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From Amroha To The Moon(Comments Off)
Khushboo, an engineer with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), is the youngest member of the team of 12 engineers of the Check-Out Division of India’s maiden moon mission, Chandrayaan-I. Her task was to carry out the vacuum, thermal and assembly examinations in different simulated conditions on various components of the satellite. “We had to check and see how the satellite would perform in space,” says the engineer, who joined India’s premier body for space research in 2006.
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Sameena Shah wins Google India Women in Engineering Award 2009
“I love research in Computer Science because it satiates my inherent desire to understand the logic behind things. Things which are seemingly random may have an underlying structure. The joy for me lies in discovering patterns, creating algorithms, proposing a theory and making my own little contribution to the world.” Sameena Shah – Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi – Ph.D – Will graduate in 2009
New UK visa restrictions on Indian professionals soon
Britain is putting in place new immigration restrictions on professionals from India and other non-EU countries so that existing jobs are first offered to local workers.
H-1B visa ban for bailed-out US firms irrational: India
The government has termed as “economically irrational” the provisions that debar US companies from hiring people holding H-1B visas if they take help under the $787 billion economic bail out package, which President Barack Obama has signed into law.
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