Women banned from using mobile phones in Bihar

A village panchayat in Bihar has prohibited women from using mobile phones and imposed heavy fines on them if they violated the diktat, an official said Monday.

 

The self-styled social reformers of Sunderbadi village panchayat in Kochadham block of Kishanganj district on Sunday issued the orders banning women from using mobiles, a district official said.

“The villagers have issued an order to impose a fine of Rs 10,000 if a girl is found using a mobile phone, while a married woman will have to pay a fine of Rs 2,000 if found talking on a mobile outside her house,” the official said... AndhraReporter

Stop touching your face to avoid flu: Study

Something as innocuous as touching your face could infect you with flu, especially after your hands brush with contaminated surfaces, according to a study.

"There are many opportunities in between hand-washing episodes for people to re-contaminate their hands. If a deadly respiratory virus is around, this is something to really take into account," said Wladimir Alonso, from the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, who led the study, according to Daily Mail.

Alonso and colleagues picked 249 people to observe in public places on the Washington D.C. subway and in Florianopolis, Brazil, the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases reports.

They found that people touched common objects an average of 3.3 times per hour and their faces 3.6 times per hour. "We are therefore likely to get germs on our hands far more quickly than they are washed off," Alonso said... Read More