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UniverCell Chennai IndiBlogger Meet was conducted on March 20 with four hours of interactive session and fun. It was nice to be in this meeting again after June 2008.

Some interesting features of this IndiBlogger meet are:

• Conducted at GRT Convention Center, T.Nagar, Chennai from 1430 hours to 1830 hours.
• Around 200 bloggers participated in this event.
• Every blogger had an opportunity for self introduction (30 seconds of fame) to the audience.
• Fun filled interactive session for more than an hour.
• Discussion on Traditional Media and Blogging.
• Sponsored by UniverCell, Chennai:
  • UniverCell is looking for bloggers to be part of their blog (about mobile phones) to be launched by them.
  • Planning to conduct a contest to indentify the right bloggers through this IndiBlogger meets at Chennai, Hyderabad, Kochi and Bangalore.

The meeting was followed by more interaction with bloggers during tea break and distribution of T-Shirts to all bloggers.

Here are some photographs covering the IndiBlogger Meet.

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India celebrates 63rd Independence Day on August 15.

Here is a photograph from Press Information Bureau, showing the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh saluting the Tricolour flag after unfurling at the ramparts of Red Fort, on the occasion of 63rd Independence Day, in Delhi on August 15, 2009.

The country is waiting for freedom from

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April 22 of the year is Earth Day.

Earth Day is celebrated to renew our commitment to building a safer, healthier and cleaner world for all of us. On this day let us remember that we need not to wait for April 22 to help out the Earth. Earth Day is every day, to protect our environment on a year-round basis.

This year on the occasion of Earth Day,

• NASA plans to telecast a special High Definition (HD) feed from NASA Television on Earth Day, April 22, that will feature views of Earth captured by cameras aboard the International Space Station.
  • The space station and its crew orbit Earth once every 90 minutes from an altitude of approximately 220 miles.
  • It can be seen from Earth with the naked eye.
  • The orbiting outpost travels at a speed of approximately 17,500 miles per hour, and the crew experiences 16 sunrises and sunsets each day.
  • The station has been continuously occupied since the first crew arrived in November 2000.
• The special Earth views HD feed can be seen April 22 from 6 to 9 a.m., noon to 2 p.m. and 4 to 7 p.m. EDT.

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Polling for the General Elections 2009 is going on for the world’s largest democracy, India. Election Commission of India is conducting the polls in five phases. The first phase of polling commenced on April 16.

To know the election schedule for the remaining phases, click the map below:

Post in MarineBuzz on this day a year before:

Water Proof Your iPod with H2O Audio Accessories

This year, Earth Hour is conducting the world’s first global election, between Earth and global warming. You can cast your vote with your light switch.

“Vote Earth” is a global call to action for every individual, every business, and every community. A call to stand up and take control over the future of our planet. Over 2,712 cities, towns and municipalities in 83 countries have already pledged their support to VOTE EARTH during Earth Hour 2009, and this number is growing everyday.

How to participate ?

On Saturday March 28, wherever you live on planet earth, simply switch off lights at 2030 hours local time for 60 minutes and join the world for Earth Hour.

Why to participate in Earth Hour 2009 ?

• Earth Hour 2009 is a truly global initiative to fight against climate change.
• Climate change threatens lives, livelihoods, and lifestyles.
• In fact, cities consume 75 per cent of the world’s energy and produce 80 per cent of its greenhouse gas emissions. That’s why it’s important for cities to work together on this issue.
• It is the global expression of a desire for serious and sustained action on climate change.
• Earth Hour began in Sydney in 2007, when 2.2 million homes and businesses switched off their lights for one hour.
• In 2008 the message had grown into a global sustainability movement, with 50 million people switching off their lights.
• In 2009,
  • Earth Hour is being taken to the next level, with the goal of 1 billion people switching off their lights as part of a global vote.
  • Unlike any election in history, it is not about what country you are from, but instead, what planet you are from.

Here is the map showing the locations that are going to participate in Earth Hour 2009:

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Great weekend for India. Great day for Indian space programme initiated in 1962.

Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully placed the Indian flag painted on the sides of Moon Impact Probe (MIP – photo on the right) at 2031 hours IST on November 14, 2008.

The Chandrayaan-1 with a mission life of 2 years, is aimed at high-resolution remote sensing of the moon in visible, near infrared (NIR), low energy X-rays and high-energy X-ray regions.

The Chandrayaan-1 moon mission was launched on October 22 through PSLV-C11. Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft is presently orbiting at an altitude of 100 km from the lunar surface. MIP is one of the 11 payloads of Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft that successfully hit the lunar surface. This is the first Indian built object to reach the surface of the moon. The point of MIP’s impact was near the Moon’s South Polar Region.

The eleven payloads of Chandrayaan-1 moon mission are:

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The much awaited IndiBlogger meeting was held on June 08 at Hotel Dee Cee Manor, Chennai. As I belong to IndiBlogger community, I could attend this meeting. Being my first meeting with bloggers, I thoroughly enjoyed it with surprises.

Here are some interesting features of the meeting:

• organized by IndiBlogger.
• sponsored by Microsoft.
• the event started at 1600 hours.
• around 100 plus bloggers of different age groups, professions attended.
• after the welcome address by Lemonade, each blogger gave a self introduction.
• after the tea break, lively recreational plays by Rebelz and IndiBlogger team were keeping the audience spellbound.
• further there were presentations on Mobile Blogging and Live Writer.
• feedback about the event was taken from all IndiBloggers.
• IndiBlogger T shirts were distributed to all participants.
• the event finished approximately at 2045 hours.

Here are some photographs. As all photographs have not come out well, only some of them are displayed here.

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Today, April 22 of the year is the Earth Day. The first Earth Day was on April 22, 1970. Earth Day is an event to create an awareness to develop a safer, healthier and cleaner world for all of us. On this day let us not forget that we have to handover this Planet Earth to our younger generations in the same way (if not better), we received from our older generations. Last month global participation was there for Earth Hour.

Here is Google way of celebrating Earth Day

This Earth Day, use Google Checkout to donate to an environmental non-profit organization on behalf of your friends and family and watch your generosity spread.

Interesting video clips on Earth Day are here and here.

March 29: Today at 8 pm local time millions of people in some of the world’s major cities will be turning off the lights for one hour to convey a powerful message about the need for action on global warming.

The following cities will be participating in Earth Hour 2008:

• Australia
  • Adelaide
  • Brisbane
  • Canberra
  • Melbourne
  • Perth
  • Sydney

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