Nolte ties for fourth in Kolkata.
KOLKATA, India - With his first GM norm already in the bag, IM Rolando Nolte agreed to a draw with fifth seed GM Chanda Sandipan (ELO 2593) of India in 42 moves of the Sicilian Najdorf to finish in a seven-way tie for fourth in the third Kolkata Open...

Nolte earns first grandmaster norm.
KOLKATA, India -- Mission accomplished for IM Rolando Nolte. Nolte outduelled GM AlRakid Abdullah of Bangladesh in the ninth and penultimate round to assure himself of his first GM norm with still one full round left in the 2008 Kolkata Open GM chess tournament here. ...

Nolte boosts GM bid after draw.
International Master Rolando Nolte strengthened his GM title bid after salvaging another huge draw against Russian GM Vladimir Dobrov of Russia in the fourth round of 3rd Kolkata Open International Grandmasters Chess Tournament yesterday in Kolkata, India. Nolte notched three points on account of two wins and...

Phage typing, biotyping & antimicrobial resistance profile of Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi from Kolkata.
Background & objectives: Kolkata and its suburbs in eastern India are known to he endemic for typhoid fever. The objective of this study was to determine phage types, biotypes and antimicrobial resistance patterns of Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi isolated during the period 2003-2005 from a prospective surveillance for typhoid...

Southern exposure: highlighting the work of artists and photographers from the Majority World.
Sumi is a sex worker in Kolkata (Calcutta), India. She works and sleeps in this little room, under the charge of her landlady, Fatima, and she has to pay for her own upkeep. As one of the younger women, she is also treated as little more than a slave...

The year in flames.
Selected effigy burnings in 2007: George Bush, Delhi, India, 12 January Wong Kan Seng, Bangkok, Thailand, 29 January Tony Blair, Delhi, India, 31 January Lady Maslenitsa, Suzdal, Russia, 18 February Kim Jong-il, Seoul, South Korea, 28 February ...

Event of the month.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 8 December, 2.30pm Horrible Geography (CHILDREN'S CHRISTMAS LECTURE, LONDON) Anita Ganeri is the author of the amazingly successful Horrible Geography series, which now comprises 12 titles covering all aspects of geography, from weather and climate to hydrology. The latest...

Imipenem-resistance among multi-drug resistant clinical strains in urinary infections from Kolkata.
Sir, Imipenem (N-formimidiyl thienamycin), a carbapenem, is a semisynthetic derivative of thienamycin produced by Streptomyces cattleya. It exerts its bactericidal action by inhibiting cell wall synthesis in aerobic and anaerobic Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. Imipenem shows strong affinity for penicillin binding protein of Escherichia coli and selected...

Mayor Lim visits Missionaries of Charity in Sta. Cruz.
Byline: ROY C. MABASA Showing his respect for the old, Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim yesterday visited the Missionaries of Charity of Mother Teresa on Tayuman St., Sta. Cruz to reaffirm to the nuns and its other residents the importance of their mission in helping the...

Working among the poorest of the poor: a nursing lecturer and a nursing student--a mother and daughter--share their experiences of time spent last December and January doing volunteer work in Thailand and in India with the Missionaries of Charity, the religious order founded by Mother Teresa.
The Missionaries of Charity run a home for abandoned children with HIV/AIDS in a very poor rural village in north western Thailand. We worked there as volunteers with the sisters for three weeks, followed by four weeks in the Home for the Dying Destitute in Kolkata (Calcutta) India. This...