Sci&Tech, Medical and Envirnoment:

India is well ahead of China in the quality of its scientific papers, though it lags in growth in the number of papers
The quality of papers is determined by the number of citations per article:
- For India this has gone by 2 to 2.7 over the past five years for papers from Indian scientists
- On the other hand, articles from Chinese scientists are found to have a citation factor of 2.2.
An analysis of research leadership areas from 2006 to 2010 showed that India was a global leader in 159 research areas, against 130 for the previous five years.
The study had also shown that India had the greatest strength in chemistry: 38 per cent of articles in India's 159 leadership areas fell under the broad category of chemistry.
This was followed by :
- engineering (15 per cent),
- biology and biotechnology (14 per cent),
- mathematics and physics (10 per cent),
- computer science (5 per cent) and
- medical science (4 per cent).
The Bangalore-based Indian Institute of Science continued to lead the table, followed by:
- the Indian Institutes of Technology,
- the laboratories operated by the CSIR, and
- the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre.

E-office project for the Border Security Force (BSF) aimed at providing easy online access to personnel and administrative works.
The Intranet Prahari Project (IPP) has been extended up to 237 locations of the BSF and will benefit about 1.98 lakh personnel of the force.
It has many applications:
- 1.98 lakh personnel's personal information will be available on the system including Salary allowances, tax deductions, leave position etc.
- On the administration side, it will computerise the whole accounts system, the movement and deployment of forces
The introduction of a computer-based system should not mean that papers will continue to be generated.
- “Once records are available in the digital form, that must mean the end of the paper form,''
Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), had a similar proposal for its personnel.

An exceptionally high number — 60 per cent — of the people in the National Capital Region (NCR) are close to obesity and an equal number suffers from hypertension.
A random survey for Body Mass Index, blood sugar and hypertension of the people who visited the India International Trade Fair (IITF) in November last has revealed that the a majority of the people here had not-so-healthy lifestyles and were potentially vulnerable to cardio-vascular diseases.
The government has been for long talking about increasing lifestyle diseases in the country and the data gathered from this survey just about proves it.
Surprisingly, an equal percentage of men and women are obese or racing towards it.
However, a large majority of these could be cured and their blood sugar levels contained by simple measures like regular walks, exercises and avoiding eating foodstuff high on sugar.