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Parasitic worms in contaminated soil affect the world’s poorest communities
- July 2, 2012
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Key facts Soil-transmitted helminth infections are caused by different species of parasitic worms. They are transmitted by eggs present in human faeces, which contaminate the soil in areas where sanitation is poor. Approximately two billion people are infected with soil-transmitted helminths worldwide. Infected children are physically, nutritionally and cognitively impaired. Control is based on: periodical deworming to eliminate infecting worms [...]
Salient Features of New All India Time Table ‘Trains at a Glance’ New Time Table Comes into Effect from 1st July 2012
- June 30, 2012
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The Ministry of Railways has released its new All India Railway Time Table known as “TRAINS AT A GLANCE (TAG)” which has come into effect from 1st July, 2012. In addition to this All India Time table, all the 17 zonal Railways have also released their zonal railway time tables which too have come into effect from 1st July, 2012. Passengers are advised to refer [...]
YSRC vs CBI : No winners in this match – Prof.K.Nageshwar
- June 30, 2012
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The developments concerning the CBI Joint Director V V Lakshminarayana and the leakage of his Call Data Records (CDR) are most unfortunate. As an officer, he has immense credibility in neutral circles and is seen as a person who is actively pursuing the case. This episode has cast shadows and at a personal level, I would like it to turn [...]
Will Brand Andhra Pradesh Be A Casualty? – Prof.K.Nageshwar
- June 30, 2012
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As another minister in Kiran Kumar Reddy cabinet, Information Technology minister Ponnala Laxmaiah is interrogated by the CBI, uncomfortable questions are being raised about the impact of this on Brand Andhra Pradesh. After all, so many senior ministers being summoned for interrogation and one of them, Excise minister Mopidevi Venkataramana, even taken into custody, is not a good sign for [...]
Iran: Standing up to the West – Yohannan Chemarapally
- June 29, 2012
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THE Iranian foreign minister, Ali Akbar Salehi, was in New Delhi in the last week of May to deliver an invitation from the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadenijad, for the summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) to be held in Teheran in August. Salehi’s visit came at a time when relations between the two countries are under a bit of strain. The admission [...]
Presidential Elections 2012 : Why did CPI(M) Support Pranab Mukherjee
- June 29, 2012
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The Current Presidential Election Prakash Karat THE presidential election is being contested by two candidates – Pranab Mukherjee, standing on behalf of the UPA, and P A Sangma, supported by the BJP (and sponsored initially by the AIADMK and the BJD). This election is not to be seen as just a contest between these two candidates. Beneath the [...]
Lies, Untold Truths and The Myth of Remunerative Prices – Vijoo Krishnan
- June 29, 2012
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“BONANZA for Farmers”, “Price Shoots Up” were some of the shrill headlines in leading financial dailies that reported the announcement of Minimum Support Prices (MSP) for kharif crops, 2012-13, made by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on June 15, 2012. Almost every newspaper vied with the others to portray it as the biggest ever hike and to fuel [...]
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The Syrian crisis continues to grow worse, with Hilary Clinton now threatening Russia and China of “paying a price” if they continue to “support” Bashar al Assad in Syria. This is a scant few days after nine-party Action Group meeting in Geneva, where both sides agreed to a political solution in Syria. Promptly, the two sides – the American and Russian came [...]
The UPA-II Govt have been compelled to keep in abeyance its executive order to allow foreign direct investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail trade in the country following countrywide protest which also reflected in both the houses of Parliament during the winter session last year. The FDI in multi-brand retail is one of the short-listed reforms programme under “most immediate category” [...]
THE introduction of the the Micro Finance Institutions (Development and Regulation) Bill 2012 in the Lok Sabha on May 22, 2012 has to be seen in the context of the UPA government’s neo-liberal policy of financial inclusion. This policy is largely predicated on the understanding that the banking sector has failed to reach the poor and that this role would [...]
THE shooting down of a Turkish Air Force F-4 jet over Syrian territory in late May is the latest pretext being used by the West to destabilise the Syrian government. Turkish troops have been moved towards the long border with Syria. Turkey, a NATO member country, is threatening unspecified consequences for the Syrian government. The Turkish government has told the Syrian army [...]
The UN food standards body has agreed on new regulations – including the maximum level of melamine in liquid milk formula for babies – to protect the health of consumers across the world. Other measures adopted include new food safety standards on seafood, melons, dried figs and food labelling. The Codex Alimentarius Commission, jointly run by the UN Food and [...]
India’s Economic Travails – Prabhat Patnaik
- July 6, 2012
THE Indian economy is currently witnessing a mix of illnesses: a slowdown of economic growth, high inflation, a widening of the current account deficit and a depreciation of the rupee. Neo-liberal economists who have a single-point explanation for all economic ills, viz fiscal profligacy, naturally attribute India’s current economic woes too to this factor. Their argument runs as follows: since any widening [...]
At a seminar held at CERN on 4th July 2012 as a curtain raiser to the year’s major particle physics conference, ICHEP2012 in Melbourne, the ATLAS and CMS experiments presented their latest preliminary results in the search for the long sought Higgs particle. Both experiments observe a new particle in the mass region around 125-126 GeV. “We observe in our data [...]