In women wisdom News Mar 9th '09

Women Special: GR8! Awards: Celebrating India's most accomplished women
Smt Rajshree Birla: Recipient of the GR8! Golden Laurel is now president of the Indian classical music training/ research center Sangeet Kala Kendra, this lady was married to the late Aditya Vikram Birla and the couple founded the center together. Born to a Marwari family settled in Madurai, Smt Rajshree Birla always had a passion for music and has now instituted the Aditya Vikram Birla Award that awards Rs 1.5 lakh to selected musicians each year in the view of helping keep their art alive.
Apart from music, this eminemt lady also works for the cause of empowerment of women as well as education. She also finds the time for social welfare. courtesy - rediff

What a pathetic issue on this century?
Do you know that the most disturbing socio-economic imbalance in today’s India is her skewed ratio of girls vs boys. For children below six years of age, the 2001 census reports a national sex ratio of 927 girls per 1,000 boys, one of the worst gender survival differences in the world. A significantly higher proportion of new-born girls survive the first month of their lives than boys. Girls really seem to lose out to boys in the race for survival largely during the age group of 7-36 months. So the prime cause of such distorted ratio is neither feticide nor infanticide, but simply neglect of the girl child. There is evidence that the average Indian girl child gets less nutrition, immunisations, and medical attention than the average boy.
Conclusion: parents discriminate, right?
Hardly news; but there may be another answer that has more to do with how averages work.
The average girlchild in India simply has more siblings than the average boy. The reason for this is the well-known family planning phenomenon of using “stopping rules”. In other words, couples are often likely to continue to have children, subject to affordability considerations, till they have a desired number of sons. So the last child is more likely to be a boy than a girl.
Courtesy: samachar.com

In Science and Tech

India joins 'Earth Hour' on Mar 28th.
The people will be observing the Day by switching off all the lights and electrical appliances for an hour from 8.30 pm to 9.30 pm. Began with one hour switching off lights at Sydney in Australia two years back, the `Earth Hour'was observed in 35countries last year in an attempt to reduce the carbon footprint, the World Wide Fund for Nature (India) Education officer Dr Goldin Quadros said on Saturday. This year India, especially Delhi and Mumbai will participate, he said adding that WWF was getting support from the government as well as the corporate houses. Lights would be switched off or dimmed at 11 PVR cinemas in Delhi and Mumbai and corporate offices. Courtesy - dnaindia.com

Can Laptops shout? Ya, they are made to do by The program, called Retriever, developed by a software company called Front Door Software Corporation, reports the Telegraph.
Retriever enables users to display alerts on the missing computer's screen and even to set a spoken message such as a shout or a warning.

On comming to sports.......

Lt. Governor of Delhi, Tejendra Khanna, on Sunday assured that the 2010 Commonwealth Games would be hosted on schedule in New Delhi an added that the visitors coming to India for the Games would take back only good memories from Delhi..

Cricket
New Zealand stuns Australia
Sydney: New Zealand stunned defending champion Australia by 13 runs via Duckworth-Lewis method while
West Indies defeated South Africa by two wickets in Group A matches in the ICC Women’s World Cup on Sunday.
The scores:
New Zealand 205 in 48 overs (H. Tiffen 57, A. Satterthwaite 38, E. Perry three for 40) bt Australia 132 for six in 33 overs (K. Pulford three for 32).
South Africa 116 in 45.2 overs (A. Smith 46, S. Taylor four for 17) lost to West Indies 117 for eight in 48.4 overs (S. Daley 26). — PTI. Courtesy - samachar.com