Awards & Excellence – ” Shri G Madhavan Nair ” , ISRO Former Chairman

National Recognition

Padma Vibhushan (2009)

Padma Bhushan (1998)

Awards

• “MP Birla Memorial Award 2009″ from MP Birla Institute of Fundamental Research at Kolkata (July 4, 2009).
• “Bhu Ratna” Award from the Soil Conservation Society of India at the National Conference on “Challenges and Opportunities of Bioindustrial Watershed Development for the Prosperity of the Farming Community” at the University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK Campus, Bangalore (June 25, 2009).
• “Mohamed Abdu Rahiman Sahib National Award” from Mohamed Abdu Rahman Sahib Foundation, Kodungallur, Thrissur (June 19, 2009).
• ” Lakshmipat Singhania – IIM, Lucknow National Leadership Award 2008″ from the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow at ND (June 10, 2009) .
• “AV Rama Rao Technology Award” from Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad. (cash prize 1 lakh) (May 11, 2009).
• “Chanakya” Award in the area of Technology Innovative Leadership from Public Relations Council of India at Bangalore (April 3, 2009).
• “Man of the Year” form Limca Book of Records, 2009 at New Delhi (March 31, 2009).
• “Special Achievement Award” for contribution towards Science & Technology from the International Institute of Planning & Management& The Sunday Indian State Excellence Awards, 2008 at The Leela Palace, Bangalore (March 25, 2009).
• “Yashwantrao Chavan National Award 2008″ from Yashwantrao Chavan Pratishthan, Mumbai on the occasion of the 96th Birth Anniversary of Shri.Yashwantrao Chavan (March 12, 2009).
• “Kururamma Award” from Kururamma Tempan, Guruvayoor (March 4, 2009).
• “Public Service Excellence Award” from All Indian Management Association at the All India Management Association Foundation Day at Delhi (2009).
• NASSCOM’s Global Leadership “Award for Vision” for 2008-09 from NASSCOM at Mumbai (2009).
• “Newsmaker 2008″ – Manorama News Award at Trivandrum (2009).
• “Bharat Asmita Shreshtatva Award-2009″ from MIT School of Government, Pune, at New Delhi (2009).
• “CNN-IBN Indian of the Year 2008″ in Public Service Category (2009).
• “AK Nair Memorial Award” from The North Malabar Chamber of Commerce by AK Nair Endowment Committee at Kannur (2009).
• “NDTV Indian of The Year” Award at New Delhi (2009).
• Raja Rammohan Puraskar” award on the 236th birth anniversary of Raja Rammohan Roy at Kolkata (2008)
• M M Chugani award for 2006, confered by Indian Physics Association at IIT Mumbai (2008).
• “Bharat Shiromani Award 2006″ from Shiromani Institute, New Delhi (2007).
• “Shankar Ratna” award from Shankara Netralaya – a unit of Medical Research Foundation, Chennai (2007).
• ” Dr. A S G Jayakar ” Award from the Science India Forum, Muscat and the Indian Institute of Scientific Heritage – Oman Chapter (2007).
• “9th Sri Chandrasekarendra Saraswathi National Eminence Award” in the field of Science & Technology from The South Indian Education Society, Mumbai (2006).
• Gold Medal from the Prime Minister at the 94th Indian Science Congress at Chidambaram (2007).
• “Sasthra Ratna” Purskara from the Pazhassi Raja Charitable Trust, Kozhikode (2006).
• The First “Sree Chithira Thirunal Award” from Sree Chithira Thirunal Trust, Thiruvananthapuram.
• “Lokmanya Tilak Award” from Tilak Smarak Trust, Pune (2006).
• Honoured by the Lakshmikanthammal Educational Trust for outstanding contribution to the field of Indian Space Research at RMK Engineering College, Thiruvallur (2006).
• “Best R&D Man of the Year” Corporate Excellence Award – 2005 from the Foundation of Indian Industry & Economists at ND.(2006).
• Fifth “Shri Balvantbhai Parekh Award” from The Indian Planetary Society,Mumbai (2006).
• H.K.Firodia Award 2005 from H.K.Firodia Memorial Foundation, Pune (2005)
• Dr. Yelavarthy Nayudamma Memorial Award – 2004 from Dr.Y.Nayudamma Memorial Trust, Tenali, Andhra Pradesh (2005).
• Benedict Mar Gregorios Award from The Association of Mar Ivanios College Old Students, Trivandrum (2005).
• 10th Science & Technology Award for Excellence for the year 2003-2004 from Sathyabama Deemed University, Chennai (2005).
• Raja Sir Muthiah Chettiar Endowment Award from Crescent Engineering College, Chennai (2004).
• Fellow, Astronautical Society of India.
• Melpadom Attumail Georgekutty Award from Mar Thoma Syrian Church of Malabar, Thiruvalla (2004).
• Personality of the Decade Award from KG Foundation, Coimbatore (2004).
• Vikram Sarabhai Memorial Gold Medal of the Indian Science Congress Association – January 2003
• Swadeshi Sastra Puraskar Award – 1995
• Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Award – 1995
• FIE Foundation’s Award – 1994
• National Aeronautical Award – 1994

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Facebook will introduce ‘Facebook Credits’ through which users can spend virtual currency across various games or applications they use on the popular website.

A virtual currency, Facebook Credits is already popular among gaming enthusiasts in many other countries, including the US.

“Facebook will introduce a new payment system Facebook Credits in India from July 1,” a company spokesperson told media.

Facebook Credits enables fast and easy transactions across games on the social networking site and would benefit about 2.5 crore Facebook subscribers in the country.

The users would be able to enter their payment information once and can buy, earn and spend safely across various games or applications they use on Facebook.

“Starting July 1, we will require all social game developers on the Facebook canvas platform to process payments through Facebook Credits,” Facebook Platform Marketing Manager Deb Liu wrote on the company’s official blog in January.

This will also help various brands, which use the medium of Facebook to retail them goods through their social pages.

“Facebook Credits is currently used in more than 350 applications from 150 developers, representing more than 70 per cent of virtual goods transactions volume on Facebook,” Liu had said.

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Bangalore: The Indian information technology (IT) industry that is poised to become a $225 billion industry by 2020 seems to be at stake due to the alarming deficit in both the number and quality of engineers. IT has become one of the most significant growth catalysts for the Indian economy and the industry with its large pool of quality engineers has brought India on the global map.

According to a Nasscom study, Indian IT sector needs 7.5 million engineers in next 10 years to retain its competitive edge. Also, Indian Semiconductor Association estimates that the demand for workforce in design industry will grow at an annual growth rate of 20 percent to touch 2,30,000 by 2012.

Are we equipped to meet this increasing demand? Many surveys say NO. A World Bank study on Employability & Skill Set of Newly Graduated Engineers India revealed that nearly 65 percent of prospective employers are not happy with skills that fresh graduates bring to the table. The Nasscom study also revealed that the majority of 7,00,000 graduates that India produces annually, lack the quality skills required to be employed.

Another survey by Nasscom found that only one in four engineering graduates is employable in India. Different studies have repeatedly warned that in near future India will reach to a point where the country would suffer a shortfall of over half the skilled human resources needed to satisfy the needs of the industry in the coming years.

Moreover, this negative trend will adversely affect the country’s ambitious aim of a double digit economic growth in the near future. The standard of education declined when the higher education system began massively expanding enrolments due to the increasing demand. It’s high time that the industry design proper action plans to generate the required skilled manpower so that India keeps its IT supremacy and the saga of its glory continues.

Share your thoughts on the current situation – the decreasing number and the quality & your views on what the nation can do about it.

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London: Scientists are growing human hearts in lab which they believe could start beating within weeks, offering hope to millions of cardiac patients.

The experiment is a major step towards the first ‘grow-your-own’ heart, and could pave the way for made-to-order livers, lungs or kidneys.

The organs were created by removing muscle cells from donor organs (from dead bodies) to leave behind tough hearts of connective tissue.

Researchers then injected stem cells which multiplied and grew around the structure, eventually turning into healthy heart cells, the Daily Mail reports.

Doris Taylor, expert in regenerative medicine at the University of Minnesota, said: “The hearts are growing, and we hope they will show signs of beating within the next weeks.”

“There are many hurdles to overcome to generate a fully functioning heart, but my prediction is that one day it may be possible to grow entire organs for transplant,” added Taylor.

Patients given normal heart transplants must take drugs to suppress their immune systems for the rest of their lives.

This can increase the risk of high blood pressure, kidney failure and diabetes. If new hearts could be made using a patient’s own stem cells, it is less likely these would be rejected.

The lab-grown organs have been created using these types of cells – the body’s immature ‘master cells’ which have the ability to turn into different types of tissue.

Taylor’s team has already created beating rat and pig hearts. Although they were too weak to be used in animals, the work was an important step towards tailor-made organs.

However, the race to create a working heart faces many obstacles. One of the biggest is getting enough oxygen to the organ through a complex network of blood vessels. Scientists also need to ensure the heart cells beat in time.

These findings were presented at the American College of Cardiology’s annual conference in New Orleans.

source : http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/Scientists_grow_human_heart_in_lab-nid-81503-cid-2.html