Washington, August 30: IIT-Bombay scientists have developed an inexpensive web-enabled device that can enable doctors to remotely measure lung function in patients with asthma and other disorders, and to quickly instigate medical attention in an emergency.
Vivek Agarwal, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, and his student N. C. S. Ramachandran’s system is an easy to operate spirometer that can be quickly hooked up to an internet connection through built-in web and data encryption software.
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Dhaka, Aug 30: The ninth Home Secretary level talks between India and Bangladesh will begin here today.
The Indian delegation will be headed by the Union Home Secretary, Madhukar Gupta and the Bangladesh delegation by their Secretary, Ministry of Home Affair, Mohammad Abdul Karim.
The meeting is expected to discuss various security related issues, border management issues as well as ways of enhancing cooperation between the law enforcement agencies of both sides.
Brussels - The European Commission said Friday it was providing more than 2 million euros (3 million dollars) in humanitarian aid to help the victims of floods in northern India and Nepal.
A statement from the European Union's executive body said the aid was to be channeled through UN relief agencies, European non- governmental organizations and the Red Cross/Crescent movement.
The commission said the most pressing need was to provide food, clean drinking water, shelter and medicines to the victims.
New Delhi Aug. 29 : The National Human Rights Commission has termed manual scavenging as one of the worst violation of human rights.
At a National Workshop on “Manual Scavenging and Sanitation”, organized in New Delhi on Thursday, the Commission called for all out efforts to do away with this degrading practice.
It said the extended deadline to eradicate manual scavenging which had been shifted from December 2007 to March 2009, at no cost should be further extended and the country should become manual scavenging free.
Jammu, Aug 29 : Talks between a Jammu and Kashmir Governor’s panel and Amarnath Sangharsh Samiti was put off for the second consecutive day on Friday as the normal life remained paralysed in the Jammu region in response to the continuing bandh over the issue.
“The meeting has again been deferred today in view of the illness of Chairman of the Governor''s panel and Adviser S S Bloeria,” Sri Amarnath Yatra Sangharsh Samiti
(SAYSS) spokesperson Narinder Singh said.
Washington, August 30: IIT-Bombay scientists have developed an inexpensive web-enabled device that can enable doctors to remotely measure lung function in patients with asthma and other disorders, and to quickly instigate medical attention in an emergency. 
Dhaka, Aug 30: The ninth Home Secretary level talks between India and Bangladesh will begin here today. 
Brussels - The European Commission said Friday it was providing more than 2 million euros (3 million dollars) in humanitarian aid to help the victims of floods in northern India and Nepal.
New Delhi Aug. 29 : The National Human Rights Commission has termed manual scavenging as one of the worst violation of human rights. 
Jammu, Aug 29 : Talks between a Jammu and Kashmir Governor’s panel and Amarnath Sangharsh Samiti was put off for the second consecutive day on Friday as the normal life remained paralysed in the Jammu region in response to the continuing bandh over the issue.
