Time for a push to commonwealth games project work

The 2010 Commonwealth Games are scheduled to be held in  New Delhi  ,  India   between 3 October and 14 October 2010. With a population of over 15  million  , Delhi is one of the largest cities in the world. This will be the largest  multi-sport event   conducted to date in Delhi and India generally, which has previously hosted the  Asian Games   in  1951   and  1982  . The opening ceremony is scheduled to take place at the  Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Delhi  .

This is the first time the Commonwealth Games will be held in India, which will be the third developing country to host the event (after Jamaica in 1966 and Malaysia in 1998 ). This is the second time the event has been held in Asia (after 1998).


In January 2005, the Commonwealth Games Federation vice-president Raja Randhir Singh expressed concern that Delhi was behind schedule in forming an organising committee. On 18 January 2008.


The mega event is due to be held in the month of October next year; but only 40 % of the total preparation for the Games have been completed till now. An observation to this effect was made by the Common Wealth Games preparation review committee, which recently visited the sites where construction for CW Games 2010 is going on at present. Going by the huge magnitude of the event that will take place with more than 10000 athletes vying for honors in various sports disciplines, It does look quite a mammoth task for the concerned agencies to prepare the remaining infrastructure for an event which is just 8 months away now.

Spintronics......my first real new technology experience.......

Your home computer, your car stereo, and your workplace copy machine - electronics all - operate using the movement of charge-carrying electrons. Although we've done quite well exploiting the electron's charge, scientists are working on harnessing another, more obscure property of the tiny particle - its spin. In Friday's issue of the journal Science, researchers discuss the state of the art in "spintronics," and the challenges that must be met before this new breed of electronics can power a variety of future devices.

"Spin" is a convenient term for a property of the electron (and other subatomic particles) that's tricky to describe outside the quantum realm. In general, spin refers to the angular momentum - the rotational momentum - of a particle that creates its own tiny magnetic field. Spin comes in two flavors: "spin-up" and "spin-down." When a collection of electrons are all spinning the same way, either up or down, the tiny magnetic fields associated with each electron can add up to one large magnetic moment. Magnetism in some materials such as iron, for instance, comes in part from the cumulative orientation of spin in all the electrons in the material.

Just like the positive/negative duo of charge, the 0s and 1s of current information technology, this up/down pairing makes spin an attractive possibility for encoding and carrying information electronically. The additional information pathway represented by spin will boost the performance of electronic products, leading to smaller and faster devices that don't consume as much power as traditional electronics, says Science author Stuart