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UN warns HIV/Aids leading cause of death in women

HIV has become the leading cause of death and disease among women of reproductive age worldwide, the UN programme on HIV/Aids says.

At the start of a 10-day conference in New York, UNAids launched a five-year action plan addressing the gender issues which put women at risk.
One of the key issues, it says, is that up to 70% of women worldwide have been forced to have unprotected sex.
UNAids says such violence against women must not be tolerated.
"By robbing them of their dignity, we are losing the opportunity to tap half the potential of mankind to achieve the Millennium Development Goals," said Executive Director Michel Sidibe.
"Women and girls are not victims, they are the driving force that brings about social transformation," he said.
The agency says that experiencing violence hampers women's ability to negotiate safe sex.

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It warns that, nearly 30 years from the beginning of the epidemic, HIV services do not respond to the specific needs of women and girls.
Women, it says, continue to be disproportionately affected by HIV/Aids.
In sub-Saharan Africa, 60% of those living with HIV are women and in Southern Africa, for example, young women are about three times as likely to be infected with HIV than young men of the same age.
The programme - which will include improving data collection and analysis of how the epidemic affects women, and ensuring the issue of violence against women is integrated into HIV prevention programmes - will be rolled out in countries including Liberia.

Chile tsunami video shows devastation

New amateur video has emerged showing the moment a tsunami hit the fishing village of Dichato, following Saturday's earthquake.
Nearly 800 people are known to have died in the 8.8 magnitude Chile quake and the tsunami it generated.

India is safe, Aus cricketers should play in IPL: Dwyer

New Delhi, Mar 4 (PTI) The ongoing hockey World Cup proved India is perfectly safe for visitors and the Australian cricketers should put aside their security apprehensions and play in the Indian Premier League, star Kookaburra player Jamie Dwyer said here today. Dwyer, the 2009 FIH World Player of the Year, said he too had security fears before arriving here for the World Cup but his views have now completely changed and he would advise the Australian cricketers to come here and play in IPL without any fear.

"So many things were written in the media and that led to our perception of security fears. But once we reached here in India it was perfectly all right.
It is perfectly fine here and we have no security issues," Dwyer said after his side mauled South Africa 12-0 at the Major Dhyan Chand Stadium. "I think I would suggest Ricky Ponting and his team-mates to come in Indian and play in IPL," he said.
Even though retired players like Shane Warne and Matthew Hayden have confirmed playing in the IPL, some of Cricket Australia''s contracted players have developed a cold feet about travelling to India because of security apprehensions.

63 killed in stampede in Uttar Pradesh

Pratapgarh (UP), Mar 4 (PTI) At least 63 people were killed and many others injured in a stampede in an ashram here.

The stampede took place after the gate of Kripalu Maharaj's ashram, 60 kms from here, collapsed during distribution of food, ADG (Law and Order) Brij lal said in Lucknow.
The devotees were being given food besides utensils on the occasion of the "shradh" of the wife of Kripalu Maharaj.
About 10,000 people had gathered at the ashram in Mangarh area under Kunda police station area when the incident occurred.
The injured have been rushed to hospitals in Pratapgarh and Allahabad, the ADG said.

ICC T20 : 2010 Worldcup Schedule and Fixtures

ICC T20 WorldCup 2010 Schedule / Fixtures / TimeTable – West Indies

Matches Timing and Schedule

Fri Apr 30 2010 1st Match, Group D West Indies v TBC Providence Stadium, Guyana

Fri Apr 30 2010 2nd Match, Group B New Zealand v Sri Lanka Providence Stadium, Guyana

Sat May 1 2010 3rd Match, Group C India v TBC Beausejour Stadium, Gros Islet, St Lucia

Sat May 1 2010 4th Match, Group A Bangladesh v Pakistan Beausejour Stadium, Gros Islet, St Lucia

Sat May 1 2010 5th Match, Group D England v TBC Providence Stadium, Guyana

Sun May 2 2010 6th Match, Group C India v South Africa Beausejour Stadium, Gros Islet, St Lucia

Sun May 2 2010 7th Match, Group A Australia v Pakistan Beausejour Stadium, Gros Islet, St Lucia

Sun May 2 2010 8th Match, Group B New Zealand v Zimbabwe Providence Stadium, Guyana

Mon May 3 2010 10th Match, Group B Sri Lanka v Zimbabwe Providence Stadium, Guyana

Mon May 3 2010 9th Match, Group D West Indies v England Providence Stadium, Guyana

Tue May 4 2010 11th Match, Group C South Africa v TBC Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados

Tue May 4 2010 12th Match, Group A Australia v Bangladesh Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados

Super 8 T20 World Cup 2010 Match Schedule / Timetable :

Thu May 6 2010 13th Match TBC v TBC (A1 v D2) Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados

Thu May 6 2010 14th Match TBC v TBC (C1 v B2) Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados

Fri May 7 2010 15th Match TBC v TBC (A2 v C2) Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados

Fri May 7 2010 16th Match TBC v TBC (B1 v D1) Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados

Sat May 8 2010 17th Match TBC v TBC (C1 v D2) Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados

Sat May 8 2010 18th Match TBC v TBC (A1 v B2) Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados

Sun May 9 2010 19th Match TBC v TBC (C2 v D1) Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados

Sun May 9 2010 20th Match TBC v TBC (B1 v A2) Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados

Mon May 10 2010 21st Match TBC v TBC (B2 v D2) Beausejour Stadium, Gros Islet, St Lucia

Mon May 10 2010 22nd Match TBC v TBC (A1 v C1) Beausejour Stadium, Gros Islet, St Lucia

Tue May 11 2010 23rd Match TBC v TBC (B1 v C2) Beausejour Stadium, Gros Islet, St Lucia

Tue May 11 24th 2010 Match TBC v TBC (D1 v A2) Beausejour Stadium, Gros Islet, St Lucia

Semi Final Matches

Thu May 13 2010 1st Semi-Final TBC v TBC Beausejour Stadium, Gros Islet, St Lucia

Fri May 14 2010 2nd Semi-Final TBC v TBC Beausejour Stadium, Gros Islet, St Lucia

T20 World Cup 2010 – Final

Sun May 16 2010 Finals TBC v TBC Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados

Auto driver turns web entrepreneur

Chennai: An auto rickshaw driver from Chennai, M Samson has studied only till Standard-VII, but understands the medium of internet and online banner advertisements better than many local businessmen available in the society.

Samson runs an advertising website named as NetwayAdvertise.com. Talking to Satrajit Sen of AlooTechie, Samson said, "I started this website mainly for local businessmen who can't advertise in print or TV due to their high ad rates." Samson charges Rs.500 a year for hosting a display ad. Currently, there are about 15 banner ads running on the site and with that rate, he earns around Rs.7,500 a year from his online advertising business. The expenditures for the portal include a fee of Rs.2,000 per year for site maintenance and upgrading the domain registration, and a payment of Rs 60 to the webmaster for creating and uploading each banner ad.

It was not an easy journey for a local auto rickshaw driver to learn about the internet medium and the ways of earning money through that, but the ability to learn new things and earn more money helped Samson to reach where he is today. According to Samson, he was first introduced to the world of internet in 1997 by a traveller from Japan who taught Samson how to access and use Hotmail so that he could communicate with his foreign clients, whenever they would want to visit the city. Gradually, Samson became familiar with emails, and also came to know that news and information can be gathered from internet. In 2006, a British Airways co-pilot, who was Samson's client then, saw him accessing hotmail and gave him the idea to advertise his services on internet. "Initially, I couldn't understand how one can advertise on internet. So, my client from British Airways explained to me the concept of a website and how it could be used to communicate across the world. I asked him to help me in setting up the site and he was the person who went back to London and designed the website TukTastic.com for me," Samson said. [TukTastic is a play with two words Tuk-Tuk, which means an auto rickshaw, and fantastic.

Once the site was launched, Samson started getting a lot of queries on email and SMS from travellers. "Though, I can't recount the numbers, most of the queries came from the foreigners. But gradually Indians were also catching up to the number of queries. Presently, I get between three to five queries every day," said Samson. Later on, Samson told some of his businessmen friends about TukTastic and explained the global nature of internet, some of them became interested and wanted to advertise their business as well on internet. But they didn't know where to go. "I saw this as an opportunity to earn money and thus launched the online advertising site NetwayAdvertise.com to help my friends," said he.

Now with Internet becoming one of the fastest growing medium to connect with people across the world, many people may try to follow the path of M Samson and try to do something different in life.