Mumbai: Even as the global space research community cheered the landing of the world’s first asteroid explorer- Japan’s Hayabusa – on Sunday, scientists in Mumbai broke into a quite celebration to mark the achievements of Matunga-born Shyam Bhaskaran. The 46-year-old scientists played a key role in navigating the spaceraft.

 

The capsule, a project of japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Jaxa), landed at Woomera in Australia after logging in more than two billion kms over the last seven years

New York :  An Indian tailor, who started off at his father’s clothing store in Ahmedabad as a combination salesman/janitor, has now become a favourite with New York’s big names. Custom tailor Mohan Ramchandani, 60, was just 10 when he began working for his father before moving to Hong Kong to learn the rag trade, and then immigrating to the US in 1972.

Surat :  After Indians proved their mettle in the international spelling bee competition recently, 11-year-old Priyanshi Somani from Surat has won the Mental Calculation World Cup 2010 held in Germany. Priyanshi has the distinction of holding the world record for a mental square root calculation.

Washington: Professor Nitin Nohria is a champion of Hippocratic Oath for business leaders. “Developing, adopting, and institutional such an oath is not going to be easy. But there is no better or more important moment to try – because at stake is the very legitimacy of business leaders and the future of capitalism,” he warned. His passion for the idea led to HBS students adopting a voluntary MBA oath.

Baktawng (Mizoram): With 162 members, this family in Mizoram can easily be the largest in the world living together under one roof in a picturesque village about 100 kilometers from here.

 

The head of the family and leader of the ‘Chana’ sect 66-year-old Ziona, has 38 wives and 94 children, with some of his sons having married and had children of their own. They all live together in a building named Chhuan That Run or the House of the New Generation.

After Nikunj Raychura died in April 2009, grieving family decided to help someone by donating his eyes

One-year-old Nikunj Raychura became the country’s youngest eye donor, when his corneas were handed over to an eye bank, after he passed away at a city hospital last month. In what is a sad but heartening trend, donors seem to be have gotten younger in the recent past. It was only last week that a Delhi-based couple donated the eyes, kidney and skin tissues of their 16-month-old daughter.

Chennai: Renilson Joseph, 34, lost his wife and daughter in a car accident. While the businessman himself sustained multiple fracture, his 3-year-old daughter was declared brain dead. But in his hour of greatest sadness, Renilson signed the papers for harvesting his daughter’s organs, bringing a ray of hope for a 21-month-old Ahmedabad boy, the youngest heart transplant patient undergoing treatment at Frontier Lifeline in Chennai.

Guwahati: An asteroid has been named after an 18-year old Indian-origin girl Nandini Sarma for winning the first place in a science project that advocates garlic as a replacement for synthetic chemical food preservatives.