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Friday, September 26, 2014
White Tiger Kills Visitor to New Delhi Zoo
The white tiger first attacked and then killed the man who fell in its enclosure.
The man, identified by police as Maqsood Khan, 20, was spotted by other visitors but the security personnel who came to the scene were not equipped with tranquilizer guns. Anil Kumar, a spokesman for the police, said Khan was in the enclosure at the National Zoological Park for 10 minutes before he was killed.
Bystanders used their cellphones to capture Khan cowering in the ditch, the tiger pawing at him and later seizing him by the neck and lashing his body back and forth, finally settling in a grassy corner with his prey.
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In interviews with NDTV, a cable news channel, witnesses complained that members of the security staff who came to the scene had not been able to help. "The initial first response team was one guard with a baton," said one woman who described the events on camera. "Even after the guard came, they were focusing more on clearing the crowds than saving the man."
Amitabh Agnihotri, the director of the zoo, said that tranquilizer guns were stored at the zoo hospital, roughly 350 feet from the tiger's cage. "We do have tranquilizer guns, but by the time we could organize them, he was dead," he said.
In a written statement, Agnihotri said Khan had actually "crossed the standoff barrier of the white tiger enclosure" and that he had "jumped into the enclosure," rather than fallen.
The director said that the guard who had been posted there sounded an alarm and sent wireless SOS messages to other staff members. Employees "tried to divert the attention of the tiger from the visitor but to no avail," he said.
In his statement, Agnihotri said the enclosures of the zoo were "absolutely safe."
Three years ago, a female tiger at the zoo jumped over a 12-foot fence into an adjacent enclosure, prompting officials to temporarily close the park. According to news reports, it took the staff two hours to tranquilize the tiger and put her back into a cage.
Zoos in India are regulated by a federal agency, the Central Zoo Authority, but are typically understaffed and overcrowded, said Bittu Sahgal, the editor of the wildlife and conservation magazine Sanctuary Asia. He said that officials often failed to register animal births or deaths publicly, and that supervision was scattershot.
Under existing regulations, Sahgal said, an episode such as Tuesday's should have set off a fast-moving emergency plan."
If someone walked inside, or fell inside, there should have been tranquilizer guns, there should have been rifles, and it should have been three or four minutes," he said. "The boy's life should have been saved."
India Reaches Mars, But Space Firms Say at Home, Red Tape Binds Them
India's Mars Orbiter, Mangalyaan.
The mission is, indeed, a major achievement, he said, and one of which the state-run Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) should be proud.
But a single trip to Mars is not enough to sustain a promising yet relatively small industry, he added, and ISRO should be doing more to foster it.
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India's successful mission, completed on a shoestring budget of $74 million, has boosted its prestige in the global space race and raised the profile of Indian companies involved in the project.
But Godrej and some other firms are frustrated at what they say is the slow execution of projects and lack of government support, which are hampering India's efforts to compete with China and Russia as a cheaper option for launching satellites.
ISRO did not reply to questions for this article.
The Mangalyaan was built in 15 months with two-thirds of its parts manufactured by domestic firms such as Godrej & Boyce and India's largest engineering company, Larsen & Toubro
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said he wants to expand India's 50-year-old space programme. The government has increased funding for space research by 50 percent to almost $1 billion this financial year.
But the programme is still small, and the small number of launches limits the growth potential of private companies that supply them.
Between 2007 and 2012, ISRO accomplished about half of its planned 60 missions, government data showed. The government cited "development complexity" as the reason for the delay in some missions.
Between 2012 and 2017 the target is 58 missions. The agency has completed 17 missions so far, and ISRO did not say why the number remained low.
Some company executives and experts do not see that changing any time soon, with the absence of heavy rocket launchers, too few launch facilities and bureaucratic delays hampering growth.
"Volumes of business (from ISRO) have been relatively small, of the order of $40 million over the last five years, but the technological fallout in terms of high-precision manufacture has been considerable," said M V Kotwal, president of L&T's heavy engineering division.
India's space programme began in the early 1960s and the country has launched 30 Indian and 40 foreign satellites.
Still, it remains a small player in a global space industry estimated to be worth more than $300 billion a year.
India performs only a handful of launches annually, compared with 20 or more carried out by the United States, Russia and China, according to the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), a defence ministry think-tank.
ISRO has struggled to develop heavier launchers to put larger payloads into space, which could attract more business from foreign nations and help it compete.
Progress slowed in the 1990s when, under US pressure, Russia refused to transfer cryogenic engine technology to India that could have helped develop a heavier capacity Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV).
After spending over a decade developing the complex engine, India successfully launched its first GSLV powered with an indigenous cryogenic engine earlier this year.
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