Arignar Anna Zoological Park

Arignar Anna Zoological Park is situated at Vandalur which is 32 Km away from the metropolitan city of Chennai on the GST Road. On the Eastern side of the road is the zoo over a sprawling area of 602 ha.
Vandalur is about 8 km from Tambaram and about 33 km from Chennai Central Railway Station. The zoo is well connected to the city by road and rail. There is direct service from various parts of the city to Vandalur / Arignar Anna Zoological Park bus stop. Also from city all buses going to Guduvancheri pass through Vandalur stop. For coming by local train, train going to chengalpettu stops at Vandalur Railway station which is about 1 km from the zoo gate or you may come by Chennai Beach to Tambaram local train, get down at Tambaram and take a bus to the zoo.

Arignar Anna Zoological Park has a large collection of endangered animals in its list of exhibits.

Mammals 47 Species
Birds 63 Species
Repltiles 31 Species
Amphibians 5 Species
Fishes 25 Species
Insects. 10 Species

46 endangered animals of Western ghats and the Indian subcontinent are protected and the zoo is involved in the captive breeding of this endangered species.

Animal Health and Veterinary Care,

The animal health care in Arignar Anna Zoological Park is taken care of by the Veterinary section.
The veterinary section in Arignar Anna zoological park has a modern veterinary hospital with three experienced veterinarians, field assistants and well equipped clinical room, pathology room, laboratory, operation theatre and quarantine facilities.

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Google Earth now has flight simulator

Google is like the Tesco of the internet; slowly expanding into every market and edging closer to total world domination with every second. Short of all the geeks in the world collectively deciding to go outside and do something constructive (never happen), there is no real way that the God of Search Engines can be stopped - it's reached critical mass now.

Ok, maybe I exaggerate, but it still stands that Google has just expanded once more, devouring yet more of our free time.

In a new update to Google Earth, a free 3D map of the entire planet, several new features have been added. While the Google Sky add-on is nice enough, it's the Google Flight Simulator which is the most interesting addition.

Marco Gallotta first uncovered the hidden feature, which is activated thusly according to Marco himself;

"Once you've started it all up, explored Google Sky a bit, then all you have to do is hit Ctrl+Alt+A (if you're running OS X it's Command+Option+A; some people have reported that Ctrl+A or Ctrl+Windows+A work when the standard Ctrl+Alt+A does not)."

A dialog box will then pop which offers the choice between two planes; an F16 Fighter or a SR22 four-seater. The hidden simulator even comes with full joystick support and a save option which remembers your last position. Eager pilots can choose any runway in any airport to take off from and start smashing their planes into the ground needlessly. That's all flight simulators are good for, right?

So, there you go - Google Earth finally has a use, but what's your favourite game secret ever? Are you a fan of The Dopefish or is The Cafe of Broken Dreams in Fallout 2 more to your tastes? Let us know in the forums.

Look, no hands

This car can drive itself from A to B. It's taking part in the Darpa Grand Challenge, a Pentagon contest for inventors to come up with self-driving vehicles - and the ideas are already starting to be used in today's cars.
On a quiet university campus across the water from San Francisco, an enthusiastic bunch of young computer boffins are working on what could be the car of the future.


No-one at the wheel


The car in action

"Sometimes we talk to it as if it's an unruly child," says co-team leader Ben Upcroft.

Another member of the team jumps out of the front seat, crosses the road and presses a red button on a box in his hand. "The RAV4 is going autonomous," he says into a radio.

The car moves, slowly forward, like a learner terrified of touching the accelerator. The steering wheel is turning. It is driving itself. The speed is frustratingly slow, and from time to time the car veers towards the verge.

But what's impressive is that no-one is sitting inside.

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Technology on Bangalore Street

How our IT ppl using technologies effectivly every where. Here is a sample, techie transfers fund for a penalty from his laptop nearTrinity Circle in Bangalore on last Tuesday.