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Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates denied media reports that he had made any promise in the field of IT sector during his visit to Amethi, the Lok Sabha constituency of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. Gates said on Wednesday that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation had accorded priority to help contain and eradicate infectious diseases and [...]
A Libyan plane arriving from South Africa disintegrated on landing at Tripoli airport on Wednesday, killing 103 people but leaving an eight-year-old boy as the sole miracle survivor, officials said. An official in The Hague said 61 Dutch citizens were killed while Libyan Transport Minister Mohammed Ali Zidan listed “Libyans, Africans and Europeans” among the [...]
People will be given pills to live healthily beyond 100 within TWO YEARS, a top professor revealed on Tuesday, reports The Sun. The drugs – a spin-off from research into age-related illnesses such as Alzheimer’s – are already being developed. Professor Nir Barzilai, one of the world’s leading experts on ageing, said as he joined [...]
Rajneesh Lakhanpal The Punjab and Haryana High Court has appointed nearly 100 lawyers as mediators at 18 mediation and conciliation centres across Punjab and Haryana. These lawyers will replace judges, who were earlier heading these mediation centres from over one year. The move is to bring down heavy pendency of cases and encouraging parties to [...]
Patiala, May 11 Umesh DewanNaib tehsildar Harnek Singh Mukhmailpur, brother of former minister and SAD leader Ajaib Singh Mukhmailpur, has been suspended with immediate effect in a fraudulent land deal case. Orders in this regard were issued by Patiala Divisional Commissioner GS Grewal today. Harnek has been accused of ignoring revenue laws in a registry [...]
Krishna and his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi spoke to each other on telephone on Tuesday The minister hoped the discussions would help bring their two countries establish cordiality in bilateral ties The conversation between Krishna and Qureshi took place twelve days after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met his Pakistani counterpart Yousaf Raza Gilani [...]
The trial of Pakistani-Canadian terror suspect Tahawwur Rana, charged with involvement in the Mumbai attacks, is expected to begin on November 1, with a US district court judge here saying on Tuesday in Chicago that the process should start “sooner than later.” During Rana’s status hearing in the district court, Judge Harry Leinenweber set November [...]
Suspended IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi on Tuesday received four documentary ‘proofs’ of his alleged wrongdoings from the BCCI, which said it could not offer other evidences since those were of verbal nature. Modi’s lawyer Mehmood S Abdi told reporters after receiving the documents from the BCCI headquarters that out of 10 references in the show [...]
Government on Tuesday said Ajmal Amir Kasab, who has been sentenced to death in the Mumbai terror attacks case, may be hanged in a year. “I don’t think it (execution of Kasab’s sentence) should take more than one year…after all, these are the days of fast tracking cases…,” Union Law Minister M Veerappa Moily told [...]
-ਜਗਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਦਰਦੀ ਪੰਜਾਬ ਵਿਚ ਵੱਡੀ ਗਿਣਤੀ ਵਿਚ ਬੱਚੇ ਖੂਨ ਦੀ ਕਮੀ ਦਾ ਸ਼ਿਕਾਰ ਹਨ। ਇਹ ਗਿਣਤੀ 90 ਫੀਸਦੀ ਬਣਦੀ ਹੈ। ਇਸ ਸਬੰਧ ਵਿਚ ਰਾਜਿੰਦਰਾ ਹਸਪਤਾਲ ਅਤੇ ਮੈਡੀਕਲ ਕਾਲਜ ਪਿਛਲੇ ਡੇਢ ਸਾਲ ਦੌਰਾਨ ਇਕ ਵਿਸ਼ੇਸ਼ ਸਰਵੇਖਣ ਕੀਤਾ ਸੀ। ਇਹ ਜੋ ਅੰਕੜੇ ਹਨ, ਉਹ ਕਾਫੀ ਚਿੰਤਾਜਨਕ ਹਨ, ਜਿਹਨਾਂ ਤੋਂ ਪੰਜਾਬ ਦੇ ਬੱਚਿਆਂ ਦੀ ਸਿਹਤ ਦਾ ਪਤਾ [...]
