Hazaribagh (Jharkhand) , Aug. 17: As the nation celebrated its 62nd Independence Day on Friday, elderly Somar Sundi of Jharkhand remained busy pulling a rickshaw to earn his daily meal. He has been a freedom fighter but cannot prove it today.

According to the law of India, determining the sex of the pre-born child is a crime. The reason is quite obvious. In the recent years, many instances of aborting the female feticides have come forward.

On Wednesday, Dr. Sabu Mathew George filed a complaint against search engines like Yahoo India, Google India and Microsoft Corporations as according to the petition by Mr George; these engines were illegally promoting techniques and products for selecting the sex of a child through advertising and links on their search engines.

Thus, they have been issued notices by the Supreme Court as they have failed to abide by India’s Preconception and Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques Act (1994). The news was broken by an activist and a lawyer.

New Delhi, August 18 : A study conducted by the Goddard Space Flight Center under NASA has suggested that the decrease of rainfall along the eastern seaboard of Africa is a result of the warming up of the nearby Indian Ocean.

The study, done through computer models and observations for more than half a century, has concluded that rainfall in eastern Africa during the annual rainy season had declined by 15 percent since the 1980s.

Statistical analyses showed that the decline of rainfall was due to irregularities in the transport of moisture between the ocean and land.

According to the study, declines in rainfall had been posted in such eastern seaboard African countries as Ethiopia, Malawi, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

New Delhi, Aug 18: Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on Monday urged all political parties and right-thinking people to work together to bring the situation in Jammu and Kashmir under control.

Speaking to reporters here after the oath taking ceremony of two new Rajya Sabha members, C. Rangarajan and S M Krishna this morning, Dr. Singh said: "Everybody has an obligation to contribute. This is not a partisan issue."

Srinagar, India - Hundreds of thousands of protestors gathered at a sports ground in Jammu and Kashmir state capital Srinagar on Monday as separatist Hurriyat Conference leaders prepared to march to a United Nations' observers office with a memorandum demanding international intervention to resolve the Kashmir issue.

Hundreds of security personnel stood by under strict instructions to use maximum restraint and minimum force and not to use bullets to disperse protesters.

At least 23 people died in the Kashmir valley last week in police firings to disperse protestors whose agitation sparked by a land row has taken an anti-India turn.

New Delhi, Aug 18 : Ahead of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) meeting in Vienna, National Security Adviser M. K. Narayanan is to chair a high-level meeting today to decide on the strategies to be followed by India on August 21 and 22.

The NSG’s plenary session is expected to discuss the possibility of granting India an exemption from its restrictive export rules. India is standing by its “excellent non-proliferation record” and will seek to allay any fears or doubts that the NSG might have about having nuclear commerce with it.

Germany, the NSG’s current chair, has asked India to take the floor at the NSG meeting on August 21 to brief its members about the country’s non-proliferation commitments and policies.