The digital map also facilitates companies to register and get their locations plotted on the map. Currently, over 1,000 job opportunities for a variety of skills are shown available throughout New York City.

“New York City is the place to be if you’re a growing tech startup,” said Bloomberg.

“Our tech companies are looking for talent, and we want to make sure that everyone — no matter where they live today — knows about these jobs and is able to apply for them.”

The release of the digital map is part of the activities at Internet Week New York, a citywide festival showcasing the city’s leadership in digital culture and commerce. This year, more than 45,000 people are expected to attend over 225 panels, conferences and exhibits taking place across the city from May 14 to 21.

The digital map also comes on the heels of the New Tech City Report from the city’s think tank Center for an Urban Future, which reveals that New York City has surpassed Boston to become the nation’s No.2 tech hub — outranked only by Silicon Valley.

“We have no interest in controlling the Internet. But, as a polity, it is but natural that we sit and decide where we draw the line,” he added. He noted in this context that a meeting of all stakeholders is planned for June to discuss the issue threadbare.

Menon also saw humour in the situation.

“Getting the entire government on one page is a task in itself,” he said.

Communications and Information Technology Minister Kapil Sibal had last December asked Internet firms to screen derogatory and defamatory content on religious figures and political leaders, saying this hurt the religious sentiments of people and were even viewed as insulting and obscene.

“We will evolve guidelines. Give us a little time. We do not want to stop anyone, but we cannot allow this type of content,” Sibal had said. This evoked a storm of protest on the very sites – like Twitter and Facebook – that Sibal was targeting.

The results show that only 10 percent of the population use toothpaste in the most effective way. “Swedes generally do brush their teeth, but mostly because of social norms and to feel fresh rather than to prevent tooth decay,” says Gabre, report the Swedish Dental Journal and Community Dental Oral Epidemiology.

People could improve their oral health considerably by learning how to maximise the effect of fluoride toothpaste, according to Gabre. Nevertheless, the study shows that 80 percent are generally happy with how they take care of their teeth, according to a Gothenburg statement.

“Most of the interviewed subjects learned to brush their teeth as children, by their parents. Even if they have been informed about more effective techniques later in life, they continue to brush their teeth like they always have,” says Gabre.

Allowing the plea of Unmukt Chand, a former Under-19 team captain and Ranji Trophy player, the court directed the university to allow him to appear for the economics paper Tuesday and other papers scheduled for May 17.

Justice Sanghi, however, directed the university not to declare his result till the final disposal of his petition by the court.

Chand alleged that the university had taken an arbitrary decision not to issue him admit card to sit for the examination, since he had got admission last year on sports quota and the sportspersons get relaxation in their attendance.

In his petition, Chand said he had been busy with various cricket matches, including the IPL matches, and so was not able to attend the classes.

He pleaded that he was not able to appear in two papers earlier due the IPL matches but since he was in Delhi Tuesday, he wanted to appear in his economics examination.

“Only one flight Delhi-Hong Kong-Seoul was cancelled. We have also brought in Airbus family of aircraft like A320, A321 and A330 to be used on international routes.”

The airline is only operating eight of its 17 Boeing 777 aircraft which are operated by the striking pilots belonging to Indian Pilots Guild (IPG).

The carrier’s low-cost international wing, Air India Express, cancelled four flights. The ongoing strike and subsequent flight cancellations by the airline have disrupted holiday and other travel plans of hundreds of people.

The airline has lost more than Rs.175 crore in the last eight days due to a grounded fleet, ticket cancellations and unused labour.

“The total loss in the week is around Rs.175 crore. We have faced ticket cancellation, unused labour and a bulk of our 777s fleet being grounded,” said the official.

The development comes a day after Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh assured the striking pilots that all their grievances will be addressed and asked them to resume duties, saying they have a responsibility toward the passengers and the country.

“I request pilots to come back to work and then all their issues can be discussed. I appeal to all the parties to request the pilots to come back to work, so that passengers will not be troubled and that Air India will be saved,” Singh said while replying to a debate in the Lok Sabha on the civil aviation sector and Air India.

“They (pilots) have made four demands including the exclusive rights to operate Boeing 787. I request to them to first come back to work… they are privileged and they provide very important service.”

The four demands mentioned by Singh from the pilots union Indian Pilots Guild (IPG) include exclusive flying right on Boeing 787, payment of arrears from 2007 onwards, travel on first class when not working and the right to be promoted as commanders within six years.

“We can discuss these demands. But is it fair to go on a strike, for not being allowed to fly first class? They are well-paid and they have earned this. With great power comes great responsibility and their responsibility right now should be towards the passengers and the nation.”

Earlier, the members of the house including Gurudas Dasgupta of Communist Party of India (CPI), Basudeb Acharia of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and members from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) appealed to the pilots and minister to work out a solution to end the strike.

Trouble started for the airline May 8 when pilot-members of the IPG took mass sick leave protesting the move to provide Boeing-787 Dreamliner training to pilots from the erstwhile Indian Airlines.

The pilots had earlier said they were open to talks. But the government has not till now accepted the offer, saying there would be no negotiations till the pilots returned to work. The airline has also moved petitions in the Supreme Court and the Delhi High Court.

The apex court will hear the petition along with special leave petition (SLP) filed earlier by the Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA), the union of erstwhile Indian Airlines pilots. Air India and Indian Airlines were officially merged into a single corporate entity on Feb 27, 2011.

This will be a step toward the “coherent and comprehensive cyber security policy” that the report calls for, he added.

Menon noted in this context that while the National Technical Research Organisation is tasked to deal with protecting India’s critical security cyber infrastructure, institutions like CERT-IN (Computer Emergency Response Team-India) “have proved their worth during events like the 2010 Commonwealth Games when a staggering 8,000 cyber attacks were warded off.

“We are making a beginning in putting in place a system of certification and responsibility for telecommunication equipment and are working on procedures and protocols which will rationalize communication interception and monitoring,” he said.

Simultaneously, “we need to harden our critical networks. And, we will develop metrices to certify and assure that our critical cyber networks, equipment and infrastructure are secure”, he added.

He pointed out the need to “create a climate and environment within which security is built into our cyber and communications working methods”.

All this had to be more than just a “whole-of-government” effort, Menon said.

“It must include the entire scientific and technological strength of the country, whether in laboratories, universities or in our private sector firms,” Menon said.

Hoping that the report “will also bring some reason and proportion” into the discussion on cyber security, he said: “There is invariably a hullabaloo when one of our websites is hacked. But websites are meant to be hit.

“Their success is measured by how many people access or hit them. So when a website is defaced by hackers, as happened to the CBI website, it is not necessarily a security breach though it might hurt one’s pride.”

At the same time, Menon admitted that one reason for public concern and anxiety “is the anarchic nature of the domain of cyber space, glimpses of which naturally cause alarm.

“When this is combined with the potential effects of malicious attacks and disruptions in the cyber world upon such basic social necessities as power supplies, banking, railways, air traffic control, it is only natural that people should worry about cyber security,” he added.

Menon also called for a sea change in the method of dealing with cyber war as “conflict or attacks in the cyber world do not follow the rules or logic of war as understood so far in other domains.

“In this new domain of contention war, espionage, surveillance, control and the traditional security functions, activities and crime occur but differ from those in traditional domains.

“Here we have to unlearn some of the lessons we learnt earlier. Traditional deterrence hardly works in a battle-space like the cyber world, where operations and attack occur almost at the speed of light.

“At these speeds, there is a premium on attacking first, or offense,” he said.

The 95-page report, put together by a 10-member team headed by cyber expert Nitin Desai, suggests, among others, that the home ministry be made the nodal agency for dealing with cyber crime and the National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) should coordinate the efforts to protect the country’s critical infrastructure.

It also speaks of the need for establishing a Cyber Coordination Centre staffed by personnel from the relevant operational agencies, raising a Cyber Command and building up offensive capabilities and raising Cyber Territorial Army battalions which can provide “surge capability” to bolster India’s resources during critical periods or in hostilities.

“We are monitoring the situation and informing the passengers in advance.”

Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh had Sunday regretted the move by the government to merge the erstwhile Indian Airlines and Air India and had said there should have been due diligence.

Trouble started for the airline May 8 when pilots belonging to Indian Pilots Guild (IPG) took mass sick leave protesting the move to provide Boeing-787 Dreamliner training to pilots from the erstwhile Indian Airlines.

The plane was flying from Pokhara, a major tourist destination, to Jomsom, a distance of about 60 km.

The Indian Embassy here said that of the 18 passengers, 16 were Indians.

“Six people have been rescued alive from the crash out of which three are Indian nationals. These include Tirumala Kidambi Sreekanth, Tirumala Kidambi Sreevardhini (9) and Tirumala Kidambi Sreepada (6), who are currently undergoing treatment at Manipal Hospital, Pokhara. The other 13 Indians are feared to be dead,” it said in a press release.

Laxmi Raj Sharma, a district official, said that 15 bodies had been recovered.

Pilot Prabhu Sharan Pathak and co-pilot J.D. Maharjan were among the dead. The other victims are Indians who were on a pilgrimage to the famous Muktinath temple, sacred to both Hindus and Buddhists.

According to myrepublica.com., the Indians killed in the crash were K. Mamanya, S.K. Arora, M. Handa, M. Arora, R. Handa, K. Arora, T. Sachdev, G. Sachdev, Sanaim Sudhar, G. Raman, and Latha Echambade. Also dead were two passengers identified only as Mr. Kumar and Mrs. Kumar.

A photograph showed one of the Danish nationals being helped by two security personnel and the distraught airhostess being carried on a stretcher.

The Jomsom airport, with the airstrip carved out of the mountain, is about 200 km northwest of the Nepalese capital Kathmandu. The pilot, experts said, have to manoeuvre skillfully to land the plane in the treacherous mountain area.

The plane had taken off from Pokhara airport at 9.30 a.m. and crashed 15 minutes later on a cliff, while it was about to return to Pokhara following a technical glitch, Yogendra Kunwar, assistant manager at the traffic control room in Pokhara airport, was quoted as saying.

Deputy Inspector General of Police Gynanedra Singh Bhandari said the plane crashed behind the army barracks, enabling a quick rescue operation.

Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai expressed sorrow over the death of 15 people in the crash and hoped for early recovery of the injured.

India’s External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna said he was “deeply saddened”.

“I would like to convey my deep condolences to the families of all those who have lost their lives in this accident.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of all those who have lost their near and dear ones. I hope that the Almighty will grant them strength to bear their loss with fortitude,” Krishna added.

Jomsom is the capital and administration headquarters of Mustang district, which stretches from the Tibetan border to Ghasa along the Kali Gandaki river.

The tragedy was a reminder of the Sep 25, 2011 crash in which all 19 people, mostly Indian tourists, were killed after a small plane carrying them crashed close to capital city Kathmandu.

Agni Air, which began operations March 16, 2006 with one Dornier Do-228 aircraft, is now operating six aircraft, three Dornier-228 Aircrafts built in German and three Jetstream-41 built in Britain to various domestic sectors, its website said.

Monday’s crash took place just two years after another Agni Air plane went down.

On Aug 24, 2010, a 15-seater Dornier aircraft flown by the airline towards the Everest region with 11 passengers, including four American women, experienced equipment failure and went off the radar. It plunged minutes later in Shikharpur, a remote village in Makwanpur district adjacent to the Kathmandu valley.

Researchers, however, not only identify the ways to reduce this carbon footprint but also suggest how food industry could reduce emissions by seeking more efficient ways to use fertilisers.

For instance, halving the amount of chicken consumed in the UK and other developed countries to levels eaten in Japan could cut greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to taking 10 million cars off the road, the journal Nature Climate Change reports.

“Eating less meat and wasting less food can play a big part in helping to keep a lid on greenhouse gas emissions as the world’s population increases,” said David Reay from Edinburgh’s School of GeoSciences, who led the study, according to an Edinburgh statement.

Figures show that if average chicken consumption in developed countries fell from the current level of 26 kg each annually to the Japanese average of about 12 kg each by 2020, global emissions from poultry would fall below current levels, despite increased output from the developing world.

This would cut the predicted global output of nitrous oxide, a key greenhouse gas, from this source by almost 20 percent, based on current growth rates. Demand for food, particularly meat, is expected to increase over the next few decades as the world’s population continues to grow and emerging countries consume more.

Agriculture is the biggest source of nitrous oxide, a powerful greenhouse gas that is emitted by soil and fertilisers. Producing meat causes more emissions than growing crops, as large amounts of cereals are grown to feed livestock.

Researchers arrived at their findings by examining data for global agricultural production of greenhouse gases together with consumption of food in various regions of the world. The study was carried out in collaboration with the University of Aberdeen and partners in Europe and the US.

The state government has spent Rs.2.30 crore for setting up virtual classrooms in these ITIs, he said.

Chief Minister Oommen Chandy will Thursday inaugurate the new facility at the Women’s ITI at Kozhikode.

“Through this facility, all the 34 ITIs will get a huge value addition. They will get connected to the latest technological developments across the globe, besides have an opportunity to listen to lectures by experts. We will also run a special soft skill course using this facility,” said John, an engineer turned politician.

A new job website will also be launched for the nearly 47,000 ITI students in the state.

“All job aspirants can register for free and post their resumes, which will be linked to the state-owned Overseas Development and Employment Promotion Consultants. This will enable the employers to hire qualified hands,” said John.

Kerala in the early ’70s launched the ITIs in the country, bringing technical education to the doorsteps of the under-privileged.