Amitabh Bachchan is WHO’s goodwill ambassador for hepatitis
MUMBAI: To check the spread of the hepatitis epidemic, the World Health Organisation(WHO) on Friday appointed actor Amitabh Bachchan as its goodwill ambassador for hepatitis in the South-East Asia region. The actor (74) was diagnosed with hepatitis B infection during a routine health scan in... read more »
Two killed in Pak shelling along LoC in Rajouri district
This is third ceasefire violation along Indo-Pak border in J&K in past three days. Two persons were killed and three injured when Pakistani army fired mortar bombs and automatic weapons along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district on Saturday. It is the third... read more »
Delhi: 17-year-old girl found living in house filled with garbage, rescued
When the neighbours heard the girl crying Sunday, they grew suspicious and called the police. A 17-year-old girl, whose parents have been fighting a legal battle over maintenance, has been living alone in a flat filled with garbage in east Delhi’s Mandawli area for the past three months, police... read more »
NEET physics tough, tricky: Medical aspirants
UMBAI: For most of the 11.35 lakh candidates who appeared for the National Eligibilitycum-Entrance Test (NEET) across the country on Sunday for admissions to medical and dental colleges, physics was a tough paper to crack. Several students also found the paper lengthy and claimed that a few... read more »
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