IMPLICATIONS OF WIFI ON AIR INDIA AIRCRAFT

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEislEW472nGByXbTdu6Sbrq9mfN3BvW23Ao76fiWhwH9M4NrDTbrWEwjky76pwztppJAT25LG1HmDystmYGBnVF5GtehCnHtVNGm6aTRz25IYpX9Wti_oVo-zWbWqqsxVdZGDeL18Q67SM/s1600/03de20292c5536e9c630169fd42ed082_ls.jpg" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px 0px;"> Air India finally did something to make us sit up and take notice. They announced that they would provide wi-fi facilities to people on board their aircraft. This is great, but we don't think they've thought through some of the funnier consequences of their decision. Here are some examples:</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px 0px;"> <span style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">1. Neighbours will become less irritating:</strong></span> That old aunty who talks about her back problem, that fat man who takes over half your seat in addition to his own - all of them can be vanquished by one simple medicine - WhatsApp.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px 0px;"> <span style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">2. Less babies will get bad wishes:</strong></span> Every person who ever wants to sleep on an aircraft is always greeted by a baby with magnificent lungs and a bad mood, and all such people spend the entire flight wishing for bad things to happen to the baby. But now, with Facebook available as a distraction, crying babies won't even be noticed.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px 0px;"> <span style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">3. The lack of in-flight entertainment won't matter:</strong></span> Air India has everything except on-demand movies on seats, but with WiFi, it won't matter any more. Everyone will just switch on their torrents together.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px 0px;"> <span style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">4. Corporate workers will be even more harassed:</strong></span> Conference calls. Urgent emails. Powerpoint slides. Excel models. All these were once not expected from an employee on a flight. No more. With WiFi, Air India has essentially transported your boss on the seat next to you.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px 0px;"> <span style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">5. There will be no more queues once the flight stops:</strong></span> In India, we queue up in the aisles 10 minutes before the flight doors open, so that we can feel that our normal life, with smartphones and Facebook and Twitter, is closer to us. After internet on planes, our life will be in our hands the whole time. The in-flight attendants will have to pull people out of seats.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px 0px;"> <span style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">6. People will start flying for the free WiFi:</strong></span> We in India do crazy things to get free WiFi. We sit in coffeeshops for hours, buying coffees that we don’t need or want. We sit in public places and try desperately to crack the insecure passwords. Basically, WiFi is, for us, a red rag to a bull, and we will do anything to get it. Even if it involves paying thousands of rupees for a flight ticket.</div>

IMPLICATIONS OF WIFI ON AIR INDIA AIRCRAFT

Air India finally did something to make us sit up and take notice. They announced that they would provide wi-fi facilities to people on board their aircraft. This is great, but we don't think they've…

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Indian Medical Association demands ban on use of antibiotics for growth promotion in poultry

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHjzepK2eI37HBzSP6oADfcgNhisoHhAqfV1KEzKKjFNtUv_s_9kgtGw78TyxUogT6F29kNcOV8wdK0BInGbk5mAJnk4FR2GS3CjW55tOFwcoPQhS8KwrB9bNt55lf684dRlAfxT_ksJE/s1600/255601-chicken-dna.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHjzepK2eI37HBzSP6oADfcgNhisoHhAqfV1KEzKKjFNtUv_s_9kgtGw78TyxUogT6F29kNcOV8wdK0BInGbk5mAJnk4FR2GS3CjW55tOFwcoPQhS8KwrB9bNt55lf684dRlAfxT_ksJE/s1600/255601-chicken-dna.jpg" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans', helvetica, arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans', helvetica, arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;"> A day after an environment body said that "large-scale and indiscriminate" use of antibiotics in poultry industry might be "strongly linked" to growing antibiotic resistance in Indians, Indian Medical Association (IMS) today called for a ban on use of antibiotics for growth promotion and mass disease prevention in poultry.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans', helvetica, arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;"> It should only be used to cure the sick based on prescription of veterinarians, the medical body said.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans', helvetica, arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;"> "Antibiotics should not be allowed in feed and feed supplement. The government should set standards for animal feed, regulate the business. Antibiotics that are critical for humans should not be allowed for use in animals," said Narendra Saini, Secretary General of IMA.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans', helvetica, arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;"> "Further, stringent control on import of antibiotics and feed supplements should be implemented. There should be a stringent act on the same," Saini said.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans', helvetica, arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;"> The IMA also stressed on the promotion of vaccination against infectious diseases and demanded proper monitoring and surveillance of antibiotics supplied to the chemists. "Lack of data on the use of antibiotics and drug resistance is a major problem in India. It is necessary to create an integrated surveillance system to monitor antibiotics use and antibiotics resistance trends in humans, animals and food chain. A national-level database should be developed and kept in the public domain," said Saini.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans', helvetica, arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;"> "Governments worldwide are adopting regulations to control the use of antibiotics. But only those countries have shown signs of improvement that have taken stringent actions. European countries were the first ones to ban penicillin, streptomycin and tetracyclines as feed additives in the 1970s," he said.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans', helvetica, arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;"> The <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2731f5; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px;">Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) had on Thursday claimed that it found several antibiotic residues in chickens</strong><span style="color: #2731f5;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box;"><b> </b></span></span>tested in Delhi-NCR region. It had said that "large-scale and indiscriminate" use of antibiotics in poultry industry might be "strongly linked" to growing antibiotic resistance in Indians.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans', helvetica, arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;"> The CSE also sought implementation of a comprehensive set of regulations including banning of antibiotic use as growth promoters in the poultry industry as it puts lives of people at risk.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans', helvetica, arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;"> It said 70 chicken samples from Delhi-NCR region were tested for six commonly used antibiotics during a recent study. While 40% tested positive, residues of more than one antibiotic were found in 17% samples. </div>

Indian Medical Association demands ban on use of antibiotics for growth promotion in poultry

A day after an environment body said that "large-scale and indiscriminate" use of antibiotics in poultry industry might be "strongly linked" to growing antibiotic resistance in Indians, Indian Medica…

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