Gaganjeet Bhullar clinched the Venetian Macau Open title.

This is Bhullar’s fourth Asian Tour title following wins in 2009 Indonesia President Invitational, the 2010 Asian Tour International, Thailand and the 2012 Yeangder Tournament Players’ Championship, Chinese Taipei.

It African giant pouched rat which is capable of identifying positive samples of pulmonary tuberculosis. the rodent is a member of the Muroidea rodent super family that includes hamsters, gerbils, mice and the common kitchen rat.

After training, the rodents can detect a distinctive odor in just 200^th of a second  and are already saving lives in Tanzania. During trials, these rats have shown improved detection rates by up to 23 %. A trained human laboratory technician can screen about 40 samples a day using a microscope; a pouched rat can screen those many samples in seven minutes, and 1680 samples a day.Studies are on to use trained animals such as dogs, bees and now, rats, to detect “biomarkers” that indicate illnesses. Rats are also being used to detect landmines in Tanzania, Mozambique and Thailand.

GE Healthcare in a partnership with Fortis Healthcare launched eICU or electronic Intensive Care Unit facility –Critinext.

Critinext - The fusion of Critical Care Skills, Technology, and Imagination & Compassion is a solution to provide “Intensive Care beyond Boundaries”  

Why it is launched?

• There is huge void in the number of ICUs and trained personnel and specialist required to serve country’s need. Besides, the cost of availing ICU facility is also big. In such a scenario, eICU can give some relief by providing ersatz solution to the problem.

What will it do?

• eICU- Critinext equipment is wired to the devices in the local hospital’s ICU, ventilator pumps, patient monitors and the local health information system, if any. All the relevant data regarding the particular patient will be sent to the Central Command Centre, where specialists offer expert advice.
• The CritiNext eICU enables a remote hospital to provide advanced consultation, care and monitoring to their critically ill in-patients without having to physically transfer them to super-specialty hospitals.
• A teleICU technology.

Arabic language was officially included in the list of the Languages at Pope Benedict’s weekly general audiences. The move is an attempt of Vatican to expand its reach to Christians and Muslims in Middle East.  
Vatican is concerned about the mass departure of the Christians from Middle East who fear their safety over there. A century ago Christian community was 20 % of the total population which has declined to a 5%.

What is expected out of this step?

• Speaking Arabic during the audiences that is broadcasted across the world on radio and television may allay fear of Christians in Middle East consoling them to stay back on the land that is a home for many of the holy places for Christians.
• The act is also likely to improve the strained relations with the Muslim world.
• The relations b/w both the communities turned sour after Pope’s speech at Regensburg in 2006, which made the Muslim world feel that his message was an attack on Islam.

Monisha Kaltenborn of Indian origin became the First Woman Team Principal in Formula one after taking the hold of team Sauber, a swiss Formula one team.
Monisha took the place of Peter Sauber, the founder of the Sauber team, who stepped down from the position.