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The fourth phase of the intensive ‘Tiger Monitoring Programme,' envisaged by the Tiger Task Force of the Union Government, began at the Kalakkad - Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve (KMTR) in Tirunelveli
In the fourth phase, the setting up of 100 cameras in every four sq.km. area had begun.
- In the first phase determining occupancy and mapping relative abundance of the carnivores was done.
- In the second phase the work on remotely sensed spatial and attribute covariates was done and
- In the third phase camera-trap based mark recapture was carried out
Under the earlier system, the tiger population is monitored through census, conducted once in four years. In that system the casualty of cats due to old age or any other reason could not be identified. In the present intensive system movement of every tiger in a reserve could be identified
In Anamalai Tiger Reserve, Pollachi, the work on dividing the forest area into different grids has been completed.
- In Mudumalai Tiger Reserve in the Nilgiris, the officials have completed the work of grid mapping the entire reserve, and now the field staff are being trained.

International astronomers said on Thursday they have found the fourth potentially habitable planet outside our solar system with temperatures that could support water and life about 22 light-years from Earth.
The team analysed data from the European Southern Observatory about a star known as GJ 667C, which is known as an M-class dwarf star and puts out much less heat than our Sun.
It likely absorbs about as much incoming light and energy as Earth, has similar surface temperatures and perhaps water.
The new rocky planet, GJ 667Cc, orbits its star every 28.15 days — meaning its year equals about one Earth month — and has a mass at least 4.5 times that of Earth

Less than a week after a similar move by micro-blogging site Twitter, Internet major Google has unveiled plans to make content on its blogger platform selectively available, depending on the local rules of each country.
Google, which launched its blogging service — Blogger — in 1999, said the rules would be applicable in many countries, such as India, Brazil, Honduras, and Germany. It is understood that Google plans to roll it out the new system globally also.
This means, for example, that if a blog breaks an Australian law, Google can now block it in Australia but leave it up in the rest of the world
Google said it was deploying a country-specific uniform resource locator (URL) scheme for its blogger platform, which will be redirected to a country-code top-level domain, or ‘ccTLD', in the coming weeks.