Monthly Archives: February 2016

  The following extracts from The Japan Times gives an idea about the future estimated cost of electric power in Japan On May 11, 2015, four years after the most serious nuclear accident, The Japan Times reported that a panel … Continue reading →

  This is budget time in India. Several decades ago, a small group of individuals in my office had one concern . Will the Finance Minister spare cigarettes this time? Even though the total outflow of cash is not very … Continue reading →

The latest Newsweek magazine reprinted Adrian Levy’s article on Kudankulam nuclear power plant. The Center for Public Integrity a US think tank published it a few weeks ago. I published the following comments on it at the end of the … Continue reading →

The Hindu TODAY’S PAPER » EDUCATION PLUS      February 8, 2016 An unethical, imprecise, potentially illegal x-ray practice K.S. PARTHASARATHY Dental x-rays expose radiosensitive tissues such as, bone marrow in the head, thyroid, brain and eye lens.— photo: AFP … Continue reading →

 CAPTION This is an Aedes aegypti mosquito. CREDIT Institut Pasteur Zika virus menace is real. Why? Infected Aedes aegypti mosquito causes Zika virus disease. The mosquito that causes the malady is the same as that for Dengue, Chikungunya and yellow … Continue reading →

(Photo courtesy Youtube.com) The untimely death of Shri T N Gopakumar, Editor- in- Chief of Asianet News shocked everyone. He was a role model to many young journalists. His colleagues have adequately described his contribution to the written and visual … Continue reading →