ATS Chief Hemant Karkare

My tribute to ATS Chieft Hemant Karkare, IPS officer of the 1982 batch, had served in RAW for nine years and was made the ATS chief in January this year. He had solved the serial bomb blasts in Thane, Vashi and Panvel. The credit for the stunning revelations in the investigation of the September 29 blast in Malegaon goes to his credit. Karkare is known for his discipline and fair investigation. During the Malegaon investigation, Karkare had told his officers not to create false evidence, saying, “We have done our job and it is for the court to decide.”

Encounter Specialist: Vijay Salaskar

My tribute to Encounter Specialist Bravo Mr. Vijay Salaskar

Vijay Salaskar was killed in Mumbai terrorist attacks on November 27th at Metro Cinema. I like to write a note on Mr.Vijay Salaskar and want to give my tribute to him for his brave and excellent life he live for our country.

With Tuesday’s encounter, the number of criminals shot dead by inspector Vijay Salaskar touched 78. Salaskar, who was reportedly sidelined for the last two years for unearthing the gutka-underworld nexus, was recently attached to the crime branch, where he currently heads the anti-extortion cell. An officer of the 1983 batch, Salaskar in his 24 years of service has eliminated many criminals. Amar Naik, Jaggu Shetty, Sadhu Shetty, Kundan Singh Rawat, Zahoor Makhanda are some of the gangsters who have fallen to Salaskar’s bullets.

Nature at Matar

Nature at Matar. This picture was taken at 1-50 pm, Sunday. How beautiful nature looks! I enjoy my each visit to matar and such view is one of the major factors for that enjoyment.

Rocks

Footprints in the Sand

I love the message of this picture.

The Long and Winding Road

The long and winding road, that leads to your door

We’ll never disappear, I’ve seen that road before

It always leads me here, lead me to your door

The wild and windy night that the rain washed away

Has left the full of tears, crying for the day

Why leave me standing here, let me know the way.

 

Many times I’ve been alone, and many times I cried

Anyway you never know, the many ways I’ve tried

But still they leave me back, to the long and winding road

You left me standing here, along long time ago

Don’t leave waiting here, lead me to your door.

Wall Picture with Dhirendra Patel

wall pictures at Dhirendra’s house. Picture shows Radha-Krishna.

Surface of the moon taken by Moon Impact Probe (MIP)

This handout picture provided by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) shows the surface of the moon taken by Moon Impact Probe (MIP), after separating from India’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, November 14, 2008. A lunar probe from India’s first unmanned moon mission Chandrayaan-1 has landed on the moon and started sending its first images, officials at the Indian Space Research Organisation said on Friday. Picture taken November 14, 2008. REUTERS/Indian Space Research Organisation/Handout (INDIA).

Forest

Unique Entry

Look at the above picture. It’s Unique Entry.

Beautiful Nature……Isn’t it?

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Nature at it’s Best

Look at the picture above. I see this tree when I was on my tripe to Ambaji, around 180 km away from my city Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Look the arrangement.  

The Komodo dragon

The Komodo dragon is a species of lizard that inhabits the islands of Komodo, Rinca, Flores, Gili Motang, and Gili Dasami, in central Indonesia. A member of the monitor lizard family (Varanidae), it is the largest living species of lizard, growing to an average length of 2–3 meters (approximately 6.5–10 ft) and weighing around 70 kilograms (154 lb). Their unusual size is attributed to island gigantism, since there are no other carnivorous animals to fill the niche on the islands where they live, and also to the Komodo dragon’s low metabolic rate. As a result of their size, these lizards are apex predators, dominating the ecosystems in which they live.

 

Although Komodo dragons eat mostly carrion, they will also hunt and ambush prey including invertebrates, birds, and mammals. Mating begins between May and August, and the eggs are laid in September. About twenty eggs are deposited in abandoned megapode nests and incubated for seven to eight months, hatching in April, when insects are most plentiful. Young Komodo dragons are vulnerable and therefore dwell in trees, safe from predators and cannibalistic adults. They take around three to five years to mature, and may live as long as fifty years.

 

In the wild their range has contracted due to human activities and they are listed as vulnerable by the IUCN. They are protected under Indonesian law, and a national park, Komodo National Park, was founded to aid protection efforts. (more…)

Gateway of India

The Gateway of India is a monument in Mumbai, India. Located on the waterfront in South Mumbai, the Gateway is a basalt arch 26 metres high. In earlier times, the Gateway was the monument that visitors arriving by boat would have first seen in the city of Bombay.

 

 

The Gateway is built from yellow basalt and reinforced concrete. While Indo-Saracenic in architectural style, elements are derived from the Muslim architectural styles of 16th century Gujarat. The central dome is 15 metres in diameter and 26 metres above ground at its highest point. The whole harbour front was realigned in order to come in line with a planned esplanade which would sweep down to the centre of the town. The cost of the construction was Rs. 21 lakhs, borne mainly by the Government of India. For lack of funds, the approach road was never built, and so the Gateway stands at an angle to the road leading up to it.

Clouds

One some days the sky is covered over with layers of clouds.  Some clouds are big fluffy white clouds, some are feathery streamers high in the sky and some are thick, shapeless clouds that darken the earth and often bring rain.

Clouds are made mostly of tiny drops of water drifting on currents of air.  They are like the little clouds from a person’s breath on a winter day.

Water to make clouds comes from oceans, lakes and streams.  This water is constantly evaporating into the air and floating up in invisible day.

Water to make clouds comes from oceans, lakes and streams.  This water is constantly evaporating into the air and floating up in invisible drops.

Often it is carried upward by currents of warm, rising air.  As the warm air rises it cools, and often water vapor changes (condenses) into little droplets of water that cling to tiny specks of dust and dirt in the air.

If the temperature is below freezing, the water vapor turns into tiny ice crystals instead.  When many of these water droplets or ice crystals form in the air we can see them as a cloud.

Not all clouds are up in the sky.  When a cloud is close to the ground we call it “fog”.

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Eclipse of the Sun

 

Sometimes a little piece of the sun suddenly seems to disappear.  And when more and more of it disappears until finally the bright sunlight is blotted out, and they day is plunged into darkness.

The stars can be seen and chickens often go to roost.  But after a little while, a little bit of the sun begins to show again.  Then more and more of it appears.  And in a few minutes, the “night” is over.

Long ago, many people thought that a huge dragon is the sky had swallowed the sun.

Today, we know that when there is an eclipse of the sun, it is really the moon that blots out the sunlight when the moon gets between the earth and the sun.

Of course, the moon is much smaller than the sun, but it is so much closer than the sun that he two appear to have almost the same size.  There are eclipse of the moon, too.  The moon does not five off any light.

Quite often the moon is its journey around the earth travels into the earth’s shadow.  With the earth shutting off the sunlight, the moon stops shining.

Lightning

Lightning is a giant sparkle of electricity that we see as a bright flash of light.  Lighting sparks start in the clouds.

During thunderstorm, countless numbers of water drops  inside the clouds become charged with the electricity as they are whipped about and torn apart by strong current of air.

Scientist tells us that part of the cloud becomes positively charged while still another part was negatively charged.  The opposite charges pull toward each other.

When the difference between the two electric charges becomes great enough, a current of electricity – which is lightning – jumps the space between.

A bolt of lightning can also jump to an oppositely charged area in another cloud or leap between the cloud and the earth.

As the lightning jumps across the sky, it heats the air in its path.  The heated air quickly expands, causing a great sound wave which we hear on the ground as thunder.