To Know About World AIDS Day

  World AIDS Day (WAD) is an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV and AIDS. WAD, organized by The National AIDS Trust, increases awareness of the dangers of HIV and AIDS, including the challenges finding a cure, efforts to prevent the disease and the obstacles faced by those living with the virus.

World AIDS Day takes place annually on December 1.

How To Show Your Support On World

  HIV/AIDS is more than a chronic illness. Millions are infected worldwide and there is still no cure for the deadly virus. There are many ways in which you can support prevention and cure efforts on World AIDS Day and throughout the year:

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  Pick your social app of choice (or choose them all) and spread the world about World AIDS Day. Tell your buddies, your family and your friends that HIV and AIDS are still a global concern and we must all spread messages of prevention and awareness. It's been over 25 years since the first reported AIDS case and we still have yet to find a cure.
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  Get all of the facts and information you need to know at HIV/AIDS on About.com and join the campaign to increase HIV/AIDS awareness.
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  HIV Symptoms
     
  What are HIV symptoms? What are the symptoms of HIV? This is the question I get more than any other. But because many people who have been infected with HIV have few or no HIV symptoms, HIV testing is the only way to know for sure if you are infected. There are, however, an assortment of HIV symptoms that can be associated with a new HIV infection.

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Mullaperiyar dam is a disaster in waiting

  The 116-year-old leaky Mullaperiyar dam, operated by the Tamil Nadu government, is too weak to withstand a strong quake.

  The 999 year old contract is no more a water issue, it's an issue with the lives of laths of people. Being one among them, I am not appealing for a mercy to save people's life because if it was a motive then a new dam must have already been built at Iuka, Since this issue started before year 2000.

  What I want my readers is to make sure that we know we were going to die before we actually do.

  As the case is between two states Kerala and Tamil Nadu things are little complicated here. Only question Kerala has is about life of 35lack people in five districts including Kottayam, Ernakulam and Alappuzha.

  For Tamil Nadu, it’s main source of their revenue in terms of electricity which 
Tamil Nadu produces from Mullaperiyar which was not agreed in the Dam agreement with Kerala. What Kerala agreed was that the water can be used for serving water supply to seven districts in Tamil Nadu.

 

Location Details

 

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    River Periyar originates from the Western Ghats in ‘Sundara Malai’ at an elevation of about 1830m above MSL. From its origin, it traverses through an immense cliff of rocks in a northerly direction receiving several rivulets in its course. About 48 Km downstream, the Mullayar joins the main River at an elevation of 845m above MSL and the River then flows westwards. 

   About 11 Km downstream of the above confluence, the river passes through a narrow gorge. A dam was constructed at this gorge to intercept the flow and it got christened as ‘Mullaperiyar dam’, which received the above title from the rivers Mullayar and Periyar. The dam have a catchment area of 624 square kilometres, which lies completely inside Kerala territory.

Technical Details

   The Mullaperiyar dam is having a length of 1200 feet and a height of 155 feet from the river bed and the height from the deepest foundation is 176ft. The front and rear faces of the dam are of uncoursed rubble masonry in lime, surki and sand mortar. The hearting is of lime surkhi concrete with 3.125 parts of stone and 1 part of mortar.  The proportion of lime surkhi mortar is 2 parts of lime, 1 part of surkhi and 3 parts of sand.The central core constructed with lime surkhi concrete occupies about 60% of the total volume of the dam. As part of the strengthening measures suggested an RCC capping was added to the top of the dam. Also a 10 m concrete backing was provided to the downstream side, but the joint between the old dam and the new dam remain ungrouted even though shear keys were provided.

THE TRAGEDY 

                                     
                                      Simulation 

 

AFTER

 People of Idukki, Kerala’s second largest district having several giant, large and medium-sized dams, now feel that they are perhaps sitting on a geological time bomb in the context of recurring tremors, soil piping among hills surrounding a huge reservoir and cracks and leaks that keep on appearing in a 115-year-old old-technology dam due to seismic activities.

SOLUTIONS

  

  Build a large parallel Dam within secure distance from current dam and break current one.

BUT....
 

 Besides the points from internet, We Need a New DAM, but it's not easy to build immediately, since it will take years. Now Kerala is in Zone 3 of earth quake vulnerability, and I think measures to be taken immediately are:
> Reduce water level of dam.
>Take precautions to reduce velocity of flood water, in case the dam bursts.

>Start disaster management awareness programs immediately.

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SBI Freedom – State Bank Mobile Banking Application

 State Bank of India recently launched a service called “SBI Freedom“. With “SBI Freedom”, customers can use facilities like balance inquiry, mini statement, fund transfer, cheque book issuance, mobile recharge and bill payment at any time and place through the use of their cellphones. SBI has added rail and air ticket booking and shopping to this service. Now you can book airline/ rail/ bus/ movie tickets and also shop online from your mobile phone using State Bank Freedom through NGPAY application.

A customer is registered when he or she sends an SMS to 567676 prefixed with the area code. The service is activated either after the password is verified at an ATM or by the bank branch when the customer appears in person. This makes the system foolproof. People living in remote areas and students would benefit the most from this service.

With SBI Freedom, your bills can be paid or money sent to the loved ones or balance inquiries done anytime 24×7. SBI Freedom offers convenience, simple, secure, anytime and anywhere banking.

The limit for daily fund transfers and bill payments is Rs 5,000 and Rs 10,000 respectively. Currently the facility will be available only on Java-enabled mobile phones with GPRS connections. Customers can get the software for the service installed at any of the bank’s branches for free through Bluetooth technology.
The service is presently available on java enabled mobile phones over SMS/ GPRS/ WAP as also non java phones with GPRS connection. The service can be availed over the free GPRS facilities offered by various mobile service providers. The services for other non-Java mobile phones is offered using Unstructured Supplementary Services Data (USSD).

 

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BSNL New 2G New Prepaid Plan for Senior Citizens

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), India’s Govt owned telecom provider has launched new  2G prepaid plan for senior citizen’s (60 years and above) and its applicable to Bsnl kerala telecom circle.

The new 2G prepaid plan will cost Rs 60 which is valid for 30days. It will have a talk time of Rs 20 and call charges will be 1ps/2sec onnet and 1p/sec offnet for the first month. Free 200SMS (local/national) will be offered for first 30 days and from second month onwards 50 SMS per month. One of the main feature includes free talk at 30p/min to any BSNL number within Kerala from 17.00 hrs to 22:00 hrs (all days). There is also special call rate on 5 of the choose numbers at 20ps/min on Bsnl network and 30ps/min on other network.

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