2006-05-23T06:03:00-05:00

This is about as crazy as it can possibly get!! Just read about this couple - newlyweds from Malaysia: Muhammad Noor Che Musa, 33, and his 104-year-old bride, Wook Kundur. It's the groom's first marriage, and the bride's 21st. Muhammad, is an ex-army serviceman, who said he found "peace and a sense of belonging" after meeting his bride, adding that mutual respect and friendship had turned to love. Read more

2006-05-23T05:32:00-05:00

Just wanted to record this fact here on my blog.. the bird flu finally seems to be growing on into a human to human disease.. these are the first indications! Health officials in Indonesia are still struggling to track down the source of a worrying family cluster of H5N1 bird flu infections as tests showed that two more people have died of the same disease. One of the latest victims belonged to a Sumatran family, which lost several members earlier this month to bird flu, sparking fears of human-to-human transmission. While H5N1 is still regarded as a bird disease, experts have warned for more than a year that it might mutate and pass efficiently between humans and cause a global pandemic. Read more

2006-05-23T02:22:00-05:00

In the times of so much hostility between India and Pakistan it is a breath of fresh air to read stories like these: =============== Fifty years ago, one required a licence to own a radio in this country. When television arrived in the seventies, television sets also needed a similar licence. In the late seventies, I was posted with a brigade near the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir. There was a Doordarshan station in Srinagar, but we could not catch the signal due to the distance and the intervening mountain peaks. In contrast, Pakistan TV was crystal clear. Read more

2006-05-23T02:13:00-05:00

Number of Deaths each year from malaria around the world. Read more

2006-05-23T02:10:00-05:00

Number of World Bank experts working on anti-malaria efforts, six years after the Bank pledged to spend up to $500 million fighting the disease, according to an article in the medical journal Lancet Read more

2006-05-23T02:08:00-05:00

Percentage of working-age, moderate-income Americans who lacked health insurance 2005 Read more

2006-05-23T01:57:00-05:00

In a world of internet and wi-fi... how does an unfriendly neighborhood terrorist communicate with his fellow friends??? Through letters written in URINE!! Yeah you heard that right! Men belonging to a major terrorist organization are increasingly using urine of men and women to write secret and confidential messages and letters, according to Dr Mridul Srivastava associated with Lucknow University's Criminology and Criminal Justice Administration Unit. The Central Bureau of Investigation and the National Institute of Criminology and Legal Sciences have confirmed the news. Read more

2006-05-23T01:33:00-05:00

Offshore model of projects execution is here to stay and more and more projects are being staffed by offshore consultants as well as the development of work products. Most of this work is done in India through a company's India operations. Here are some guidelines that encompass generic as well as India-specific pointers that can help while managing the offshore efforts in India and elsewhere. 1. Know thy partner The resources are half the globe away in a different culture and time zone with completely different set of priorities. What is important or even imperative to us may not be so to a person so far detached! Therefore its critical to introduce everyone as a person detailing his/her strengths and capabilities. This provides the human touch and a persona rather than dealing with a name and a voice! Read more

2006-05-23T00:17:00-05:00

Microsoft Windows 3.0 is released on May 22, 1990. Independent software vendors begin developing Windows applications with vigor in response its increased memory addressing and a more powerful user interface. The powerful new applications help Microsoft sell more than 10 million copies of Windows, making it the best-selling graphical user interface in the history of computing. Read more

2006-05-22T11:19:00-05:00

Is it not enough to have close minded people in your society at present that a country's elite would want to create entire future generations with mindsets that can simply and just hate!! What is true of Saudi textbooks is also at a certain extent true in the Pakistani text books also. Now, all it does is raise generations that are at a grave disadvantage.. that of being left behind in the march to the future.... A review of a sample of official Saudi textbooks for Islamic studies used during the current academic year reveals that, despite the Saudi government's statements to the contrary, an ideology of hatred toward Christians and Jews and Muslims who do not follow Wahhabi doctrine remains in this area of the public school system. The texts teach a dualistic vision, dividing the world into true believers of Islam (the "monotheists") and unbelievers (the "polytheists" and "infidels"). Read more


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