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Written by Rahul on 20 August 2009
Oslo (Norway), Aug.19 (ANI): Pakistan’s Minister for Kashmir Affairs, Qamar Zaman Kaira, today said that neither his country nor the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party would compromise with India on the Kashmir issue.
Kaira, who is also Pakistan’s Information and Broadcasting Minister, expressed these views in a meeting with Sardar Ali Shahnawaz Khan, advisor to chairman of Christian Democratic Party in Oslo, Norway.
Kaira said that Pakistan is ready for dialogue with India for a peaceful solution of the Kashmir issue, but added that Islamabad would only accept a solution that was acceptable to all Kashmiris.
Pakistan, he said, has not shied away from taking up the Kashmir issue at the diplomatic level. He said President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani had raised the Kashmir issue at all international forums.
According to the Dawn, he asked Shah Nawaz to urge New Delhi to start serious talk on Kashmir.
The Kashmir conflict refers to the territorial dispute over Kashmir, the northwesternmost region of the Indian subcontinent. The parties to the dispute are India, Pakistan, China and the people of Kashmir.
India claims the entire former Dogra princely state of Jammu and Kashmir and presently administers approximately 43 percent of the region including most of Jammu, Kashmir Valley, Ladakh and the Siachen Glacier. India’s claim is contested by Pakistan which controls approximately 37 percent of Kashmir, mainly Azad Kashmir and the northern areas of Gilgit and Baltistan. In addition, China controls 20 percent of Kashmir including Aksai Chin which it occupied following the brief Sino-Indian War of 1962 and the Trans-Karakoram Tract, also known as the Shaksam Valley, that was ceded to it by Pakistan in 1963.
India’s official position is that Kashmir is an “integral part” of India. Pakistan’s official position is that Kashmir is a disputed territory whose final status must be determined by the people of Kashmir. Certain Kashmiri independence groups believe that Kashmir should be independent of both India and Pakistan.
India and Pakistan have fought three wars over Kashmir: in 1947, 1965, and 1999. India and China have clashed once, in 1962 over Aksai Chin as well as the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. India and Pakistan have also been involved in several skirmishes over Siachen Glacier.
The Kashmir dispute has been a part of UN deliberations since 1948. Pakistan has demanded that the dispute be resolved as per the UN resolutions of 1948 and 1949. India, however, maintains that the these resolutions are being wrongly interpreted by Islamabad. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 13 March 2009
Washington, Mar 13 (ANI): Certain gene variations in some women may protect them against cervical cancer, according to scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University.
The researchers say that if the presence or absence of such genetic variants is known, doctors can easily tailor treatment strategies.
Virtually all cases of cervical cancer are caused by persistent infections from several of the human papillomaviruses (HPV) – a family of viruses that also cause common skin warts and genital warts.
HPV is the most commonly sexually transmitted infection in young adults, yet only a small subset of these infections lead to cervical cancer.
“Some people are better able than others to mount an immune response that suppresses their HPV infection. We suspected that this advantage was probably due to variations in genes that play key roles in the body’s immune response,” said Mark H. Einstein, M.D., associate professor of obstetrics and gynaecology and women’s health at Einstein.
For the study, the researchers enrolled 480 women and divided them into two groups: those with high-grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN), a pre-malignant condition caused by HPV that can lead to cervical cancer; and a control group of women who had tested positive for HPV but had not developed high-grade CIN.
Taking cells from the women, the researchers searched for genetic differences between the two groups. hey focused on a gene called TAP, known to be crucial to the immune system’s ability to recognize viruses and eliminate them from the body.
The researchers found that study participants had key differences at two locations in their TAP genes.
Those women who possessed one or the other of these two gene variants were less than half as likely as other women to have developed high-grade CIN. Even women infected with the HPV types most likely to lead to cervical cancer were afforded protection by these variants.
The findings suggest that knowledge of these genetic variants, known as polymorphisms, can provide important information regarding protection against cervical cancer.
“We’re hopeful that our findings will lead to a genetic test that will help us predict which patients with persistent HPV infection are most likely to develop high-grade CIN and, ultimately, cervical cancer,” said Einstein.
He added: “That knowledge should help us in mapping out effective treatment plans that are tailored to the individual patient. This trend of personalized medicine is becoming more common as new technologies offer hope of better tests.”
The study paper has been published in the journal Clinical Cancer Research. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 04 March 2009
Bangalore, Mar 2 (ANI): Former Prime Minister and Janata Dal (Secular) chief Deve Gowda on Monday announced the formation of a Third Front, an alliance of eight parties, including the Left.
The Front will be launched formally in Tumkur, 50 kilometers from Bangalore, on March 12.
The parties, supporting Deve Gowda are: Communist Party of India (CPI), Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM), Forward Bloc, Republican Party of India (RPI), Telugu Desam Party (TDP), Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and Janata Dal Secular (JDS).
Gowda said the agenda of the new outfit would be unveiled at the March 12 rally.
The JDS supreme blamed the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) and National Democratic Alliance (NDA) for failing to protect the interests of the people.Certain sensitive issues like the inter-state river water dispute sharing and reservation will not be touched and will be left to respective states,” he added.
He refused to divulge the name of the front’s prime ministerial candidate.
“There was no discussion in the Front on who would be its prime ministerial candidate,” he said.
Gowda, however, has no objection to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati’s claim to the Prime Minister’s post.
“CPM leader Prakash Karat has met Mayawati several times and tried to convince her to join the Third Front. She has decided to fight alone. It does not mean that she will not support the Third Front after elections,” he added. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 01 March 2009
Washington, February 28 (ANI): Researchers in MIT’s Sensory Communication Group are trying to develop a new generation of tactile devices, which will translate sound waves into vibrations so that deaf people may feel them by their skin, and read lips more accurately.
This work attains significance considering the fact that lip-reading has a drawback: Certain consonants (for example, p and b) can be nearly impossible to distinguish by sight alone.
Once developed, the researchers say, the devices they are working on will be particularly prove an important tool for deaf people who rely on lip reading, and can’t use or afford cochlear implants.
“Most deaf people will not have access to that technology in our lifetime. Tactile devices can be several orders of magnitude cheaper than cochlear implants,” said Ted Moallem, a graduate student working on the project.
In collaboration with Charlotte Reed, senior research scientist in MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics, Moallem is developing a software programme that can be compatible with current smart phones, allowing such devices to be transformed into unobtrusive tactile aids for the deaf.
“Anyone who has a smart phone already has much of what they would need to run the program,” including a microphone, digital signal-processing capability, and a rudimentary vibration system, says Moallem.
The MIT researchers are testing devices that have at least two vibration ranges, one for high-frequency sounds and one for low-frequency sounds.
Moallem is of the opinion that such handheld devices may make it easier for deaf people to follow conversations than with lip reading alone, which requires a great deal of concentration.
“It’s hard to have a casual conversation in a situation where you have to be paying attention like that,” he says.
Current prototypes can be held in the user’s hand or worn around the back of the neck, but once the acoustic processing software is developed, it could be easily incorporated into existing smart phones, according to the researchers.
With an eye on realising such applications, the research team are investigating the best way to transform sound waves into vibrations.
The MIT researchers hope to improve existing tactile aids, which have been in use for decades, by refining the acoustic signal processing systems to provide tactile cues that are tailored to boost lip-reading performance. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 15 February 2009
Raipur, Jan 14 (ANI): A voluntary organisation has raised a special force of women in Raipur to fight the social evil and work for women’s empowerment.
Called as ‘women commandos’, they are bracing to fight social evils and work for empowerment of women.
President of the voluntary organization, Samshad Begum is a known face of women’s upliftment, with Stri Shakti Samman award to her credit. She has already brought together 163 villages and raised 2200 helping groups empowerment of women.
Certain criterions have been laid down to select every women commando. Because she has to work in the village and among the villagers. So the circumstances can be very demanding.
“Woman commando is a woman who works for her village, is independent, who has a wish to do something. We have selected such women. And these women will work for the progress of village, women and women empowerment so that women can be independent. They will also come forward against social evils such as child marriage, dowry and witch craft,” said Samshad Begum.
The women commandos are prepared to fight against social evils such as dowry, child marriage, exploitation of women, gambling in the society.
“I am a woman commando and I want to eliminate all the evils from the society and villages like dowry and child marriage. I wish that we women made a place in the society and solve problems,” said Sumita, a woman commando.
The woman commandos will work like a lightning, swooping down upon the evil forces. By Shiv Shankar Sarthi (ANI)
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Written by admin on 14 February 2009
Shah Rukh Khan’s house attacked
Two motorcycle-borne miscreants hurled a bottle of kerosene at actor Shah Rukh Khan’s Bandra residence, Mannat, at around 2.30 am on Friday. Nobody was injured.
Security personnel at Khan’s bungalow were unable to note the registration number of the bike in the darkness. A complaint was lodged at the Bandra police station.
According to reports, a fundamentalist group was upset with the use of certain words in the song, Marjaani, marjaani, featuring Khan and Kareena Kapoor in the film Billu.
On Friday morning a group of protesters gathered outside Bandra’s G-7 cinema complex, where Billu was being screened, and broke glass panes and tore away posters.
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Written by Rahul on 07 February 2009
Washington, Feb 7 (ANI): Scientists have come up with a new high-resolution CT scan of Lucy, a famous 3.2 million-year-old skeleton, which will provide scientists around the globe with information that may help settle debates about human evolution.
Lucy’s bones, discovered in Ethiopia in 1974, represent the most complete remains of any adult human ancestor that walked on two feet.
According to a report in Wired Science, the virtual Lucy could prove invaluable to scientists by giving them their first glimpse inside her fossilized bones.
The scans reveal microscopic details of the internal structure of Lucy’s bones and teeth that give clues to how she moved and ate.
“These scans will ensure that future generations are familiar with Lucy, and will know of Ethiopia’s central contribution to the study of human evolution. A virtual Lucy will be able to visit every classroom on the planet,” said Jara Mariam, director general of Ethiopia’s Authority for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritage.
Several versions of the virtual Lucy will eventually be available to the public, according to paleoanthropologist John Kappelman of the University of Texas.
A website with a basic version will allow students to look at Lucy and compare her skeleton with those of modern humans and apes, while researchers will be able to access high-resolution files.
The prized fossil, currently on display at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle, Washington, sparked a controversy in 2007 when it was shipped to the United States from Ethiopia, because of concerns that it could be damaged.
Now that Lucy has been digitally archived, scientists and students will be able to harmlessly examine the bones using tools available on the web.
Medical CAT scans like those done in hospitals show a cross-section of a patient’s body with 1-2 mm resolution. But because Lucy isn’t a living patient, much higher-energy X-rays can be used.
The computed tomography, or CT, scans done on Lucy reveal internal details on the order of 5-50 microns – less than the width of a human hair.
That level of detail could yield unprecedented insight into our ancestors.
Although there is little doubt that Lucy’s species, Australopithecus afarensis, walked on two feet, it is less clear whether she and her kin also spent much time in the trees.
Certain features of her skeleton, like curved fingers and toes, the orientation of the shoulder joint, and relatively long arms, suggest that they are evolutionary holdovers from tree-dwelling ancestors.
The question of whether Lucy’s species actually climbed trees or just inherited traits associated with tree-climbers is a long-standing debate among paleoanthropologists that the CT scans may help resolve. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 07 February 2009
London, Feb.6 (ANI): Former British Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher has expressed her distress over the BBC’s decision to sack her journalist daughter Carol after likening a black tennis player to a “golliwog”.
The Daily Telegraph disclosed that the former Prime Minister believes the furore over her daughter’s remarks in a BBC Green Room is a form of political correctness gone mad.
The BBC, which has received 2,250 messages of support for Thatcher and only 60 against, refused yesterday to reinstate her in her roving reporter’s role on the One Show after she referred to a tennis player as a “golliwog” during a backstage discussion about the Australian Open.
With many critics accusing the BBC of a vendetta against Thatcher, 55, because of her mother, a close friend of the former Prime Minister said: “Lady Thatcher feels sad for Carol who has been hurt by all the accusations against her. But she thinks the whole row is a load of nonsense.”
The friend, in a clear reference to Jonathan Ross who was only suspended from the BBC after the obscene telephone calls to the veteran actor Andrews Sachs, said: “Certain highly paid presenters keep their large BBC salaries while Carol is vilified for a private remark, which was not broadcast. This is the BBC at its absolute worse.”
Despite public opinion swinging massively in favour of Thatcher, judging by the number of messages to the BBC, the corporation insisted the dismissal stood.
An unrepentant Jay Hunt, the controller of BBC One, dismissed claims that they had overreacted to the remark in the presence of Adrian Chiles, the presenter of The One Show, the comedian Jo Brand, and a senior unnamed charity worker from Comic Relief.
“What Carol decides to say in the privacy of her own home or in a private conversation with friends is one thing. What she says in a greenroom space, when there are 12 people [there], in her capacity as a roving reporter for the One Show is a rather different thing,” Ms Hunt told Radio 4’s Today programme.
Thatcher, whose sacking was raised by Tory MPs in the Commons yesterday, will continue to work for the BBC on other programmes – she has been recording material this week for a radio feature on her mother – but Hunt said that she would no longer work on The One Show.
An apology offered by Thatcher, in which she repudiated racism and expressed regret for any offence caused, was rejected by the BBC which demanded written apologies to Brand, Chiles, and the charity worker.
Thatcher refused. The golliwog remark was made about the French-Congolese tennis player Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 25 January 2009
Washington, Jan 22 (ANI): A new study has found that certain measles vaccine strain derivatives may offer effective treatment for prostate cancer patients.
Certain strains including the one known as MV-CEA is found to effectively infect, replicate in and kill prostate cancer cells.
With help of virotherapy, the researchers found, that the median survival time of MV-CEA-treated mice almost doubled, and complete tumour regression was observed in one-fifth of treated animals.
“Based on our preclinical results as well as the safety of measles derivatives in clinical trials against other tumour types, these viral strains could represent excellent candidates for clinical testing against advanced prostate cancer, including androgen resistant tumours,” said Evanthia Galanis, M.D., of the Mayo Clinic, senior author of the study.
These strains of measles virus are used as therapeutic agents against cancer that demonstrates no cross-resistance with existing treatment approaches, and can therefore be combined with conventional treatment methods.
The virotherapy agent can easily be applied directly to the prostate tumour via ultrasound-guided needle injections and close monitoring of therapy can be achieved by non-invasive techniques including ultrasound and MRI.
This study is published in The Prostate. (ANI)
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Written by admin on 13 December 2008
Pakistan shuttered more offices of a charity allegedly linked to the Mumbai attack but said it cannot prosecute key suspects unless India shares evidence ” a sign of Islamabad’s effort to ease international pressure while avoiding a domestic backlash. Successful cooperation between the neighbours in investigating the deadly terror attack could help the US raise a regional effort against al-Qaida and the Taliban along the Pakistan-Afghan border. `
`Pakistan wants to stay engaged with the international community,” said analyst Hasan-Askari Rizvi. “That means Pakistan will have to pursue these policies of banning groups and arresting certain people over some time to establish credibility.” The Interior Ministry said Friday that police have closed 65 Jamaat-ud-Dawa offices and arrested 31 activists.
Pakistan also put the charity’s leader, Lashkar founder Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, under house arrest and ordered banks to freeze the group’s assets. Still, the shaky civilian government must pay heed to the potential for a popular outcry if it acts too strongly. “Our own investigations cannot proceed beyond a certain point without provision of credible information and evidence pertaining to Mumbai attacks,” Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said. Analysts say promoting peace between India and Pakistan could help quell Taliban and al-Qaida activities in Pakistan’s northwest by removing an incentive for the Pakistani military to nurture extremists as proxy fighters.
The US, whose troops in Afghanistan are threatened by militants across the border in Pakistan, has pressed the Pakistanis to cooperate with India. In New Delhi on Friday, Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte said it is imperative “these attacks be thoroughly investigated.” Some analysts say violence in Pakistan appears to have forged greater consensus in military and political circles that nurturing extremists threatens the viability of the nation. “This is an opportunity because the international community will support Pakistan if they take action,” Rizvi said. Mahesh Rangarajan, an Indian political analyst, noted the reaction of India’s government so far has been “very measured,” with top officials explicitly saying war is not an option. “But India has to share some evidence,” he said. “At some stage there has to be cooperation with Pakistan. If Pakistan’s action is serious, it will create some sense of trust.”
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