Standing as the most densely populated city in the world, New Delhi has plenty of public health issues to deal with on a constant basis. But now health officials have some very urgent matters to deal with: new strains of super-bacteria, the most destructive of which contain the gene dubbed NDM-1 and are resistant to 15 widely used antibiotics. More »
Well, this is bad. OpenStreetMap, the Wikipedia of world maps, has been vandalised , with someone deliberately screwing up its data. Worse, the offending IP addresses seem to be coming from a set belonging to Google India. Be careful where you drive. Updated with official Google statement. More »
Nidar Singh is the last known master of shastar vidya, a form of Sikh martial arts that involves lots of spinning blades flying around at the same time. It’s seriously impressive — and seriously endangered, unless Singh gets help. More »
Heading to the ATM to pick up some quick cash is just another part of life here in the West. But how do you introduce that part of the banking experience into developing nations? Why, with biometrics, of course. More »
That’s the delightful view of the ‘culture instructor’ at an Indian IT call centre group. A Mother Jones reporter recently went behind the scenes, and discovered that apparently, “the average Australian’s mobile would be no better than, say, a Nokia 3110 classic.” More »
As a show of gratitude for donating $US5000 worth of water pumps, a remote Indian village changed their name to Snapdeal.com, mirroring that of their Groupon-esque benefactor. Wait, wait, wait. Huh? More »
Not only is The Musalman written by hand – at a time when printed newspapers are dying like sick lepers – it’s produced by a team of only four scribes. And it’s not just handwritten – it’s transcribed in calligraphy. These people work. Hard. More »
