US aerospace firm Boeing Co. and European planemaker Airbus Industries would outsource aerospace systems works valued over $3 billion to India once the Trans-atlantic rivals finalise the deal to supply 111 aircraft to Air India and Indian Airlines."This time, the government has made an offset clause mandatory for the aerospace firms abroad if they sell aircraft to India. It should be at least 30 per cent of the total value of the deal," a top ministry official said.
While the government has already cleared the $2.2-billion fleet acquisition plan of Indian Air-lines from Airbus, Air India is awaiting clearance from the Union government for its $7.1-billion aircraft purchase deal from Boeing."Since the total value of both the airlines' aircraft purchase is about $9.3 billion, Indian companies will be getting at least $3.1 billion offset order," the official said.
Indian Airlines plans to purchase 43 Airbus aircrafts, including the Air-bus A-319, Airbus A-320 and Airbus A-321. "For this, the formalities relating to offset orders have already been worked out," he said, adding that the civil aviation ministry was discussing issues related to offset order with Boeing. AI plans to acquire eight Boeing 777-200 (Long Range), 15 B777-300' (Extended Range), 27 B787s and 18 B737-800s for its budget carrier AI Express. India's current aviation export is estimated at Rs 300 crores. Industry analysts say aerospace exports from India will cross to over Rs 12,000 crores in the next five years.
India gets $3bn aerospace deal
December 5, 2005, 10:27 amSnared in a web of a Wikipedia liar
December 5, 2005, 10:23 am
According to Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, John Seigenthaler Sr is 78 years old and the former editor of The Tennessean in Nashville. But is that information, or anything else in Mr Seigenthaler's biography, true? The question arises because Mr Seigenthaler recently read about himself on Wikipedia and was shocked to learn that he. "Was thought to have been directly involved in the Kennedy assassinations of both John and his brother Bobby."
"Nothing was ever proven," the biography added. Mr Seigenthaler discovered that the false information had been on the site for several months and that an unknown number of people had read it, and possibly posted it on or linked it to other sites. If any assassination was going on, Mr Seigenthaler (who is 78 and did edit The Tennessean) wrote last week in an op-ed article in USA Today, it was of his character. The case triggered extensive debate on the Internet over the value and reliability of Wikipedia, and more broadly, over the nature of online information.
Wikipedia is a kind of collective brain, a repository of knowledge, maintained on, servers in various countries and built by anyone in the world with a computer and an Internet connection who wants to share knowledge about a subject. Literally hundreds of thousands of people have written Wikipedia entries. Mistakes are expected to be caught and corrected by later contributors and users. The whole non-profit enter-prise began in January 2001, the brainchild of Jimmy Wales, 39, a former futures and options trader who lives in St. Petersburg, Florida. He said he had hoped to advance the promise of the Internet as a place for sharing information.
It has, by most measures, been a spectacular success. Wikipedia is now the biggest encyclopaedia in the history of the world. As of Friday, it was receiving 2.5 billion page views a month, and offering at least 1,000 articles in 82 languages. The number of articles, already close to two million, is growing by 7 percent a month. And Mr Wales said that traffic doubles every tour months.
Still, the question of Wikipedia, as of so much of what you find online. Is: Can you trust it? And beyond reliability, there is the question of accountability. Mr Seigenthaler, after discovering that he had been defamed, found that his "biographer" was anonymous. He learned that the writer was a customer of BellSouth Internet, but that federal privacy laws shield the identity of Internet customers, even if they disseminate defamatory material. And the laws protect online corporations from libel suits.
He could have filed a lawsuit against BellSouth, he wrote, but only a subpoena would compel BellSouth to reveal the name. In the end, Mr Seigenthaler decided against going to court, instead alerting the public, through his article, "that Wikipedia is a flawed and irresponsible research tool."
"Nothing was ever proven," the biography added. Mr Seigenthaler discovered that the false information had been on the site for several months and that an unknown number of people had read it, and possibly posted it on or linked it to other sites. If any assassination was going on, Mr Seigenthaler (who is 78 and did edit The Tennessean) wrote last week in an op-ed article in USA Today, it was of his character. The case triggered extensive debate on the Internet over the value and reliability of Wikipedia, and more broadly, over the nature of online information.
Wikipedia is a kind of collective brain, a repository of knowledge, maintained on, servers in various countries and built by anyone in the world with a computer and an Internet connection who wants to share knowledge about a subject. Literally hundreds of thousands of people have written Wikipedia entries. Mistakes are expected to be caught and corrected by later contributors and users. The whole non-profit enter-prise began in January 2001, the brainchild of Jimmy Wales, 39, a former futures and options trader who lives in St. Petersburg, Florida. He said he had hoped to advance the promise of the Internet as a place for sharing information.
It has, by most measures, been a spectacular success. Wikipedia is now the biggest encyclopaedia in the history of the world. As of Friday, it was receiving 2.5 billion page views a month, and offering at least 1,000 articles in 82 languages. The number of articles, already close to two million, is growing by 7 percent a month. And Mr Wales said that traffic doubles every tour months.
Still, the question of Wikipedia, as of so much of what you find online. Is: Can you trust it? And beyond reliability, there is the question of accountability. Mr Seigenthaler, after discovering that he had been defamed, found that his "biographer" was anonymous. He learned that the writer was a customer of BellSouth Internet, but that federal privacy laws shield the identity of Internet customers, even if they disseminate defamatory material. And the laws protect online corporations from libel suits.
He could have filed a lawsuit against BellSouth, he wrote, but only a subpoena would compel BellSouth to reveal the name. In the end, Mr Seigenthaler decided against going to court, instead alerting the public, through his article, "that Wikipedia is a flawed and irresponsible research tool."
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