Friday, May 28, 2010

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Interceptor boat commissioned in Indian Coast Guard

Posted: 28 May 2010 07:39 AM PDT

Strengthening surveillance capabilities of the Indian Coast Guard, Defence Secretary Pradeep Kumar today commissioned an Interceptor boat in Goa for responding to urgent calls at sea.

The boat, C-147, is the fifth of its class and designed and built indigenously by the ABG Shipyard. It is fitted with modern navigational and communication equipment, officials said here.

The interceptor boat is commanded by Commandant S R Nagendran and will be deployed for enhancing the close-coast surveillance capability of the Coast Guard.

The 90-tonne boat will be based in Goa under the operational and administrative control of the Coast Guard’s western region.

The boat has an endurance of 500 nautical miles and can achieve a maximum speed of 45 knots.

Courtesy:PTI

Goa Congress legislator for CBI probe into drug mafia nexus

Posted: 28 May 2010 07:11 AM PDT

The Goa government Friday ruled out a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the drug mafia nexus but a ruling Congress legislator has said that the federal agency alone can clean up the narcotics mess in the state.

Agnelo Fernandes, who represents the constituency of Calangute, a popular beach village known for easy availability of drugs, told IANS Thursday that incidents of policemen being beaten up by the narcotics mafia were quite common in his area.

‘The local police will not be able to investigate their own officers who are linked to the narcotics mafia. Only the CBI will be able to do justice to the nexus probe,’ Fernandes said, adding that he had asked Chief Minister Digambar Kamat to hand over the probe to the CBI.

On Friday, the Goa government told the Panaji bench of the Bombay High Court that it was not willing to hand over the probe into the police-politician-drug mafia nexus to the CBI. The government’s stand is against the recommendations of police and the state home ministry.

Fernandes earlier said on the floor of the house that if the drug dealers in Goa were not reined in, they would not hesitate even to shoot the chief minister.

Referring to Tuesday’s incident in which a police constable attached to the Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) was beaten up by suspected drug dealers in Calangute, Fernandes said that drug dealers often beat up policemen in the area.

The legislator said that when constable Mahabaleshwar Sawant was beaten up by drug dealers, he called for help from the Calangute police station but no police officer was forthcoming to help him.

‘One police officer from the Calangute police station was beaten up by a gang of Nigerian drug dealers. But no complaint was filed because these officers have dealings with them,’ Fernandes said.

Courtesy:Sify

Cypress and BITS, Pilani - K.K. Birla Goa Campus Team Up on New PSoC® 3 Lab

Posted: 27 May 2010 10:12 AM PDT

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) and the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani - K.K. Birla Goa Campus (BPKKBGC) signed a memorandum of understanding for collaborative research and funded lab development based on the PSoC® 3 programmable system-on-chip. The MoU was signed by Professor K.E. Raman, Director, BPKKBGC and Patrick Kane, Director of Cypress University Alliance.

Patrick Kane visited the campus where he inaugurated a state-of-the-art PSoC 3 lab-the first of its kind in India. The lab will expose students to the PSoC platform, a flexible family of devices with programmable analog and digital blocks integrated with a microcontroller. With its unique architecture, PSoC provides an unrivaled learning platform for embedded design students and will enable them to create projects and solutions for embedded systems.

“Our focus is to excite students about new technologies and hence grow the pool of budding, talented engineers from India. The PSoC lab will allow students to innovate and work on high-tech projects,” said Patrick Kane. He and his team interacted extensively with both students and faculty at BPKKBGC. They also conducted a workshop for the Electrical, Electronics and Instrumentation Group.

“The lab has added an extra dimension to the student learning experience and has resulted in a unique learning platform where students now receive real-world, hands-on experience in developing applications,” said Professor Raman.

Students from BPKKBGC have implemented a number of projects using PSoC 1 technology. Some of these include a BLDC motor driver, a pH meter, an accelerometer based tilt sensor, a PWM driven hexapod etc. These projects are currently being developed using the new PSoC 3 platform, which uses an 8051 core as well a programmable analog and digital modules.

Students have also been involved in research based projects such as study of battery charging algorithms using the PSoC. They have also assisted Cypress in development of the Power Line Communication solution. A PSoC 3 manual by BITS Goa is also in the pipeline.

Courtesy:IT News
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