Biotechnology Will Be Bigger Than IT Sector says Sam Pitroda, Advisor to Prime Minister, Govt. of India.

Sam Pitroda, advisor to the prime minister on public information infrastructure and innovation, Wednesday hailed Biotechnology as being "pervasive" and said the sector has the capacity to be bigger than IT.

"Biotech could be bigger than IT (Information Technology) in terms of Export," he said.

"(With Biotech) we can expedite the process of development in Pharmaceuticals, Environment, Processes and many other things,"

Pitroda said at an event marking the launch of the first phase of a plan developed by the Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), which aims to foster innovation and techno-entrepreneurship in Indian universities.

The initiative, in collaboration with the Biotechnology industry, leverages the University Innovation Cluster (UIC) and Cluster Innovation Centre (CIC) model recommended by the National Innovation Council (NIC).

The UIC model seeks to build an innovation network with multiple stakeholders and CICs, identify and forge partnerships with institutions of interest, further facilitating the innovation culture.

Under the initiative, an innovation centre in Biotechnology hosted in the university will be the nerve centre to manage the UIC activities.

As part of the project, five Indian universities - Anna University, Chennai; Punjab University, Chandigarh; Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore; University of Rajasthan, Jaipur and University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad - have been chosen to participate in the first phase.

"Each university is a leader in Biotechnology, who has got the right connections with the industry. So, we will set up a pre-incubation centre there which will act as the nerve centre for budding student entrepreneurs," a member of the team said.

The cluster innovation centre in Biotechnology will give students technology mentoring, along with mentoring in entrepreneurship development and support in new venture creation.

"We call it a cluster because these universities will network with all other institutes and industries in the region," she said.

The initiative, which intends to create a industry ready workforce, is mainly meant for selected post-masters and post-doctoral student entrepreneurs.

10 Reasons To Avoid Instant Noodles

Instant noodles have become a favorite food that is often eaten daily. Because of its yummy taste and extremely easy to make, replaces the proper healthy meals. Beside this dangers are too often eating instant noodles. Here we list top 10 Reasons why should we avoid instant noodles.

1. Nutrient Absorption : 
Noodles inhibit the absorption of nutrients for the children under 5.

2. Cancer Causing :
The ingredient in the instant noodles called “Styrofoam’, which is a cancer causing agent.

3. Miscarriage :
Women who are Eating instant noodles during their pregnancy causes miscarriage, because it affect the development of a foetus.

4. Junk Food :
Instant noodles are enriched with full of carbohydrates, but no vitamins, fiber and minerals. This makes the instant noodles considered as a junk food.

5. Sodium :
Instant noodles are power packed with high amounts of sodium. Excess consumption of sodium leads to heart disease, stroke, hypertension and kidney damage.

6. MSG :
Monosodium Glutamate is used to enhance the flavor of instant noodles. People who are allergic to MSG consume it as part of their diet, then they end up suffering from headaches, facial flushing, pain, burning sensations.

7. Overweight :
Eating Noodles is the leading cause of obesity. Noodles contains fat and large amounts of sodium, which causes water retention in the body and surely it leads to overweight.

8. Digestion :
Instant noodles are bad for digestive system. Regular consumption of instant noodles causes irregular bowl movements and bloating.

9. Propylene Glycol :
The ingredient in the instant noodles called “Propylene Glycol” which has a anti-freeze property. This ingredient is used because it prevents the noodles from drying by retaining moisture. It weakens the immune system of our body. It is easily absorbed by the body and it accumulates in the kidneys, heart and liver. It causes abnormalities and damage to those areas.

10. Metabolism :
Regular consumption of instant noodles affect the body’s metabolism, because of the chemical substances like additives, coloring and preservatives inside the noodles.

10 Interesting Facts About The Internet

1. Most famous social networking website Facebook founded by Mark Zuckerberg has more than 1,110 millions registered user as of March 31 2013. I hardly know anyone who does not have Facebook account.

2. A news website contains as much information as a person of the 18th century could learn. According to the researcher Marting Gilbert from university of Southern California, 18th century person could master no more than 50 books in a lifetime.
Whereas today, an average person is able to absorb the information stored in 600 000 books.

3. United States is the largest country on Facebook, India standing 3rd. Croatia is the fastest growing Facebook country over past week.

4. Hong kong is the worlds fastest internet place. It has blazing fast internet, an average peak speed of 54.1 megabits per seconds. At this speed you can download HD movie in about 4 minutes.

5. Search engine giant Google can handle 35 billion queries in a month.

6. Every 8th couple of today met online through internet.

7. The first electronic smiley appeared in 1979 when Kevin McKenzie tried expressing his emotion by electronic means. The very first electronic look like -) then 3 years later Scott Fahlman added colon “:)-” and it took form :) - as we use to do now a days.

8. Today 81% of emails are spam.

9. For the year 2012, China accounted for 41% of the world’s attack traffic during the fourth quarter of 2012 making China top source of cyber assaults.

10. All Internet is 4 exabytes of information. By the way, 1 exabyte = 1000 petabytes; 1 petabyte = 1000 terabytes; 1 terrabyte = 1000 gigabytes. Each year, this amount is doubled.