India
False police complaints
Crime Branch officials say a huge number—nearly 50 out of every 100—complaints filed across the city turn out to be either baseless or frivolous, requiring no further inquiry, or they are sent on wild goose chases probing cases from the wrong angle. False complaints against the police appear to be a nationwide phenomenon. According to statistics released by the National Crime Records Bureau, 48,939 complaints were received against policemen across the country in 2008, but 60% of them were declared to be false or unsubstantiated by investigators. Madhya Pradesh accounted for 35.8% (18,315) of the complaints, followed by Delhi (6,031) and Uttar Pradesh (6,015). Anyone who files a false or misleading police complaint can be charged under Section 182 of the Indian Penal Code for giving false information with intent to cause a public servant to use his/her lawful power to do injury to another person. Punishment can be either jail of upto six months, fine of upto Rs 1,000, or both.
World Malaria Day (Today)
Malaria, along with tuberculosis, continues to be one of the world’s most lethal diseases with half the world’s population — about 3.3 billion people — at risk from it, according to the latest World Malaria Report 2009, released by WHO last December. Over 243 million (2.43 crore) confirmed cases of malaria were reported from across the world, of which an estimated 8,63,000 died. The biggest burden of malaria is borne by Africa with nearly 90% of cases, most being children below 5 years. In India too, one variety of malarial parasite was found to have developed resistance to chloroquine in 117 highly endemic districts of 7 North Eastern states and AP, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, MP and Orissa.
Science
Aliens exists
Hawking’s logic on aliens is, for him, unusually simple. The universe, he points out, has 100 billion galaxies, each containing hundreds of millions of stars. In such a big place, Earth is unlikely to be the only planet where life has evolved. "To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational,” he said. “The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.”
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Uzbek: The other China
According to human rights groups, tens of thousands of young women been sterilized without their consent in the authoritarian former Soviet state of Uzbekistan. The policy, ordered by President Islam Karimov, is aimed at keeping down the numbers in the densely populated state. In many cases, doctors opt for delivery by C-section and then perform a sterilization without telling the woman
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Chennai Super Kings beats Mumbai Indian to win the IPL 3 trophy. Sachin Tendulkar named "Man of the Tournament".
False police complaints
Crime Branch officials say a huge number—nearly 50 out of every 100—complaints filed across the city turn out to be either baseless or frivolous, requiring no further inquiry, or they are sent on wild goose chases probing cases from the wrong angle. False complaints against the police appear to be a nationwide phenomenon. According to statistics released by the National Crime Records Bureau, 48,939 complaints were received against policemen across the country in 2008, but 60% of them were declared to be false or unsubstantiated by investigators. Madhya Pradesh accounted for 35.8% (18,315) of the complaints, followed by Delhi (6,031) and Uttar Pradesh (6,015). Anyone who files a false or misleading police complaint can be charged under Section 182 of the Indian Penal Code for giving false information with intent to cause a public servant to use his/her lawful power to do injury to another person. Punishment can be either jail of upto six months, fine of upto Rs 1,000, or both.
World Malaria Day (Today)
Malaria, along with tuberculosis, continues to be one of the world’s most lethal diseases with half the world’s population — about 3.3 billion people — at risk from it, according to the latest World Malaria Report 2009, released by WHO last December. Over 243 million (2.43 crore) confirmed cases of malaria were reported from across the world, of which an estimated 8,63,000 died. The biggest burden of malaria is borne by Africa with nearly 90% of cases, most being children below 5 years. In India too, one variety of malarial parasite was found to have developed resistance to chloroquine in 117 highly endemic districts of 7 North Eastern states and AP, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, MP and Orissa.Science
Aliens exists
Hawking’s logic on aliens is, for him, unusually simple. The universe, he points out, has 100 billion galaxies, each containing hundreds of millions of stars. In such a big place, Earth is unlikely to be the only planet where life has evolved. "To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational,” he said. “The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.”
World
Uzbek: The other China
According to human rights groups, tens of thousands of young women been sterilized without their consent in the authoritarian former Soviet state of Uzbekistan. The policy, ordered by President Islam Karimov, is aimed at keeping down the numbers in the densely populated state. In many cases, doctors opt for delivery by C-section and then perform a sterilization without telling the woman
Sports
Chennai Super Kings beats Mumbai Indian to win the IPL 3 trophy. Sachin Tendulkar named "Man of the Tournament".
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