Employment News Paper 16 July 2013

Employment News Paper 16 July 2013

Telegram service comes to an end

The 163-year old telegram service in the country - the indication of good and bad news for generations of Indians – comes to an end.

India's last telegram went out late Sunday, marking the end of a service that provided millions of Indians with a fast and reliable mode of communication.

Hundreds of people thronged the 75 telegraph offices remaining in the country Sunday to send their last telegrams to friends or family as a keepsake.

Nudged out by technology SMS, emails, mobile phones the iconic service gradually faded into oblivion with less and less people taking recourse to it.

State-run telecom firm BSNL had decided to discontinue telegrams following a huge shortfall in revenue.

Telecom and IT Minister Kapil Sibal had said last month that "We will bid it a very warm farewell and may be the last telegram sent should be a museum piece. That's the way in which we can bid it a warm farewell."

There are about 75 telegram centres in the country, with less than 1,000 employees to manage them.

BSNL will absorb these employees and deploy them to manage mobile services, landline telephony and broadband services.

Started in 1850 on an experimental basis between Koklata and Diamond Harbour, it was opened for use by the British East India Company the following year.

In 1854, the service was made available to the public. 

It was such an important mode of communication in those days that revolutionaries fighting for the country's independence used to cut the telegram lines to stop the British from communicating.

Scientists Discovered MRI Scan To Detect Cancer Using Sugar

Scientists from University College London (UCL) have discovered a technique called ‘glucose chemical exchange saturation transfer (glucoCEST) ‘ a new way of detecting cancer by giving patients an injection of sugar before doing an MRI scan (magnetic resonance imaging).

The researchers found that when sensitizing an MRI scanner to recognize glucose, tumors appeared as bright images on the MRI scans of mice. 

The tumors can be detected using the same amount of sugar found in half a standard chocolate bar.

France and Switzerland Signed New Inheritance Tax Agreement

France and Switzerland have signed an agreement on inheritance tax as part of an amended double taxation agreement. Paris hopes will help it bring in more money.

Under the agreement inheritances would be taxed based on where the recipient resides, not where the deceased lived, as used to be the case.

Moin Khan appointed Pakistan chief selector

The Pakistan Cricket Board on Monday opted for a younger chief selector when it appointed former captain Moin Khan after the sudden resignation of Iqbal Qasim last month.

Moin, 41, is the youngest person to be named to the chief selector’s post by the board.

The former wicketkeeper-batsman, who played 69 Tests and 219 one-day internationals, said it as a big challenge about his new assignment.

Iran Secret Nuclear Site Discovered By MEK

Paris based militant group organisation of the People’s Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) has discovered credible evidence of a secret new nuclear site, gathered over a year by 50 sources in various parts of the regime.

The codename of the project is ‘Ma’adan-e Sharq’ (literally ‘the mine of the east’) or ‘Project Kossar’.This site is hidden in a series of tunnels under a mountain near the town of Damavand.

The Paris-based militant group MEK alleges that the site has existed since 2006, with the first series of subterranean tunnels and four external depots recently completed.