Environment, Health and Education

• With and Without Degree Quacks 
  With failing investments in Health care, lack of awareness of the population, bad sanitary facilities, unhygienic conditions, lack of enforcement, poor educational training, and lack of proper and constant certification are generating conditions for quacks.<More>

• ISRO & NASA in Moon Tie-up 
  The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) & US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) so NASA can send 2 instruments on the Chandraayan-1 mission to the Moon. <More>

• Key Varanasi Blast Suspect Killed 
  Acting on a tip from the Uttar Pradesh police, a joint team of the Army and the Jammu & Kashmir police raided a safe house on the border town Handwara and killed the key suspect in the Varanasi serial bombing.<More>

• Growing Importance of Navy 
  Reviewing the Naval exercises of the Western Fleet, the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said, "All great powers have also been great trading nations, and we cannot be a great trading nation without a strong maritime capability."<More>

Neighbors

• Indo-Bangla Meet on Customs & Water 
  India and Bangladesh officials met to iron out differences in inter-state customs levies, issues, and protocol to boost bilateral trade and the implementation of the Ganga Water Accord of 1996.<More>

World