AIEEE results out

New Delhi (PTI): The Central Board of Secondary Education on Tuesday announced the results for the All India Engineering/Architecture Entrance Examination (AIEEE).

The results are available on CBSE's website, www.cbse.nic.in and www.aieee.nic.in, an official release said.

Students qualifying the entrance examination would be eligible for admission in various National Institutes of Technology, Indian Institutes of Information Technology and Deemed Universities. The entrance was conducted on April 27 at 1299 centres in 75 cities across the country and abroad.

This year 7,92,752 candidates had appeared for the AIEEE-2008, the release said.

Source: hindu.com

eMule

eMule is a peer-to-peer file sharing application for Microsoft Windows. Started in May 2002 as an alternative to eDonkey2000, eMule now connects to both the eDonkey network and the Kad network. The distinguishing features of eMule are the direct exchange of sources between client nodes, fast recovery of corrupted downloads, and the use of a credit system to reward frequent uploaders. Furthermore, eMule transmits data in zlib-compressed form to save bandwidth.

eMule is coded in Microsoft Visual C++ using the Microsoft Foundation Classes. Since July 2002 eMule has been free software, released under the GNU General Public License; its popularity has led to eMule's codebase being used as the basis of a Linux-specific client, xMule, and a multiplatform client, aMule, along with the release of many eMule mods (modifications of the original eMule) on the Internet.

eMule

eMule 0.49a
Design by Merkur
Developed by eMule-Team
Latest release 0.49a (0.49.0.23) / May 11, 2008 (2008-05-11); 23 days ago
OS Microsoft Windows
Available in Multilingual (52)
Development status Current/Active
Genre Peer-to-peer file sharing
License GNU General Public License
Website www.emule-project.net


Source: wikipedia.org

RGUHS results out

Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) on Monday announced the results of postgraduate examination for MD Paediatrics, DCH and MDS Pedodontics conducted in April/May 2008. Details like marks secured in each subject, class obtained, result and names of colleges are available on www.rguhs.ac.in

Source: The Times Of India

Eat more insects, scientists say

Eating insects such as wasps and grasshoppers has health benefits and should be encouraged in the Western diet, scientists have said.

The bugs are rich in protein and some minerals and are lower in cholesterol than beef or pork.

Research carried out at the National Autonomous University of Mexico found that 1,700 species are eaten in at least 113 countries across the world, usually as a substitute for meat.

In Mexico, grasshoppers are sold by the pound in markets and fried before being eaten while the larvae of giant butterfly sell for the equivalent of £12.50-a-plate in some restaurants.

Colombians eat ants, which they grind and spread on bread, and termites while Filipinos are partial to grasshoppers, crickets and locusts.

In Papua New Guinea, moths, dragonflies and beetles are popular when boiled or roasted over an open fire and the late Emperor Hirohito of Japan's favourite dish was wasps with rice.

Grasshoppers have 20 grams of protein and just 6 g of fat per 100g while fire ants have 13.9g of protein and 3.5g of fat. Crickets are sources of iron, zinc and calcium.

Eating insects also keep puts less strain on the environment because cultivating insects requires forest to be preserved rather than felled.

David George Gordon, a Seattle-based naturalist and author, says: "Insects are the most valuable, underused and delicious animals in the world.

"Maybe we in the West are the weirdos."

In February, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation staged a special conference on the benefits of eating insects - known as entomophagy.

Patrick Durst of the FAO admitted that Westerners will take some persuading before tucking in to insects.

"We're not going to convince Europeans and Americans to go out in big numbers and start eating insects."

But he held out hope that insects would catch on with the more adventurous, especially if they "don't have to look the bug in the eye as they're eating it."

Source: telegraph.co.uk