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The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) said on Thursday that it would start issuing the 16-digit number to each resident of the country in February 2011. We would start issuing the unique identification numbers (UIN) in February 2011. These numbers would be allotted on the basis of 11 biometrics including 10 fingerprints and iris, UIDAI Chairman Nandan Nilekani said here after a meeting with Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. The UIDAI would not allot any card, but 16-digit numbers, said Nilekani, who is on a visit to the state to discuss the UIN issue. There would be eight regional offices of UIDAI and each such office would cover two-three states, he said. Meanwhile, Hooda assured all help of the state government to the UIDAI and said the state level unit would function under financial commissioner and principal secretary (tourism) Keshni Anand Arora to allot UIN to Haryana residents.

Toronto, Dec 16 (IANS) Indian-origin researcher Sanjeev John and his colleague Xun Ma of the University of Toronto have discovered new behaviour of light which could lead to cooler and faster computing. The two quantum optics researchers have discovered 'new behaviours' of light changes within photonic crystals that could lead to faster optical information processing and compact computers that don't overheat. "We discovered that by sculpting a unique artificial vacuum inside a photonic crystal, we can completely control the electronic state of artificial atoms (light) within the vacuum," lead author Xun Ma was quoted as saying in a statement here Tuesday. "This discovery can enable photonic computers that are more than a hundred times faster than their electronic counterparts, without heat dissipation issues and other bottlenecks currently faced by electronic computing," said Ma. Added Sanjeev John, "We designed a vacuum in which light pass...

Toronto, Dec 16 (IANS) An international study has found a molecule in H1N1, or swine flu, patients whose levels determine the severity of the illness or even death. Canadian and Spanish scientists have found this molecule called Interleukin 17 (IL-17) to be the first potential immunological clue of why some people develop severe pneumonia when infected by the H1N1 virus. The study was carried in 10 Spanish hospitals during the first pandemic wave in July and August this year. Researchers from the Hospital Clinico Universitario de Valladolid in Spain, Toronto's University Health Network and the University of Toronto analysed different levels of regulating molecules (IL-17) for 20 hospitalized patients, 15 outpatients and 15 others. They found high levels of IL-17 molecule in the blood of severe H1N1 patients and low levels in patients with the mild form of the disease. According to a statement by the University of Toronto, IL-17 is produced by the body and is important ...

India's space agency has in its pipeline eight foreign satellites for launch and is scouting to acquire such spacecraft from abroad to expand capacity in the field of communication transponder back home. "Today, we have eight (foreign) satellites to be launched. This will be launched over the next two-three years", Managing Director of Antrix Corporation, marketing arm of Bangalore headquartered Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), K R Sridhara Murthi, said. These are a mix of small and bigger satellites, he said but declined to elaborate, noting that the space agency is yet to formally ink some of these contracts. But one foreign satellite that is being readied for launch is a 150-kg one from Algeria, which is slated to be launched by home-grown Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle as a piggyback payload likely in April next year. Sridhara Murthi said ISRO is looking for opportunities to acquire foreign satellites. In fact, it, along with its global partners, recent...

Normal banking operations was affected on Wednesday as the Left-leaning bank employees went on a one-day nation-wide strike to protest the proposed merger of the State Bank of Indore with its parent SBI. Employees under the banner of All India Bank Employees' Association (AIBEA) and All India Bank Officers' Association(AIBOA) are on strike, AIBEA General Secretary C H Venkatachalam said. Venkatachalam said there should be no consolidation in the public sector banks in the name of creating global size bank. Many public and private sector banks have already informed customers that the normal functioning at bank's branches may get affected in view of the strike call. PSU banks control about 70 per cent of the banking operations in the country.

Grappling with the Andhra Pradesh crisis, the Congress was embarrassed inside and outside Parliament today when UPA partners questioned the government’s “hasty” decision on a separate Telangana and Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, Congress MP and son of the late Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, joined a TDP demonstration in Lok Sabha, even borrowing a placard from them which read “We want united AP.” As angry Congress MPs from the Telangana region complained to A K Antony, who heads the party disciplinary action committee, saying Jagan’s actions amounted to violation of discipline, it became increasingly clear that his claim for a suitable political placement in Andhra Pradesh’s power matrix had receded significantly. Congress sources said Jagan had been sounded out to head a coordination panel in the state that would monitor the performance of the K Rosaiah government — such a mechanism is followed by the party in several other states to balance competing factions. Another offer, that of a junior minist...

Renato Solidum, head of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, said the activity could get worse in coming days. The Philippines' most active volcano oozed lava and shot up plumes of ash, forcing thousands of people to evacuate their homes and face the possibility of a bleak Christmas in a shelter. State volcanologists raised the alert level on the cone-shaped, 8,070-foot (2,460-meter) Mayon volcano to two steps below a major eruption after ash explosions late Monday. Dark orange lava fragments glowed in the dark as they trickled down the mountain slope overnight. Renato Solidum, head of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, said the activity could get worse in coming days. "It's already erupting," Solidum told The Associated Press. More than 20,000 people were evacuated to safety by nightfall yesterday, said Gov Joey Salceda of Albay province, where Mayon is located about 340 kilometres southeast of Manila. The first of 2...