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On Thursday, India successfully launched its Sixth navigation Satellite, 1,425 kg IRNSS – IF, into the intended orbit. ISRO,s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV – C32, in its thirty fourth flight, put the Satellite into precise orbit 20.2 minutes after the lift off as the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO’s) Scientist at the Mission Control Centre broke into applause. PSLV – C32 blasted off the Satellite into high altitude from the second launch pad at 4.01 PM at Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota. This is the thirty third consecutive successful mission of PSLV.
IRNSS is an independent Indian regional navigation satellite System. It is designed to cater position information in the Indian region and 1,500 km around the Indian mainland. IRNSS would cater two kinds of services. The first service, Standard Positioning Services (SPS) is provided to all user; the second service, Restricted Services (RS) is provided only to authorized users.
A number of ground stations accountable for the generation and transmission of navigation parameters, satellite ranging and monitoring, etc, have been set up in eighteen locations across the country.
IRNSS – !G, the last satellite of this system, is going to be launched by PSLV in April 2016, thus completing the IRNSS constellation.
It is the Indian Space Research Centre’s (ISRO’s) main satellite launch centre. It was situated in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, 80 km north of Chennai. It was originally called Sriharikota High Altitude Range (SHAR),an acronym that ISRO has withheld to the present day and then Sriharikota Launching Range, the centre was renamed after the death of ISRO’s former Chairman, Satish Dhawan, in 2002.
The Satish Dhawan Space Centre has, till date, 52 launches to its credit out of 52, 42 launches have been recorded as successful. It has 8 failed launches accorded to it.
The Five Previous IRNSS Satellite
IRNSS – 1 A
IRNSS- 1A, the first navigational satellite in the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite (IRNSS) series of satellites, had been developed at a cost of Rs. 1.25 billion (US $ 18 million). It was launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) on 1, July 2013 at 11:41 PM.
The launch was deferred from its initial launch date of 26 June 2013, because of a technical snag in the 2nd stage of the PSLV- C22 launch rocket.
The satellite was launched to cater services to the Indian public this system would be system similar to Global Positioning System (GPS), but only for India and the region around it.
IRNSS – 1B, 1,432 kg. satellite, was launched on 4 April 2014 at 17:14 IST, aboard the PSLV – C24 from SDSC, Sriharikota. It was launched to help enhancing the satellite based navigation System of India which was then under development.
IRNSS – 1C
IRNSS – 1C was launched on 16 October 2014 at 01:32 AM, by PSLV – C@^ from SDSC in Sriharikota. The satellite will cater navigation, tracking and mapping services.
IRNSS -1D
IRNSS – 1D, is a satellite slate to provide navigational services, which was then under development. It was launched successfully on 28 March 2015 onboard ISRO’s PSLV – 27 from SDSC. The total cost of the mission was about Rs. 14 billion.
IRNSS – 1E
IRNSS – 1E, the fifth out of seven in the IRNSS series of satellite, was launched into orbit on January 20, 2016.
Polar Satellite launch Vehicle, in its 33rd flight (PSLV – C#!), launched the satellite from SDSC. The satellite will provide navigation, tracking and mapping services.
These inspirational women will leave you feel inspired, confident, and ready to make the most of your life.
Here is the list of 10 inspirational women and some of their most inspiring quotes.
Mother Teresa (1910-1997)
“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love”
Mother Teresa, the Nobel Peace Prize winner (1979), aimed at looking after those who had nobody to look after them through her own order “The Missionaries of Charity”. She worked tirelessly towards her goal until her ill-health – that included two heart attacks, pneumonia and malaria – forced her to step down in March 1997, following which she took her last breath in September 1997. One of the most admirable things about Mother Teresa, the inspirational women, is that she wasn’t doing it for the recognition, she spent nearly 30 years of her life helping others before anybody even knew who she was.
“Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart”
During her stay in Netherlands while hiding from the German forces, Anne Frank, a young jewish girl, was gifted a diary by her father when she was 13. However, her diary was published after her death in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at the age of 15. The diary served as a unique eye-witness account of life during Holocaust (mass murder of approximately six million Jews during World War II) and it became one of the world’s most read books. She was one of the inspirational women on this planet.
Aung Sang Suu Kyi (1945)
“In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued.”
Burmese opposition politician Suu Kyi, inspirational women was under house arrest for 15 years for her pre-democracy campaigning. She only gained release in 2010 following an international campaign to let her free. She won a nobel prize in 1991 where it was said that “Suu Kyi’s struggle is one of the most extraordinary examples of civil courage in Asia in recent decades.”
“I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.”
“The lady with the lamp”, Florence Nightingale, nursed wounded soldiers during the Crimean war in 1853. Her passion and dedication to the profession changed public’s perception about this profession. Her insistence on improving sanitary conditions for the patients is believed to have saved many lives.This campaign led to improve the quality of nursing in military hospitals led to Florence publishing a book called ‘Notes on Nursing’ in 1859. Florence, inspirational women became the first female member of the Royal Statistical Society in 1858.
Indira Gandhi (1917-1984)
“Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.”
Indira Gandhi served India as the Prime Minister for 15 years. She paved the way for democracy in India until her assassination in 1984. And till date the only female Prime Minister of India. Indira Gandhi was the only child of India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru.
“Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.”
Amelia Earhart, inspirational women was the first woman to ever fly solo across the Atlantic in 1932 and she became the first woman pilot in 1935 after flying solo from Hawaii to California. She embarked upon her lifelong dream of flying across the world in 1937, however, her flight went missing on that trip and she was never seen again.
Marie Curie (1867-1934)
“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.”
The famously known “Madame Curie“, a Polish-French physicist and chemist, was the first person to have received two Nobel Prizes. She was the first female professor at the University of Paris and the first lady to be enshrined in France’s national mausoleum, the Paris Panthéon, all based on her own merits.
“Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.”
Princess Diana was a well-loved “people’s princess”. She devoted her life to charity work; she led a nobel Peace Prize-winning campaign to ban landmines.
Rosa Parks (1913-2005)
“I knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move.”
Also know as “the first lady of civil rights”, the African-American Rosa Parks was a pioneer of civil rights in a racially segregated Alabama in 1950s. In 1955, she refused to give away her seat to a white passenger in a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, thereby, disobeying the bus driver’s orders. This act of hers sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott that crippled the state capital’s public transport system. The courage she showed in that instance sparked the civil rights movement in America, and her simple act of defiance changed the lives of millions of people.
Billie Jean King (1943)
“I thought it would set us back 50 years if I didn’t win that match. It would ruin the women’s tour and affect all women’s self esteem.”
Billie Jean King, the US tennis legend and the winner of 20 Wimbledon titles, famously beat Bobby Riggs in 1973 for a $100,000 prize in “The Battle of the sexes” after he said to her that men were superior athletes. With 39 Grand Slam titles to her name and 6 separate spells as world number one, Billie Jean King is undoubtedly one of the greatest female tennis players ever to grace the game. Billie Jean King described sports as “a microcosm of society”, and believed her actions could help improve women’s rights all over the world.
International Women’s Day is celebrated on March 8 every year. The theme of 2016 International Women’s Day is “Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step it up for Gender Equality”. The idea behind this is to speed up the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Which was formally pledged and adopted by world leaders at a 2015 summit. It concentrates on reducing poverty, hunger, disease and gender inequality.
International Women’s Day, a worldwide event, celebrates not only Women’s achievements (from political to social) but also calls for gender equality.
This year a Google Doodle featuring women and girls from across the world is making them complete the sentence ‘One day I will’ talking about their dreams and ambitions. To create this video Google visited 13 countries and spoke with 337 women, whose goals varied from “giving a voice to those girls who cannot speak” to “swimming with pigs in the Bahams.”
Women and girls, who are inspirited by the Doodle are encouraged to take to twitter to share their own endeavours with the hashtag # One Day I Will.
Although no one is certain about International Women’s Day origin, it can be traced to 1908, when nearly 15,000 women marched through New York City demanding voting rights, shorter working hours and better pay. One year after this event the first National Woman’s Day was observed in America on February 28 in conformity with a declaration by the Socialist Party of America.
In the year 1910, the leader of the Women’s office’ for the Social Democratic Party in Germany, Clara Zetkin, put forward the idea of an International Women’s Day. She suggested that every country must celebrate women, to push for their demand, on one day every year.
More, than 100 women belonging to 17 countries supported Zetking’s suggestion and International Women’s Day was formed. On 19 March, 1911 it was celebrated for the first time in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland.
It was decided in 1913 to shift the date of celebrating IWD to March 8, and since then it has been celebrated on that day. Since its recognition by the United Nations in 1975 IWD has created a theme each year for the celebration.
In 2011, the centenary year for International Women’s Day, US President Barak Obama proclaimed March to be ‘Women’s History Month.’
The objective of the observation of International Women’s Day- to achieve full gender equality for women of the world – has still not been realized. A gender pay difference is still there across the world, and women are still not represented in equal number in politics or business.
On the celebration day of International Women’s Day, women from across the world gather together to force the world to recognize these inequalities and in the process they hail the achievements of women who have overcome these hurdles.
On Thursday, Union Finace Minister Arun Jaitly presented the Aadhar Bill (Targeted Delivery of Financial and other Subsidies, Benefits and Services), 2016 in the Lok Sabha. The bill caters statutory support to Aadhar, the unique identify numbar, through which the government intends to target delivery of subsidy benefits and services. The cost for the nationwide Aadhar exercise is incurred from Consolidated Fund of India.
According to the financial memorandum of the Bill, “An estimated expenditure of Rs. 13,66.22 crore has been approved for implementing the Aadhar scheme up to the financial year 2016-17.”
Through this proposed legislation the government hopes to address concerns that have been expressed on the mandatory use of Aadhar in government schemes. It is important here to mention that the Supreme Court has restrined the use of the Aadhar number until a Constitution Bench delivers its verdict on a number of cases related to privacy and other issues. One of the provissions of the Bill is that the Aadhar number cannot grant right of or proof of citizenship of domicile.
The Bill caters for the settling of the Unified Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and the establishment, operation and maintenance of the Central Identity Data Respository (CIDR). According to the Bill, the Authority has to ensure the security, confidentiality and protection of identity information and Authentication records of individuals in its possession or control, including the information stored in the repository. These comprise biometric information collected, created and stored in electronic form.
The Finance Minister presented the step as a Money Bill. Clause (1) of Article 109 of the Constitution of India state4s that ‘a Money Bill shall not be introduced in the Council of states’ (Rajya Sabha). And clause 2 of the same Article makes it clear that the Rajya can only make recommendation and cannot make amendments in the Bill; the clause further sates that Rajya Sabha ‘shall within a period of fourteen days from the date of its receipt of the Bill return the Bill to’ Lok Sabha ‘with recommendations and the ‘ Lok Sabha ‘may thereupon either accept or reject all or any of the recommendations of the’ Rajya Sabha.Responding to the objections of the opposition of the Bill being introduced as Money Bill, the Finance Minister said, :… the substance of the Bill is that whoever gets subsidies, will have to produce Aadhar … This is in accordance with Article 110…. It is up to the Speaker now to decide whether it is in accordance or not”. Clause 3 of the Article 110 of the constitution of India states that ‘If any question arises whether a Bill is a Money Bill or not, the decision of the speaker’ of the Lok Sabha.
However, the Finance Minister decision to introduce this measure as a Money Bill cannot be challenged constitutionally, as the sub clause (d) of clause 1 of the Article 110 of the constitution of India states ‘the appropriation of moneys out of the Consolidated Fund of India’ that is clearly indicated in financial memorandom of the Bill.
Aadhar Bill is one of the most transformative economic reforms ever. This Bill can help the government overcome the legal challenges in linking Aadhar to a host of government services.
This is a fact that there is no law in our country, based on which the Aadhar enrolments and use in government programmes have been occuring, always makes the UID scheme exposed to challenge. Adding to this woe, there is no legal resort now for a person in the event of any misuse of identify information collected in the course of enrolment or authentication. All these uncertainties would end once the country gets a law governing the Aadhar Project.
