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This week news of smart water which traps criminals and Pippin which plays CD Roms on TV on the tech page, secret agent on the computer page and news that stonehenge is 5000 years old on the science page.On the medical page news of superglue for stitching in surgery , vitamin C preventing dementia and why the Aids virus variant in India is extremely dangerous. Please mail us your comments especially if you found the zip files on the newgroups useful. These may be posted once a month .
ukindia are delighted to announce that Saba Ansari who has written for many magazines and newspapers in Pakistan now has her own regular column on ukindia.
Her first article called 'Life in the Slow Lane' written in her own intimate , funny way dealing with family life can be read on the ukindia page.
Please note that like Rakesh - his new articles are on Religious discrimination and on the fantastic 3D exhibition in London later this month - she retains copyright of her materials and her permission should be sought before publication elsewhere.
In the exports section a company from India is looking for customers for its chemical exports . In the services offered astrology consultation is being offered.
On the science page details of why British people are almost in a panic about the loss of the ozone layer over Britain and in uknews report of a highly paid manager who lost his job when he took out a contract on a stray cat ! Also news of the discovery of a highly effective virus killer chemical by an Iraqi scientist who decided to investigfat pomergranates because they are mentioned as a healing fruit in the Quran.
The computer page has news of the postage stamp size IBM 64 Mbyte chip and 1 gbyte removable devices from syquest. The medical page about a new discovery in Friedrich's ataxia from Oxford University.
Links will be added to a usenet page where you can reread all artilces posted in last months usenet groups to catch up with the flame wars you may have missed and to CNN for latest news.
The medical page has news of a cancer vaccine , finding of brain clocks , cure/treatment for diabetes and a theory of why China gives rise to so many flu viruses . Links have been added to Bangladesh sites , to the Ecology and the Beauty page.
Rakesh writes on a talented lady Sitar player and on thoughts on Indian democracy and secularism.
There are some ideas about setting up a singles get together weekends in prominent hotels.
You may save the ukindia page as a bookmark or open it as a local file and then clicking on the links you can go directly to other sites without having to go through ukindia. You can also download all ukindia articles in less than 2 minutes by clicking on the download zip file.
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Help is wanted to set up a software company in a Techno park in India (see exports page) and it is hoped soon to set up a History page . The History of Muslims in India may be the first topic, to be followed by Hindus , Sikhs and others.
Science page with a snippet on the discovery of particles smaller than quarks and technology pages have been updated.In the technology section there is mention of the new Indian satellite the IRS2 now operational with resolution twice as good as US ones and mention also of using software to phone India/Pakistan at local call rates
Link also to Chitralekha the excellent India world movie site.
New letters page set up as well as an Urdu Shairi page. Please contribute to ' Your ideas'. Links to kids pages and to Gopher at Library of Congress have been set up. IRC channels for live talk are being looked at -probably by next week
Jan 22 96
Rakesh Mathur writes on Anwar Sheikh the controversial Pakistani writer, on South Indian Arts and on Asianet. Links added to science magazines and medicine page updated.
Jan 15th 96
Advts have gone in to Asian Times and Eastern Eye to inform people
about this internet publication.
Mr Shamsunder has kicked off the ideas database with some suggestions
on Kashmir.
The manufactureres of the famous Eclipse fashion streetware are
advertising for distributors in Australia. More details on the web.
page.There is a another one for exporters of Jewellery.
Please remember most of the current files can be downloaded as one zip
file saving you a lot of money in phone charges.
We accept small photos in gif format for the friends/matrimonial
section.
A new jokes secion for adults to complement the one for children will
be started as well as a glamour photo of the week.
Most important of all Saba Ansari who won the essay prize will be
publishing a regular soap opera - a kind of diary of incidents in the
family and life.
You can now download all the current files on ukindia-approx 200k- by clicking on the zip file button. Make a new directory on your hard disk called ukindia and save it there as uki.zip . You can then disconnect from the phone and read all the pages at your leisure.The zipped uki.zip file can be unzipped by associating it with pkunzip or winzip (free shareware from most online services -compuserve , america on line etc.) from the file menu. Then open the index file from this directory by file open from the browser file menu .Delete the old directory each week to make room for the new one.
Happy New Year to all.
Rakesh Mathur has started his India Monitor column and writes about the Indian Arts market in the Uk and on Ravi Shankar. 6 Learn to Read Hindi Lessons have been completed. ~Suman Marriage Bureau is advertising female matrimonial ads. Property in India is being advertised.Links have been added to the very popular Indian movie page on Mayajaal and the latest news from India -just 12 hours old can be read on India.net. Weekly hits have reached a record high. Final week for the essay competition . There will be a new essay competition in the New Year. Topic .What I miss about ...(India, Pakistan , Bangladesh, Sri Lanka) . Closing date end of April 96. Max 400 words. Most will be published.Merry Xmas to everybody.Dec 17th 1995
Learn to read Hindi lessons have started and will be continued if they prove to be popular. Please write and tell us. Dr Maharaj has written a very informative article on Hindu Astrology. Rakesh Mathur the noted journalist will be writing a regular arts column. The female matrimonial and jobs wanted pages have started . More businesses for sale. Science and Medicine pages have been updated .Cinema reviews have been extended. If you have a talent for writing do take part in the Essay competition. Closing date is Dec 31 1995 and there is a top prize of £30.
Dec 10th 1995
Cinema listings for more London areas have been added . The India news page has started. 5% discount is offered to Ukindia readers by the Blue Nile Egyptian restaurant.
There are reviews on more movies. There are new science and medical items . Links to the Balti cooking page and to Recipes on Hello India. For medical workers a very useful link is to the virtual hospital with thousands of photographs, movies and text pages which can be downloaded.
Each time a file reaches more than 10k a new one will be started but the previous file , science , medicine , movie reviews etc. will still be accessible until you reach the last page.
There are only 2 weeks left for the essay competition. Send your article -max 400 words now. Ukindia is now averaging well over 1000 hits a week with many editiors reading the page.
This week we have updated science and medicine sections. Some important news about diabetes , so prevalent in Asians . Sheena has more jokes.A Doctors page with ads is being started.
We hope to start a medical advice column . A legal column with advice about bankruptcy and its alternatives should be published. We are looking for somebody to start a woman's page . Any volunteers? If you can write it in htm format -just click on source in your browser to see how easy it is , we could publish it just the way you want it to look.Pictures should be in the gif format in a separate file.
A prize for the best designed web page will soon be offered . Its theme should be relevant to ukindia matters. If you want to send you entry early mail it now. Remember htm format with pictures or cartoons in separate files in gif.