Selling yoga to India The Independent | Whatever might be said of the yoga master Swami Ramdev, one cannot accuse him of being dull. Clad from head to foot in orange robes, his early morning television show pulls in 20 million viewers in India alone, and there are the usual video and summer camp spin-offs, as well as the more unusual on...
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Unusual rise in jaundice cases this season The Times Of India | 20 Jul 2008, 0552 hrs IST, Pankaj Shah & Shailvee Sharda,TNN LUCKNOW: The unusual heavy rains and persistent clouds might bring in a perceptible change in the disease pattern in Uttar Pradesh this season. | Instead of the usual cases of Japanese encephalit...
Selling yoga to India The Independent | Whatever might be said of the yoga master Swami Ramdev, one cannot accuse him of being dull. Clad from head to foot in orange robes, his early morning television show pulls in 20 million viewers in India alone, and there are the usual video and sum...
From '09, 1-year rural stint a must for MBBS students The Times Of India | 25 Jul 2008, 0001 hrs IST, Kounteya Sinha ,TNN NEW DELHI: From next year, a one-year stint in the villages will be a mandatory requirement for MBBS students before they can apply for a postgraduate degree i...
Naatak troupe rolls with life's changes San Fransisco Chronicle | "Call me at 10:35 in the morning," says Sujit Saraf. "The babysitter comes at 10:30." When Saraf founded the Bay Area theater group Naatak in 1995, he didn't have to worry about such things. Most of the members were single professionals, immigrants...
Himachal to create medical history Projects Monitor | In September 2006, Virbhadra Singh, the chief minister of a Congress government in Himachal Pradesh, announced two new medical colleges in the government and private sector in Mandi, Hamirpur or Kullu district. Then, last year, Singh lost the Assem...
Bhutan seeks India's help for medical college Projects Monitor | Bhutan has sought India's cooperation for setting up a medical college in collaboration with All India Institute of Medical Sciences. The Prime Minister of Bhutan, Lyonchen Jigmi Y. Thinley, raised the issue with Union Minister for Health & Fam...
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Yoga Makes Headway in Business Schools Business Week | Walk through the halls of the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business during the school year, and along with students cramming facts for macroeconomics and operating ...
Countries make push to increase eye donors International Herald Tribune | Eye donation recently got a new public face in Syria, where the Grand Mufti, the highest official of religious law, pledged to donate his corneas upon death to help one of the th...
Experts detail how rice absorbs so much arsenic Reuters Mon Jul 14, 2008 4:13pm ET | | By Tan Ee Lyn | HONG KONG (Reuters) - Scientists in Japan may have discovered why rice absorbs so much arsenic from the soil, paving the way for fres...
Moving towards a world of unified communications The Times Of India | 22 Jul 2008, 0117 hrs IST, SUJIT JOHN,TNN SYDNEY/BANGALORE: If Dhananjay Ganjoo has his laptop with him, his cellphone is almost redundant. As we sat across a table at the Nortel vice-president's off...
US FDA keen to identify areas of collaboration The Times Of India | 21 Jul 2008, 0009 hrs IST, Amrita Nair-Ghaswalla,TNN MUMBAI: Despite the cloud of disquiet facing the Indian generic pharma industry over recent allegations by US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regardin...
India's sick poor turn to unlicensed doctors San Fransisco Chronicle | (07-20) 04:00 PDT New Delhi -- | Despite a sign proclaiming the office of a qualified physician, most residents of the Indra Camp slum are well aware that Nasib Lal is not a qualified physician. But when sick, they readily seek him out. | In a clos...
Unusual rise in jaundice cases this season The Times Of India | 20 Jul 2008, 0552 hrs IST, Pankaj Shah & Shailvee Sharda,TNN LUCKNOW: The unusual heavy rains and persistent clouds might bring in a perceptible change in the disease pattern in Uttar Pradesh this season. |...
The treasures like Dame Helen Mirren and Dame Judi Dench who enrich our arts The Daily Telegraph Last Updated: 7:30PM BST 19/07/2008 Who in Britain deserves to be called a National Treasure? | In association with the British Library, The Sunday Telegraph has launched a summer-long campaign inviting our readers to recognise our national treasures...
