Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Audi TT-Vishal Bawa(B.sc MCAJ 1st sem)(MassCoMedia Student)




German car manufacturing company, Audi launched its latest model - luxury 'TT Coupe' in India in March 2008. Latest technology has been used in the engineering of the car, to produce ultimate driving pleasure. It is dynamic from the outside, roomy and luxurious on the inside. The four-seater coupe comes with all the safety equipments that can provide all-round protection to the passengers. Audi TT Coupe is truly a fascinating car from every perspective. The petrol-driven vehicle offers mind-blowing top speed. The powerful engine of TT coupe is surprisingly agile.

Engine
Under the hood of Audi TT coupe lies a powerful 3.2L Quattro engine, which generates a power of 250 PS @ 6300 rpm and a peak torque of 320 Nm @ 2500 rpm. The car accelerates from zero to 100 km/h in 5.7 seconds and promises to deliver a top speed of 250 km/h. The engine is linked to six gears automatic transmission.

Design And Comfort
Audi TT coupe combines the luxury of a sedan with the functionality of a coupe. With a low roofline, the coupe features short front and rear overhangs, which add to its sporty elegance. Adding to the dynamic stance of the vehicle are the prominently flared wheel arches. The ergonomically-shaped folding seats, provided in the rear side of the car, provide comfort to its occupants. The rear seat occupants enjoy equal level of comfort, with ample leg and head room. The seats are positioned at a low level, with effective lateral support that can be adjusted as per the individual's convenience.

Interiors
The plush interiors of Audi TT coupe are neatly appointed. The cabin is characterized by leather trimmed sports seats in the front and foldable seats in the rear side. The front seats are electronically adjustable, with electric lumbar support. The cabin gets a luggage compartment, which offers ample boot space. The seats are upholstered in finest nappa leather. The trendy instrument panel features audio system and a radio symphony with 6-disc CD changer. It also gets a driver information system.

Ride And Handling
The finely tuned suspension system of Audi TT coupe, with Mc Pherson strut with lower wishbones in the front and four-link suspension with separate spring/shock absorber arrangement in the rear, work in combination to absorb the bumps on uneven roads. The coupe also features an 'Audi magnetic ride', which offers crisp handling. The ventilated discs, which act as the front as well as rear brakes, provide forceful stopping power to the automobile.

Safety
Audi TT coupe is fully loaded with advanced safety features. The standard safety equipments, safeguarding the occupants, include Antilock Braking System (ABS), Electronic Stability Program (ESP), dual stage airbags for the front seat passengers, radio remote-controlled central locking, anti-theft device and tyre mobility system. The electro-mechanical steering wheel comes with speed-dependent power assistance.

Variants, Price And Color
Audi TT 3.2 Quattro, the only model of the car available in India, is priced at Rs 46 lakh (approx). It comes in five dazzling colors, including Phantom Black, Sprint Blue, Solar Orange, Brilliant Red and Ibis White.

Thursday, February 10, 2011

SPEAK OUT- Edition 2 Swati Jain (MAPR)(MassCoMedia Student)


Sports stars in India beyond cricket-Deepak sharma(MassCoMedia Student)


India organized 19th commonwealth games in Delhi last year and a large number of players from different games gave his best performance and won medals for India. There is big list of players, those came in lime light CWG held in Delhi last year and got the reputation, name and fame of sports star which was just for cricketers in India. The common mentality of Indian sports ministry, corporate houses and every authority which is responsible for development of sports in India, they always demoralized players, and those are not a cricketer’s. But the circumstances fully changed after CWG held in Manchester in the year was 2002. Indian team won 30 gold’s and total 69 medals. It was the milestone for history sports in India and also a proud movement for every citizen of India. Players, who set identity of the game in india like saina nehwal, who discover the game of badminton in India and same thing did by sania mirza in women’s badminton. Narayan karteken is a formula one player, who established the identity of formula one in Indian subcontinent.

There are many players, who’s are very popular in India. She is a Professnal female Indian tennis player. In April 2003, mirza made her debut in the India fed cup team, winning all three matches. Mirza has begun playing tennis at the age of six. In 2004, she was awarded the Arjuna award by the Indian government. She is also won the 2003 Wimbledon championship girl’s doubles title, teaming with alias kleybaova of Russia. She is known for her powerful forehand ground strokes. Mirza’s highest ranked female tennis player ever from India, with career highest ranking of 27 in singles and 18 in doubles. In winning with Mahesh bhupati, the mixed doubles event at 2009 Australian open, she became the first Indian women to win a grand slam title. at the 2006 doha asian games mirza won the silver in the women’s singles category and the gold in mixed doubles partnering Leander Paes.

She won silver in mixed doubles and a bronze medal in singles in Guangzhou asian games. She also won a silver medal in singles and a bronze in women’s doubles in CWG held in delhi last year. Saina Nehwal is an Indian Khel Ratna winning badminton player currently ranked number fifth in the world by Badminton World Federation. Saina is the first Indian woman to reach the singles quarterfinals at the Olympics and the first Indian to win the World Junior Badminton Championships. Saina nehwal proved her talent across the globe. If consider her performance against top ranked Chinese opponents. she lost a match from Wang Yihan. she was trailing fromWang 0-2. she defeated by Jiang Yanjiao in three back to back matches. Saina lost three matches and a win against Wang. Her record againist Wang Shixian levelling on1-1.

She won two matches and lost a match against Lu Lan. Saina Nehwal made history on June 21, 2009, becoming the first Indian to win a Super Series tournament, by clinching the Indonesia Open with a stunning victory over higher-ranked Chinese Wang Lin in Jakarta. Saina won her second career Super Series title by winning the Singapore Open title on June 20, 2010. She completed a hat-trick in the same year by winning the Indonesian Open on June 27, 2010. This win resulted in her rise to 3rd ranking and subsequently to No. 2. Later in the same year she also won Hong Kong Super Series on December 12, 2010. Saina was the under-19 national champion. Saina created history by the winning the prestigious Asian Satellite Badminton tournament (India Chapter) twice, becoming the first player to do so.
In 2006, Saina appeared on the global scene when she became the first Indian woman to win a 4-star Tournament, the Philippines Open. Entering the tournament as the 86th seed, Saina went on to stun several top seeded players including number seed Xu Huaiwen before defeating Julia Wong Pei Xian of Malaysia for the title. Saina Nehwal was rewarded with Arjuna award in August, 2009 and her coach Gopichand was also rewarded with Dronacharya award at the same time. Saina has been signed up by Olympic Gold Quest to support her in fulfilling her dream of winning the Olympic gold medal. Saina has been aw Saina has been awarded with the highest national sporting award given to players, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award on 29 August 2010arded with Padma Shri award in January 2010. Saina Nehwal won 2010 Commonwealth games gold in the women's singles badminton event held in the Siri Fort Auditorium, Delhi, on 14 October 2010. She was recently voted as the third best Badminton Player of the Year 2010 by readers of an international badminton magazine, Badzine. Pankaj Arjan Advani is a World Champion in snooker and billiards from India.He won his first world championship title in 2003 IBSF World Snooker Championship in China. Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honour, 2009. Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, India's highest sporting honour, 2005-06.Rajyotsova award Karnataka's highest civilian award, 2007. After winning the IBSF World Billiards Championship in 2005 at Qawra, Malta, when he defeated fellow countryman Devendra Joshi, he became only the second cueist after Malta's Paul Mifsud to have won both the billiards and snooker world titles. Advani, who is the only player to have achieved a "grand double" of winning both the points and timed formats at the IBSF World Billiards Championships 2005, has repeated the same feat at the 2008 Championships held in Bangalore as well.

Sushil Kumar Solanki is an Indian World Champion wrestler who won the gold medal in the 66 kg freestyle competition at the FILA 2010 World Wrestling Championships and a bronze medal in the men’s event at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In india wrestling known as ‘ khusti ‘, begun at age Royal Rajbade’s and wrestlers known as ‘ pehlwan’s’. wrestling is historical game in india and roots of game is everywhere in india. If we cheakout the history , maximum wrestlers are came from rural india. Wrestling schools in india known as ‘Akhada’, there is lack of basic facilities which is very important for a wrestler besides that fact indian wresters proved his talent in wrestling world. Kumar defeated Leonid Spiridonov of Kazakhstan in the repechage round to win the bronze. This was the third medal for India at the Beijing Olympics after shooter Abhinav Bindra claimed the first ever individual Olympic gold medal in the 10 m Air Rifle event and Vijender Kumar won bronze medal in boxing for the country.

This was also the second medal for India in wrestling, and the first since K D Jadha's bronze medal at the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games. On July 2009, he received the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratn - India's highest On 3 October 2010, honor for sportspersons. Sushil Kumar was the final baton bearer who handed the Queen's Baton to Prince Charles in the Queen's Baton Relay for the 2010 Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony. Leander Adrian paes is an Indian professional tennis player who currently features in the doubles events in the ATP tour and the Davis Cup tournament. he made his debut in international tennis arena in 1991.He won 6 Doubles and 6 Mixed Doubles Tennis Grand Slam titles and finishing runners up in numerous other Grand Slam finals, he is considered to be one of the greatest and most respected contemporary doubles and mixed doubles players in the world.

After winning the Mixed Doubles title with Cara Black at The Championships, Wimbledon in 2010, he became only the third male tennis player in tennis history (after Rod Laver and John McEnroe) to win any Wimbledon title in three different decades. He is among the most successful professional Indian tennis players and is also the former captain of the Indian Davis Cup team. He is the recipient of India's highest sporting honour, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award in 1996–1997, the Arjuna Award in 1990, and the Padma Shri award in 2001 for his outstanding contribution to tennis in India. Apart from his twelve Grand Slam victories at doubles and mixed doubles events, he is famous for his several memorable Davis Cup performances playing for India and also for winning a bronze medal for India in the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. Peas partnering with Mahesh bhupati in men’s duubles pair known as ‘Indian express’. Which was a very good combination ever for india. He went one better at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics,where he beat Fernando Meligeni to win the Bronze medal, thus becoming the first Indian to win an individual medal since KD Jadhav won Bronze at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics more than four decades earlier.He also achieved the rare Men's Doubles/Mixed Doubles double during the 1999 Wimbledon. His consecutive Olympic appearances from 1992 to 2008.

Krishna Poonia, is a national woman discus throw champion of India. She led an Indian clean sweep in the women's discus final on 11th October 2010, winning the Delhi Commonwealth Games gold Medal with a throw of 61.51 metres. Poonia is a girl came from a small vilage of haryana, proved that talent come out as thunder, if someone demorlized or lack of opportunity never stoped talent. She won bronze medal in 2006 Doha Asian Games. Krishna Poonia threw the discus to 61.53, her personal best, in the second try and finished behind Aimin Sing of China (63.52) and Ma Xuenjun, also of China (62.43).Krishna Poonia had won gold medal in the 46th Open National athletics championships to nose ahead of favorites Seema Antil and Harwant Kaur while registering a career-best 60.10 meters distance .She contested at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, but failed to reach the finals, after finishing 10th in the qualifiers with a throw of 58.23.She is the first Indian woman to win a gold medal in track and field events of Commonwealth games and the first Indian to win a gold medal in such events after Milkha Singh who had won the gold in Men's440. Viswanathan Anand is an Indian chess Grandmaster and the current World Chess Champion. He held the FIDE World Chess Championship from 2000 to 2002, at a time when the world title was split.After sunil Gvaskar and Sachin Tendulkar third sportsman who is real champion from india.we can say his reputation in chess like tendulkar in cricket.

He became the undisputed World Champion in 2007 and defended his title against Vladimir Kramnik in 2008. He then successfully defended his title in the World Chess Championship 2010 against Veselin Topalov. As the reigning champion, he will face the winner of the Candidates Tournament for the World Chess Championship 2012.Anand became India's first grandmaster in 1987.He was also the first recipient of the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award in 1991Padma Shri, National Citizens Award and Soviet Land Nehru Award in 1987. The inaugural Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award, India's highest sporting honour in the year 1991–1992. British Chess Federation 'Book of the Year' Award in 1998 for his book My Best Games of Chess. Padma Bhushan in 2000.Jameo de Oro the highest honor given by the Government of Lanzarote in Spain on 25 April 2001. The award is given to illustrious personalities with extraordinary achievements. Chess Oscar (1997, 1998, 2003, 2004, 2007, and 2008).Sport star Millennium Award in 1998, from India's premier Sports magazine for being the sportsperson of year.

Abhinav Bindra is an Indian shooter from Zirakpur, Mohali, Punjab and is the current World and Olympic champion in the 10 m Air Rifle event. By winning the gold in the 10 m Air Rifle event at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, he became the first Indian to win an individual gold medal at the Olympic Games and India's first gold medal since 1980, when the Men's Field Hockey Team won the gold. At 15, Abhinav Bindra became the youngest participant in the 1998 Commonwealth Games. His fame to honour though came when he won a Bronze in the 2001 Munich World Cup with a new junior world record score of 597/600. Bindra was also the younge st Indian participant at the 2000 Olympic Games. He won six gold medals at various international meets in 2001. In 2001 he was honoured with the Arjuna Award and the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award in 2001.In the Air rifle event at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, Manchester, he won Gold in the Pairs event. Bindra also won Silver in the individual event. On July 24, 2006, Bindra became the first Indian shooter to win a World Championship gold in Zagreb. Dr. Karni Singh's Silver in 1962 was the previous best by an Indian in a World Championship meet.

At the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games, he won the Gold in the Pairs event and the Bronze in the Singles event When the 2010 Commonwealth Games was held in New-Delhi, Abhinav Bindra got the honour of being the Indian contingent's flag-bearer at the opening ceremony. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Abhinav Bindra won the gold for the Men's 10m Air Rifle final after shooting a total of 700.5. Abhinav Bindra along with Gagan Narang shot in unison to set a Games record 1193 in 10m air rifle pair's event for men to win the first gold for India in the 19th Commonwealth Games,Sydney cup 2007.

Vijender Singh Beniwal also known as Vijender Singh or Vijender Beniwal) is an Olympic Medalist Indian boxer from Kalwas, Bhiwani district in Haryana.He practiced boxing at the Bhiwani Boxing Club where coach Jagdish Singh recognized his talent and encouraged him to take to professional boxing. Vijender took part in the middleweight (75 kg) division at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, where he won the bronze medal in a lost semifinal bout against Kazakhstan's Bakhtiyar Artayev with the final score of 24–2.Vijender took part in the middleweight (75 kg) division at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, where he won the bronze medal in a lost semifinal bout against Kazakhstan's Bakhtiyar Artayev with the final score of 24–29onal boxing .He beat southpaw Carlos Góngora of Ecuador 9–4 in the quarterfinals on 20 August 2008 which guaranteed him a medal, the first ever Olympic medal for an Indian boxer. In July 2009, Vijender accompanied by Sushil and boxer Mary Kom were felicitated with the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award—India's highest sporting honor. In September 2009, the International Boxing Association (AIBA) announced Vijender as the top-ranked boxer in its annual middle-weight category. In January 2010, Vijender was awarded the Padma Shri award, for outstanding contribution to Indian sports. Vijender won gold medal in the 2010 Asian games in Guangzhou ,china. He thrashed the defending World champion Abbos Atoev of Uzbekistan 7-0 , thus taking revenge for the earlier loss suffered to him Ashish Kumar is an Indian gymnast from Allahabad, who won the first-ever medal in gymnastics for India, in October 2010 at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, when he won a Silver in Men's vault and a Bronze in Men's floor to become the most successful Indian gymnast in Commonwealth Games history, by winning bronze and silver medals in different gymnastic events. At the 2010 Asian Games held in Guangzhou, China Ashish Kumar won a bronze medal in Artistic Gymnastics. World Artistic Gymnastics Championships 2011 JAPAN- He is looking forward for the 2011 World Championship being held in Japan and will be looking to qualify for the Olympics.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Qila Rai Pithoria-Neha Kedia MSC-MCAJ 1st sem(MassCoMedia Student)

Delhi is a city with a remarkable history, monuments and rich cultural heritage. From Old Fort to various monuments in the city, each one represents a separate period in the history of Delhi. Besides Red Fort, Old Fort, Humayun's Tomb, India Gate, Qutab Minar, etc., there exists one more monument, named Qila Rai Pithoria, not well known to the people. Also known as the ‘First City’ of Delhi created in 10th century in Mehrauli, Qila Rai Pithoria got its identification due to the presence of recorded historical facts.


Qila Rai Pithoria was built by Prithviraj Chauhan, also known as Rai Pithora, who was the popular during the then Hindu confrontation against Muslim invader. Qila Rai Pithoria was built on the grounds of the Lal Kot, which was a fort of Anang Pal, a Tomar Rajput ruler. Prithviraj captured Lal Kot and extended it to build the Qila Rai Pithoria. The city was surrounded by a wall of 10 to 18 meters for safety and protection. Quila Rai Pithora in Delhi was the first seat of urban settlements in Delhi region.

“The ruins of the Qila Rai Pithora have been conserved in a 20-acre DDA Conservation Park, but due to the presence of historical facts it was taken by the archeological department” said Pradip Upadhyaye, Security Guard, Quila Rai Pithoria.


The park has an 18-foot high statue of Prithviraj Chauhan and a library, and is being developed as a tourist destination, housing an interesting museum and artifacts belonging to the medieval period.
 
“The fort looks especially beautiful in the evenings when its ramparts get all lit up, and is a good place to spend time with our children as we cannot take them to any other park nearby as they basically turned into the couple’s park and we don’t want our children to have a bad effect on them” said Rashmi, resident of Madangir who has been coming to the park from the last five years.

The park also attract to the young chirpy crowd through its entertaining activities like music concerts, shooting for videos and photo shoots. Hence, Qila Rai Pithoria is an ideal place where one can not only enjoy the historical monument, but also relax in the sprawling park. People can have entertainment under one roof 

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Amateur click-Vishal Bawa (B.sc MCAJ 1st sem)(MassCoMedia Student)



Long and high,Till I touch the Sky;
The sun will rise and shine so bright.
My leaves have shed,but I'm still not dead.
My roots are strong and I'll go on....

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

India's place in current world order, a critical overview by a MassCoMedia student

Noor Khan, Trainee Reporter, MassCoMedia  

A famous saying “History repeat itself” has been again proven with the development of world’s largest democracy – India.
                India was once believed to be a land that was symbolised as golden bird which has now emerged as the land of golden economy after 60 years of its independence.

 The India of today is quite different  from what is used to be in the past, as far as close study of its growth chart presents. It has changed for the better as the analyst all over the world find. They  present their view in a very objective way relying on the data collected painstakingly over the year All expert, both at home and abbroad , agree that India hash made a remarkable progress with regard to the income of people, individually as well as collectively. Common people as well as the knowledgeable one emerged and atmosphere has become conducive for the commencement as well as growth of business today. On the whole, we can say though the modern advancement and growth of our country have benefited mainly the urban middle classes, quantum of benefit has varied across classes throughout the country. The most significant fact is that oour country moved a step forward in the direction of development, while the biggest  economies of the world reeled under the worst impact of global meltdown. As our country   fared well during the time of global slow down dat the world witness during the later years of the first decade of the 21 century, we can hope do the best during the year it is passing through and in the decade to fallow. The factor that ensured the growth of Indian economy are chiefly said to be the country’s manpower ( which consisted of younger and more productive person than in the past), money ( to fund investment and consumption), confidence (that entrepreneurship and investment will result in significant returns) and competition (that proved fiercer yet healthier and ever-increasing). As far as the factors are concerned, thy are still present and not going to vanish very soon, so we can look forward to more growth and prosperity.

We should, however, not ignore d  factor that impeded our growth in the past. When the country ushered in the past new century, the greatest problem that it faced was uncontrollable population explosion. Now, the scene has completely changed. The country is harvesting its population’s strength to its benefit rather than considering it unmanageable. How ironical it looks now when we are in a position to give international Monetary Fund, There fore the scene is just the reverse now. The vistas of opportunity during the first decade of this century fallowed the change in perception when business-idea not the business-licence came to regarded as the key ingredient for a start-up. That becomes possible when the politicians at the helm of affairs started recognising, new political parties. They not only promised but many of them actually fulfilled also what they had promised. And un like their past behaviour, they start talking on growth without any hesitation. In 2007, the Finance minister of India Mr. P. Chidambaram told a gathering abroad that “without growth, India will remain a poor, rich nation”. What he meant to say was that the size of the cake is necessary to determine the slice of the cake. In other word, economic policies should stress more on wealth creation which would in turn decide the wealth distribution.

Impact of Indian economy was seen when U.S.A ‘s president mentioned in his speech at Mumbai at “India is not emerging, but has already a emerged Nation. It has a very crucial  role to play in global economy rise. The rock of Indian economy was even excepted by world biggest economy’s when Chinese president said dat India is not a rival but a partner for its rise.

The rise of India can be seen in every possible field. India holds the record of worlds second largest arm buyer and is said to be a pool of engineers and doctors. Beside these India is making a marvellous development in field of agriculture after been declared as third most producer of wheat and second most producer of tea after china. In field of technology India holds the number one position in software technology.

India’s capacity in sports was seen when its sport stars performed wonderfully in Commonwealth Games (CWG)  and Asian games. Indian cricket always proved to be his iron in world.
India’s strength was seen in international sphere when many ‘Veto Nation’ themselves showed their open support for India’s seat for (UNSC) United Nation Security Council. Hillary Clinton herself said dat India has herself earned a seat in UNSC.


Girls 'stand out', a report on increasing female infanticide and foeticide by a MassCoMedia student

Rahul Chaturvedi, Trainee Reporter, MassCoMedia

India has completed 63 year of independence but why newborn girls are not safe?
In India most of the children are abandoned by their parents and most of them are killed.It is shocking that killed ones are girls.

They are killed because they are girls?

Thousands of girls have been killed by their parents in India in the past 20 years.
A UNICEF report said 4000 fewer girls are born in the country every day than
global average would suggest ,largely because female fetuses are aborted after sex determination test but also through murder of new born.

Highlight of few cases: 

-On January 19,2011 a newborn girl was found floating in a sewage drain near Sarai Rohilla in North Delhi.

-Two couples who left their newborn daughters at the city Kalawati Sran and Bara Hindu Rao Hospital.

I have a question here that, Why men are seen as bread winners? and Why social prejudias deny women opportunities for education and jobs? Who has killed these girl childrens?there own parents?

The minute the child is born and she opens her mouth to cry because they put sand into her mouth and her nostrils so she chokes and dies.

According to the 2001census the national sex ratio was 933 girls to 1000 boys while in the worst affected northers state of punjab,it was 789 girls to 1000 boys.



Clicks by a MassCoMedia student

I am blessed.
Every day that I live, I am blessed.
When I wake up in the morning
Till I lay my head to rest,
Yes, I am blessed.


Nandita Anand, MassCoMedia