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The government's main AIDS prevention agency has filed an affidavit in the Delhi High Court, supporting a request by an AIDS activist group to scrap the law.

The National AIDS Control Organization, part of India's Health Ministry, argued in the affidavit filed last week that the 1861 law creates a public health risk.

"So long as the gay community is forced to go underground, it limits the access to them and makes it difficult for the AIDS prevention campaign to reach them," Sujatha Rao, who heads the AIDS Control Organization, also known as NACO, told The Associated Press.

I hope this law gets scrapped. This is covered under the Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) of 1860.

"of unnatural offences: Who ever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal shall be punished with imprisonment for life or imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to 10 years and shall also be liable to fine.

Nokia ports apache to Symbian , the name of the project is "Raccoon". The phone can serve as a web server. Check out their concept demos. I especially liked their Access to Core Data. They suggest "Mount a read-write view of the /Apache directory using WebDAV and edit your webpages directly.". Nice. Now I have to get my hands on a 6630 asap - just so that I can have a webserver running on it

Do you want to come work for Yahoo! Bangalore ? Our team is looking for one more team member. A major benefit for coming to work with us will be that you get to hang out with me and people who are 10 times cooler than me . Besides that, we know all the good bars and restaurants in Bangalore.

In addition to the stuff listed in Desired Skills , it will be great if you have the following qualifications

• Know all the pubs in Bangalore
• You are a good table tennis or foosball or pool player
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Technical Lead for Media Ops

Introduction:

Media Systems Engineering (Media Ops) is the engineering and operations team in Media. Team does varied tasks, which includes architecture review, performance analysis, troubleshooting. Each member is will be doing varied tasks from on-call to performance analyst, systems engineering to capacity planning, architect to tool development. A tech lead is expected to drive individual projects which may involve members from within and outside the team.

Qualification:

B.Tech/MCA or equivalent with good experience in UNIX

Required Skills:

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Desired skills:

• Experience in Mysql/Oracle
• Programming in c/c++

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• Take up periodic on-call