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APgenco New building at GTS Colony

Apgenco notification for Assistant engineers (electrical, Mechanical and Civil) was announced.

Last year Syllabus: Apgenco Assistnat Engineer (electrical) exam - 2007 Syllabus

Previous Questions: Apgenco Assistant Engineer (Electrical) exam 2007 Questions

Notification details:

Vacancies:
Trainee assistant engineer: 261 (electrical+mech+civil)

Application form can be obtained by paying Rs.100/- in personal or paying Rs.135/- by IPO
from APgenco New Building, GTS Colony, Adjacent to Vengal Rao nagar, Hyderabad.

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India's First nuclear atomic power station: kalpakkam at Tamilnadu

The country’s first indigenously built nuclear power reactor Madras Atomic Power Station Unit-1 (MAPS-1), located at Kalpakkam in Tamil Nadu  will complete 25 years today. MAPS was Synchronised to the grid in the presence of late prime minister Indira Gandhi on July 23, 1983. MAPS comprises two units of 220 MW each of pressurised heavy water reactors (PHWR). MAPS-1 was set up at a cost of Rs 2.4 billion ($57 million).

MAPS has supplied more than 45,000 million units (MUs) of electricity at a current tariff of Rs 1.89 per unit and earned a profit of Rs 11.2 billion so far. Tamil Nadu has a share of 330 MW out of the station capacity of 440 MW in addition to the share of other beneficiary states in the southern electricity region.
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Solar Eclipse on August 1, 2008

A partial solar eclipse will be visible in India on the afternoon of august 1.People from North-Eastern region can see better, substantial part of teh Sun’s disc being obscured by the moon.

The partial eclipse will be seen in North-Eastern region at 4:08pm. This will start at 4:18pm and ends at 6:02pm for Kolkata.
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my last post says that world’s first tidal power turbine built by Marine Current Turbines started, and in this animation you can see how it will works. (more…)

First Commercial Tidal Power Turbine: SeaGen

World’s first tidal turbine, by Marine Current Turbines - A British Tidal energy company, has started to delivering electricity onto the grid for the first time.

This tidal current turbine named as SeaGen, has generated 150KW of power onto the grid.By intention, SeaGen is constrained to 300KW during the commissioning phase. In full operational mode, it will generate 1.2 MW of clean energy, that can be used by nearly 1000 homes.
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GoDaddy

for long time,  I am waiting for raju.com and settled with raju.net.in at last. Last evening, I came to know that .me registrations are going started in a couple of hours and waited till the time to start and grabbed myself raju.me by paying $39.98/2 years.

.ME Domain Registration

Before that I looked does this domain available or not at www.domain.me oops.. again I was unlucky. that was not available. But godaddy says that was available and registered for me after some lengthy confusing pages. GoDaddy doamin registration pages were very confusing and very much  irritating.

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