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December 1, 2012 6:11 PM

Revised Tests for Tuberculosis diagnosis approved

The Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme has approved sputum microscopy, X-ray Chest, Solid and Liquid Culture methods and Rapid molecular for diagnosis of Tuberculosis .Earlier in July 2012, as per the World Health Organisation's (WHO) recommendation, the government had imposed a ban on ...

December 1, 2012 2:31 PM

Supreme Court issues guidelines to curb eve teasing

The Supreme has termed the consequences of eve-teasing as disastrous and issued a number of guidelines to curb the menace . A bench of justices K S Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra said all the state governments and Union territories are directed to depute plain-clothes female police officers in the pr...

December 1, 2012 2:12 PM

PMO directs ministries for immediate roll-out of cash transfers

The Prime Minister's Office, PMO, has written to various Ministries and Departments to take immediate steps for operationalisation of direct cash transfers for delivery of services to beneficiaries of social entitlements. The move follows the first meeting of the National Committee on Direct Cash Tr...

December 1, 2012 2:11 PM

Bus catches fire, eight burned to death near Nagpur

In Maharashtra, five people, including two children, were charred to death when a private luxury bus caught fire today at Hinganghat, about 100 kms from Nagpur.According to police, the bus, carrying a marriage party was on its way back to Hinganghat, when the blaze broke out in the vehicle near Jam ...

December 1, 2012 11:19 AM

Bus catches fire, five burned to death near Nagpur

In Maharashtra, five people, including two children, were charred to death when a private luxury bus caught fire today at Hinganghat, about 100 kms from Nagpur.According to police, the bus, carrying a marriage party was on its way back to Hinganghat, when the blaze broke out in the vehicle near Jam ...

December 1, 2012 10:35 AM

I&B Minister congratulates director for bagging 'Golden Peacock Award'

Union Information & Broadcasting Minister, Manish Tewari has congratulated the debutant director of Punjabi film 'Anhey Ghorey Da Daan', Gurvinder Singh, for bagging the coveted Golden Peacock Award at the 43rd International Film Festival of India (IFFI) 2012 in Panaji, yesterday. Based on the P...

December 1, 2012 10:13 AM

Partner treatment cuts HIV transmission

Researchers in China have found. that treating people with HIV, who have uninfected partners significantly reduces transmission rates. A clinical trial had shown benefits of antiretroviral (ARV) treatment before. But this trial, reported in the Lancet is the first real-life public health programme o...

December 1, 2012 10:02 AM

President urges elected representatives to be accountabe

President Pranab Mukherjee made an appeal to elected representatives to have an accountability to serve for better causes rather than resorting to disruptive practices which can hinder the growth of a healthy democracy. In his special address on the occasion of Diamond Jubilee Celebrations of the Ta...

November 30, 2012 9:00 PM

Extortion case: 2 Zee News editors sent to 14 days judicial custody

Two senior editors of Zee News, arrested on charges of trying to extort 100 crore rupees from Congress MP, Naveen Jindal's firm, were today sent to judicial custody for 14 days by a Delhi court.Metropolitan Magistrate Gaurav Rao sent Zee News head Sudhir Chaudhary and Zee Business Editor Samir ...

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