Thursday 23 January 2014

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[www.keralites.net] Reserve Bank of India puts 2005 as expiry date on currency notes to curb fake money

 

Reserve Bank of India puts 2005 as expiry date on currency notes to curb fake money

In what is seen as a two-pronged strategy to tackle fake currency notes in the system and black money, the RBI on Wednesday said it will withdraw all currency notes issued before 2005 from April 1, 2014.

People who have notes from 2005 or before identifiable by the absence of any year printed on the bottom, will have to take it to any bank and provide address proof, if you don't have a bank account.

This will mean that those who have not declared their accumulated cash will now become accountable. If they don't get it changed.

There is no likelihood of there being any huge cache of such notes because it would have been exchanged for fresh notes in the last ten years. If such notes without any year printed looks crisp and neat it is likely that they are fake. Also it is impossible to change these notes through hawala since such notes have lost value. All avenues of encashing these notes are blocked now.

Yet, the government is likely to mop up substantial amount of black money or make them vanish once and for all, since people who have huge stacks of such cash are likely to surrender them at a discount.

Most of those who have such stash will sell it at a 10% to 15 %discount to a large number of people in small amounts. These individuals will go and get new currency issued.

For example, a black money hoarder will take `3,000 and give `300 as commissions to various individuals for the services. These individuals will get it changed at no risk and make a killing in the process.


 

  

 

 

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[www.keralites.net] Fwd: Giant rats put noses to work on Mozambique?s landmines

 

Giant rats put noses to work on Mozambique's landmines 

 

Giant Trained Rats Clearing Mozambique's Landmine Fields At Incredible Speed

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Giant rats put noses to work on Mozambique's landmines
- Giant rats put noses to work on Mozambique's landmines (Guardian, jan 22, 2014):
Landmine-detecting rats weigh as much as a domestic cat and are light enough to cross terrain without triggering explosives
A small army of landmine-detecting rats is to be redeployed in Mozambique in a push to meet a deadline to have the country declared free of mines this year.
Belgian non-governmental organisation Apopo trains African giant pouched rats to sniff out the explosives in landmines by conditioning them to associate the scent with rewards of food.
The rodents, which weigh about as much as a small domestic cat, are light enough to move over terrain without setting off the mines. They are followed by a team of mine-removal experts with metal detectors.
Last year, Apopo received international funding of $4.5m (£2.7m) from various donors and cleared 618 acres of mined land in Mozambique. This year it is redeploying 78 rats to continue the work.
Eradicating landmines from the country this year would mean Mozambique would fulfil its obligations under the Ottawa treaty, an agreement it signed in 1997 and which came into effect in March 1999. Signatories were required to clear all mines from their land within 10 years, but Mozambique was given a five-year extension in 2009. In December, the country requested a further 10-month extension, which would allow it to complete the work by New Year's Eve 2014.
Tesfazghi Tewelde, manager of Apopo's mine-clearance programme in Mozambique, says he hopes the country will meet this latest deadline, since there is only an area the size of 1,400 football pitches left to clear.
MDG : A baby giant African pouch rat is handled by its trainer
Rat's all, folks: the giant rodents can check 200 square metres of land for mines in just 30 minutes. Photograph: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images
Mozambique is in a strong position to complete the demining operation, he says, thanks largely to the country's National Institute for Demining, which co-ordinates the efforts of several mine-clearing organisations.
Mozambique experienced 16 years of civil war between 1977 and 1992. Although the fighting has stopped, the tens of thousands of landmines left behind continue to claim lives.
"Although the number of accidents drops as we get closer to the end, where there are landmines, the threat is real as people are still being killed or maimed," Tewelde says.
Apopo has discovered and safely destroyed nearly 2,500 landmines in the country as well as more than 14,000 pieces of unexploded ordnance, small arms and ammunition, and returned approximately 2,001 acres to local communities.
MDG : A rat sniffs out landmines in Mozambique
An Apopo-trained rat sniffs for landmines in Inhambane, Mozambique. The country aims to be free from mines this year. Photograph: Pedro Sa Da Bandeira/EPA
"The target is not the number of landmines, rather it is to clear the contaminated area and give back to the people," Tewelde says. "Whether [landmines] are few or many, the threat is the same."
The rats undergo nine months of training, learning to sniff out the explosives in old landmines buried underground. They scratch the ground to alert their handlers to mines.
The rodents are quick learners and easy to work with, according to Alson Majanzota, leader of one of Apopo's rat handling teams. The animals can check 200sq m of land for mines in 30 minutes; a human armed with a metal detector could take up to three days to do the same job, he adds.
Rats have also been shown to be able to detect tuberculosis, and have been trained to do so in Tanzania.

 

 

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[www.keralites.net] Why are Cancer drugs so costly ? Herceptin was first marketed in India for Rs.1.2 lakh per vial

 
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[www.keralites.net] SIMON THE CAT [5 Attachments]

 
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