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- Kerala’s only tribal village under threat
- UID Aadhaar valid for all Financial and Banking Services
- Wikipedia is full of Errors according to Researches
- Rajnikanth is not paying for 3 losses – Dhanush
- Patna Zoo to shed off 2000 rare Trees
- Is West Bengal becoming the hub of Lawlessness ?
- 6 legged baby born in Pakistan
- Uninor employees bid to save company business in India
| Kerala’s only tribal village under threat Posted: 18 Apr 2012 07:55 AM PDT Tucked away inside a heavily forested area, Kerala’s only Scheduled Tribes (ST) panchayat Idamalakkudy is home to some of the world’s most endangered plant species but the rich biodiversity is fast dwindling as is the tribals’ unique way of life, say worried researchers. Spread over 106 sq km area in Idukki district, about 270 km from here, Idamalakkudy has a population of 2,236 — comprising 1,196 men and 1,040 women — heavily dependent on the forest for food, medicine and shelter. A 20-member team of the Kerala State Biodiversity Board (KSBB) returned here Tuesday after spending five days in the village, accessible only on foot with vehicles having to stop some 20 km away, and found to their dismay that numerous medicinal plants found in the area were fast depleting. “We will soon work out immediate intervention to control and conserve medicinal plants. The depleting medicinal resources should not be harvested for trade for the next three years in order to conserve the precious resources. It is unscrupulous middlemen who exploit these tribals,” K.P. Laladhas, who led the team, told IANS. Stressing that traditional medicines were their strength, Laladhas said: “Women are extremely dependent on them for safe childbirth. These women return to active work just a few weeks after delivering their babies.” Their homes are traditionally built using forest wood, mud and locally available grass. “What is a matter of concern is that local self governments have now started using tin sheets as roof and cement blocks for the walls. This is unmatched technology to be used in the forests and we will see what we can do to see how we can prevail upon local authorities not to undertake this type of construction,” said Laladhas. Another cause of worry in the social sphere is the high consumption of tobacco. Almost 85 percent use tobacco, including children as young as seven. “The need of the hour is for immediate intervention by health experts to launch a massive anti-tobacco campaign in the village because already the ill-effects of the use of tobacco are seen on them,” added Laladhas. |
| UID Aadhaar valid for all Financial and Banking Services Posted: 18 Apr 2012 04:42 AM PDT Aadhaar cards, the unique, 12-digit identification numbers given to residents of India, will soon be pressed into financial and banking services, to begin with in 50 districts, a top official said here Wednesday. The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has already enrolled 20 crore people and aims to issue the UID cards to 40 crore more people in the next 18 months. “The Aadhaar-enabled applications would be rolled out, first in the financial affairs, in the selected 50 districts of the country soon,” UIDAI director general Ram Sevak Sharma said. “Adoption of Aadhaar and Aadhaar authentication in Indian banking system is expected to change the financial landscape of the country,” Sharma said. The agency has been mandated to issue a unique identification number to every Indian resident, linked to his demographic and biometric information, which can be used to identify them anywhere in India, and to access a host of benefits and services. According to Sharma, of the 50 selected districts where the Aadhaar enabled applications would be launched soon, four districts are in Tripura and two in Sikkim in the northeastern region. Tripura leads the country by enrolling 90 percent of the 3.7 million population in the Aadhaar scheme, followed by Sikkim with 70 percent. “Of India’s 121 crore people, till March this year 20 crore or one sixth of the total population have been enrolled in the Aadhaar scheme,” Sharma said. The government has asked the UIDAI to enroll 40 crore more people by the next 18 months. The UIDAI director general accompanied by his deputy Kumal Alok held discussions with Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar and top officials of the state government about how to use Aadhaar enabled applications in the northeastern state. “It was decided that all kinds of payments in the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, all kinds of pensions and every scholarships in the educational sector would be made through Aadhaar-authenticated mechanism,” said Sharma. Sharma, a senior IAS officer, said the state governments and their priorities would decide how and what applications of Aadhaar would be made. Asked about the controversy over whether Aadhaar can be misused by illegal infiltrators from across the border or unscrupulous elements or it be termed as proof of nationality, the UIDAI DG said that the unique ID number is only for developmental services. “By providing a clear proof of identity, Aadhaar would empower poor and underprivileged residents in accessing services such as the formal banking system and give them the opportunity to easily avail of various other services provided by the government and the private sector,” he clarified. “The centralised technology infrastructure of the UIDAI would enable ‘anytime, anywhere, anyhow’ authentication of any individual through the 12-digit Aadhaar number.” Sharma said it was estimated that Rs.18,000 crore would be required to provide Aadhaar numbers to all the 121 crore Indians and to make the necessary platforms for its applications. Other states which have enrolled a reasonable number of their population in the Aadhaar scheme include Andhra Pradesh (40 percent), Maharashtra (26 percent), Karnataka (26 percent), Jharkhand (25 percent), Punjab (23 percent), Himachal Pradesh ((23 percent) and Delhi (22 percent). |
| Wikipedia is full of Errors according to Researches Posted: 18 Apr 2012 03:02 AM PDT Sixty percent of Wikipedia articles about companies contain factual errors, according to a new research, which warned people not to rely on the website for accurate and balanced information. “It does not surprise me that so many Wikipedia entries contain factual errors,” said Marcia W. DiStaso, assistant professor of public relations at Penn State University, who conducted the research. “A high amount of factual errors doesn’t work for anyone, especially the public, which relies on Wikipedia for accurate, balanced information,” says DiStaso. DiStaso surveyed 1,284 professionals from Public Relations Society of America, the International Association of Business Communicators, the Word of Mouth Marketing Association, the Institute for Public Relations and the National Investor Relations Institute to assess their working relationship with Wikipedia, the Public Relations Journal reports. Results of the survey indicate a gap exists between public relations professionals and Wikipedia concerning the proper protocol for editing entries, according to a Penn statement. When respondents attempted to engage editors through Wikipedia’s “Talk” pages to request corrections of facts in entries, 40 percent said it took “days” to receive a response, 12 percent indicated “weeks,” while 24 percent never received any type of response. According to Wikipedia, its standard response time to requests for corrections is between two and five days. Only 35 percent of respondents were able to engage with Wikipedia, either by using its “Talk” pages to converse with editors or through direct editing of a client’s entry. Respondents indicated this figure is low partly because some fear media backlash over making edits to clients’ entries. Respondents also expressed a certain level of uncertainty regarding how to properly edit Wikipedia entries. Of those who were familiar with the process of editing Wikipedia entries, 23 percent said making changes was “near impossible”. Twenty-nine percent said their interactions with Wikipedia editors were “never productive”. “What is surprising, however, is that 25 percent of survey respondents indicated they are not familiar with the Wikipedia articles for their company or clients. At some point most, if not all, companies will determine they need to change something in their Wikipedia entries,” said DiStaso. Without clear, consistent rules from Wikipedia regarding how factual corrections can be made, this will be a very difficult learning process for public relations professionals. |
| Rajnikanth is not paying for 3 losses – Dhanush Posted: 18 Apr 2012 01:58 AM PDT Tamil star Dhanush is upset with reports that his father-in-law, the legendary Rajinikanth, is reimbursing the Telugu distributor’s revenue losses for his movie “3″. Dhanush, who became a sensation across the country with his song “Kolaveri di”, is married to Rajinikanth’s daughter Aishwarya, who has directed “3″. “How I love the stories that are created just because I am married to a particular person’s daughter,” said Dhanush. “’3′ has suffered no losses. And even if there are losses to be compensated for, god has been kind to me. I can take care of my own financial liabilities, thank you very much,” he added. The Hindi version of ’3′ will be released next month, and it also features Kamal Haasan’s daughter Shruti, who is yet to establish a good foothold in Bollywood. The protective father and the movie enthusiast in Kamal feels “3″ could do good to the Hindi film careers of Dhanush and Shruti, provided it is edited well, especially in the second half. Dhanush, who has been painstakingly working on the Hindi version of “3″, has perhaps decided to take Kamal’s advice seriously. “The film has gone into serious re-editing. Most experts feel ’3′ didn’t work to its optimum level at the Tamil and Telugu box office because of its inordinate length,” said a source close to the project. “Kamalji saw the film and made suggestions as to how and where to prune down the length, specially in the second half,” the source added. Dhanush confirmed the news, saying: “Yes I am editing the film down further. Kamal sir did see the film and was kind enough to make suggestions.” |
| Patna Zoo to shed off 2000 rare Trees Posted: 18 Apr 2012 01:47 AM PDT Patna zoo will lose 2000 trees if the plans of Airport Authority of India (AAI) are executed. AAI will send a proposal to the state government for cutting the identified trees creating problems in taking-off and landing of the aircrafts at the airport. There are many precious and rare species of trees on the 15 acre land of the zoo and some of them which are above 25 feet height may be cut down. The zoo has about 10,000 trees. Some of them, like patali, putranjiva, hijjal, terminaliya myriocarpa, heterophragma, kigalia pinnata, ficus and cassia javanica, are of rare varieties.
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| Is West Bengal becoming the hub of Lawlessness ? Posted: 18 Apr 2012 01:36 AM PDT April 4, IISER Scientist in West Bengal arrested for an anti-eviction drive after after the state government demolished some shanties in Nonadanga, east of the city on March 30. April 12, Jadavpur University professor Ambikesh Mahapatra arrested for mocking Mamta Bannerjee Cartoons.Police charged Ambikesh Mahapatra with cyber crime offences. April 17, Retired scientist's 30 yr old daughter stripped and thrashed in Bengal outside her house. The people who assaulted her were members of a club belonging to a club inclusive of CPM and Trinamool Party Workers. Police took their time responding to her SOS. The two policemen who finally arrived did not bother to take a complaint, or help her and her father, Aparesh Bhattacharya, get to a hospital. They left them bleeding on the road. They picked themselves up and went to SSKM to get their wounds treated and could file a complaint at Baruipur police station only on Tuesday Lets see what people say about this V. N. De (Kolkata)
Several Jokes are getting circulated on Internet about the West Bengal Government. People are terming West Bengal as Waste Bengal. 1) Why did Mamata Banerjee cross the road? To see if the chicken was making fun of her,”….. 2) Dear Mamata, normally the cartoonist tries to capture the subject. Not vice versa.” 3) Didi tera thevar deewana….. Hai ram psycho ka hai zamana……. 4)A boy was repeatedly shouting at the top of his voice: “The Chief Minister is a psycho". The police rushed in and said “Hey, how dare you say that our Chief Minister is a psycho? We will arrest you". The boy said “Oh no, please let me go, I meant the Chief Minister of Bihar”. The Police Officer: “Don’t lie, do you think we do not know which Chief Ministers is a psycho
Mamta Di, Are you hearing all this?‘People had immense faith and expectations from you and they are losing all them |
| 6 legged baby born in Pakistan Posted: 18 Apr 2012 12:56 AM PDT A baby born in Pakistan’s Sindh province has six legs, with a doctor assessing that the removal of the parasitic limbs could be a “serious and time-consuming medical exercise”. The baby boy was born with extra limbs in Sukkur. He was Monday shifted to the National Institute of Child Health (NICH) in Karachi. NICH director Jamal Raza said the infant has a parasitic twin. “One of the twins is living, while the other has become parasitic. The infant is all right and has been admitted to the intensive care unit of the NICH, but the removal of the parasitic limbs could be a serious and time-consuming medical exercise including both inner and cosmetic surgeries,” Dawn quoted Raza as saying. A team of five surgeons will look into this case. The baby’s father, Imran Ali Sheikh, 31, is an X-ray technician who married Afshan, 27, about five years back. The baby is their first child. “I want the doctors to save my son’s life,” he pleaded. “I am a poor man and have already spent my savings on the illness of my wife who delivered the child after a caesarean section April 12 at the Civil Hospital Sukkur,” he added. |
| Uninor employees bid to save company business in India Posted: 17 Apr 2012 11:50 PM PDT UIINOR Employees along with their families today gathered at Jantar Mantar to tell the government that their future is at stake if Uninor’s operations are shut in India. A smaller group of people also proceeded to the offices of Communications Minister Kapil Sibal and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh thereafter. Uninor, a joint venture between Norway’s Telenor and India-based Unitech, would be asking the government to allow its operations till auctions of the cancelled 2G licences takes place. The firm, which stands to lose its licences to operate in India following Supreme Court’s order to cancel 122 telecom licences issued in 2008, is likely to be in an even difficult situation with the government having sought an extension of time to conduct the auction. The Supreme Court had asked the firms affected by the order to shut shops in four months and ordered the government to conduct auction of the cancelled licences in the due time. However, the government has said that the auction would take at least 400 days which would require firms like Uninor to halt their operations after June 2 till the time an auction takes place. “The purpose of this gathering will be to register our presence, bring to the government of India’s attention the fact that Uninor’s future is our future and that we deserve a chance to continue,” an Uninor employee said. “Our employment is dependent on the continuity of Uninor’s operations and so we will be asking the government of India to ensure that we are allowed to keep the operations running till such time that our company is able to participate in the new 2G auctions,” he added. The gathering took place for one hour 10:30 a.m. saw participation from over 600 Uninor employees and their families from NCR and Uttar Pradesh. The firm has almost 40 million subscribers and about 17,500 employees across India |
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