Delhi will have the country’s first museum on news – Newseum!
‘This is a first of its kind initiative. It is a unique idea. The Newseum, as we are calling it, will be on display from Monday,’ Banwari Lal, director of the Delhi Public Library (DPL), told IANS.
The initiative is part of the DPL’s 60th [...]
An increasing number of paramilitary troopers deployed on hilly terrain develop weak knees with around 70 percent of them requiring surgery.
Doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) said they get nearly 25 cases of such patients every month from the Border Security Force (BSF), the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and the [...]
Uttarakhand has set up 31 temporary hospitals and trained at least 150 doctors to check any swine flu outbreak during Kumbh Mela, one of the largest religious congregations in the world that begins Jan 14.
‘The central government has already inspected the arrangements. They have also given us a truckload of masks for tackling swine flu [...]
Those who work for long hours on computers become victims of weak backs and shoulders, an affliction that doctors believe has multiplied over the years.
‘Gurgaon is an IT hub and the problem is definitely severe here. I have seen a nearly 10 fold increase in the number of shoulder and back ache patients. They are [...]
An increasing number of computer professionals in and around the national capital have become victims of weak backs and shoulders, a problem that doctors believe has multiplied recently.
‘Gurgaon is an IT hub and the problem is definitely severe here. I have seen a nearly 10 fold increase in the number of shoulder and back ache [...]
New Delhi, Jan 4 (IANS) A Rolls-Royce from Baroda palace, a Buick 35 of the royals of Ayodhya and a Cadillac 52 from the former rulers of Tehri Garwal are among the 77 vintage cars and bikes that will flaunt their old-world glory at the Auto Expo starting here Tuesday.
‘The royal carriers will give [...]
New Delhi, Jan 3 (IANS) Nearly 25,000 British doctors of Indian origin are set to return to India within two to four years and some of them are ‘most likely to join the seven AIIMS-like institutions’ proposed to be set up by the central government.
‘There are around 15,000 young Indian-origin doctors undergoing training in different [...]
New Delhi, Dec 29 (IANS) Jamia Millia Islamia is trying to shed the widely perceived ’superior madrassa’ tag, says Vice Chancellor Najeeb Jung, asserting that his job is to position the 90-year-old university as a modern, secular institution of learning for one and all.
‘We are not a superior madrassa. I don’t know why many people [...]
New Delhi, Dec 25 (IANS) ‘Tsunami…perhaps it is the most devastating word of my life,’ said epidemiologist Manoj Das, flipping through photographs of his wife and daughter. ‘I went to tame malaria in the Andamans but lost my family.’
Sitting at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) guest house here, the 49-year-old said of [...]
New Delhi, Dec 25 (IANS) Impressed by the growing healthcare infrastructure and quality of doctors in this country, Mauritius is seeking India’s help to boost its medical tourism industry and has invited Indian healthcare majors to invest in the island nation. Two hospital chains have already responded.
‘India is a growing power in the field of [...]
New Delhi, Dec 20 (IANS) Polio, HIV and malaria plagued the country as usual, but what really challenged India’s public health was a new virus – H1N1 – that caused swine flu. With the mercury dipping, the toll rising and no sign of any indigenous vaccine, the contagious disease seems here to stay.
Here are [...]
New Delhi, Dec 20 (IANS) The vice-chancellor of one of India’s leading institutes of Sanskrit learning based here has got his fourth extension, reigniting charges that he has stayed on in the post too long.
Brushing aside a plethora of charges against him, the human resource development (HRD) ministry last month extended the tenure of Vachaspati [...]
New Delhi, Dec 16 (IANS) It was a year of reform in the field of education. From the laudable Right to Education Act to controversial faculty quota in IITs and IIMs, the education sector remained a headline hogger across India. As the curtains come down on 2009, IANS revisits some of the major events:
Budget [...]
New Delhi, Dec 14 (IANS) Hundreds of hermits and yoga gurus will be taught about the proper practice of hand washing and other necessary medical precautions to control the spread of swine flu during the upcoming Kumbh Mela.
‘We will take the help of these hermits. First we will train them and then take their help [...]
New Delhi, Dec 8 (IANS) An indigenous swine flu vaccine is far from ready but India has given the green signal to two foreign pharmaceutical giants to begin human trials of their vaccine in the country.
‘GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Baxter have received approval from the drug controller of India to carry out human trials in India. [...]
New Delhi, Dec 3 (IANS) Guess who is getting lessons from the premier Indian School of Business (ISB)? Indian ambassadors who are learning ‘economic diplomacy’ to promote their country abroad.
With the country growing as a global power, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has roped in the ISB to teach the top diplomats how to [...]
Hyderabad, Nov 30 (IANS) Ignorance is bliss and this adage perhaps best suits a group of children in Andhra Pradesh who want to make it big by becoming doctors, engineers, pilots or even cricketers like ‘captain Dhoni’. But they are all HIV positive and don’t know about it.
Y. Sanju, a Class 4 student in a [...]
Hyderabad, Nov 30 (IANS) Ignorance is bliss and this adage perhaps best suits a group of children in Andhra Pradesh who want to make it big by becoming doctors, engineers, pilots or even cricketers like ‘captain Dhoni’. But they are all HIV positive and don’t know about it.
Y. Sanju, a Class 4 student in a [...]
New Delhi, Oct 18 (IANS) The government is to carry out HIV tests on four-week-old and above babies of all AIDS patients – a significant decision aimed at reducing infant mortality due to the killer disease and improve child health conditions.
‘Early diagnosis of HIV among kids will lead to early treatment. This will benefit the [...]
New Delhi, Oct 15 (IANS) Will Delhi be able to green itself in time for the 2010 Commonwealth Games? With barely 11 months to go for the opening ceremony, there are no visible signs of the promised ‘Green Games’.
The ground reality is that construction work is far from over at many stadiums and unless the [...]
New Delhi, Oct 9 (IANS) Passing AIDS from mother to child is a human rights violation and soon all pregnant women in India will have to undergo a mandatory HIV test, the parliamentary forum on HIV and AIDS said Friday.
‘We want a HIV free generation. We are for testing all pregnant women for HIV so [...]
Warangal (Andhra Pradesh), Sep 29 (IANS) After serving as a premier engineering school for 50 years, the National Institute of Technology (NIT)-Warangal is set to become a full-fledged university that will offer a host of courses, including medicine, law as well as postgraduate degrees in humanities and business economics.
‘The aim is to become a university [...]
New Delhi, Sep 24 (IANS) Even as gay activism grows in India and some slowly find the courage to come out of the closet, many from the community – especially the well educated and well heeled in the cities – are opting for expensive sex change procedures, say doctors.
‘You may ask why, but it is [...]
