by rakesh | Sep 24, 2006 | World News
The Shree Air helicopter had 20 passengers and four crew. The passengers were on their way back from a conservation site at Ghunsa, in the far eastern part of the country, some 500km from the capital, Kathmandu.
Seven WWF staff are among the missing, three from WWF-Nepal, two from WWF-US and two from WWF-UK. Other passengers included government officials and representatives of other non-governmental organizations.
“We hope that all on board will be rescued safely,” WWF International’s Director General James Leape said today.
“Our thoughts are with our missing colleagues and their families and WWF is doing everything it can to help the government of in its search for the helicopter.’’
by rakesh | Sep 23, 2006 | Business
Anand, Gujarat, India, Friday, September 22, 2006 — (Business Wire India) — Amul, the market leader in ice-creams in the country, has launched the Vanilla Royale Ice-cream using pure natural vanilla extract. Amul is the first Indian brand to use natural vanilla in ice-cream. Pure natural vanilla is an extremely complex flavour from the fruit of an orchid called vanilla planifolia. The major flavour component of vanilla beans is natural vanillin which appears as a white crystal line material on well cured aged beans.
The Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd., which markets the products of 2.9 million milk producers of Gujarat under the brand name Amul, has taken this initiative to help 1500 vanilla farmers of Kochi who are engaged in procuring and processing quality natural vanilla as per international standards. These vanilla farmers have joined together to form the Vanilla India Producers Co. Ltd., Ernakulam.
Amul’s Vanilla Royale is available in an attractive 500 ml paper cup priced at Rs. 45/- all over the country. It stays fresh for 12 months from the date of packaging when stored at minus 18 degree Celsius.
by rakesh | Sep 23, 2006 | Rajasthan
The Medical and Health Minister, Dr. Digambar Singh, while reviewing the steps taken to prevent the seasonal diseases at a meeting held here on Thursday, informed that the committee would submit its report in three days on technical aspects relating to density of mosquitoes, their behaviour and role in spread of the disease, the use of fogging to control them and the affect of fogging on the health of the people in Jaipur city.
He informed that the Joint Director, Jaipur Zone Dr. B.R. Meena has included in the committee as public health specialist, Senior Specialist (Medicine) Dr. Mahendra Surana as Medical Specialist, Joint Director, Entomology, Government of India Dr. K.K. Mathur as Pesticides Specialist. The Assistant Director, Entomology of the State Government, Dr. B.S. Rathore has also been included in the committee.
Dr. Singh said that if according to the report of the committee, fogging would be considered useful than pests would be controlled through fogging first of all in the Jaipur city. After that committees would be constituted in other urban areas of the state and arrangements for fogging be made according to their recommendations. He said that before undertaking fogging the general public would be educated about the precautions to be taken during the fogging.
It was informed in the meeting that under the ‘house to house ‘ survey campaign, 53 teams had undertaken a survey of 1769 houses in seven zones of Jaipur city. Of these spray activities was taken up in 147 houses and anti larva activities in 711 houses, while coolers and tanks were emptied in 1619 houses. The teams also collected blood samples of 152 patients suffering from fever and not a single malaria positive case was found.
The Principal Secretary Medical and Health, Shri Sudhir Bhargava, Director Public Health Dr. V.K. Kaushik, Director Family Welfare Dr.S.P. Yadav, Director AIDS Dr. Satish Kumar and Additional Director Rural Health Dr. M.L. Jain were present in the meeting.
by rakesh | Sep 23, 2006 | Rajasthan
In her message Smt. Raje said that ‘Navratra’ was a sacred festival of worship of goddess Durga. She said that we worship that eternal force on the occasion which protects the universe with her power.
Expressing her views on ‘Navratra’ festival, the Chief Minister said that every citizen should take a resolution on this sacred festival that he would create an atmosphere of social awareness for putting a check on the practice of female foeticide, otherwise the ratio between male and female would be disturbed and a situation of disparity be created in the society.
She said that people should also celebrate the birth of daughter like the sons in the family so as to promote homogeneity in the society. Smt. Raje also wished happy life and prosperity for the people of the state on the occasion.
by rakesh | Sep 23, 2006 | India News
“I thank Your Excellency for giving us an overview of the status of Commonwealth Action Programme for Digital Divide (CAPDD) which has recently been renamed as the Commonwealth Connects Programme (CCP).
Bridging the digital divide among different countries as also within them, is a major challenge of globalization in the modern world. India is one of the countries which has made rapid strides in the area of information and communication technology. Concomitant with our ongoing efforts to ensure that the benefits of the progress made in the ICT sector reach all sections of our society, India has been in the forefront of taking initiatives to promote cooperation among developing countries in this crucial area. India’s pan-Africa E-network is a good example in this context.
India is strongly committed to CAPDD adopted at the last CHOGM in Malta in November, 2005, and had announced a commitment of one million Euros for this programme. We have designated a senior official to represent our Government on the Steering Committee and have already disbursed the first tranche amounting to Euro 175,000; an equal amount would be released before the end of the current financial year. We shall continue our efforts not only to meaningfully contribute to the implementation of this programme, but also to learn from the experiences of others.
I am glad to convey that our Prime Minister has, in principle, agreed to inaugurate the International Partnership Summit of the Commonwealth Connects Programme proposed to be held in New Delhi, preferably in the first quarter of 2007.
I have the further pleasure to announce that in addition to our existing commitments, India is willing to provide up to five experts for periods up to six months for assisting other Commonwealth countries in developing ICT capacity and strategies.
We are also ready to provide between 50-70 training slots for capacity building in reputed institutions in India to fellow developing countries in the Commonwealth, through the Commonwealth Secretariat, in some other selected areas. These slots are in addition to the existing courses offered bilaterally to several countries in the Commonwealth under our ITEC programme”.
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