Indian-origin doctor not fit to practice: British tribunal
August 22nd, 2012 - 10:37 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 22 (IANS) An Indian-origin pathologist, who conducted the first post-mortem examinations on a man who died in the 2009 G20 protests in London, is not fit to practice, ... Read more...
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Kerala eateries raided after food poisoning death
July 17th, 2012 - 6:34 pm ICT by IANS
Thiruvananthapuram, July 17 (IANS) Kerala authorities have begun extensive raids across the state after reports that a youth died of suspected food poisoning and a few others fell ill after ... Read more...
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Yasser Arafat was poisoned, says doctor
July 13th, 2012 - 2:19 am ICT by IANS
Ramallah, July 13 (IANS) Former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat died after consuming an unknown poison, a Jordanian doctor claimed Thursday.Arafat's medical reports suggest that he was poisoned by a toxic ... Read more...
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Former athlete Pinki Pramanik gets bail (Lead)
July 10th, 2012 - 11:21 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, July 10 (IANS) A West Bengal court Tuesday granted bail to Asiad gold medallist Pinki Pramanik, who had been in custody since June 15 for alleged rape, the ex-athlete's ... Read more...
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Experts to study dead liver donor’s medical report
July 6th, 2012 - 12:10 am ICT by IANS
Gurgaon, July 5 (IANS) The medical report of a 40-year-old man, who died at a hospital here after donating a portion of his liver to a relative, has been sent ... Read more...
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Munda works from ICU, legislator discharged
May 11th, 2012 - 9:10 pm ICT by IANS
Ranchi, May 11 (IANS) A day after he suffered multiple injuries in a chopper crash, Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda Friday resumed official work from his hospital bed, officials ... Read more...
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Norway killer terms insanity report as lie
April 25th, 2012 - 9:28 pm ICT by IANS
London, April 25 (IANS) Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik has told a court in Oslo that a psychiatric report that found him insane following the 77 killings he carried ... Read more...
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Missing businessman’s body found, murder suspected
February 22nd, 2012 - 12:41 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 21 (IANS) The body of a missing businessman was found Tuesday in a park in south Delhi, police said, adding it seemed he had been murdered.
"Police ... Read more...
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AMRI director gets bail, Bengal to move apex court (Second Lead)
February 17th, 2012 - 11:12 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Feb 17 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court Friday granted bail to AMRI Hospital director R.S. Agarwal, but rejected the pleas of four other directors in the Dec 9, 2011 ... Read more...
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One AMRI director gets bail, others denied (Lead)
February 17th, 2012 - 8:21 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Feb 17 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court Friday granted bail to AMRI Hospital director R.S. Agarwal, but rejected the pleas of four others in the Dec 9, 2011 fire ... Read more...
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Odisha gang rape: Women panel seeks action against doctors
February 3rd, 2012 - 10:44 pm ICT by IANS
Bhubaneswar, Feb 3 (IANS) Odisha's State Commission for Women (SCW) Friday has sought action against the doctors who neglected a woman who was allegedly gang-raped in state's Puri district in ... Read more...
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Protest in Mumbai over toddler’s murder
January 19th, 2012 - 6:03 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Jan 19 (IANS) Over 100 women from a slum in south Mumbai Thursday demonstrated outside two police stations after a three-and-half-year-old girl from the area was found murdered, police ... Read more...
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Meghalaya women slam Andhra top cop’s dress remark
January 1st, 2012 - 9:25 pm ICT by IANS
Shillong, Jan 1 (IANS) A women's organisation in the matrilineal state of Meghalaya Sunday slammed Andhra Pradesh police chief V. Dinesh Reddy for blaming women's dressing styles for the ... Read more...
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Judge speaks to AMRI Hospital fire accused in ambulance
December 19th, 2011 - 10:53 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Dec 19 (IANS) After AMRI director R.S. Agarwal, an accused in the hospital fire, pleaded he was unwell and could not come to the court, a city court judge ... Read more...
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Indonesian police arrest 27 after violent wage protests
November 26th, 2011 - 8:26 pm ICT by BNO News
BATAM, INDONESIA (BNO NEWS) -- At least 27 people have been arrested after two consecutive days of violent protesters in the Indonesian province of Riau Islands, police said on Saturday. Around 20 ... Read more...
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40,000 Zimbabwean men circumcised in a year
November 20th, 2011 - 4:38 pm ICT by IANS
Harare, Nov 20 (IANS) More than 40,000 Zimbabwean men have been circumcised so far since the programme began in 2010, in a bid to reduce the risk of HIV, the ... Read more...
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Maharashtra NCP chief’s son dies in freak accident
October 31st, 2011 - 10:05 pm ICT by IANS
Ahmednagar (Maharashtra), Oct 31 (IANS) Nationalist Congress Party's Maharashtra unit president Madhukar Pichad's youngest son died in a freak accident Monday, party officials said."Pichad's youngest son, Jitendra, had gone for ... Read more...
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Stuntman dies in Bulgaria while filming ‘The Expendables 2′
October 28th, 2011 - 11:35 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Sofia, Oct 28 (THAINDIAN NEWS) In an unfortunate incident, a stuntman succumbed to his wounds which he had sustained while filming an action scene for the movie ‘The Expendables 2’. The action ... Read more...
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‘Very critical’ Amar Singh gets bail
October 24th, 2011 - 7:13 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 24 (IANS) Observing that his health condition was "very critical", the Delhi High Court Monday granted bail to Rajya Sabha member and former Samajwadi Party (SP) ... Read more...
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Varsity student assaulted, made to consume liquor
September 19th, 2011 - 1:50 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, Sep 19 (IANS) Four senior students of an Uttar Pradesh university have been booked for physically abusing their junior, forcing him to remove his clothes and consume liquor in ... Read more...
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Amar Singh’s medical reports paint grim picture
September 14th, 2011 - 11:16 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 14 (IANS) Former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh, in custody for the cash-for-votes scam, is suffering from urinary tract infection, diarrhoea, dehydration and diabetes and needs to ... Read more...
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Ex-minister sent back to jail after ‘illness’
September 5th, 2011 - 11:46 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, Sep 5 (IANS) Jailed former Uttar Pradesh minister Amarmani Tripathi, who had managed to spend three months out of prison under the pretext of "illness", was on Monday sent ... Read more...
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Kalmadi wants medical reports under wraps
August 5th, 2011 - 10:01 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS) Sacked Commonwealth Games (CWG) Organising Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi Friday asked a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court to direct the Tihar jail and hospital ... Read more...
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Kalmadi’s brain scan Thursday (Lead)
July 27th, 2011 - 9:35 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 27 (IANS) Suresh Kalmadi, former chairman of the Commonwealth Games (CWG) Organising Committee who is in judicial custody in a corruption case, will undergo a brain scan ... Read more...
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Cop arrested, suspended for joining rave party
June 27th, 2011 - 5:55 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, June 27 (IANS) The Maharashtra government Monday suspended an anti-narcotics cell (ANC) inspector arrested during a raid on a rave party in Raigad district a day earlier, an official ... Read more...
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Chavez recovering well, says Venezuelan official
June 27th, 2011 - 11:30 am ICT by IANS
Caracas, June 27 (IANS/EFE) The Venezuelan presidency's chief of staff, Erika Farias, has said that President Hugo Chavez, convalescing from surgery in Havana since June 10, is recovering in good ... Read more...
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Seven more children die of mysterious illness in Bihar
June 19th, 2011 - 2:24 pm ICT by IANS
Patna, June 19 (IANS) Seven more children have died of a mysterious disease in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district taking the death toll to 20, officials said Sunday.The children reported high fever, ... Read more...
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Mysterious disease kills 13 children in Bihar
June 18th, 2011 - 2:36 pm ICT by IANS
Patna, June 18 (IANS) Thirteen children have died of a mysterious disease in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district during the past five days, officials said Saturday. Of these, five children succumbed in ... Read more...
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Two lab officials to be charged in Kerala’s Abhaya case
May 31st, 2011 - 4:57 pm ICT by IANS
Thiruvananthapuram, May 31 (IANS) Thiruvananthapuram Chief Judicial Magistrate Cherian Varghese Tuesday ordered two government officials to be formally charged for allegedly tampering with medical reports in Sister Abhaya's death.The order ... Read more...
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Kevin Pietersen says he is hungry for runs
May 25th, 2011 - 8:40 pm ICT by IANS
London, May 25 (IANS) England batting star Kevin Pietersen, who is returning from an injury, has warned critics not to write him off, saying he is still hungry for runs.Pietersen, ... Read more...
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Court offers shield to life insurance agents
May 23rd, 2011 - 7:03 pm ICT by IANS
Gandhinagar, May 23 (IANS) A life insurance company cannot terminate the services of its agent on the grounds of suppression of facts related to a policy seeker unless he or ... Read more...
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Egypt sets up committee to re-check Mubarak’s health
May 20th, 2011 - 9:33 am ICT by IANS
Cairo, May 20 (IANS/AKI) Egypt's attorney general has ordered the setting up of a new medical committee to re-examine former president Hosni Mubarak's health condition.Abdel Meguid Mahmoud wants to see ... Read more...
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Al Qaeda man made himself impotent to focus on jihad
April 29th, 2011 - 12:01 pm ICT by IANS
London, April 29 (IANS) An Al Qaeda terrorist with strong links to chief Osama bin Laden used impotency injections so that he could focus on carrying out jihad and not ... Read more...
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Nothing was wrong with Baba before March 28: Sai Trust
April 28th, 2011 - 5:26 pm ICT by IANS
Puttaparthi (Andhra Pradesh), April 28 (IANS) The Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust Thursday clarified that before March 28, when Sathya Sai Baba was admitted to hospital, there was no reason ... Read more...
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Elderly parents, two sons found dead in Pune
March 24th, 2011 - 3:59 pm ICT by IANS
Pune, March 24 (IANS) In a suspected case of family suicide, decomposed bodies of a couple in their 60s and their two sons were found at their ... Read more...
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