Islamabad, Aug. 30: An editorial in a prominent Pakistani daily has said that intelligence agencies in both Pakistan and India are acting as obstacles to people-friendly confidence-building measures initiated since 2004 by the two governments.

According to the editorial in the Daily Times, these so called “agencies” are not yet ready to allow easy travel for the purpose of holding dialogues.

London, Aug. 30 : Every tenth baby born in UK is of Pakistani or Indian descent, according to statistics provided by the Office of National Statistics.

According to The Telegraph, Of the 649,371 babies born in England and Wales in 2005, 8.6 per cent were recorded as Asian or Asian British, and of Pakistani or Indian descent.

The ONS statistics also revealed that over a third of new babies are foreign or from an ethnic minority, a sign of the changing face of Britain.

Washington, August 30: IIT-Bombay scientists have developed an inexpensive web-enabled device that can enable doctors to remotely measure lung function in patients with asthma and other disorders, and to quickly instigate medical attention in an emergency.

Vivek Agarwal, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, and his student N. C. S. Ramachandran’s system is an easy to operate spirometer that can be quickly hooked up to an internet connection through built-in web and data encryption software.

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Dhaka, Aug 30: The ninth Home Secretary level talks between India and Bangladesh will begin here today.

The Indian delegation will be headed by the Union Home Secretary, Madhukar Gupta and the Bangladesh delegation by their Secretary, Ministry of Home Affair, Mohammad Abdul Karim.

The meeting is expected to discuss various security related issues, border management issues as well as ways of enhancing cooperation between the law enforcement agencies of both sides.

Brussels - The European Commission said Friday it was providing more than 2 million euros (3 million dollars) in humanitarian aid to help the victims of floods in northern India and Nepal.

A statement from the European Union's executive body said the aid was to be channeled through UN relief agencies, European non- governmental organizations and the Red Cross/Crescent movement.

The commission said the most pressing need was to provide food, clean drinking water, shelter and medicines to the victims.