Tamiflu Anyone?January 24th, 2008 Believe it or not, I am looking to stock some tamiflu just in case. I have asked our medicine supplier (yes, we have one) to get me 2-3 strips.
Bird Flu Vaccine Developed by Indian ScientistsJuly 17th, 2006 Scientists of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) have succeeded in developing an indigenous vaccine against bird flu (H5N1 virus). This feat has been achieved by scientists working at the Bhopal-based High Security Animal Disease Laboratory (HSADL) in a record time of four months under a Rs 8-crore project.
West Bengal government ready to give Satyam more landJanuary 8th, 2009 KOLKATA - West Bengal government will give 25 acres land to scam-tainted IT company Satyam Computers in the state if they want it, Information Technology (IT) Minister Debesh Das said here Friday. 'If they want it, we will definitely give it.
Recruitment in Bengal IT sector may slump due to meltdownJanuary 14th, 2009 KOLKATA - The recruitment in the information technology (IT) sector in West Bengal is likely to be lower than the target set by the government due to the global economic meltdown, state IT minister Debesh Das said here Thursday. 'Last year we generated employment for around 15,000 people in the IT sector and this year we had set a target of 20,000.
Bus set on fire after youth dies in accident in West BengalMarch 16th, 2009 KOLKATA - An irate mob broke windows of a mini-bus and set it ablaze after the vehicle ran over a youth in a West Bengal town Monday, the police said. The incident took place Monday morning in Salkia town of Howrah district, adjoining Kolkata.
Skeptically Yours...India 2007May 28th, 2007 BCCI (Board of Chaos for Cricket in India) cricket team lead by an w%$^ (only words I can think of are non-parliamentary) won over cricket minions Bangladesh and are back to thumping their pathetic little chests. What is interesting is that these ant-killers wimped out when playing a man's game in West Indies.
Hoax Bird Flu Email Used to Spread Virus and Hijack Computers; How to ProtectNovember 7th, 2005 Computer hackers are exploiting increasing fears over bird flu by releasing a computer virus attached to an email passing itself off as containing avian flu information, warned Spanish virus protection software firm Panda Software. The virus Naiva.A masquerades as a word document with email subject lines such as Outbreak In North America and What Is Avian Influenza (bird flu)?, said the firm on its website.
Human-To-Human Bird Flu Transmission Confirmed by WHOJune 26th, 2006 A World Health Organization probe revealed that the bird flu virus mutated within an Indonesian family. An Indonesian man who died from the H5N1 strain of bird flu almost certainly caught the disease from his 10-year-old son.
AIDS Patient & Children: Dangerous Mix?June 7th, 2007 Today's newspaper reported a heart-warming story in a village in West Bengal who has adopted a widow with AIDS. She is allowed to freely mix with the families and even cuddle their children.
"Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs riot there, undigested all your life."April 17th, 2007 "Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs riot there, undigested all your life. We must have life-building, man-making and character-making assimilation of ideas.” said Swami Vivekananda.
UPA government neglecting small scale sector: BuddhaFebruary 21st, 2009 DURGAPUR - Coming down heavily on India's ruling United Progressive Alliance for neglecting the recession-hit small scale sector, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Saturday said the central government seemed only concerned with big companies like Satyam. 'The small scale sector is very badly hit.
How To Apply for Non-Immigrant US Visa from IndiaFebruary 26th, 2008 Steps to apply for Non-Immigrant US Visa from India
India In Brief On The Republic DayJanuary 26th, 2007 1. Goldman Sacks predicts India will beat US by 2050, lagging only behind China in economy. I think it will be much sooner.
Bengal's IT sector looks beyond recession daysJanuary 24th, 2009 KOLKATA - The global economic meltdown has reduced the pace of growth of West Bengal's showpiece IT sector, but the state wants to build IT infrastructure and develop a talent pool so that it's ready when times get better. 'During the last financial year, the IT sector in the state grew around 46 percent in dollar terms against the national growth of 28 percent,' state IT Minister Debesh Das told IANS.
Air Travel With Air India ExperienceMay 22nd, 2008 Recently I had to travel from Kolkata to San Francisco via New Delhi, New York City and return via Los Angeles and Frankfurt, pretty much I covered the globe twice in eight days with 4 days or actual work / fun. Here is my experience in brief.
Comment Below | 
Email this Article
Loading ...
January 28th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Please let us know how you are all doing. Our thoughts are with you.
March 2nd, 2009 at 11:41 am
Though highly species-specific, avian flu viruses are sometimes “passed” from birds to human through direct contact with infected bird or through contact with surfaces contaminated by feces from infected birds. This jump of virus from birds to human is a rare occurrence. There are but more than 100 human avian flu cases since its first breakout in 1997, and human-to-human transmission has only occurred twice in 11 years. This doesn’t mean you should be lax when it comes to protecting your health. Avian flu viruses are known to mutate, and there’s no way of predicting when they would mutate into a stronger virus strain that can infect humans more easily.