Can you imagine India without women??

United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government declared Jan 24 as "National Girl Child Day" to raise awareness about sex-selection abortion and female infant abandonment. The date marks the day in 1966 that Indira Gandhi took over as the first woman Prime Minister of India.

Decades arrived and vanished but the sex ratio goes on decreasing. Even now girl child is thrown wrapped in black polythene bags and also doctors conduct ultrasonographic tests to find out the sex of unborn child and to kill female foeticide. As a result United Nations says an estimated 2000 unborn girls are illegally aborted every day in India. This has led to declined sex ratio & situation is more critical in Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat, and Himachal Pradesh as well as in capital New Delhi where a census in 2001 showed that there are less than 800 girls for every 1000 boys.

UPA has declared Jan 24 as National Girl Child Day but real tribute to girl child is to celebrate every day as girl child day, celebrate her identity as equal member of her family, her community, and her country. Let us become a part of great initiative to save girl child. Every girl child has right to live. Women are wealth of this country. Let the girl child bloom otherwise we'll never see great personalities like Kalpana Chawla, Indira Gandhi, Lata Mangeshkar, Sania Mirza, Kiran Bedi and many more who have made us proud in every field.

LG: Electronic paper

LG has revealed the World’s first 19 inch flexible e-paper, that is almost like a traditional paper, as you can turn pages like you do on normal paper, the images remain crisp and text readable while you bend it 180 degrees and you don’t have to discard it daily, thanks to the digital distribution.

The LG 19-inch ePaper Display Prototype is flexible, thin and light, using a metal foil as a skin that also retracts the unit to its original shape. The prototype is a display only, meaning that the unit does not have a built-in processor, input device or storage– meaning that a production version of LG’s ePaper prototype would need added hardware that would add weight and size to this 4.6 ounce, .3mm thick display.

Flexible e-reader devices are not a new technology, as products like the Skiff Reader and others made their debut at CES 2010. The 19-inch ePaper prototype by LG is of a much larger scale, increasing on the 8.5 x 11-inch standard for large e-readers with a flexible 19-inch whopper. We’re not certain if this prototype’s size or its flexibility would bare real value to consumers, or if both could end up as more of an annoyance than a benefit. LG Display hasn’t discussed whether this prototype will end up in a marketed product, but it does suggest that LG has invested some serious capital into e-reader and epaper R&D.

Not much info is available regarding its availability and price but LG plans to mass produce these next generations displays in first half of 2010.