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On April 28, 2008 Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched 10 satellites into a Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO). Two of the satellites are built by ISRO for use by various Indian agencies and 8 are from international customers. The lift-off and placement of 10 satellites in one launch is a new world record and beats the current record of 8 satellites held by Russia. My hearty congratulations to ISRO.

You can follow the links below for more Information
ISRO press release
NDTV news on the launch

As you already know from this blog, I have participated in 3 Singapore Marathons till date – 2004. 2005 and 2007.

Next year, I plan to participate in more running events in addition to the Singapore Marathon. As a service to my fellow marathoners, I have started compiling the list of all running events in Singapore in 2008. Please visit back as I add in more details in the days and weeks ahead.

Red Hat Inc, the leaders of open-source and the makers of the legendary Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) OS have since the year 2006 been electing three Red Hat Certified Engineers (RHCEs) every year to be honoured as the RHCEs of the year. The three RHCEs come respectively from America continent, Europe and Asia Pacific.

Two years ago, I finished the Singapore Half-Marathon for the first time. Last year, due to other commitments (or excuses ), I didn’t take the challenge. On the event day, I saw a marathoner returning home after successfully completing the marathon and my heart sank. I said, I will not miss any more.

India has been crowned Asia’s fastest supercomputer, marking the first time the country takes a seat on the list of world’s top 10 fastest machines.


Housed at Tata Group’s Computational Research Laboratories in Pune, the India-based system, ranks No. 4 on the latest Top500 list unveiled Monday at the Supercomputing Conference (SC07) in Reno, Nevada…

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A little known school of scholars in southwest India discovered one of the founding principles of modern mathematics hundreds of years before Newton according to new research.

Dr George Gheverghese Joseph from The University of Manchester says the ‘Kerala School’ identified the ‘infinite series’- one of the basic components of calculus – in about 1350.

The discovery is currently – and wrongly – attributed in books to Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibnitz at the end of the seventeenth centuries.

click here to read the complete article carried by physorg.com