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One of my friend Shahid kunnath.. Flat on the road.. We call it as frog pasted on road :)

The real Ghost feeling

Hey,
Don't think this is a fake one. This has happened to myself!!
One early morning say 3.00 AM, i was walking along a road near kazhakootam(trivandrum,India). Almost when i crossed the highway and entered into a narrow street. I suddenly felt something waiting there. Still i continued to walk, Suddenly a strong wind whops up. I saw the coconut trees swinging here and there.
One must have noticed, when the trees are in a line and wind blows, all of them uniformly change swing according to the wind. Here i noticed that, the trees where not uniformly swinging. They where swinging tap-tap. As soon i saw this some thing stopped me, yah, it was a call from behind. I dint turn back and continued my walk. I safely reached the building where i should read.
After 3 hours at 6 am on the same day, i started to walk out of the house, the watchman there and the people living there, nearby said they used to see a fair lady, some said that a ghost of a gal used to rome at that time.
Still i am not sure.. Was it just a feel or is there some thing interesting. Keep reading. Once i will find it out and publish.

vishnu.p.g stages

Still will continue...

become slim in a day(12)

Want to slim down fast for that beach vacation or high school reunion? While there are many things you can do to shed pounds, losing weight too quickly, like any sudden change to your body, can be dangerous. While fad diets, diet pills, and fasting may indeed induce rapid weight loss, these methods can cause you to lose muscle and may also injure your heart and other organs fairly quickly. The best solution? Don't go for an overnight miracle. Instead, follow these steps to lose fat rapidly, healthily, and sustainably.

HERE ARE ANOTHER TWO STEPS OR TIPS TO BE FOLLOWED:

Make adjustments. A successful weight loss strategy based on reducing calorie intake and increasing activity can be adjusted to maintain your desired weight once you reach it. Unlike typical diets, this method is sustainable -- it is a lifestyle change, not a binge-and-purge exercise. Slowly adjust your diet and exercise to include more weight training and calories, as much as is comfortable for you. If you do gain any weight back, you want that weight to be lean, toned muscle, not fat. In addition, weight training, no matter what your age, prevents muscle atrophy and can help stave off osteoporosis.

• Instead of thinking of it as losing a certain amount of pounds, think of it as being a certain weight. So if you are 145 pounds, and you would like to lose 10 pounds, think of it as being 135 pounds. This helps you think about it as a long-term goal and not just losing the weight to gain it back again.

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Want to slim down fast for that beach vacation or high school reunion? While there are many things you can do to shed pounds, losing weight too quickly, like any sudden change to your body, can be dangerous. While fad diets, diet pills, and fasting may indeed induce rapid weight loss, these methods can cause you to lose muscle and may also injure your heart and other organs fairly quickly. The best solution? Don't go for an overnight miracle. Instead, follow these steps to lose fat rapidly, healthily, and sustainably.

HERE ARE ANOTHER TWO STEPS OR TIPS TO BE FOLLOWED:

Rest properly. This means not only taking at least 24-48 hours between strength training the same muscles, (and taking 1-2 days off from exercising each week); it also means getting enough sleep at night, since sleep deficiency impairs your ability to lose fat.

Be realistic. Don't expect a miracle. Healthy weight loss can be achieved fairly quickly, but you'll need to be patient. In addition, be sure to set realistic goals. Make sure that the weight you're trying to reach is a healthy weight for you, and keeping in mind that gaining pounds of muscle will help you lose fat, be trimmer, and look better even though you don't actually lose any weight. Your goal should be a healthy body, not a number of pounds! Everyone looks good at a different weight. A short person may look really good at about 112 pounds, but a person of a taller height would just look unhealthy. Keep yourself at a weight that makes you look good, not at a number that sounds good.

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reduce your body by christmas

To become slim with in Christmas???

Are you shy because you are too fat to face others, can't you attend Christmas party eve?? You don't have to worry no more. Here are the solutions, You have to just follow this and, be surprised to see you slim on the Christmas morning.


The ways are already posted in my blogs. Ten methods are there to work it out. So what are you waiting for, read it prepare for your Christmas eve..

HAPPY CHRISTMAS

become slim in a day(10)

Want to slim down fast for that beach vacation or high school reunion? While there are many things you can do to shed pounds, losing weight too quickly, like any sudden change to your body, can be dangerous. While fad diets, diet pills, and fasting may indeed induce rapid weight loss, these methods can cause you to lose muscle and may also injure your heart and other organs fairly quickly. The best solution? Don't go for an overnight miracle. Instead, follow these steps to lose fat rapidly, healthily, and sustainably.

These are the steps::

Perform high-level aerobic activities. Moderate aerobic workouts incorporating jogging, brisk walking, cycling, aerobic machines, or classes not only burn calories -- they also keep your heart healthy. Swimming is also great, especially if you are quite overweight or have joint problems, because you can get the same benefits of running -- typically burning even more calories -- with much less stress on your joints. Try to get at least 30-40 minutes of aerobic exercise at least three or four days per week.

Pump some iron. Resistance training, (weight training), can help both sexes stay lean by building muscle and raising metabolism. The fact is, hours and hours of aerobic exercise won't help most people lose weight fast because your metabolism drops back to normal fairly quickly after stopping the exercise. If you gain muscle, however, your body's resting metabolism, (the amount of calories you burn when you're just sitting still), increases, because muscle requires a lot of calories to maintain. Studies have shown consistent weight training to raise the body's metabolism by 15%. This means an average woman might burn 200-300 more calories at rest every day! Resistance training is the gift that keeps on giving! Although, keep in mind that muscle mass weighs more than fat (don't be surprised if you gain weight but look slimmer).

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become slim in a day(9)

Want to slim down fast for that beach vacation or high school reunion? While there are many things you can do to shed pounds, losing weight too quickly, like any sudden change to your body, can be dangerous. While fad diets, diet pills, and fasting may indeed induce rapid weight loss, these methods can cause you to lose muscle and may also injure your heart and other organs fairly quickly. The best solution? Don't go for an overnight miracle. Instead, follow these steps to lose fat rapidly, healthily, and sustainably.

Here are two steps to be followed::

• Drink plenty of water. Adequate water is essential for health, and a great many people simply don't get enough. What's more, if you're chronically dehydrated, your body will retain water in unflattering places, so if you make sure to get plenty of fluids you can start visibly trimming down in as little as a day. Remember, the more you exercise, the more water you'll need. See the related wikiHow for more details on how much water you should be getting.
• Exercise. Remember, you can lose weight either by decreasing your calorie intake or increasing the number of calories you burn. Any health strategy should include both, but if you want to lose weight fast, exercise is essential.

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become slim in a day(8)

Want to slim down fast for that beach vacation or high school reunion? While there are many things you can do to shed pounds, losing weight too quickly, like any sudden change to your body, can be dangerous. While fad diets, diet pills, and fasting may indeed induce rapid weight loss, these methods can cause you to lose muscle and may also injure your heart and other organs fairly quickly. The best solution? Don't go for an overnight miracle. Instead, follow these steps to lose fat rapidly, healthily, and sustainably.

Here is another step::

Get more fiber. There are many myths about fiber, but there is science to back up its helpful role in the diet. Fiber keeps the right amount of water in your intestines, making your digestive system work more efficiently and helping to keep you regular. Thus, just eating enough fiber may help you feel slimmer in just a day or so. There is also evidence that fiber in the diet can help prevent stroke and heart disease, ease the effects of diabetes, and may even directly help in weight loss.


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A real incident with ghost(2)

The year was 1993 my mother and father had just moved into a new house in a small town called Anna Nagar, her oldest child was 3 years old and she just had a son. it was getting towards evening when they were moving in and as they were moving in they noticed the neighbors who lived about 100 yards in a big house, they had all the lights on, and children were playing outside. My uncle who was helping my parents move, noticed the children and said to my mom, "it looks like your going to have some noisy neighbors." Later that night after he left, my mother and father went to bed, about two in the morning my mother got up to change her babys diaper and she heard noises from outside when she looked out the window she seen that the children across the street were still outside, laughing and running around playing. She watched for awhile and went back to bed, she told my dad "honey those children are still up, this late " my dad replied "their parents are probably having a party "

My mother let it go at that and fell asleep. The next day my father went to work but before he left he asked my mom to go to the landlords and get a reciept for the rent, their landlord lived a couple of blocks so my mom got her babys ready and walked to the landlords house, when she got there the lady told her to come in and have some lemonade,she asked "so how do you like the place? " my mom told her she liked it alot but she said that her neighbors were kind of loud and that they were up very late. The lady replied "mrs. Raja, let me tell you a sad story, those neighbors you seen were not real, and your not the only ones who seen them, most new residents here do, you see, there was a family who lived ther years ago, a man and his wife and their children but his wife left him and took off with a truck driver, she also left him with all their children. Soon after he became a drunk, One night he came home from the bar and they say he passed out with a cigarette and burned the whole house down, along with his children." My mom could not believe it ! She waited untill my dad got home from work and told him the story, later that day they walked over to the place where they thought was their neighbors and sure enough, there was nothing but a old foundation and old burnt bedsprings. Later when they told my uncle he too, could not believe it, because he also seen them. This is a true ghost story told to me by my mom years ago, I hope you like it.

become slim in a day (7)

Want to slim down fast for that beach vacation or high school reunion? While there are many things you can do to shed pounds, losing weight too quickly, like any sudden change to your body, can be dangerous. While fad diets, diet pills, and fasting may indeed induce rapid weight loss, these methods can cause you to lose muscle and may also injure your heart and other organs fairly quickly. The best solution? Don't go for an overnight miracle. Instead, follow these steps to lose fat rapidly, healthily, and sustainably.

Here is an other step::

Graze on healthy snacks. Just because you're getting healthy doesn't mean you can't snack. In fact, eating small meals and snacks throughout the day, or grazing, has been shown to aid weight loss, (compared to eating three large meals a day), by keeping metabolism steadier. Pick snacks that are low in calories and fat and high in fiber (dried apricots, nuts, rice cakes, fruits, baby carrots, cherry tomatoes, and so on). Vegetables are generally very low in calories, very high in fiber, and full of flavor and nutrition. Avoid starchy vegetables like potatoes, and try to eat vegetables plain, without fatty dressings or dips. Fruit also makes a good snack. Fruit contains more soluble fiber than vegetables, which slows your body's absorption of carbohydrates, thus releasing energy more slowly, (preventing sugar highs), and keeping you feeling full longer. Fruit juices are not a replacement for the real thing. You need that fiber, and juices often have more calories than the equivalent serving of fruit -- as many calories as soda! Be careful with dried fruits, because without the water, you tend to eat more, and fruits, when dried, are calorie-rich per ounce. With any dry or dried food, be sure to drink plenty of water.

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An real incident with ghost!!!

Back in 1995 or 1998. I was a high school student. I was into heavily playing wargames and chess and was friends with a guy who ran a chess studio and also liked wargames. I’ll call him John because that was his name. At the time this particular incident happened, the chess studio was on the third floor of an old wooden building. John had told me that the studio was haunted, that he’d heard footsteps on the stairs, and, my memory is shaky here, but I think he mentioned having felt a presence at times. Nothing really scary, at least he seemed comfortable with it, but he'd sensed enough that he really believed it.

Anyway, we had wrapped up our wargame for the night, which I believe he had won (he usually did). We'd gone down the stairs and had just exiting the building when we both heard someone was whistling "This Old Man". This was not some unearthly sound, nor was it weak and far away. It was good, loud strong whistling. Although it would have been unlike him to pull a trick to freak me out, I watched his lips. It wasn’t him. It was nighttime and raining out, but there was plenty of light from streetlights to see by and there was no one about. It must have been 10:30 or 11:30 in the evening and this town was dead by then if you’ll pardon the pun. He mentioned the ghost and I asked him "Why "Whistle Man"?" (I had the name of the tune wrong, but hey, I was a little rattled.) He said he didn’t know. By this time we were by his car, the whistling was continuing, and it was CLOSE and no one in sight! And he had spoken while we heard the whistling, I had still suspected a trick and had watched him speak feeling sure that the whistling would stop when he answered me.

The whistling stopped as we both looked around to see if we could see anyone. He went back up the stairs to see if there was someone hiding inside and I went around the closest corner of the building. Neither of us saw anyone or found anything. That was it, end of the show. John drove me home and now that it was all over I found my legs were shaking.

It could still have been someone playing a joke. Although someone laying for us in the rain late at night seems kind of loony, people can be strange at times, and we didn’t check the roof, for example. But it was loud and so close sounding I don’t know where anyone could have hidden. I did ask him a few years later if he remembered this and if he had perchance pulled a fast one on me somehow. I figured if he denied it had happened I would have known I’d misremembered somehow or maybe dreamed it, and he was a good enough friend to have felt comfortable revealing any trickery knowing I would have enjoyed knowing how it was done. He remembered the incident and no he hadn’t fooled me.

It wasn't really that I mistrusted him , by the way, trickery would have been very unlike him. I just believe in ruling out any other explaination before I resort to saying I saw or, in this case, heard a ghost.

The building is still there (I checked a couple of months ago). Someday I want to interview the current occupants to see if anything strange has happened to them, but I’m not sure how to go about it. Most people just are not going to open up about things like that. I would appreciate suggestions on that.

become slim in a day (6)

Want to slim down fast for that beach vacation or high school reunion? While there are many things you can do to shed pounds, losing weight too quickly, like any sudden change to your body, can be dangerous. While fad diets, diet pills, and fasting may indeed induce rapid weight loss, these methods can cause you to lose muscle and may also injure your heart and other organs fairly quickly. The best solution? Don't go for an overnight miracle. Instead, follow these steps to lose fat rapidly, healthily, and sustainably.
HERE IS AN STEP TO FOLLOW::

Watch your portion sizes. Opening a bag of rice cakes and eating all of them in one sitting isn't going to help you lose weight. When eating chips, nuts, or dried fruit put a portion in a small bowl and then put the bag away. That way you won't mindlessly eat a larger portion than you had intended. Even if you only make minimal changes to your diet choices, reducing portion size will inevitably reduce caloric intake. A great way to watch portion sizes while snacking is to buy one serving 100 calorie packages - and they come in many favorite snack food items!

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Become slim in a day(5)

Want to slim down fast for that beach vacation or high school reunion? While there are many things you can do to shed pounds, losing weight too quickly, like any sudden change to your body, can be dangerous. While fad diets, diet pills, and fasting may indeed induce rapid weight loss, these methods can cause you to lose muscle and may also injure your heart and other organs fairly quickly. The best solution? Don't go for an overnight miracle. Instead, follow these steps to lose fat rapidly, healthily, and sustainably.

Here is a small disguised step and a easy one :::
Plan your meals. Look for healthy, delicious meals online or in your cookbooks, and create a menu for the week. Make sure that your meal plan reduces your total calorie intake: you're not going to lose weight if you consume the same amount of calories by eating different foods. Make a list of what you'll need for these meals, and -- except for a few snacks, of course -- don't stray from your list when you get to the market. Planning your meals helps ensure you get a balanced diet and reduces the temptation to stop off for fast food or order a pizza. Remember, it's easier to stick to your shopping list if you shop when you aren't hungry.

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How to start a new buisness???

What is a small business?

The term small business really varies; for some a small business could be one that has employees less than 25 people and generates less than 5 million dollars per year in revenue. To others it is a business that only one person works at that and provides only a few hundred dollars per month in profits. Since the definition of small business varies, it is really up to you on what you consider a small business to be.

Deciding on What Kind of Small Business to Start

One of the most important aspects of creating a small business is deciding which products or services to sell. In order to be in business, you have to offer something for sale. This aspect can vary widely. For instance, you can sell items on e-bay, you can create gift baskets and sell them to your friends in your community, you can open up a small convenience store and so on. The type of small business that you decide to start will ultimately determine the many aspects of putting it together and running it.

Choose Your Business Entity

While most small businesses are sole proprietorships, this doesn't have to be the case for your specific enterprise. No matter how small your business is, you can legally make your business entity a corporation or Limited Liability Company. Corporations and LLC's offer the protection of liability when conducting business. This means that you are not personally held liable for what your business does. For instance, if your business is sued, your personal saving is safe. While setting up a corporation or LLC can be time consuming and costly, they are well worth it. Today, you can incorporate or create an LLC for as little as $500.

Create a Business Plan

One of the most important resources available to help you get your business on the right track and fully think things through is a business plan. Think of a business plan as a roadmap. A business plan is a document that you create in order to make sure you put in enough thought and analysis regarding your business. Business plans can alert you to some weaknesses that you may have never thought about, they can also bring out strengths. Creating a business plan is quite possibly the most important aspect of creating a business.

Financing

The good news about small businesses is that many don't usually require lots of financing, however, some may cost more than others. Your specific business will ultimately determine the start-up costs and the amount of financing involved. E-commerce websites can cost only a couple of hundred dollars to set up and you can start selling your products or services. However, other types of businesses such as a clothing store can cost several hundred thousand dollars.

Financing can come in many forms. It can come in the form of personal savings or credit cards; you can also take out a personal loan or a business loan. While business financing in some cases is easy to achieve, obviously the more money you need the harder it will be to find financing.

Setting up Shop

Once you have a business idea, a plan of action and the financing available, you can start setting up shop. Setting up shop might include finding a location, buying inventory, getting the necessary licenses, permits, tax ID's, etc. For certain small businesses, you might have to hire a few people and this can be time consuming and sometimes expensive.

Once you have everything in place you are almost ready to launch. You just need to get the word out about your products and services.

Market and Advertising

Now that you are ready to launch, you will need to focus on selling your products and services to customers. One of the most effective ways to accomplish this is to understand your business and the market environment. Knowing your business products and services will enable you to focus your advertising on specific groups of people (demographics) that are more likely to be interested in your products and services than others. For instance, you wouldn't advertise your donut shop to those interested in fitness and body building. Choosing your market and then advertising effectively to it can make the difference between your small business failure and success.

Business Upkeep

Now that you have launched your small business, the work has just begun. The upkeep of a business is essential for it to be running smoothly and profitably. It is important to continue to put lots of effort and thought into your business once it launches. However, a well though-out, planned and organized business can be the key to one's financial success.

How to grow ginger

Preparing the Site:

Enrich the potting soil with plenty of compost. Make sure you do this a few weeks before planting the ginger.

Required Materials:

The materials required for growing ginger are basic garden tools and materials. You will also need a ginger root, a pot, potting soil and a glass of water.

Submerge one thirds of the ginger in the glass of water. Leave it in until the roots are about an inch long. After that, plant it on top of the soil and then cover it with a layer of soil an inch thick.

Move it to an area that has plenty of sunlight. Since it is in a pot and is mobile, you won't have a hard time doing this.

Watering Requirements:

Ginger doesn't need much watering. However, you must keep the soil moist; be careful that it does not dry up.

Nutrients Required:

If the potting soil was enriched before planting, you won’t need to add any fertilizer when the ginger is growing. All that it needs is adequate water and sunlight.

Seasons:

Ginger is known to be stunted in growth during the cold seasons, but thrives during fall.

Expectations/Results:

Planting ginger is not that difficult. Your ginger will be ready for harvest in just 4 to 5 months. Ginger plants grow to a height of 2 to 4 feet when they reach their maturity.

become slim in a day (4)

"Here! as i said you".Want to slim down fast for that beach vacation or high school reunion? While there are many things you can do to shed pounds, losing weight too quickly, like any sudden change to your body, can be dangerous. While fad diets, diet pills, and fasting may indeed induce rapid weight loss, these methods can cause you to lose muscle and may also injure your heart and other organs fairly quickly. The best solution? Don't go for an overnight miracle. Instead, follow these steps to lose fat rapidly, healthily, and sustainably.

Seek out alternatives to the unhealthy foods you've identified. You can simply reduce the amount of soda you drink or mayonnaise you put on your sandwiches, or you can substitute healthier choices. Drink water instead of soda, for example, or use mustard instead of mayo. Low-fat and low-calorie options are also available for most foods, and many of these are natural, (although some are made with strange chemicals), and tasty. Start trying to eat healthy in most meals:

• Choose lean meats. Chicken and fish are both very low in fat (and certain fish like salmon, sardines, and fresh tuna are an excellent source of antioxidants, which are also beneficial to your health), so aim to replace some or all of the beef or pork in your diet with these foods.
• Replace high-calorie side dishes with healthier alternatives. Many people get a ton of calories from side dishes such as macaroni and cheese, French fries, or potato salad. You can eat healthier and lose weight by replacing these with fresh vegetables and salads. Pre-made salads are practically effortless, and when accompanied by a reduced-calorie dressing or no dressing at all, they're weight-loss gold.
• Start your days off right. A fattening breakfast of bacon and eggs or a pastry can be replaced with yogurt, oatmeal, high-fiber, low-sugar cereals; or fresh fruit for fruit smoothies. However, for those on a low carb diet bacon and eggs are a great combo for breakfast, since neither have carbs. But don't fall into the trap of skipping breakfast. Eating a healthy breakfast increases your rest metabolic rate earlier in the day, and reduces snacking before lunch.

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become slim in a day (3)

Want to slim down fast for that beach vacation or high school reunion? While there are many things you can do to shed pounds, losing weight too quickly, like any sudden change to your body, can be dangerous. While fad diets, diet pills, and fasting may indeed induce rapid weight loss, these methods can cause you to lose muscle and may also injure your heart and other organs fairly quickly. The best solution? Don't go for an overnight miracle. Instead, follow these steps to lose fat rapidly, healthily, and sustainably.

Seek out alternatives to the unhealthy foods you've identified. You can simply reduce the amount of soda you drink or mayonnaise you put on your sandwiches, or you can substitute healthier choices. Drink water instead of soda, for example, or use mustard instead of mayo. Low-fat and low-calorie options are also available for most foods, and many of these are natural, (although some are made with strange chemicals), and tasty. Start trying to eat healthy in most meals:

• Choose lean meats. Chicken and fish are both very low in fat (and certain fish like salmon, sardines, and fresh tuna are an excellent source of antioxidants, which are also beneficial to your health), so aim to replace some or all of the beef or pork in your diet with these foods.
• Replace high-calorie side dishes with healthier alternatives. Many people get a ton of calories from side dishes such as macaroni and cheese, French fries, or potato salad. You can eat healthier and lose weight by replacing these with fresh vegetables and salads. Pre-made salads are practically effortless, and when accompanied by a reduced-calorie dressing or no dressing at all, they're weight-loss gold.
• Start your days off right. A fattening breakfast of bacon and eggs or a pastry can be replaced with yogurt, oatmeal, high-fiber, low-sugar cereals; or fresh fruit for fruit smoothies. However, for those on a low carb diet bacon and eggs are a great combo for breakfast, since neither have carbs. But don't fall into the trap of skipping breakfast. Eating a healthy breakfast increases your rest metabolic rate earlier in the day, and reduces snacking before lunch.

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become slim in a day (2)

Want to slim down fast for that beach vacation or high school reunion? While there are many things you can do to shed pounds, losing weight too quickly, like any sudden change to your body, can be dangerous. While fad diets, diet pills, and fasting may indeed induce rapid weight loss, these methods can cause you to lose muscle and may also injure your heart and other organs fairly quickly. The best solution? Don't go for an overnight miracle. Instead, follow these steps to lose fat rapidly, healthily, and sustainably.

Go over the list and decide which foods to cut out or reduce. Cutting calories is usually a lot easier than you might think. For example, that daily tall latte in the morning may pack 500 calories. Since a pound of flab (lost or gained) is roughly equivalent to 3,500 calories, replacing that rich beverage with black coffee can help you lose a pound a week. Other easy cuts include salad dressing (salad dressing is the number one source of fat in the average American woman's diet) soda pop, candy, and butter. Look at the nutritional information for the foods you eat, pay special attention to your intake of saturated fats and empty calories (high-sugar foods). You don't need to cut these things out entirely, but if you reduce your intake of high-fat, high-calorie foods you'll lose weight faster.

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India on moon mission

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India will launch a locally built rocket for the country's first unmanned mission to the moon on Oct. 22, the head of the project said on Tuesday.

"If at all there is any delay, it will be because of the weather, otherwise I don't foresee any technical difficulties," M. Annadurai told Reuters.

The launch, earlier scheduled for April but delayed due to technical difficulties, has been given a window between Oct 20 and Oct 28 for takeoff from a southern town.

Six countries, including the United States, are directly involved in the project, which will cost an estimated 3.86 billion rupees ($80.8 million).

It aims to map a three-dimensional atlas of the moon through high-resolution remote sensing and map the surface's chemical and mineral composition.

EXTENSIVE FUNDING

Despite limited funding, India operates an extensive space programme consisting of launch vehicles, satellites and data-processing centres.

India plans to send an astronaut into space by 2014 and a manned mission to moon by 2020. As part of preparations for that, it launched four satellites on a single rocket for the first time in January 2007, including one that was brought back to earth.

India's space programme was launched as a scientific research effort, but has now begun to make money from commercial launches.

At least 16 Indian satellites currently orbit the earth, supporting telecommunications, TV broadcasting, earth observation, weather forecasting, remote education and healthcare.

India's constellation of seven earth-observation satellites is the largest of its kind in the world, but its space programme lags behind its Asian rival China, which in 2003 became only the third nation after the United States and the former Soviet Union to launch a man into space aboard its own rocket.

China celebrated the completion of the country's first spacewalk last month, hailed as a major victory by its leaders.