Ø French economist Jean
Tirole won the Nobel prize for economics for research
on market power and regulation that has helped policy-makers understand how to
deal with industries dominated by a few dominant companies.
Ø As five Indian scientists from “Himadri,”
India’s Arctic station at Svalbard, listened in by video link, a dire climate
change warning that linked varying monsoon patterns in India with Arctic ice
melts was presented to President Pranab Mukherjee. Jan-Gunnar Winther,
director of the Norway Polar Institute, said at the Fram maritime museum that
scientists had consistently underestimated the process of climate change.
Sitting alongside Norwegian King Harald V, President Mukherjee asked the five
scientists about the links they had managed to establish between Arctic ice
melting and monsoon pattern changes in India.
Ø The Indian Mars Orbiter
Mission (MOM) spacecraft, two weeks
old in its Martian orbit, is getting primed to glimpse a unique cosmic event.
A little past midnight on October 20, MOM — millions of kilometres from its
earthly home — will be privy to an astronomically significant fly-past of Comet
Siding Spring. MOM will duck for cover behind Mars, like the NASA missions
there; and if lucky, it may capture and send snapshots of those moments to us.
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