DANGEROUS DRUGS HAVE BEEN GLOBALLY DISCARDED BUT ARE AVAILABLE IN INDIA: Suman N

Please Read Very Carefully - INFORM ALL YOUR FRIENDS & FAMILY MEMBERS.India has become a dumping ground for banned drugs; also the business forproduction of banned drugs is booming. Plz make sure that u buy drugs only ifprescribed by a doctor (Also, ask which company manufactures it, this would helpto ensure that u get what is prescribed at the Drug Store) and that also from areputed drug store. Not many people know about these banned drugs and consumethem causing a lot of damage to themselves. We forward Jokes and other junk allthe time. This is far more important.Please Make sure u forward it everyone u know.DANGEROUS DRUGS HAVE BEEN GLOBALLY DISCARDED BUT ARE AVAILABLE IN INDIA. Themost common ones are D cold, action 500 & Nimulid.ANALGIN:This is a pain-killer. Reason for ban: Bone marrow depression.Brand name : Novalgin___________________________________________________________CISAPRIDE:Acidity, constipation. Reason for ban : irregular heartbeatBrand name : Ciza, Syspride____________________________________________________________DROPERIDOL:Anti-depressant. Reason for ban : Irregular heartbeat.Brand name : Droperol______________________________________________________________FURAZOLIDONE:Antidiarrhoeal.. Reason for ban : Cancer.Brand name : Furoxone, Lomofen_____________________________________________________________NIMESULIDE:Painkiller, fever. Reason for ban : Liver failure.Brand name : Nise, Nimulid________________________________________________________________________NITROFURAZONE:Antibacterial cream.Reason for ban :Cancer..Brand name : Furacin________________________________________________________________________PHENOLPHTHALEIN:Laxative. Reason for ban : Cancer.Brand name : Agarol________________________________________________________________________PHENYLPROPANOLAMINE:cold and cough. Reason for ban : stroke.Brand name : D'cold, Vicks Action-500________________________________________________________________________OXYPHENBUTAZONE:Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug. Reason for ban : Bone marrow depression.Brand name : Sioril_______________________________________________________________________PIPERAZINE:Anti-worms. Reason for ban : Nerve damage.Brand name : Piperazine________________________________________________________________________QUINIODOCHLOR:Anti-diarrhoeal. Reason for ban : Damage to sight.Brand name : Enteroquinol

Beware of Garbage Trucks:vamsi.Gogineni

How often do you let other people's nonsense change your mood? Do you let a baddriver, rude waiter, curt boss, or an insensitive colleagueruin your day? Unless you're a robot, you are bound to blow your top off. However, the mark of a sucessful person is how quickly he or shecan get back his or her focus on what's important.Sixteen years ago, I learned this lesson. I learn it in the back of a New YorkCity taxi cab. Here's what happen.I hopped in a taxi, and we took off for Grand Central Station. We were drivingin the right lane when, all of a sudden, a black car jumped outof a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his brakes,skidded, and missed the other car's back end by just inches!The driver of the other car, the guy wh! o almost caused a big accident, whippedhis head around and he started yelling bad words at us.My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean he was reallyfriendly. So, I said, "Why did you do that? This guy almostruined your car and sent us to the hospital!"And this is when my taxi driver told me what I now called, 'The Law of theGarbage Truck'.Many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full offrustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. Astheir garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it. If they happen to dump iton you, don't take it personally.You just smile, wave, wish them well, and moved on. You'll be happier if youdid that rather than fight them.So this was it: 'The Law of the Garbage Truck'.I started thinking, how often do I let garbage trucks run right over me? And howoften do I take the! ir garbage and spread it to otherpeople: at work, at home, on the street? It was that day I said, "I'm not goingto do it anymore." I see garbage trucks everywhere andeveryday. I see the load they're carrying. I see them coming to drop it off. And like my taxi driver, I don't make it a personal thing; Ijust smile, wave, wish them well, and I move on.Good leaders know they have to be ready for their next meeting. Good parentsknow they have to welcome their kids home from school with hugsand kisses. Teachers and parents know that they have to be fully present and attheir best for the people they care about.The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take overtheir day. What about you? What would happen in your life, startingtoday, if you let more garbage trucks pass you by?Here's my bet. You'll be happier.So ... love the people who treat you ! right.Forget about the ones who don't.Believe that every thing happens for a reason.If you get a chance, TAKE IT!If it changes your life, LET IT!Nobody said it would be easy ....They just promised it would be WORTH IT

Fidel Castro: Revolutionary of the 20th century

Fidel Castro, who built a communist state on the doorstep of the United States from a guerrilla uprising and defied attempts to oust him by 10 U.S. presidents, retired on Tuesday after almost half a century at Cuba's helm.

The bearded revolutionary, whose cigar-smoking guerrillas ousted U.S.-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959, has not appeared in public for 19 months since emergency intestinal surgery forced him to hand over power to brother Raul Castro on July 31, 2006.

Castro, 81, has kept himself in the minds of Cubans, however, through a prolific flow of sick bed articles that ranged from denunciations of the U.S. war in Iraq to claiming that U.S. capitalism threatens the survival of humanity.

He said on Tuesday he would not return to lead his country, closing one chapter of the 20th century.

Vilified by opponents as a totalitarian dictator, Castro is admired in many Third World nations for standing up to the United States and providing free education and health care.

The Jesuit-educated lawyer and charismatic orator sought to transform Cuba into an egalitarian society and achieved health and literacy levels on a par with industrialized nations.

But critics, led by the United States and the hundreds of thousands of Cubans who left to live abroad, maintained that he turned the Caribbean island into a police state and his rejection of free enterprise ruined the economy.

Castro survived a CIA-backed invasion at the Bay of Pigs, assassination attempts, Washington's longest trade embargo and the collapse of the Soviet Union that for three decades supplied Cuba with everything from guns to oil and butter.

"I'm really happy to reach 80. I never expected it, not least having a neighbor -- the greatest power in the world -- trying to kill me every day," he said on July 21, 2006 at a summit of South American presidents in Argentina, where crowds greeted him like a rock star.

Anti-globalization youths the world over saw the leftist firebrand as a hero along with revolutionary icon Ernesto "Che" Guevara, his Argentine-born comrade-in-arms.

Castro caught the imagination of the left by pitting his small country against the United States and declaring Cuba a Marxist state even before the Berlin Wall was erected.

His brazen risk-taking took the world to the brink of nuclear war in 1962 when he allowed Moscow to place ballistic missiles in Cuba, leading to a 13-day stand-off between President John F. Kennedy and Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev in one of the most dangerous episodes of the Cold War.

Castro supported guerrilla groups in Latin America and sent more than 350,000 Cubans troops to fight in Angola, where they defeated South African forces, leading to the independence of Namibia and hastening the end of apartheid.

POST-SOVIET CRISIS

But the loss of billions of dollars in subsidies from Moscow after the Soviet collapse plunged Cuba into severe economic crisis in the early 1990s.

Social gains were undermined and widespread hardship sowed discontent that triggered a renewed exodus of tens of thousands of rafters to Florida -- just 90 miles away -- in search of a better life.

The crisis forced Castro to grudgingly open up Cuba to foreign investment and tourism, and legalize the currency of his enemy, the U.S. dollar.

In the last years of his rule, Castro tried to grapple with some of Cuba's glaring failures -- decrepit housing, poor transport, power outages and corruption -- while denying his critics a voice in the West's last communist society.

Castro won friends by sending 30,000 Cuban doctors abroad to treat the poor, mainly in Venezuela, but also as far afield as Pakistan, Indonesia and East Timor, while training thousands of doctors from developing counties in Cuba free of charge.

Cuba won annual votes condemning the U.S. embargo at the United Nations backed by all but a handful of U.S. allies.

Castro, who gave up smoking cigars in 1985, stamped his image on history by thumping the lectern during lengthy tirades against imperialism and capitalism or striding at the head of mass marches in his trademark military fatigues.

Cubans call him simply "Fidel." Seventy-percent of them were born after 1959 and have known no other leader. Until he fell ill, Castro was omnipresent in their lives through hours-long speeches and nonstop public activity, but he has not allowed statues of himself or streets named after him.

His pace slowed after fracturing a knee in a serious tumble after a speech in October 2004 seen live on television.

In 2006, the health of the man who said he had survived 638 assassination plots caved in. He underwent life-threatening operations to stop intestinal bleeding and infection. Pictures showed the once robust leader had lost weight and become gaunt and shuffling.

Castro was born on August 13, 1926, in Biran in eastern Cuba, the son of a Spanish immigrant who became a landowner. His family's farm was the first land Castro ordered confiscated by the state after his revolution.

"History will absolve me," Castro declared during his trial for a near-suicidal assault on July 26, 1953 on the Moncada barracks in the eastern city of Santiago, which launched his revolutionary movement.

In December, 1956, he returned from exile in Mexico on a overcrowded yacht called the "Granma" and landed with 81 followers in eastern Cuba. They were ambushed and only 12 made it to the rugged Sierra Maestra mountains with seven rifles.

The ragtag band of rebels grew into a guerrilla force of several thousand that swept down from the hills in 1958 to drive the dictator Batista from Cuba on New Year's Day 1959.

Fidel Castro's life

NAME: Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz.

Party of Cuba, commander in chief of Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces. Before announcing he was ill and ceding power to his brother Raul on July 31, 2006, was world's longest-ruling head of government, and leader of one of world's last few communist states. He officially resigned as president on Feb. 19, 2008.

BIRTHDATE: Officially listed as Aug. 13, 1926, in Cuba's Oriente province, although some say he was born year later.

EDUCATION: Attended Roman Catholic schools and University of Havana, where he earned law and social science degrees.

BEFORE THE REVOLUTION: Launched his revolutionary fight with July 26, 1953, attack on military barracks in eastern city of Santiago. He was arrested, then freed under amnesty. Traveled to Mexico to form rebel army, and returned to Cuba with followers aboard small yacht. Most were killed or captured, but Castro and small group escaped into eastern mountains to establish stronghold and seized power when dictator Fulgencio Batista fled New Year's Day 1959.

AFTER THE REVOLUTION: Emerged as head of new government and quickly gained nearly absolute power. All American businesses eventually expropriated and Cuba was declared socialist state in April 1961, on eve of disastrous U.S.-backed Bay of Pigs invasion by Cuban exiles. United States cut all trade with Cuba as island allied with Soviet Union, leading to October 1962 missile crisis that brought world to brink of nuclear war. For three decades, Cuba was Soviet ally and remained alienated from United States after communism collapsed in eastern Europe.

FAMILY: Married Mirta Diaz-Balart in 1948; son, Fidel Felix Castro Diaz-Balart, born in 1949; divorced in 1955. Although Castro never confirmed remarrying, reportedly wed former schoolteacher Dalia Soto del Valle and had five sons. Also reportedly had several other children out of wedlock.

QUOTE — "Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!"

New 'hang out zones' as part of family entertainment

Competition has started hotting up in the Rs 40,000 crore Indian entertainment segment with companies planning to offer new hang out zones apart from scaling up their family entertainment centres concept. Galaxy Entertainment Corporation Ltd, part of the Future Group, is planning to setup 25 leisure and entertainment 'Sports Bar Express Zones' in India including passive (multiple plasmas, LCD TVs), and active sports (basket ball, pool table and dart board), Sanjay Saxeria, its director, told FE. Suncity Entertainment, through its sister concern Jovial Entertainment, is planning to launch 30 'Viking' zones, a blend of hang out zones in India with options like bowling alles, online gaming, console gaming, redemption games with an area size of between 10,000 sq ft to 60,000 sq ft in India in the next 24 months. Landmark Group is looking at scaling up the number of FunCity zones. According to Saxeria, "Family entertainment centres are concepts basically meant to increase footfalls at hypermarkets, retaining footprints within the malls, apart from increasing the consumption hours of the consumer in a mall. We are already running 20 family entertainment centres in India with a concept of video games, console gaming, bowling alles apart from sports bar express as well. For the next two years, we are shifting focus into setting up many sports bar express concepts in India."
Rashmi Punwar, spokesperson from Suncity Entertainment said, "We are setting up a 60,000 sq ft 'Viking' entertainment centre in Jaipur. Plans are on the anvil to set up six similar such centres in India by this year-end. We plan to invest Rs 200 crore in the first phase and the funds would be sourced from the private equity players. We are currently talking to mall developers and residential developers majors in India in order to set up 'Viking' zones within their planned real estate projects." Private equity players are planning to bring in foreign funds in India to tie up with entertainment majors in order to enable the later to offer various options to customers.
As for the rationale behind the move, Punwar explained that the new hang out concepts are meant to bridge the gap between a multiplex and food courts where bowling alles, online gaming, console gaming will be targeted at young generations from school and colleges, redemption games will be aimed at kids below 10 years of age

GITAM University president M.V.V.S. Murthy and

V.C -- M. Gangadhara Rao along with UAD delegates in Visakhapatnam

VISAKHAPATNAM: University of Abertay, Dundee (UAD), Scotland, has decided to start faculty and student exchange programmes and plans to start new PG courses with GITAM University.
Delegates from the University of Abertay Dundee, Scotland visited GITAM University on Tuesday and interacted with students of various departments of the College of Engineering and College of Science.
Head of the School of Computing and Creative Technology Lachlan Mackinnon and Director of Academic Programmes of the School of Contemporary Sciences Phillip J. Collier met the students and told them about Abertay University and the degrees offered by it.
The R and D Centre of GITAM University organised a programme on Faculty Exchange collaboration between GITAM University and Aberty University.
Addressing the gathering after inaugurating the programme, university president MVVS Murthy said that the university would interact with various universities of international-repute to undertake academic exchange programmes. He felt that the exchange programmes would ultimately benefit the students. GITAM Vice Chancellor M. Gangadhara Rao explained the importance combined academic programmes.
Director of the College of Engineering V.V. Kutumba Rao, Principal of the College of Science N. Lakshman Das and Principal of the College of Management Studies K. Sivarama Krishna spoke.
Prof. Lachlan Mackinnon said that the Abertay University was interested in taking up research and faculty exchange programmes with GITAM University on a long-term basis. Dr. Phillip Collier evinced keen interest in the Biotechnology courses offered by GITAM University. Registrar P.M. Valli, in charge Director (R & D) K. Veerabhadram spoke.

రూ.1,00,436 కోట్లతో రాష్ట్ర బడ్జెట్ రూపకల్పన

రూ.1,00,436 కోట్లతో రాష్ట్ర బడ్జెట్ రూపకల్పన

రాష్ట్ర ఆర్థిక శాఖ మంత్రి రోశయ్య 2008-09 ఆర్థిక సంవత్సర బడ్జెట్‌ను శనివారం శాసనసభలో ప్రవేశపెట్టారు. మొత్తం రూ.1,00,436 కోట్లతో ఈ బడ్జెట్ తయారు చేయబడింది. ప్రణాళికా వ్యయం రూ.48.551 కోట్లు కాగా ప్రణాళికేతర వ్యయం 51,885 కోట్లు. ఈ బడ్జెట్‌లో కూడా జలయజ్ఞానికే పెద్దపీట వేశారు. సాగునీటి ప్రాజెక్టులకు మొదటి స్థానం లభించగా, ఇందిరమ్మ ఇళ్లకు రెండో స్థానం కల్పించారు.ఈ బడ్జెట్‌లో సాగునీటి ప్రాజెక్టుల కోసం రూ.17,875 కోట్ల కేటాయించగా, ఇందిరమ్మ ఇళ్ల నిర్మాణానికి రూ.5850 కోట్లు, వ్యయసాయ రంగానికి రూ.2723, గ్రామీణాభివృద్ధికి రూ.3838 కోట్లు, విద్యకు రూ.1771 కోట్లు, సాంఘీక సంక్షేమానికి రూ.1293 కోట్లు, గిరిజన సంక్షేమానికి రూ.450 కోట్లు, బీసీల సంక్షోమానికి రూ.350 కోట్లు, పావలా వడ్డీ పథకానికి రూ.310 కోట్లు, మధ్యాహ్న భోజన పథకానికి రూ.853 కోట్లు కేటాయించారు. వాణిజ్య పన్నుల లక్ష్యం రూ.37,866 కోట్లు కాగా ఇందులో కేంద్ర పన్నుల వాటా రూ.12597 కోట్లు. అంతేకాకుండా ఈ ఏడాది బడ్జెట్‌లో రాష్ట్ర ప్రభుత్వం హైదరాబాద్ ఔటర్‌రింగ్ రోడ్డు కోసం రూ.4000 కోట్లు, ఓడరేవుల అభివృద్ధికి రూ.65.34 కోట్లు, ఆహార భద్రత కోసం రూ.30 కోట్లు, మెట్రోరైలు ప్రాజెక్టుకు రూ.150 కోట్లు, విమానాశ్రయాల అభివృద్ధికి రూ.60 కోట్లు, ఏవియేషన్ కార్పొరేషన్‌కు రూ.55 కోట్లు కేటాయించింది.ఇదిలా ఉంటే మున్సిపాలిటీల అభివృద్ధికి రూ.3116 కోట్లు, అంతర్గత రోడ్ల అభివృద్ధికి రూ.200 కోట్లు కేటాయించారు. రాష్ట్రంలో కొత్తగా 71 ప్రత్యేక ఆర్థిక మండళ్లు ఏర్పాటు చేయనున్నట్లు మంత్రి రోశయ్య తెలిపారు. ధరల నియంత్రణకు నియంత్రణకు రూ.30 కోట్లు, గ్రంథాలయాల అభివృద్ధికి రూ.250 కోట్లు కేటాయించామన్నారు. 2015 నాటికి సంపూర్ణ అక్షరాస్యత సాధించే లక్ష్యంతో పనిచేస్తున్నామని చెప్పారు.