01-15 March 2020 The Asian Independent

8 01-03-2020 to 15-03-2020 ASIA
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CHINESE CLASSICS:
Arts Practice &
the Community New
Exhibition in The Gallery, the Library of
Birmingham 6th March to 31st May
Opening launch and drinks reception
Library of Birmingham, 18.00 – 20.00 pm on 5th March.
Please register if you wish to attend.
A visual arts project exploring the relevance of Chinese classical literature today,
through dialogue and discovery between artists and the Chinese community in
Birmingham, using three pieces of Chinese classical literature:
The Butterfly Lovers (Tang dynasty 618-906)
Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (1740) by Pu Songling
Classic of Mountains and Seas (3rd Century B.C. to the 1st Century A.D.)
Regional and international artists, Frances Yeung, Leah Lovett and Joey Chin, developed
these classics and texts into original artworks, in collaboration with older women,
men aged 40+ and carers from the Chinese Community Centre – Birmingham.
Curated by Dr Rachel Marsden, the exhibition will also include contributions from,
and documentation of, the Chinese community to celebrate their art practice, and references
to Library of Birmingham and Cadbury Research Library collections.
Chinese Classics: Arts Practice & the Community is a partnership project between
the Chinese Community Centre – Birmingham (CCC-B) and Library of Birmingham,
Birmingham City Council, as part of China West Midlands 2020 (CWM2020), supported
by an Arts Council National Lottery Project Grant and Penguin Random House.
UP school clerk turns his house
into exam centre, booked
Deoria : A school clerk in
Uttar Pradesh has been found
using his house as an examination
centre of the state board to
help students cheat in the Class
12 test in Deoria district.
Eleven people have been
arrested in connection with the
case, while the clerk is on the
run.
Police sources said that a raid
at the clerk's home, which is just
some metres away from the private
school where he works,
unearthed several stamped
answer sheets. They are stamped
as a security feature to prevent
cheating. A team of 'test solvers' worked on
stamped answer sheets, which would be
later added to the answer sheets of students,
the police said. When the policemen
entered the clerk's home in a surprise raid,
the 'answer solvers' were seen writing on
the sheets with question papers placed next
to them.
A video taken by the police shows an
inspector asking boys and girls present at
the clerk's home what they were doing and
why they were in the house. One of the
girls can be heard saying, "We are solving
exam papers."
The police said they are in the process of
identifying other school employees
involved. At least two students who
allegedly paid for their test papers to be
Even damaged livers
can handle medicines
for diabetes, BP
solved at the clerk's home have
been identified.
An estimated 56 lakh students
are taking the UP board's Class
10 and Class 12 exams. The state
government has set up a monitoring
unit and the exam centres
have CCTV camera coverage.
The Uttar Pradesh Secondary
Education Board (UPSEB) has
identified 938 centres as "sensitive"
and 395 as "hyper-sensitive",
suggesting that these centres
are vulnerable to such practices.
In a first, the state government
has also launched a Twitter handle
for immediate resolution of complaints
and queries. In addition, helpline numbers
for the control room, e-mail id and toll-free
numbers can be used to register complaints
of anything related to the board examination.
Earlier last month, a school principal
in UP was arrested after he was caught on
camera giving tips to students on cheating
in board exams.
York :
People with diabetes,
hypertension and
depression might be
able to continue taking
life saving medications
in small
doses even while they
heal from druginduced
liver injuries,
suggests new
research. The findings,
published in the
journal Drug
Metabolism and
Disposition, suggests
that doctors need not
always make patients
with drug-induced
liver injury stop taking all their
medications until the liver
healed.
Drug-induced liver injury --
when a person accidentally
harms their liver by taking
medications prescribed by a
doctor (or occasionally over the
counter drugs) -- affects about
almost 1 million people globally.
"Doctors give patients drugs
to treat diseases. No one wants
their liver damaged, but it happens
all the time," said Xiaobo
Zhong from the University of
Connecticut in the US.
When a person takes a medication
by mouth, it goes into
their stomach and then to the
intestines, where it is absorbed
into the blood. This blood, in
turn, passes first through the
liver before reaching the rest of
the body. The liver has
enzymes that break down medicines.
But different people naturally
have more or less of
these enzymes. Sometimes,
what could be a safe and effective
dose in one person is too
much for someone else who has
different enzyme levels.
This is why some individuals
are more vulnerable to liver
damage, even when taking
drugs just as a doctor prescribed.
There is no standard
guidance for doctors when a
patient gets drug-induced liver
damage. Often times they tell
the person to stop taking all
medications immediately and
wait for their liver to recover.
But that can take weeks or
months.
"But if patients have chronic
conditions such as diabetes,
hypertension, or depression,
their conditions can run out of
control," if they stop taking the
Dubai : A Dubai-based
Indian teen, who has released
51 covers and two original
songs on her YouTube channel,
has received over a million
views on one of her compositions
on the videosharing
site, a
media report said.
The 15-year-old
Shirene Sanjay's
first original song,
"Chalte Chalte"
that was released six months
ago, got more than one million
views, Gulf News said in a
report on Friday.
In total, her eponymous
channel has received more than
three million views since its
launch on November 5, 2017.
She has so far released 51
covers and two original songs
on her YouTube channel. A
grade 11 student of Delhi
Private School Dubai, Shirene
sings in English, Hindi and
medications, Zhong said.
And that can be life threatening.
The researchers tested
whether mice whose livers had
been damaged by acetaminophen
(the active ingredient in
Tylenol) had lower levels of
drug metabolising enzymes,
called cytochrome P450
enzymes. The researchers
investigated whether mice with
drug-induced liver damage can
safely take medications for diabetes,
hypertension and depression.
It looks like they can, as
long as the doses are much
smaller than normal, said the
study. Because the damaged
liver does not break down the
medications as efficiently, they
are just as effective at these
lower doses. The team still has
to test whether these results
hold in humans.
Dubai-based Indian
teen's song gets 1mn
YouTube views
Punjabi, her mother tongue.
"My mother has told me that as
a baby, I used to crave two
things-food and music. So,
indeed music has been a fulfilling
element in my life," the
teenager said in an
interview to Gulf
News.
Her first public
performance was at
the Guru Nanank
Darbar Gurudwara
in Dubai's Jebel Ali, following
which she started getting more
appreciation for her vocal talent.
"A lot of encouragement
from my family, especially my
maternal grand mum, inspired
me to start official training in
music. "I would like to be a
playback singer and also do
some shows to get more audience
appreciation," said
Shirene, who admires the
singing talents of Beyonce and
A.R. Rahman.