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Indian security forces arrested two senior Muslim leaders in Occupied Kashmir and enforced a strict curfew on Monday to prevent locals from holding a pro-independence rally... To read the full story go here .

Dawn reports, What began as a dispute over land for Hindu pilgrims visiting a shrine in Kashmir snowballed into full-scale anti-India protests this month, boosting separatists who want India's only Muslim-majority region to secede... Police have killed at least 23 Muslim protesters and more than 500 have been injured in clashes in two weeks of demonstrations in Kashmir Valley. Protests were halted for three days, until Friday, to allow Kashmiris to stock up on rations... Read the full story here

It is a totally different way of celebrating Independence Day outside of home. Uzer sent a very optimistic email that i would like to link to here . On the flip side Hussain had a link that was equally interesting. Must reads.

I have achieved another milestone in the process of settling down here. After having bought and driven my car without a MN License for a while i completed the process of acquiring a new license today. I had already passed my written component of the test earlier but just today i took my driving test. It was the usual 15 minute affair and then the feedback up until when i felt i had failed the test and will have to come back another day. But surprisingly i passed and have been issued a MN driver's license. The driving test station was about 25 miles from the place where i live and i had no appointment for the test. Luckily there weren't many people to take the test and i was done by 11 am. Unlike Junaid and others who had to wait for more than four hours to take the test i had to wait for about an hour. The issuance of the license is important in bringing down my car insurance which at the moment is unbearably high. Once the insurance goes down i will be able to manage m...

I have been up and awake for almost 18 hours now. I did one of my better shifts in the ED last night. By the time I was done there was no transport to take me back hom eso I had to sit and wait in the resident lounge. Tried to sleep the time off but it gets kind of difficult to go to sleep in all the lights around you. Missed the first bus and had to sit and wait for the next one for 40 minutes. Anyways I am here to talk about the kind devil in disguise that I have had to learn to operate and handle in the last 3 weeks. It is the all encompassing health care management system used in our hospital and in most of the hospitals in the US, with paperless working. It is essentially a programme that keeps track of everything that goes on with the patient and the related entities from every health care provider's point of view. When a patient comes to the hospital he/she comes in contact with a diverse number of providers. There are the doctors, there are the nurses, there are the...

As sensational as this title might seem to many it is just another term that doctors have to come across very often in this day of overwhelming technology. It is something that clutters your EPIC inbox but you can't do anything about. But the title of the folder "Delinquent Encounters" is dreadful enough to have prompted an inquiry from my, otherwise lazy, brain. I think that it if there is a true link between typing and CTS then all doctors who are looking to make money in their lifetime should opt for a speciality that gives them ample training in recognizing and treating this ailment. It will be little wonder to see almost 99% of the doctor population afflicted with CTS in about 20 years from now. The amount of typing that I do every day today surpasses the total amount of typing that i might have done in my lifetime. Damn you EPIC!