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23.12.2005 India will soon have its first most advanced mobile breast cancer detection unit, thanks to London-based NRI Paul Chawla and his friends British first lady Cherie Blair, Sarah Kennedy (wife of Liberal Democratic chief Charles Kennedy), British MPs Simon Hughes and John Prescott and former minister Baroness Amos.

23.12.2005 It was a regulation satellite launch, but one that signals a great leap for Indian TV broadcasting. Insat 4-A, India's heaviest and most powerful communication satellite, was launched into orbit from the European spaceport of Kourou in French Guiana on Thursday.

23.12.2005 With a view to strengthening media coverage about the role of science and technology in agricultural development, CGIAR, in cooperation with Reuters Foundation, organized a media workshop in Marrakech during December 4-7, 2005.

23.12.2005 The European Commission has issued a Statement of Objections against Microsoft for its failure to comply with certain of its obligations under the March 2004 Commission decision (the “March 2004 Decision”, see IP/04/382).

22.12.2005 The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and Panos London has recently brought out a publication that shares lessons learnt from ICTs and poverty reduction efforts in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. It is edited by Kitty Warnock and Ravi Wickremasinghe, in cooperation with Gerolf Weigel.

21.12.2005 India's laggardness in the international bandwidth segment will act as an impediment to the Indian Government's vision of connecting the last mile. India has only three international bandwidth operators while countries like US and South Korea have 32 and 14 international bandwidth operators respectively.

21.12.2005 The daily newspaper Georgia launched a paper to help develop journalism skills among its youngest readers. Kids Today will be a 12-page, full-color weekly newspaper.