Durgesh Nandan Jha TNN 

New Delhi: Students at IIT-Delhi have been falling ill. The reason, they claim, is the contaminated water in their hostels, which has resulted in many coming down with typhoid. College authorities, however, deny the charge. Surender Prasad, director IIT-D, said that though some cases of typhoid and gastroenteritis have been reported, there is no outbreak of typhoid.

Dear friends,

As usual, we were caught on the dilemma of whether to support this movement & before we could move an inch, it comes to an end - a 'happy' ending, luckily.

Washington: Scientists have shed a new light on a century-long question on why given sufficient forward speed, a bicycle pushed sideways, will not fall over. The TU Delft team, in collaboration with scientists from Cornell University, centred on the following intriguing question: why is a bicycle self stable, above a certain speed? You add speed to a bike and can then give it a sideways push without it falling over. 

Akshaya Mukul | TNN

From: Satish Jha satish.jha@gmail.com

Thank you for introducing this new incarnation of NRIs. I haven't met them overseas so far. You must have special privileges to shake hands with them!