AKASHGANGA employs cutting-edge ICT along with mainstream hardware in its efforts to modernize milk collection and processing. The company has developed a suite of products for Dairy Cooperative Societies (DCS) throughout India, the collection points for dairy farmers in a rural villages.
From the DCS,
the farmers' milk is aggregated and then sent to a milk union for
processing. AKASHGANGA markets an Automatic Milk Collection System
(AMCS) which, in conjunction with milk analyzers, ensure that the
volume and quality of the milk is properly measured. These advanced
applications are complemented by more traditional weighing scales
and raw milk receiving dock (RMRD) systems. Financial accounts are
tracked using Rojmel accounting software. Complete
Case Study (August 2003)
INDO-US RELATIONS: The Iraqi Factor
By B. Raman
( Based on my impressions during a visit to Washington DC from March 29 to April 4,2004, to attend a conference on Indo-US Strategic Co-operation and a study of subsequent developments)
While one hears more talk of Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda in the USA than of Iraq, there is greater concern in people's minds over what has been happening in Iraq than over the resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan or over the unsatisfactory security situation there or over the activities of the Al Qaeda dregs in Pakistan.
While those who influence and make policies do not like to admit it in public, a realisation is slowly sinking in that they seem to have stirred up a hornet's nest in Iraq, the consequences of which in the region and in the larger Islamic world would be unpredictable.
If anti-American violence continues on the present scale in Iraq, there is a possibility of Mr.George Bush being defeated in the forthcoming elections because of the voters' dissatisfaction over his handling of the Iraqi war than because of his handling of the so-called war against international terrorism.
The dissatisfaction with Bush over Iraq is not due to ethical reasons. Large sections of the American people still believe that Bush was justified in going to war in Iraq and in overthrowing Saddam Hussein through the use of the American military power. The fact that no weapons of mass destruction or no evidence of the alleged links of the Saddam regime with Al Qaeda have been found has had no impact on their mind. There is no sense of shock that their Government had misrepresented facts and misjudged the situation in deciding to go to war in Iraq. MORE
(The writer is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, and Distinguished Fellow and Convenor, Observer Research Foundation (ORF), Chennai Chapter. E-Mail: corde@vsnl.com )
Astronomy, Computer Science and Mathematics in Ancient India
Astronomy
Earliest known precise celestial calculations:
As argued by James Q. Jacobs, Aryabhata, an Indian Mathematician (c.
500AD) accurately calculated celestial constants like earth's rotation
per solar orbit, days per solar orbit, days per lunar orbit. In fact,
to the best of my knowledge, no source from prior to the 18th century
had more accurate results on the values of these constants! Aryabhata's
499 AD computation of pi as 3.1416 (real value 3.1415926...) and the
length of a solar year as 365.358 days were also extremely accurate
by the standards of the next thousand years. Complete
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Other Topics covered in the article are:
Astronomical time spans
Theory of creation of the universe:
Mathematics/Computer Science
Earliest and only known Modern Language
Invention of Zero
The word "Algorithm"
Representing Large numbers