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India Watch-18: First Indigenous Warship

India on April 29, 2010 commissioned 'INS Shivalik', its first indigenously built stealth warship with sophisticated features to hoodwink enemy radars, and gained entry into a top club of developed countries having such capability.

Source: The Times of India, Chennai, April 30, 2010.

Grateful thanks to The Times of India.

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I slept and dreamed that life was happiness. I awoke and saw that life was service. I served and found that in service happiness is found - Tagore

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Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny - Emerson

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Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground -
Theodore Roosevelt

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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable – S.J.Harris

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The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it - James Russell Lowell

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Eyecatchers-147: 4 millions jobs vanished in 2009 in EU - AP

Official data show that some 4 million jobs disappeared in the European Union last year, when countries where struggling to emerge from recession.

Excerpt from "4 million jobs vanished in 2009 in EU" - News item in the Deccan Chronicle Chennai edition of March 15, 2010. quoting AP as its source.

Grateful thanks to Deccan Chronicle and AP.

Health News-25: Mutations leading to type 1 Diabetes found

In a breakthrough which may pave the way for effective treatment for blood sugar, scientists have cracked the 40-year-old mystery of how certain genetic mutations lead to type 1 diabetes.

Excerpt from "Mutations leading to type 1 diabetes found" in The Times of India, Chennai edition of April 22, 2010.

For a detailed article from Science Daily:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100419173004.htm

Grateful thanks to The Times of India and Science Daily.

Letters-83:

IPL has become the Indian Paisa League and all political parties are trying to milk the cow. Shashi Tharoor was batting well on a sticky wicket but Lalit Modi delivered such a googly that ground umpires A.K.Antony and Pranab Mukherjee could not take a decision. They referred the case to third umpire Manmohan Singh who took the final decision in consultation with ICC referee Sonia Gandhi and declared Tharoor hit wicket. Tharoor got out due to his own mistakes. But this has now opened a Pandora's box and the entire IPL has come in the firing line - Damodar Joshi, via email, Letters, Deccan Chronicle, Chennai, April 22, 2010.

Grateful thanks to Mr.Damodar Joshi and Deccan Chronicle.

A Thought for Today-353:

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom while discouragement often nips it at the bud – Alex Osborn

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A silent mouth is melodious - Irish Proverb

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