Over 2.1 million children below 15 years are living with HIV globally, most of them infected before their birth, during delivery or while being breastfed. While around 4.2 lakh children were newly infected in 2007, an estimated 2.9 lakh children under 15 years died from AIDS the same year. Young people, aged 15-24, accounted for about 40% of new HIV infections in 2007.

People are not good at making immediate sacrifices for an abstract benefit in the future, especially when they have a hard time understanding the problem John Tierney Everyone talks about the future weather, but so far nobody has done much about it, not even the many people and politicians convinced that climate change will be a serious problem. This situation comes as no surprise to the behavioural researchers who have been studying the human brain's penchant for making dumb choices.

The Consumers International (CI) battle against marketing of unhealthy food to children has gathered support from domestic groups as well. The London-based CI is an independent consumer network with over 220 member organisations in 115 countries. Ahmedabad's Consumer Education and Research Centre (CERC) and Chennai's Consumers Association of India have joined CI's international research on the subject. Other than these, participating organisations are from the Philippines, Fiji, Malaysia and Korea.

Fresh from bagging the coveted Jaguar and Land Rover brands, Tata Motors now has plans to setup a greenfield facility in Thailand to manufacture

With two proposed overland transnational pipelines through Pakistan caught in geopolitical knots, fresh efforts have been launched to revive a longburied plan of establishing an international energy lifeline under the Arabian Sea to feed gas to India's fuel-guzzling economy from West Asia.

Any New Global Warming Pact Should Include Aviation To Curb Emissions, Say Green Groups Bangkok: Air travel is booming as the world's population grows and fares fall, but its impact on Earth's sensitive climate must be taken into account in any new global warming pact, green groups say. More than 900 delegates flew into Bangkok this week for a UN-led meeting on global warming, spewing about 4,181 tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, an official from the United Nations climate body estimated.

Scientists have found important genetic differences between people that may help explain why some smokers get lung cancer and others do not. Three teams from France, Iceland and the United States said on Wednesday that they had pinpointed a region of the genome containing genes that can put smokers at even greater risk of contracting the killer disease. In all three studies, nicotine appears a major culprit.

Turbulent trends may continue on the Indian bourses despite Wednesday's 124-point gain in the sensex, analysts said after the Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke acknowledged that US economy may contract in the first half of the year.

Asian growth is expected to cool in 2008, as the region grapples with a global downturn and soaring inflation expected to hit decadehigh levels, the Asian Development Bank said. Fast-rising rice and oil prices as well as a worldwide slowdown will have a strong impact, the Manila-based ADB said in its annual outlook report for the economies of the region excluding Japan. But while it said it expected 7.6% growth in 2008 and 7.8% in 2009

The aviation ministry has

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