister also Management Authority, in New Delhi. Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde, Minister of State rise,” he said. “Such events impact the for Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions and Prime Minister’s Office V. Narayanasamy and Vice unveiled the logo of HSRC. poor and marginalised people in a dis - Chairman, NDMA, M. Shashidhar Reddy are also seen. Minister Kharge said for a country proportionate manner. like India, “leveraging rolling stock “It is therefore all the more necessary said: “Disaster risk reduction strategies Uttarakhand floods severely tested the technologies may provide a lower cost that we quickly improve our disaster therefore need to be mainstreamed into efficacy of India’s disaster response solution to meet the immediate needs management capabilities. our developmental programmes and mechanisms and there were important of achieving speeds of 160 to 200 “Every rupee spent on disaster pre - policies. lessons to be learnt from the rescue and kmph and that too on the existing paredness is a saving of expenditure on “Our early warning systems and relief operations that followed. The track”. Therefore, the focus of the post disaster relief, rehabilitation and response mechanisms should be Prime Minister lauded the response to conference was to consider achieving reconstruction measures.” strengthened further so that we are able Phailin cyclone which helped in saving higher speed trains in the range of 160 Calling upon the NDMA and other to minimise the negative impact of lives of thousands of people — as one to 200 kmph with marginal inputs in agencies to lay greater emphasis on dis - disasters.” million people in the coastal belt were the existing infrastructure, he added. aster preparedness, the Prime Minister Prime Minister Singh said the evacuated before it struck. ‘Water use efficiency holds great promise’ ndia is home to 17 percent of the available without giving due attention global population but has only four to the manner in which the water will Ipercent of water resource, and so it be used or managed. is vital to focus on water use efficiency, “A paradigm shift from water resource Indian Air Force President Pranab Mukherjee said on development to integrated water gets fourth airlifter October 28.

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