The presence of Taliban marauders in Swat valley, in the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan located 160 km/100 miles from Islamabad, and its continual onslaughts against the Pakistani army is posing a threat not only to Pakistan but to its neighboring countries as well. There is no doubt that the prime of these is India and it is learnt that the Taliban forces are always keen to wage a Jihad against India directly and for this reason, it is helping Islamic militants to create more incidents akin to 26/11 in the country. What is the response of India then?
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In the Indian context, the disparity between its rural and urban sectors is not any new development but has been going on for centuries. What is more, this gap is found to be widening these days thanks to the advent of new technology in urban India and its prolific application in almost all spheres. Don’t you think it is necessary to bridge the two? Keep in mind there may be dreadful consequences instead, if something is not done straight away. Well, if you are an Indian, you don’t have to think any more. There is Intex Technologies and it is firm to modernize the rural India in a new way. Intex Technologies is going to present a unique cell phone handset to the rural India.
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Though smoking is regarded as one of the most pernicious habits known hitherto, it is perhaps the most preferred addiction for millions of people across the world. For this simple reason the drives (of several governments) to create a smoking free world has failed miserably. Who are its greatest admirers? This is very difficult to discern though studies confirm men are more likely to smoke than women. Nevertheless, the gender gap declines with age. Studies also depict that poor men more likely than wealthy, and people of developing countries than those of developed countries, prefer to smoke.
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One of the noblest traits of the Indian civilization happens to be its reverence to geezerhood or old age and this has been continuing in this ancient land through ages. Whatever may be the influence of consumerism and crony capitalism, India is set to conform to this primordial ideal. This has been proved once again thanks to the latest move of IRDA (Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority) whose one obligation is regarding protection of the interests of the Indian policy holders in matters concerning assigning of policy, nomination by policy holders, insurable interest, settlement of insurance claim, surrender value of policy and other terms and conditions of contracts of insurance.
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The global swine flu is unabated and more and more deaths are occurring with the passing of almost each day and all these indicate that the situation is becoming more shockingly repellent. The recent reports of death have come from both USA and Mexico. While there were four fatalities in Mexico, there was one death in the realm of United States of America. It is to be noted that these are the two countries where the first outbreaks were reported and by now the total number of deaths is 100, if not more.
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Life changes and old order changes yielding place to new. Well, this is not all since along with the passing of years standpoints do change. These wise statements are best fitted for Vietnam that fought from 1959 to 30 April 1975 against USA-backed South Vietnam with an indomitable spirit. However, this is a different world where development and other core issues rule the show and all these have made the arch-enemies of yesteryears to enter a common front for the betterment.
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Montana State University, known for educational excellence and generating students of high caliber, has accomplished another record. Janice Lucon, 25, a graduate student of the university has bagged a $90,000 fellowship from the National Science Foundation. Reason? Her research has the potency to make a difference in how light is harvested for alternative energy applications. Janice, hence, will receive an NSF annual stipend for three years to fund her research at the same university.
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India, the land of ancient civilization and virtues, also known as one the most decent parts of the world, is gradually entering into the age of Internet. If you are an Indian, you can surely frown at this since Internet facilities have already become common in urban India. However, in spite of this, the consciousness of online facilities in the greater part of India is strikingly absent (owing to existent and mounting fiscal disparities) and the education system, more or less, speaks of the same saga.
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Not only the affected countries but the swine fu has almost taken the World Health Organization (WHO) by storm also and the declining scenario, hence, has made WHO come out with a significant decision. The widely acclaimed United Nations agency responsible to coordinate international health activities and to help governments improve health services would rewrite its rules for alerting the world to new diseases. What does this indicate? According to health experts, the swine flu which is tormenting the whole world will most likely never be declared a full-fledged pandemic.
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The US federal government is gearing up to cope with the exigency owing to the outbreak of swine flu and has asked, as a result, three drug companies to make an adequate amount of swine flu vaccine to inoculate no less than 20 million people in crucial positions in health care, national security and emergency services. The instruction came to the fore on account of the arduous effort of health officials under the auspices of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and is a part of a government’s $1 billion investment in immediate production and testing of vaccine against the newly emerged strain of the H1N1 flu virus. It is likely that more orders for potentially hundreds of millions of doses of vaccine will be coming soon.
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