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- Manmohan wants India Japan to chart a new course
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- India plans to send seismometers to study moon quakes
- How will man tackle quakes when he colonises moon in the not-so-distant future? India will be joining some nations in the quest for a better understanding of moonquakes as plans are afoot to send a seismometer on board the landing instrument of Chandrayaan-2 scheduled to be launched in 2014/15.
- basically there were four types of moonquakes: deep moonquakes that occur up to 700 km below the surface of the moon and probably caused by tides, vibrations from the impact of meteorites, thermal quakes caused by expansion of the frigid crust of the moon and shallow quakes up to 20-30 km and as many as 28 were recorded between 1972 and 1977.
- Pointing out that there was significant difference between moonquakes and earthquakes, he said the energy produced through the former would last longer due to the underlying structure of the moon
- The aim of the study was to help in designing structures with flexible materials to withstand moonquakes. For instance, anything above five magnitude earthquake could cause cracks in plaster and move furniture in a building.
- India wont give up on achieving MDG targets
- At the Third Women Deliver 2013 that began here, Mission Director of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) Anuradha Gupta India was still hopeful of achieving the targets.
- She enumerated the measures taken to bring down infant mortality rate (IMR) and maternal mortality ratio (MMR) of 42 per 1,000 live births and 109 per 1,00,000 live births respectively by December 31, 2015.
- Admitting that the implementation of the maternal death audit, mandatory under law, was still far from satisfactory, Ms. Gupta said enhanced focus on reproductive and child health, augmentation of health systems and placing Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) under NRHM as mobilisers had been game-changers .
- India’s schemes of delivering contraceptives on the doorstep and training of auxiliary nurse midwives (ANMs) for insertion of intrauterine devices (IUDs) for better spacing of children received much appreciation at the conference.
- “The challenge, however, is to reach out to the unreached, and our focus will be on that. Our dependence on qualified doctors has been huge. But we are now training ANMs for providing basic family planning services
- India had identified 17,000 facilities that need to be decongested because of heavy patient load and this would be done by adding dedicated maternal and child health wings in addition to focussing on districts with bad maternal and child mortality indicators.
- Important article on Indo – Japan relationships
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- Myanmar in peace talks with Kachin rebels
- Myanmar’s government launched a new round of peace talks with ethnic Kachin rebels on Tuesday, seeking to end a major armed conflict.
- Fighting erupted in Kachin in June 2011, ending a ceasefire — in place since 1994 — and displacing more than 100,000 people.
- Since independence in 1948, Myanmar has faced rebellions from a number of minority groups seeking autonomy. While sporadic fighting continues with several groups, the Kachin are the only major group that has not reached a ceasefire agreement with the elected government of President Thein Sein, who came to power in 2011 after almost five decades of military rule.
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