Environment, Health and Education

• Bird Flu Spreads in Indonesia 
  Indonesia said that it found the H5N1 virus in its easternmost province Papua among fighting cocks possibly imported from neighboring Sulawesei Island.<More>

• Ayurvedic Drug Labeling Made Compulsory 
  The Health Ministry has made all Ayurvedic, Unani, Siddha, and Herbal medicine labeling compulsory and has extended the deadline to July 1 of this year.<More>

• Rural Maharashtra a Terror Safe Haven 
  An anti-terror squad (ATS) of the Mumbai police raided a safe house of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) in Nashik and seized dreaded ammunitions and weapons and literature that talked about bombing the millenniums old Ellora Caves near Aurangabad.<More>

• Super-Advanced Weapons Systems in Pipeline 
  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced that India would be soon begin production of super-advanced weapons systems using remote-controlled sensors, robotics, and propulsion systems and develop new precision-guided munitions and unmanned vehicles.<More>

Neighbors

• Pakistan Admits to Nuclear Bomb Exports
  After consistently denying any official knowledge of export of nuclear bomb proliferation by disgraced scientist A.Q. Khan, Pakistan finally admitted that such proliferation did take place to North Korea, Iran, Libya, and Syria.<More>

• Anti-King Resolution Stalls 
  Nepal’s bid to pass an anti-King resolution stalled as disagreements within the Seven Party Alliance (SPA) on what should be included and what excluded.<More>

World