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Highlighting Bhopal’s cause through art – Shahnawaz Akhtar
- February 3, 2012
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The year he was born saw the world’s worst industrial disaster, the Bhopal gas leak. Some 27 years down the line, he is now trying to draw attention to the tragedy through his art. Sayed Irshad Ali, from Udaipur district in Rajasthan, is in Bhopal these days to showcase his contemporary art work, including hoardings and posters, in various public [...]
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Rahul Gandhi: post-caste politician succumbs to caste politics – Mayank Chhaya
- February 3, 2012
- By India Current Affairs
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Indian politicians have mastered the art of perpetuating and mining the politics of sordid caste consciousness even while simultaneously pretending to reject it. The latest to succumb to the easy lure of caste politics is ironically widely seen as a post-caste politician, none other than India’s prime minister-in-waiting and Congress party general secretary Rahul Gandhi. Even more ironically, the man [...]
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Is India finally waking up to mental illness? – Anjali Ojha
- February 3, 2012
- By India Current Affairs
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Ignorance, stigma and lack of doctors have long marred mental healthcare in India. But with stressful lifestyles and ever increasing cases of depression, this much neglected segment is now gaining importance in the country’s medical scenario. According to an estimate by the World Health Organisation (WHO), depression will become the second largest illness in terms of morbidity in another decade. [...]
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Awareness key to beating breast cancer, say experts (Feb 4 is World Cancer Day) – Nikhil Walia
- February 3, 2012
- By India Current Affairs
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In India, almost 80 percent of breast cancer patients are in an advanced stage when they come to a hospital, say doctors. Among the prime factors fuelling the disease in the country, especially among urban women, are fast-paced lives and delayed reproductive activity, they add. No time for fitness, bad food, increased tobacco and alcohol consumption and lifestyle changes like [...]
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Electricity Through Cogeneration: A Promising Development – Dr. J. R. Meshram & Gargi Malik
- February 3, 2012
- By India Current Affairs
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Think of a sugar mill, not only producing sugar but also generating power as a by-product. Bagasse, a residue of crushed sugarcane used in sugar mills is the principal fuel used to raise steam in sugar mills. With the technological innovations, the high pressure steam generated in boilers can in turn be used to rotate the turbo generator blades to [...]
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Study suggests link Between Brain Size And Popularity
- February 3, 2012
- By India Current Affairs
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Researchers are suggesting that there is a link between the number of friends you have and the size of the region of the brain – known as the orbital prefrontal cortex – that is found just above the eyes. A new study shows that this brain region is bigger in people who have a larger number of friendships. Their study [...]
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If Gandhiji had lived for another 10 years… – Brij Khandelwal
- February 3, 2012
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Who gained most from Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination and what if he had lived a little longer? These questions were posed to leading Gandhians in the Taj city Monday, his death anniversary. Most said it was a huge national tragedy. Gandhiji’s presence after independence would have made a world of difference to India’s politics and governance, they felt. Surely Gandhiji would [...]
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Nursery admission to cost parents between Rs. 2 to 4 Lakh this year
- February 2, 2012
- By India Current Affairs
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Affording best quality education for children has burnt hole in the pocket of parents, this year parents will keep aside an average budget of over Rs. 2 Lakhs to 4 Lakhs before the primary schools begins due to the heavy fee charged by the private schools, a survey conducted by industry body ASSOCHAM said. Parents’ applying for primary schools have [...]
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Supreme Court Verdict on 2G Case : All 122 2G Licences Granted During Raja’s Tenure Cancelled
- February 2, 2012
- By India Current Affairs
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SC leaves it to trial court to decide on probe against Chidambaram in 2G case. The Supreme Court Thursday cancelled all 122 licences granted to telecom companies during the tenure of former communications minister A. Raja. The Supreme Court has cancelled all 122 2G licences handed out in India. Eighty-five out of the 122 licences are outside the eligibility criteria. [...]
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Heirs to the Walmart Fortune – Pat Garofalo
- February 2, 2012
- By India Current Affairs
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Income inequality in the U.S. is currently the highest it has been since the 1920s, with the 400 richest Americans (who are all billionaires) having as much wealth as the bottom 50 percent of Americans combined. And as it turns out, just one wealthy family has managed to amass a fortune equal to that of the combined net worth of [...]
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Retail Chain Giants – Savera
- February 2, 2012
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Consider this: India has over 15 lakh shops according to the last Economic Census of 2006. That works out to an incredible ratio of 1 shop for every 10 persons – the highest in the whole world. Now, also consider this: a recent report of the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) says that in 2009-10 nearly 3.8 crore persons were [...]
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Malnutrition of Children – Should the Government not feel ashamed – K Hemalata
- February 2, 2012
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Prime Minster Manmohan Singh has lamented termed the high levels of malnutrition among the children in the country as a ‘national shame’. It is indeed strange that it took a report of a study by a corporate NGO to rouse the indignation of the Prime Minister about the unacceptably high child malnutrition in our country. Many earlier reports including those [...]
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Israel grows purple carrots, tiger-striped tomatoes
- February 1, 2012
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Ever heard of purple carrots or black or tiger-striped tomatoes? Farmers in Israel have now grown differently-coloured varieties — not as a result of genetic modification but through crossbreeding with wild vegetables. The pink, yellow and purple carrots and deep purple and black tomatoes will be displayed at a major exposition in Israel’s southern Arava valley, home to dozens of [...]
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Divorce detrimental to health of younger lot
- February 1, 2012
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Divorce at a younger age is more detrimental to one’s health than later in life as older people can cope better with the ensuing disruption and stress. Michigan State University sociologist Hui Liu, who led the study said “that we need more social and family support for the younger divorced groups.” “This could include divorce counselling to help people handle [...]
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Bent on laptops, spondylitis afflicting India’s young – Shikha Nehra
- February 1, 2012
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Shweta Arya was 29 years old when she first had a back problem. Ignored initially, her pain spread upwards and aggravated to a level where she was not even able to move her neck. “Employed with an infrastructure consultancy, I used to work on a laptop with a bent neck. The back pain went on increasing and finally my situation [...]
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MCA 21 System – Holistic end-to-end E-Governance Project – Sudhir Tiwari
- February 1, 2012
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Recently the Ministry of Corporate Affairs has taken a number of steps under the e-Governance initiative taken by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs. The sole purpose is to encompass and facilitate stakeholders for access to database which would be of immense value further business operations. This database in particular relates to the creation/subsistence of charges created against advances sanctioned and [...]
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World Cancer Day – “Together it is possible”
- February 4, 2012
Each year on 4 February, WHO and International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) supports International Union Against Cancer (UICC) to promote ways to ease the global burden of cancer. Preventing cancer and raising quality of life for cancer patients are recurring themes. WHO and IARC will focus this year on screening and vaccination. Cancer is responsible for close to [...]
Facebook sees India among key growth areas -Arun Kumar
- February 4, 2012
Popular social network site Facebook, which hopes to raise at least $5 billion in one of the world’s most widely anticipated IPOs, or initial public offerings of stock, is betting big on India and Brazil. Outlining its growth strategy in a filing made online with the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, Facebook said it “continued to focus on growing [...]
New angiography technique a boon for many – Anjali Ojha
- February 4, 2012
At 55, Ratnesh Shah was suffering from frequent chest pain and was advised a coronary angiography — which involves opening up blocked vessels. Unfortunately, both his femoral (groin) arteries were closed because of a vascular disease. His radial (wrist) arteries were also calcified and had lesser capacity to bear with an incision, with tests showing that nothing wider than 1.7 [...]
India has achieved, in more than one way, the recognition as a global power in many significant economic sectors. Nationally, a lot of positive trends on many social indicators like the near eradication of polio, significant increase in literacy rates and the increased rates in enrolment of both boys and girls in primary schools. However, progress has been slow in [...]
Highlighting Bhopal’s cause through art – Shahnawaz Akhtar
- February 3, 2012
- By India Current Affairs
- Features/ Articles, Focus
- no comments
The year he was born saw the world’s worst industrial disaster, the Bhopal gas leak. Some 27 years down the line, he is now trying to draw attention to the tragedy through his art. Sayed Irshad Ali, from Udaipur district in Rajasthan, is in Bhopal these days to showcase his contemporary art work, including hoardings and posters, in various public [...]
Rahul Gandhi: post-caste politician succumbs to caste politics – Mayank Chhaya
- February 3, 2012
- By India Current Affairs
- Features/ Articles, Focus
- no comments
Indian politicians have mastered the art of perpetuating and mining the politics of sordid caste consciousness even while simultaneously pretending to reject it. The latest to succumb to the easy lure of caste politics is ironically widely seen as a post-caste politician, none other than India’s prime minister-in-waiting and Congress party general secretary Rahul Gandhi. Even more ironically, the man [...]
Is India finally waking up to mental illness? – Anjali Ojha
- February 3, 2012
- By India Current Affairs
- Features/ Articles, Focus
- no comments
Ignorance, stigma and lack of doctors have long marred mental healthcare in India. But with stressful lifestyles and ever increasing cases of depression, this much neglected segment is now gaining importance in the country’s medical scenario. According to an estimate by the World Health Organisation (WHO), depression will become the second largest illness in terms of morbidity in another decade. [...]
Awareness key to beating breast cancer, say experts (Feb 4 is World Cancer Day) – Nikhil Walia
- February 3, 2012
- By India Current Affairs
- Features/ Articles, Focus
- no comments
In India, almost 80 percent of breast cancer patients are in an advanced stage when they come to a hospital, say doctors. Among the prime factors fuelling the disease in the country, especially among urban women, are fast-paced lives and delayed reproductive activity, they add. No time for fitness, bad food, increased tobacco and alcohol consumption and lifestyle changes like [...]
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Obesity Begins In Brain, Say US Researchers
- February 5, 2012
The female hormone estrogen found in the human brain plays a key role in obesity, which is not necessarily the problem of hips, thighs and bellies, US scientists say. Researchers from the Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School say that the hormone works through two kinds of neurons, steroidogenic factor-1 (SF-1) and pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC), [...]
- February 4, 2012
- By India Current Affairs
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In India, almost 80 percent of breast cancer patients are in an advanced stage when they come to a hospital, say doctors. Among the prime factors fuelling the disease in the country, especially among urban women, are fast-paced lives and delayed reproductive activity, they add. No time for fitness, bad food, increased tobacco and alcohol consumption and lifestyle changes like [...]
- February 3, 2012
- By India Current Affairs
- Features/ Articles, Focus
Think of a sugar mill, not only producing sugar but also generating power as a by-product. Bagasse, a residue of crushed sugarcane used in sugar mills is the principal fuel used to raise steam in sugar mills. With the technological innovations, the high pressure steam generated in boilers can in turn be used to rotate the turbo generator blades to [...]
- February 3, 2012
- By India Current Affairs
- Features/ Articles, Focus
- no comments
Researchers are suggesting that there is a link between the number of friends you have and the size of the region of the brain – known as the orbital prefrontal cortex – that is found just above the eyes. A new study shows that this brain region is bigger in people who have a larger number of friendships. Their study [...]
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The 2G Judgement: Holding Corporate Houses also Accountable – Prabir Purkayastha, Newsclick
- February 7, 2012
The Supreme Court’s judgement on 2G of cancelling the 122 licenses awarded in 2008 is a landmark one. It has held for the first time – at least on this scale – that public property secured through fraud and corrupt practices are liable for cancellation. As has rightly been noted, this has implications far beyond telecom. Mining is another area [...]
It has eluded experts for centuries, but now an Indian, following in the footsteps of Aryabhatt, one of the earliest Indian mathematicians, claims to have worked out a simple formula to find any number’s cube root. Nirbhay Singh Nahar, a retired chemical engineer and an amateur mathematician, claims he has found a formula that will help students and applied engineers [...]
Exam time: Dial a helpline to overcome stress – Shikha Nehra
- February 7, 2012
It’s that time of the year when tension runs high, anxiety grips the minds of parents and students who are concerned about just one thing — board exams! But help is just a call away as many helpline numbers are active to overcome exam stress. “The CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education) started its helpline Feb 1 to help students [...]
viSparsh: Helping the blind through touch – Nikhil Walia
- February 7, 2012
Mohammed Wasim is a young helpline operator at India’s National Association for the Blind (NAB) who could only perceive brightness and lights, but the lack of ability to discern shapes meant living in a shapeless world where every small obstacle could prove a barrier. However, viSparsh, a belt-based sensor system (sparsh literally means touch) created by a young team of [...]
However much Communications and IT Minister Kapil Sibal may seek to defend the government, the verdict on telecom licences by the Supreme Court has dealt a severe blow to the credibility of the government, particularly when the very edifice of the executive — that of framing and executing policies — has been lambasted. The two cases before the courts pertaining [...]
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Who’ll lead Congress in UP? Not Rahul Gandhi, says party
- February 9, 2012
The Congress has not projected any chief minister in the hotly contested Uttar Pradesh elections that began Wednesday and “youth icon” Rahul Gandhi is not a candidate, says a senior leader. “Our focus is on the campaign now. When it comes to selecting a legislature party leader, we will cross the bridge when we come to it,” Mohan Prakash, chief [...]
BJP’s moral halo is fading rapidly – V.S. Karnic
- February 9, 2012
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) must be ruing coming to power in Karnataka and holding up the state as a gateway to rule south India. In the last four years, the party has been facing a series of scandals centred around money, land and sex. Worse is the shallow stand taken by the state and central BJP leaders when their [...]
In cheering news for wildlife conservationists, tiger poaching dropped nearly 60 percent in 2011 as compared to the previous year, though it continues to pose a major threat to the survival of the big cat in the country, a leading NGO said. According to the Wildlife Protection Society of India (WPSI), 13 tigers were hunted last year as compared to [...]
Century on, end of a bullock cart saga in Mumbai – Quaid Najmi
- February 9, 2012
Rain or shine, they would deliver their ware. But, following a sustained campaign by an animal rights group and celebrities, Maharashtra has finally brought the curtains down on 465 bullock carts that were being used since 1906 for transporting kerosene in the city. As per a recent notification, since Feb 1, the State Ministry of Food and Civil Supplies, through [...]
Dancing to Bollywood numbers, talking against corruption, raising their voice for the girl child, around 30 children with special needs wowed the audience at an event here. As one of them put it – their ‘I can’ was better than the IQ of others! “People call us special kids, but do we really need to be treated like this?” asked [...]
UP Politics Still ‘caste’ In Stone
- February 9, 2012
In a tired replay, the campaign for the Uttar Pradesh elections that began Wednesday stood out most for its narrow emotional appeals by all political parties to caste, ethnic and religious identity of the voter, clouding any debate on development of India’s most populous state. As voters queued up outside polling booths in the first round of the seven-phase balloting [...]
The Syrian crisis continues even though the attempt to have a Libyan-style solution through the Security Council failed with Russia and China vetoing this move. The US, other western powers along with the Arab monarchies – Saudi Arabia, Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Qatar — this time unfortunately with India also in tow, essentially wanted what amounts to a regime change . The [...]