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कश्मीर:200 रुपए लेकर पत्‍थरबाजी करते हैं बच्‍चे

 बारामूला: बारामूला सांसद शरीफुद्दीन शारीक ने दावा किया है कि उग्र प्रदर्शनों में भाग लेने के लिए रुपयों का लालच दिया जाता है। शरीफ ने दावा किया है कि बच्‍चों को मात्र 200 रुपए देने का लालच देकर पत्‍थरबाजी करने के लिए उकसाया जाता है। कुछ इसी तरह के दावे केंद्रीय गृह सचिव जीके पिल्‍लई भी कर चुके हैं। श्री पिल्‍लई का कहना है बच्‍चों और युवाओं को लालच देकर सुरक्षा बलों के खिलाफ भड़काया जा रहा है। युवाओं की भावनाओं को भड़काने और उन्‍हें सुरक्षा बलों के खिलाफ करने के पीछे विदेशी ताकतों के हाथ की बात पहले भी सामने आ चुकी है। बीते एक दशक में ऐसे अनगिनत मामले सा‍मने आए हैं, जिनसे पता चलता है कि बच्‍चों और युवाओं के मानस को बहकार उन्‍हें उग्रवाद के रास्‍ते पर धकेला जा रहा है। घाटी की ताजा घटनाएं ऐसे मामलों की बुनियाद का काम करती हैं।

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Supertyphoons to Strike Japan Due to Global Warming

Increasingly powerful storms will devastate the country as rising temperatures add jolts of energy to typhoons in the western Pacific Ocean, scientists say.
 
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GIS maps effective in national malaria control programme

   

India - A GIS-driven digital map of past and predicted malaria outbreak hotspots has been used in India as part of a national control programme. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access International Journal of Health Geographics describe the creation of the GIS and its implementation in the malaria-stricken Madhya Pradesh region.Aruna Srivastava and her team from India's National Institute of Malaria Research worked with colleagues from the National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme and the State Health Department to use GIS to pinpoint trouble spots for timely preventive action. She said, "This is the first time that GIS has been used in a national control programme for tribal malaria. The system identifies hotspots from which malaria flares up every time conditions favourable for transmission occur".After implementation of hotspot management based on the GIS system, parasitological data showed that 96042 malaria cases in 2006 reduced to 90829 in 2007. This work continued in 2008 and the authors say results were good. According to Srivastava, "GIS can dynamically map malaria hot spots and also point out the geographic locations of hot pockets within to carry out accelerated focused malaria control. The main advantage of the GIS platform is fast data updating - as soon as data is entered, revised maps highlight the trouble spots".

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Seminar on Gandhi

U.G.C. Sponsored National seminar is being organized by Department of Political Science, Amar Singh (P.G) College, Lakhaoti, Bulandshahr, UP, on 24-25 February, 2009. We are requesting you to send your paper along with an abstract latest by 10th Feb., 2009. It would be highly appreciated if you can send your paper with abstract through E-mail ashuparsiya@rediffmail.com; or through registered post with CD, well in advance, so that the same can be published and circulated to the participants. We will publish the papers after the conference in the form of a book.
You are hereby requested to send your paper/article on any aspect of below mentioned themes, these are the tentative topics, you make chose any topic in an around the main theme of the conference.  
Main Theme: Gandhi in the 21st Century
Sub themes: 
1. Challenges of 21st century and Gandhian alternative
2. Locating Gandhi
3. Gandhi and Globalization
4. Gandhi and Contemporary World
5. Gandhi Science and Technology
6. Gandhi and Social Justice
7. Gandhi and Terrorism
8. Gandhi and Environment
9. Gandhi and Panchayati Raj institution

Seminar on Gandhi

U.G.C. Sponsored National seminar is being organized by Department of Political Science, Amar Singh (P.G) College, Lakhaoti, Bulandshahr, UP, on 24-25 February, 2009. We are requesting you to send your paper along with an abstract latest by 10th Feb., 2009. It would be highly appreciated if you can send your paper with abstract through E-mail ashuparsiya@rediffmail.com; or through registered post with CD, well in advance, so that the same can be published and circulated to the participants. We will publish the papers after the conference in the form of a book.
You are hereby requested to send your paper/article on any aspect of below mentioned themes, these are the tentative topics, you make chose any topic in an around the main theme of the conference.  
Main Theme: Gandhi in the 21st Century
Sub themes: 
1. Challenges of 21st century and Gandhian alternative
2. Locating Gandhi
3. Gandhi and Globalization
4. Gandhi and Contemporary World
5. Gandhi Science and Technology
6. Gandhi and Social Justice
7. Gandhi and Terrorism
8. Gandhi and Environment
9. Gandhi and Panchayati Raj institution

Rashid’s Blog

I found this fascinating quote today:

For thousands of years, people have gazed into the night sky and wondered about the planet Mars. It was an object of particular fascination for ancient astrologers who looked to the heavens for guidance about the past and the future. When they first noticed the fiery red planet, they thought it was a star. But as they continued to study the sky, they discovered that stars appear in fixed patterns (now known as constellations) and traveled across the sky with predictable regularity. Mars, however, and the other “wandering stars” behaved differently. They drifted about the sky from constellation to constellation, as if they were following an invisible path. Because of how these celestial bodies differed from stars, the ancient Greeks named them planetes, a word meaning “wanderers.”rashidsblog, Rashid’s Blog, Dec 2008

You should read the whole article.