CASE AGAINST P. JAYARAJAN

Case against P Jayarajan

For manhandling Asianet reporter

       Shahjahan, the reporter of Asianet, was on Monday,28^th,March,2011, assaulted by some CPI (M) activists led by MLA P. Jayarajan. The activists assaulted Shahjahan just after the shooting of the political programme named 'Porkkalam', in which he was the anchor, was completed. Shahjahan is the Kozhikode bureau chief of Asianet.   The town police also registered case against CPM district secretary P Jayarajan and 30 LDF activists.   Shajahan said that later P.Jayarajan threatened him over the phone. Meanwhile Jayarajan denied the charge and accused the journalist of taking a partisan stand during the show. Kerala Union of Working Journalists district president Dinakaran Kombilath and secretary OV Mohan Raj registered protest.

(from Mathrubhoomi news)

 Prof. John Kurakar

TIGER POPULATION

                                                                 TIGER POPULATION

    Tiger population in the Kerala state has been found' stable' over the last five years, the Tiger estimate 2010 released on Monday 28th March,2011.
 At the same time, the tiger population in the western Ghats land scape complex had gone up by 122, taking the total to 534 tigers. The upper limit of the tiger population in the Ghats region had been estimated as 568 and the lower limit as 500.
   The population estimation held in 2006 had assessed the number of tiger estimation was carried out by the National Tiger conservation Authority with the support of independent technical experts and institutions in all the tiger reserve states using scientific techniques. The exercise was carried out between December 2009 and December2010.  The 39 reserves in the country, two- the Periyar Tiger Reserve and Parambikulam Reserve-are located in the state. The Report stated that the population trend of tigers in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka had increased. The report clubbed Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka in the western ghats landscape complex for evaluation. The Camera traps yielded photographs of 550 individual tigers. The estimation saw 800 Camera traps being used in the entire exercise covering a total area camera of 10,500 sq km.  Wild life officials in the state said the tiger population in the Periyar reserve was between 35 and 40. In the case of the Parambikulam reserve, the population was estimated to be eight. The Kerala side of the Parambikulam land scape was home to around 20 tigers, senior forest officials said.
    Tiger estimation is done once in four years. Camera trapping was the primary method used for the tiger count, besides the primary data generated by primary patrolling units and analysis of habitat status of tiger forests using satellite data. Tigers were identified from photographs based on their unique stripe patterns and the information was analysis using a scientific frame work. In the Periyar reserve, 20 pairs of digital cameras were placed at 80 locations frequented by tigers. The park mangers of Parambikulam also engaged 20 pairs of cameras to photographs the animals

                                                      Prof. John Kurakar

WIKI PEDIA CELEBRATING 10TH ANNIVERSARY

                             WIKIPEDIA CELEBRATING 10TH ANNIVERSARY

 Wikipedia is written by mostly anonymous internet volunteers who contribute with out pay. Created in 2001, Wikipedia has grown quickly and is to day one of the largest reference websites, with almost 78 million visitors a month. Every day people from all over the world contribute by editing and creating new articles to augment the knowledge held by Wikipedia encyclopaedia.
  Ten years ago Jimmy Wales had an idea of an encyclopaedia on the web. Today Wikipedia have got millions of articles in hundreds of languages. These days about 400 million people a month visit the website.
 Wikipedia is not counted with Wiki Leaks. The project started with the English-Language Wikipedia on January  15,2001, and then by a French edition. Other language followed. Based on information in January 2011, there are 278 language editions of Wikipedia, which together have more than 17 million articles.
   Wikipedia is a multilingual, web based,free-content encyclopaedia project' with its name derived from the word combination of Wiki. Wiki- meaning quick'
    In 2000, Jimmy Wales, founder of Nupedia, and Larry sangar, were thinking of ways to expand Nupedia. After much thought about allowing members of the public to make contributions, the idea of a Wikipedia' was born.It was launched on January 15,2001- which ,for many users. is also called, Wikipedia Day" The Wikimedia foundation,now based in San Francisco was also launched as the parent organisations.
     From May 2001 onwards, a number of multilingual Wikipedia were also launched in Arbia, Chinese, Dutch, Esperanto, French, German,Hebrew,Italian,Japanese,Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish etc.  It is estimated that Wikipedia now gets 78 million visitors every month. there are more than 91,000 active contributors working on more than 17,000,000 articles in more than 270 languages. There are also nearly 3,565,990 articles in English.

                                                                                                                           Prof. John Kurakar