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Climate change fight affordable, cut emissions to zero by 2100-U.N.

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published since September 2013, said global warming was now causing more heat extremes, downpours, acidifying the oceans and pushing up sea levels. "Science has spoken. There is no ambiguity in the message. Leaders must act, time is not on our side," U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in presenting the report in Copenhagen that is meant to guide global climate policy-making. With fast action, climate change could be kept in check at manageable costs, he said, referring to a U.N. goal of limiting average temperature rises to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial times. Temperatures are already up 0.85 C (1.4F). The study by the Intergovernmenal Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), approved by more than 120 governments, will be the main handbook for negotiators of a U.N. deal to combat global warming due at a summit in Paris in December 2015. To get a good chance of staying below 2C, the report's scenarios show that world emissions would have to fall by between 40 and 70 percent by 2050 from current levels and to "near zero or below in 2100". Below zero would require extracting carbon dioxide from the atmosphere - for instance by planting forests that soak up carbon as they grow or by burying emissions from power plants that burn wood or other biomass. To cut emissions, the report points to options including energy efficiency, renewable energies from wind to solar power, nuclear energy or coal-fired power plants where carbon dioxide is stripped from the exhaust fumes and buried underground. But carbon capture and storage (CCS) is expensive and little tested.

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COPENHAGEN: Governments can keep climate change in check at manageable costs but will have to cut greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2100 to limit risks of irreversible damage, a U.N. report said. The 40-page synthesis, summing up 5,000 pages of work by 800 scientists already

Does it seem like despite your best efforts things never work out as you planned? Are you in despair because just when it seems you are making progress something goes wrong? At such times it is easy to feel defeated and to give up, but what can you do to stay on top of things?

It is a fact of life that despite all your best efforts at planning, strategizing and being careful not to make mistakes some things will go wrong sometimes. One of my favorite poems, “Don't Quit,” makes the statement more eloquently by saying: When things go wrong, as they sometimes will When the road you're trudging seems all uphill…Rest if you must, but don't you quit. Dr, Moses says that I have seen this poem in countless places, mostly in the rooms of many a college or university student. It is a source of strength and hope for many during difficult and stressful times. The reason is that it states a simple truth so well that for many it is like shining a light in the darkness.

I stuck it on my university room wall at one point. The reason for putting it on the wall is simple.

When things are going wrong it is very easy to lose perspective and to focus on the problem. The light in our lives often goes off at such instances. The message on the wall is like a light shining in the darkness demanding our attention. It is a reminder that no matter how bad it may seem, there is always hope.

G20 Leaders' Summit: PM Modi Israel eager to share technology with India likely to discuss black money issue in areas such as aviation security, NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to raise the issue of black money, besides discussing the energy, security and IMF among others, at the G20 Leaders' Summit scheduled to kick off on November 15-16 in Brisbane, Australia. Suresh Prabhu, Sherpa of leaders, told media persons about India's agenda during the summit. "To deal with the issue of tax evaders and black money it would be interesting to have discussion on automatic exchange of information among the countries," said Prabhu, a senior official responsible for preparing the agenda for leaders to consider during the summit. "Today as you know tax evasion, tax dodging happens because people hide certain assets, certain incomes outside the

tax charging authority's ambit. By doing so they are actually not allowing proper taxation to take place," he added. "And when the tax authorities want that, the information getting is becoming difficult. So there is going to be an automatic exchange of information to be available to anybody and everybody through this process. Not anybody and everybody, in a sense it would be available between the countries, so this could be a very interesting idea," Prabhu added. G20 countries have committed to present policy measures at the Brisbane summit that will lift global growth by an additional two percent over five years.

The G20 countries are one of the largest consumers of energy in the world. There are a few countries in the world which hold a monopoly on the supply side and some which hold a monopoly on the control side.

TEL AVIV: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said the country was "ready and willing" to share with India technology in areas such as aviation security, border protection and water harvesting, an official statement said. Netanyahu conveyed this to Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh during their hour-long meeting here. "Netanyahu briefed the home minister on technologies that had been developed by Israel

border protection and water harvesting. "He said Israel was ready and willing to discuss transfer and development of such technologies with India," a home ministry statement said. The statement also said a delegation from the Israeli industry would be happy to visit India to explore manufacturing opportunities in different sectors. In this context, Rajnath Singh also mentioned the possibility of exploring third country markets in Africa and Latin America, where Indian industry has a strong presence.

Rajnath Singh left for Monaco Nov 3 to attend an Interpol ministerial meeting and general assembly.

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Digital India is about empowering its citizens, says Ravi Shankar Prasad NEW DELHI: U n i o n Communication and Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said that Digital India is all about empowering the citizens of the country. "India is a unique place where rocket science and "jugad" technology can co-exist. Indians are adept at using technology; the need of the hour is to create an enabling environment for them," said Prasad while addressing industry members at the India Economic Summit organized by the World Economic Forum and the Confederation of Indian Industry. The session was titled Delivering Digital India: How can local innovations be scaled up to achieve inclusive growth?

Prasad further emphasized that the Mission of Digital India is not only for the Central Government to implement, but all state governments

and private players are important stakeholders in this. He appealed to the industry members to make this programme outcome oriented, which is the major focus of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and added that private players can play an important role in creating a decentralized distribution network. He encouraged industry members to make innovative suggestions so that the Digital India programme can become a great success. The session in particular focused upon the need for providing strategic incubators to rural entrepreneurs, leveraging mobile technology and e-governance and crowd sourcing solutions for reverse innovation. The discussions also highlighted how to ensure the last mile connectivity, which is extremely important. The panelists also underlined the importance of the public sector in India but raised concerns about many practices in public enterprises which are more than a century old.

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India can perform in any SECRETARY VIEW conditions: MS Dhoni India will play a tri-series in Australia before the World Cup

DUBAI: India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni said his One-Day International (ODI) team is capable of adapting and performing in any conditions and the defending champions' preparations will receive a major boost with the tour of Australia prior to the 2015 cricket World Cup. "Following the World Cup triumph in 2011, we won the ICC Champions Trophy in Britain. This reflects the calibre and talent of the side, and its ability to adapt and perform in any condition," Dhoni said at the '100 days to go to the ICC World Cup 2015' celebrations. India will play a tri-series in Australia, apart from a five-match Test series starting December 4.

"The tour to Australia in the lead up to the World Cup will be a good opportunity to hone our skills and, like all the sides participating in the tournament, be fully prepared for cricket's ultimate prize," the 33-year-old pointed out.

India defeated Sri Lanka by six wickets in the 2011 World Cup final at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.

"The World Cup is the biggest prize in cricket and to defend the title in Australia and New Zealand next year is a special opportunity. Like all the players, as well as millions of die-hard India cricket supporters around the globe, I look forward to the tournament with anticipation and excitement," the wicketkeeper-batsman said.

Ireland Offers Biz Opportunities to Indian Cos

Infosys to stay put in Bengaluru, says Chief Minister Siddaramaiah

BENGALURU: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah Thursday said software major Infosys Ltd. would remain in this tech city and the state government would provide required infrastructure for expanding its operations. "No industry or company, including Infosys, is shifting base from Bengaluru or Karnataka, as we are developing the IT Industry Region (ITIR) in 2,077 acres of land at Devanahalli near the international airport," Siddaramaiah told reporters here. The chief minister's comment comes three days after Infosys in a regulatory filing Monday said it would surrender the land allotted to it by the state government due to lack of infrastructure and inordinate delay in providing road connectivity. Refuting media reports that industries and IT services companies like Infosys were moving out due to woeful infrastructure in

the state, especially in Bengaluru, Siddaramaiah said a four-lane road would be built to connect the new IT region to the national highway-7 for better access and prevent gridlocks. "We will also provide required water and power in the next three months to the region for ensuring global firms like Infosys expand its operations on the city's outskirts," he said. The $8.3billion Infosys had planned to set up its second campus in north Bengaluru on a 100-acre land in the ITIR with a 20,000 seating capacity for techies. Though the state-run Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board (KIADB) allotted 40 acres in 2010, the company sought an additional 60 acres to set up its second software development centre in the city as the region was closer to the airport. The outsourcing major's main campus, located in Electronics City in Bengaluru south, houses its corporate headquarters and a 26,000-seat capacity facility to develop software (codes) for global clients. After chairing an hour-long interactive session with industry honchos, including heads of IT services firms like Infosys, a worried chief minister said the state-run HUDCO (Housing and Urban Development Corporation) was ready to extend about Rs.1,000 crore for providing infrastructure facilities in the sprawling ITIR.

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NEW DELHI: Ireland has been planning to attract large number of Indian companies to invest there, and simultaneously tapping the entire European markets.

Investment and Development Agency, an Irish government agency, claimed there are many opportunities are waiting for the Indian companies in

different sectors including engineering, life science and information technology. Since 2008, around 27 Indian companies have been active in the Ireland market with producing about 3,000 jobs across sectors, Dermot Clohessy, executive director at IDA, said. In the next five years, it is expected that around 50 Indian firms would be in Ireland with creating 6,000 jobs, Clohessy added. Despite the economic slowdown plaguing the European markets for quite some while, the market can still offer some business opportunities.

Germany, Brazil push the U.N. to be tougher on digital spying U N I T E D N AT I O N S : Germany and Brazil are pushing the United Nations to be tougher on spying by beefing up an earlier U.N. resolution raising concerns that mass surveillance, interception of digital communications and personal data collection could harm human rights. In a follow up to a U.N. resolution adopted last year, the two countries have drafted a new text that now includes metadata. The draft says unlawful or arbitrary surveillance, interception of communications and collection of personal data, including metadata, are "highly intrusive acts."

Metadata is detail about communications such as

which telephone numbers were involved in a call, when calls were made and how long they lasted, when and where someone logged on to an email account or the internet, who was emailed and what Web pages were visited. The draft text circulated to the 193 U.N. members says these acts "violate the right to privacy and can interfere with the freedom of expression and may contradict the tenets of a democratic society, especially when undertaken on a mass scale." It calls on states to provide an effective remedy when a person's right to privacy has been violated by individual or mass surveillance.

Raj Tripathi of Bangalore (Karnataka) gets Nominated as National Joint Secretary of AIITA

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BANGALORE: All India IT Association (AIITA) has Membership Fee Rs. 10,000/started expanding its expansion activities through the cause of computer education and vocational courses across the Institutional Membership (Non-Academic) For country and such activities would be done in south India Computer Centre, Cyber Cafe, IT Institution, Software under the ablest guidance of dynamic youth of Bangalore Companies, BPO Call Centre Training etc. Membership (Karnataka) Shri Raj Tripathi who has been nominated as Fee Rs. 15,000/National Joint Secretary (NJS) of All India IT Association(AIITA). This is informed by the president of Authorised Study Centre For All the Institutions those are AIITA Shri Santosh Shukla, Advocate. Shri Tripathi would interested in providing Education & Training. Metro / Semi contribute his efforts in promoting objectives of the organization. Shri Shukla Metro Rs. 35,000/-, Tehsil /Village Rs. 25,000/told that AIITA would create awareness to promote the cause of computer and

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IT education, preschool education and software development across the country. On being nominated as national joint secretary, Shri Tripathi was congratulated by members ofAIITA and Dr. Dilip N Pandit, Dr. Rajeev Shrivastava, Shri Ravikant Sharma, Dr. Monica Nagori and others of the organization.

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Individual genetic differences may affect Ebola survival - study Scientists have been puzzling for years over why some people survive Ebola while many others perish. A new study provides strong evidence that individual genetic differences play a major role in whether people die from the disease.

Researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle reported their findings in the journal Science. They compared conventional lab mice, which typically just die when infected with a mouse version of Ebola, with genetically diverse lab mice that developed a wide range of symptoms in much the same way that people infected with the virus do.

Mice used in the study were generated from eight different strains of the animal and were bred to represent human genetic diversity. Symptoms in these genetically diverse mice ranged from mild weight loss to full, hemorrhagic fever, including internal bleeding, swollen spleens and changes in liver color and texture.

"We infected these mice with a mouseadopted strain of Ebola virus," said Angela Rasmussen, a microbiologist at the University of Washington who helped lead the study. "In classical lab mice, this strain of Ebola kills the animals but it doesn't produce hemorrhagic disease," she said. Researchers think the findings may help answer some questions about the Ebola outbreak in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, which has killed about 5,000 people. A major question has been whether Ebola survivors have had some prior viral exposure that enables their immune systems to fight the infection or whether there is something genetically unique about survivors that makes them resistant. The mouse study cannot address the issue of prior immunity but makes a strong case for the idea that an individual's genetic code plays a role in surviving Ebola. "There is definitely a genetic component," Rasmussen said. The study shows that host genes influence which cells become infected and how much the virus replicates, said Professor Andrew Easton, a virologist at the University of Warwick, who was not part of the study.

"Most of these genes are involved in the very earliest stages of our immune response to infection," something that has also been seen with other viruses, he said in a statement. Study co-author Michael Katze of the University of Washington said he hopes the study will quell some of the debate over the role of genetics in disease progression. "These mice were infected with exactly the same dose by exactly the same route by the same investigator. The only thing that was different was the genetic background," he said. One thing that has hindered Ebola research has been the lack of a mouse model to study the disease. Rasmussen hopes her work now makes it easier for scientists to study drugs and vaccines that fight Ebola. Most such studies are done in monkeys, but they can be hard to work with. Genetically altered mice are easier to control, especially in the strict confines of a highly secure biocontainment laboratory where such work must be done.

Rasmussen doesn't expect mice to replace monkeys, but they may be useful for earlier-stage work.

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President to unveil 'women power' statue at Rama Devi Women's College B H U B A N E S WA R : President Pranab Mukherjee will inaugurate a statue of three women carrying the globe on their heads, symbolizing women power, at Rama Devi Women's College here on November 30. As the institution gears up to celebrate its golden jubilee, the 'women power' statue figures prominently on its agenda. "There were many deliberations, with suggestions coming for installation of statues of certain prominent individuals. But we decided to install the symbolic threewoman sculpture as a representative of all womanhood. It is a tribute to all women," principal Chitrangada Samanta Singhar told. Renowned sculptor Raghunath Mohapatra has been carving the seven-foot tall stone structure.

It would be located near Gate 2 of the college. There were various suggestions such as making the portrayal of women modern or classical.

"The three women in the structure will be standing in three different Odissi

dance poses embodying our rich cultural heritage. Baulamala stone (sandstone) used in most of Odisha's temples is being used to prepare it," said Mohapatra's son Jasobanta. Preparations are in on full swing on the campus for the celebrations. While an open-air stage is being erected on its playground, the building is being painted in saffron colour. Special attention is being given to cleanliness of the entire campus, including hostels and libraries, and its periphery in the wake of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call for Swachh Bharat, college sources said.The college's alumni association has been planning to organize round-the-year activities such as workshops, seminars, and exhibitions to mark the celebrations. Established in 1964, the college boasts of several prominent alumni many of whom would be felicitated during the golden jubilee. The institute that started functioning as a government women's college from a small building of the labour department, was shifted to the Old School Building of Unit-1 in 1966 and finally to the present campus of about 28 acres in January 1969. According to government sources, President Mukherjee will reach the state for a two-day visit on November 29. He will attend a number of functions including inauguration of the new campus of Utkal University of Culture and the golden jubilee celebrations of Utkal Sangeet Mahavidyalaya and Rama Devi Women's College. He will also travel to Kalahandi district to inaugurate a newly constructed Vivekananda Memorial Hall inside the Ramakrushna Ashram.

Text messages motivate patients to finish Government should make more spectrum Power minister says $250 billion medicine regimen needed to tackle energy crunch available: Sunil Mittal A study has found that simple text message reminders to take malaria medication could help in the fight against the disease by boosting the rates at which patients complete their medication regimen.Julia Raifman, a Ph.D. candidate in the Harvard School of Public Health has said that only when patients don't complete their full medication regimen, diseases develop resistance to treatment and with infectious diseases like malaria, drug resistant diseases could spread to others. The research staff in Ghana had recruited more than 1,100 people outside pharmacies and healthcare facilities, who then used their mobile phones to enroll in an automated system. The system had randomly assigned half to receive the text message reminders to take their medication at the 12 hour intervals corresponding to when the pills were to be taken.

The local staff had followed up with the participants several days later at their homes to check how many pills they had taken.Study authors have found that those who received the texts were significantly more likely to finish the full regimen.The study was published in PLOS ONE.

NEW DELHI: The telecom industry requires more spectrum and the government should make it available, Bharti Group chairman Sunil Mittal said here.

"We want from the government more spectrum. Every country has the same amount of spectrum and it is not that India has less. It needs to be vacated from other places, that is what other countries have also done," he said on the sidelines of the India Economic Summit. "I would say the government should make available enough spectrum so that there is a balance between spectrum pricing," he added.

The next spectrum auction is expected to take place in February 2015. In the 1,800 MHz band, 20 circles are going for auction, while in the 900 MHz band, 18 circles will be up for sale. The

recommendations said spectrum should be put to auction in a block size of 2x200 KHz in both the 900 and 1,800 MHz bands.

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) Oct 15 recommended around 10 percent hike in the reserve price for 1,800 MHz band spectrum auction compared to the last winning price in the February 2014 sale. In December 2015, seven each licences of Idea Cellular and Reliance Communications, four licences of Bharti Airtel and six licences of Vodafone are scheduled to complete their 20-year term after which they require renewal. "In the 900 MHz band, only the spectrum held by them is available for the auction.

These licensees will have to win back this spectrum to ensure business continuity in a licence service area (LSA). If they don't, it places the large investment made in the LSAs in jeopardy," the TRAI said.

Himachal CM invites 1,400 industrialists to business meet SHIMLA: Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh has written more than 1,400 letters to leading industrialists for an investors' meet this week, an official said here. In the first phase, investors' meet will be organised in association with the Confederation of India Industries (CII) in Mumbai, Bangalore and Ahmedabad Nov 5-8, a government spokesperson told IANS. "The state government is also contemplating to freeze the power tariff for the (new) industries for the next five years," a government statement said.

One of the biggest advantages the state has is the availability of quality power at one of the cheapest rates in the country, it added. Besides this, the state is also providing industrial incentives and concessions related to local taxes, labour laws, land allotments in industrial areas and estates and incentives for exports. Some areas where the private sector participation is encouraged are tourism, infrastructure like housing, power generation and software and information technology.

The chief minister along with Industries Minister Mukesh Agnihotri and government functionaries will meet investors and try to project the state as an ideal destination for investment owing to surplus electricity and cheap manpower.

The state has also put in place a fast-track and a simplified procedure for the transfer of land for industrial purposes, said the spokesperson for the department of industries. He said the government is allowing transfer of private land for industrial, tourism and hydel purposes within a short period.

A single window clearance and monitoring authority under the chairmanship of Virbhadra Singh has been constituted to ensure expeditious clearances from the respective departments for setting up of new units. A combined intra-departmental application form has been made available to facilitate the entrepreneurs and time-bound clearance is being giving within 90 days, the spokesperson said. In the second phase, the investors' meet will be held next month in Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata and New Delhi. Official data shows that Himachal Pradesh got maximum investment from 2003 to 2010 when there was a special industrial package of the central government. Most investments were in pharmaceutical, food processing, textile, packaging and light engineering sectors.

N E W D E L H I : India needs to invest $250 billion over the next five years to tackle c h r o n i c e n e r g y shortages and provide power for all its 1.2 billion people, Power Minister Piyush Goyal said.

Goyal said the bulk of the investment would need to come from the private sector but the government would also invest more.

"I visualise an investment of nearly $250 billion in this sector in the next four or five years," Goyal told a World Economic Forum conference in New Delhi.

The government is targeting $100 billion of investment in renewables and $50 billion in

transmission and distribution to "create a national grid where power can seamlessly flow", Goyal said, as it seeks to avoid a repeat of 2012 when one of the world's biggest blackouts hit swathes of northern India.

He also said that nuclear power offered the "potential" to help resolve India's energy shortages.

Rapidly growing demand that outstrips supply and an antiquated transmission system mean much of India still suffers regular outages, which hamper investment and force many businesses to rely on costly generators for back up. As many as 400 million Indians are still not connected to the grid, while the average Indian household uses about a third of the power consumed by a family in China.

Total energy consumed in India will double by 2019, Goyal said.

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