The Young Chronicle: For 4th Graders November 29th, 2015 | Page 5

Virtual Police Station in India
To avoid the haunting experience of visiting the police
station physically in India, a virtual police station has
been launched in Delhi. The virtual police station will
acquaint the public with the functioning of a police station.
The virtual police station has been initiated by the International NGO- Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI).
The first of its kind training tool enables the public to
learn and explore the functioning of a police station. It
allows the police and public to enter the computerized rooms of the police stations and
learn and explore the key procedures such as arrest, registration of FIRs and complaints of
sexual assault etc.
The tool functions on the click of a mouse. The user is required to click on the various icons
of members of police and public, objects such as registers and phones, which will prompt a
video and text box to open, that further explains the key procedures.
However, virtual is anything that does not exist physically but is made by a software and
present in the digital world.

Zinnias to Grow in Space
NASA for the first
time will be planting the
flowering crop on the orbiting laboratory. The
NASA astronaut has activated the Veggie plant
growth system and its
rooting pillows that contain the Zinnia seeds on
the space station.
The Zinnias will be grown
for 60 days, requiring the LED lights to be on for 10 hours and off for 14 hours
to stimulate the plant.
The Veggie system was developed by the Orbital Technologies Corporation
(ORBITEC) in Madison, Wisconsin. It has been tested at Kennedy before flight.