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Savings offers to go as banks impose rate cuts
Wave of last-minute alterations means more than half of all savings providers have made cuts to account offers
2008-11-29 00:25:04
Row over Pentagon's alterations to female general's photo
The Pentagon is embroiled in a row after releasing a digitally altered photo of a woman general.
2008-11-19 12:07:10
Planting a church half-a-world away
PARIS BP--Murat* glances up from the pair of trousers he's hemming as a jingle of bells disturbs the dull hum of his sewing machine. Tied with red thread to the door of his one-room alterations...
2008-11-08 15:28:22
Nigeria: Senate Condemns Alteration of Papers by Water Contractors
The Senate has expressed strong reservations against the free latitude being given contractors handling Federal Government water projects to adjust contract sums on their own.
2008-11-07 08:42:17
BJP plays safe, avoids much alteration in ticket distribution
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2008-11-07 06:11:15
Scientists uncover evidence to show earth has cooled
INT39 International/Science Scientists uncover evidence to show earth has cooled Sydney, Oct 24 IANS Scientists have uncovered evidence that the earth's core has cooled considerably over the last three billion years, sparking questions about whether plate tectonic movement is only a relatively recent phenomenon. The international research team used synchrotron technology to study the chemical composition of komatiites - ancient volcanic rocks thrown up from the planet's mantle. Synchrotrons are giant rings around which electrons are fired to produce intense x-rays. Komatiites have long intrigued geologists because these magmas must have been created by unusually high degrees of melting of the mantle. The examples studied by the team are 2.7 billion years old, and were found in present-day Zimbabwe. Similar magmas are not produced on the planet today. "Because the rocks are so old, they have been subject to alteration from erosion, weathering and metamorphism," explained Hugh O'Neill from the Research School of Earth Sciences at Australian National University ANU, said in its press release. "But there are tiny drops of ancient magma trapped inside crystals in the komatiites that are protected from alteration, and by studying these we've been able to get a sense of what was going on inside the planet in its infancy." For years, scientists have argued about whether or not komatiites formed at a time when the planet's mantle was up to 500 degrees hotter than at present, or if the mantle was only marginally hotter than it is currently, and the unusual composition of komatiites was due to the presence of water. Water lowers the temperature at which rocks melt by many hundreds of degrees. O'Neill and his colleagues from Imperial College in London, University of Tasmania and University of Chicago found that there was no evidence of oxidation inside the melt inclusions, which means that the small amount of water trapped in the inclusions was likely all that ever existed at the time of the rocks' formation. The lack of water means that the mantle must have been much hotter billions of years ago than it is today, leading the researchers to conclude that the planet has cooled markedly. The findings were published in Nature. --Indo-Asian News Service st/pb/dg 387 Words 24101329
2008-10-24 04:00:09
Nevada clergy asks makers of Hollywood movie on Ramayan to 'depict scripture without any alterations'.
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2008-10-17 10:34:26
Sharpest whole-planet picture of Jupiter obtained
Munich, Oct 3 ANI: New image-correction technique in an instrument on the ESO's European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope VLT has delivered the sharpest whole-planet ground-based picture ever of Jupiter.The series of 265 snapshots obtained with the Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics Demonstrator MAD prototype instrument mounted on ESO's VLT reveal changes in Jupiter's smog-like haze, probably in response to a planet-wide upheaval more than a year ago.Being able to correct wide field images for atmospheric distortions has been the dream of scientists and engineers for decades. The new images of Jupiter prove the value of the advanced technology used by MAD, which uses two or more guide stars instead of one as references to remove the blur caused by atmospheric turbulence over a field of view thirty times larger than existing techniques."This type of adaptive optics has a big advantage for looking at large objects, such as planets, star clusters or nebulae," said lead researcher Franck Marchis, from UC Berkeley and the SETI Institute inountain View, California, USA. "While regular adaptive optics provides excellent correction in a small field of view, MAD provides good correction over a larger area of sky. And in fact, were it not for MAD, we would not have been able to perform these amazing observations," he added.MAD allowed the researchers to observe Jupiter for almost two hours on 16 and 17 August 2008, a record duration, according to the observing team.Using MAD, ESO astronomer Paola Amico, MAD project manager Enrico Marchetti and Sebastien Tordo from the MAD team tracked two of Jupiter's largest moons, Europa and Io - one on each side of the planet - to provide a good correction across the full disc of the planet. "It was the most challenging observation we performed with MAD, because we had to track with high accuracy two moons moving at different speeds, while simultaneously chasing Jupiter," said Marchetti.With this unique series of images, the team found a major alteration in the brightness of the equatorial haze, which lies in a 16,000-kilometer 10,000-mile wide belt over Jupiter's equator.More sunlight reflecting off upper atmospheric haze means that the amount of haze has increased, or that it has moved up to higher altitudes. "The brightest portion had shifted south by more than 6,000 kilometers nearly 4,000 miles," explained team member Mike Wong. "The change we see in the haze could be related to big changes in cloud patterns associated with last year's planet-wide upheaval, but we need to look at more data to narrow down precisely when the changes occurred," declared Wong. ANI
2008-10-03 23:00:00
Work on reprocessing agreement within 6 months: Kakodkar
Mumbai, Sept 12 ANI: Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Anil Kakodkar on Friday said that India and the United States will work on a reprocessing agreement within six months after the 123 agreement is passed by the US Congress. Kakodkar said that consultations on arrangements and procedures with the US on reprocessing would have to be completed within a year as per the 123 Agreement. "The idea is, after the US Congressional vote on 123 Agreement, to complete the formalities on reprocessing agreement," Kakodar said.According to Article 6iii of 123 agreement, as envisioned in the Joint Statement of July 18, both parties India and US grant each other consent to reprocess or otherwise alter in form or content nuclear material, transferred pursuant to this agreement and nuclear material and by-products material used in or produced through the use of nuclear material, non-nuclear material or equipment so transferred."To bring these rights into effect, India will establish a new national reprocessing facility dedicated to reprocessing safeguarded nuclear material under International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA safeguards and the parties will agree on arrangements and procedures under which such reprocessing or other alteration in form or content will take place in this new facility," the Indo-US bilateral agreement said. Meanwhile, a few nuclear analysts in Mumbai said the onus now lies on the government about what it wants to explain to Parliament or people of India regarding the steps they would be taking in order to ensure that India has access to `full civil nuclear co-operation' which will include access to dual use, sensitive and reprocessing technologies as promised by the Prime Minister on the floor of house. Analysts also feel that the internal legislation of the US should not hamper the expected rapid growth in these vital sectors in trade with India. ANI
2008-09-12 12:00:00
Land survey begins in Singur to end Nano car deadlock
Singur/New Delhi, Sept 10 ANI: Authorities in West Bengal began a survey on Wednesday to find excess land around the factory building 'Nano' car as part of efforts to end protests by farmers unwilling to give up their farmlands.The four-member committee formed to discuss a land-based solution to compensate farmers in West Bengal visited the Singur site today.After inspecting the TATA Motors' Nano car project site, the committee comprising of Trinamool Congress leaders Rabindranath Bhattacharya, Becharam Manna, West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation WBIDC Managing Director Subrata Gupta and Hooghly District Magistrate Neelam Meena will hold a second meeting.Tata Motors has suspended work at the factory because of the stand-off and threatened to look at alternative sites after farmers backed by the local opposition party blocked roads leading to the plant and threatened workers.After days of negotiations, the State's Communist Government and the opposition Trinamool Congress party, representing the farmers, agreed on a joint committee that would conduct the survey and return excess land around the plant to farmers."We believe that if the government wants to solve the problem then it can. The factory can be built even after the land of the farmers is returned to them. Both the factory and the farming land can co-exist," Becharam Manna, one of the member of the committee belonging to Trinamool Congress.The Nano protests reflect a larger standoff between industry and farmers unwilling to give up land in a country where two-thirds of the population depends on farming. Politicisation of farmers' resentment has further complicated the issue.The Nano factory and its ancillary units were being built on about 1,000 acres of land. About 400 acres, earmarked for ancillary units, is under dispute.Tata Motors says separating the ancillary units from the main plant would upset the project's cost calculations, and any alteration in the original arrangement was unacceptable.Meanwhile, Lakshmi Mittal, chairman steel giant Arcelormittal said the Singur standoff doesn't mean the country does not want growth."One case of Singur cannot be the example for the world. You can face this kind of problem in any other country, a particular project can face this kind of opposition from the people but the country as a whole is interested in growing and I am sure one programme which are launched in Jharkhand and Orissa were people are participating in discussion about the growth of the state," Mittal said.Trouble began after the government acquired farmland for the factory last year. The government offered compensation which some farmers rejected, demanding that at least 400 acres be returned.The government says it is in favour of a land-based solution for farmers but against disturbing the Tata Motors plant site. ANI
2008-09-10 10:00:00