Tata Zica renamed as Tata Tiago

Tata has renamed its new car Zica as Tiago.   The original name was sounded like deadly virus Zika making strides internationally and giving a bad vibe with the new car.

Tata run a event with public participation to choose the new name for the car. It was chosen from the poll between Tiago, Adore and Civet.

Tracking a man-eater animal

When a tiger uses a road regularly it invariably leaves signs of its passage by making scratch marks on the side of the road. These scratch marks, made for the same purpose as similar marks made by domestic cats and all other members of the cat family, are of very great interest to the sportsman, for they provide him with the following very useful information,

1) whether the animal that has made the mark is a male or a female,
2) the direction in which it was travelling,
3) the length of time that has elapsed since it passed,
4) the direction and approximate distance of its headquarters,
5) the nature of its kills, and finally
6) whether the animal has recently had a meal of human flesh.

The value of this easily-acquired information to one who is hunting a man-eater on strange ground will be easily understood. Tigers leave their pug marks on the roads they use and these pug marks can provide one with quite a lot of useful information, as for instance the direction and speed at which the animal was travelling, its sex and age, whether all four limbs are sound, and if not sound, which particular limb, is defective.

-Jim Corbett

Asian Cheetah

 

Asiatic Cheetah is extinct species in India,  the last one  was killed in eastern Madhya Pradesh by Maharaja of Sarguja by 1947.  The species itself is endangered and last few are left in a sanctuary of northern Iran.

Until the 20th century, the Asiatic cheetah was quite common and roamed all the way from Israel, the Arabian Peninsula to Iran, Afghanistan and India. In India, they ranged as far south as the Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu

Bajaj V15

This is Bajaj V15, made from steel of  INS Vikrant the yester years  aircraft career.  A clever ploy by Bajaj to use patriotism of average Indian.

Dual tone color, design inspired by cafe-racers and big tank inspires confidence in marketing teams, it is sure seller.  The V15 is powered by a 150 cc air-cooled DTSi engine which puts out 12 PS @ 7500 rpm and 13 Nm torque @ 5500 rpm.

It gets a 240 mm disc brake in the front and a 130 mm drum brake at the rear. Front wheel is wrapped around a 90/90 tyre, while rear 16 inch wheel is wrapped around 120/80 tyre. Fuel tank capacity of Bajaj V15 stands at 13 liters. Dimensions of Bajaj V15 – length is at 2044 mm, width is at 780 mm, height is at 1070 mm, ground clearance at 165 mm, wheelbase at 1315 mm, kerb weight at 135.5 kgs, and saddle height at 780 mm.