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Sacred Heart School to get warning
Mumbai Newsline After its south zone sub-inspectors submitted a report confirming corporal punishment, the education department has decided to issue Sacred Heart School, Worli, a warning. The department will also direct the school principal to issue a memo to the two … Corporal punishment: Girl’s parents move HC for actionDaily News & Analysis |
PakistanToday.com.pkWorldwide cancer incidence predicted to rise by 75% by 2030PakistanToday.com.pkCountries with a higher HDI (such as Australia, Brazil, Russia and the United Kingdom) have higher rates of cancers associated with smoking (lung cancer)…
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As families fail to fulfill body donors‘ pledge, govt to step in by amending law
Indian Express With the number of such cases rising and the growing scarcity of donor bodies in medical colleges for the students to learn about Anatomy, the government has decided to be more strict and amend the Transplantation of Human Organ Act, 2011 by making it … |
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Foreign Risks Light Up for Philip Morris
Wall Street Journal (blog) Decades of advertising bans, excise-tax increases and public-education campaigns have cut adults’ per capita cigarette consumption from a peak of 4,345 in 1963 to less than a quarter of that, according to the American Lung Association. Adding insult to … |
Dead businessman gives new lease of life to 7Times of IndiaOfficials at the state-run Jeevandan, the comprehensive scheme envisaged to streamline organ donation programme in the state, said so far five livers and nine kidneys were retrieved and transpl…
Telegraph.co.ukGlaxo Plans More Restructuring as Profit SinksWall Street JournalLike many of its rivals, Glaxo has turned to emerging markets in search of growth, such as India and Nigeria, where it recently gained more control over its subsidiaries. T…
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Learn to prevent
The Hindu Over 2.5 million cases of cancer are being treated every year in India. As per the International agency for Research on Cancer ( IARC ) – WHO report, around 5.5 lakh people die of cancer every year. Men in India most commonly suffer from cancers lung … |
NetIndianBCCI institutes MAK Pataudi Memorial LectureNetIndianThe Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has instituted an annual lecture as a tribute to former Indian cricket captain Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, one of the greatest legends of the ga…
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BarcelonawillnotrushthingswithAbidal,saysZubizarreta
Goal.com India The French defender underwent a liver transplant in April 2012, and has not featured for the Blaugrana since, but was recently declared fit to make a comeback. “The aim of the process is for Abidal to play again. We don’t want to rush things. We’ll … |
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The Padma awardees from the medical field
India.Com Health Dr Gulshan Rai Khatri from Delhi monitored India’s TB programme from 1996-2002, and the treatment success rates rose from 26 per cent to over 80 per cent and the death rate went down to 5 per cent, preventing millions from getting TB infections. He is … |