Monday, 1 April 2013

PMO to RTI activist: How is this info useful to you?

PMO to RTI activist: How is this info useful to you?

PMO to RTI activist: How is this info useful to you?

Despite order from the FAA and as per the requirement of the RTI Act to put in public domain disclosures and record management, the CPIO of the PMO refused to provide information. Instead, he said the applicant failed to show how the information was ...
Rajkot swine flu update: 50 people dead, one more succumbs

Rajkot swine flu update: 50 people dead, one more succumbs

Swine flu has claimed yet another victim, this time in Amreli of the Saurashtra region. According to official records, the 50-year-old woman from Gahada, of Bhavnagar district was admitted to the Amreli civil hospital, a few days ago. Doctors suspected Swine flu ...
A doctor

A doctor's arrest in Chennai provokes anger, protests

Chennai: A section of doctors in Chennai have announced a protest demonstration on April 6 to protest the arrest of a 70-year-old doctor a few days ago. Dr Karunanidhi was arrested on March 28 after he stopped a police sub-inspector from entering the ...
Men these days more open to commitment than women

Men these days more open to commitment than women

TELL US: Who is more afraid of commitment? LOVE, actually, he's just that into you. Furthermore, to all the single ladies, it sounds like you are now the ones using the old "It's not you, it's me" line. According to survey findings, women are more ...
Eating in front of TV can make you put on weight

Eating in front of TV can make you put on weight

Eating while watching television or working at a desk could lead to excess weight gain, according to a new study, because people are not aware of how much they have eaten. By contrast, researchers found that remembering previous meals that were ...
Teen with Down syndrome becomes first ever to reach Mt. Everest base camp

Teen with Down syndrome becomes first ever to reach Mt. Everest base camp

One teenager has made history by being the first child with Down syndrome to climb to Mt. Everest's base camp. Eli Reimer, a 16-year-old from Bend, Ore., hiked 70 miles to Everest's South Base Camp in Nepal with a team of eight other people, including his ...
Key evidence in Jacintha Saldanha case handed over to hoax call station

Key evidence in Jacintha Saldanha case handed over to hoax call station

Key evidence in the death of Indian-origin nurse Jacintha Saldanha has been handed over to the legal team representing the Australian radio station behind the hoax call that apparently lead to her suicide. Saldanha, 46, had been found hanging days after ...
No sign of human transmission in new bird flu appearance: WHO

No sign of human transmission in new bird flu appearance: WHO

BEIJING | Mon Apr 1, 2013 9:45am EDT. BEIJING (Reuters) - The World Health Organization says no evidence has emerged to show that a type of bird flu which has killed two Chinese men can be transmitted between people. Two men in Shanghai, aged 87 ...
Chicken pox vaccine effective over long term, Kaiser study finds

Chicken pox vaccine effective over long term, Kaiser study finds

Once upon a time, not too terribly long ago, getting the chicken pox was practically a rite of passage for kids. But now, nearly 20 years after approval of a vaccine for the varicella virus, which causes the itchy illness, chicken pox is a rarity. A new study ...