New Delhi, Dec 19 (IANS) The health ministry is intensifying the drugs treatment programme on the evidence of United Nations’s Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) Programme, an official said Friday. “MMT is currently available at United Nation Office on Drugs and Control-supported five model centers across the country like civil hospital in Kapurthala and Bathinda in […]
New Delhi, Dec 19 (IANS) Open water swimmer Bhakti Sharma will be financially backed in her swimming efforts by Vedanta company Hindustan Zinc for a year, a release said Friday. Bhakti will be promoting open water swimming and will also train girls in swimming leagues during the year she will be sponsored. “I am very […]
Bhubaneswar, Dec 19 (IANS) The CBI Friday arrested a top Odisha Police officer for his alleged links with the Artha Tatwa Group, a chit fund company operating in the state. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested deputy superintendent of police Pramod Panda on charges of conspiracy and gaining financial benefits. “In Orissa chit fund […]
Hyderabad, Dec 18 (IANS) The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) Hyderabad chapter Thursday launched the Billion Dollar Babies (B$B) project for the startups. An initiative of TiE Silicon Valley Chapter, the B$B project will select few startups from India which have a potential to become a $1 billion company. The program aims to help select Indian product […]
Baghdad, Dec 18 (IANS) Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi Thursday urged Arab nations and the world to work even more closely with Baghdad in the fight against the Islamic State (IS) militant group. Abadi made the statement at a joint press conference with his Jordanian counterpart Abdullah Ensour, who is on an official visit to […]
New Delhi, Dec 18 (IANS) There is no proposal to reduce the age of central government employees from 60 years to 58 years, the government announced Thursday. “Attention of the government has been drawn to some news items appearing in a section of the press regarding proposal of the central government to reduce the retirement […]
Tehran, Dec 18 (IANS) Iran backs talks between the Syrian government and the opposition groups, a senior Iranian diplomat was quoted as saying by media Thursday. Iran supports Russia’s recent initiative to host a “Syrian-Syrian dialogue” in an attempt to end the three-year-old conflict in the country, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said, according […]
Vatican City, Dec 18 (IANS/EFE) Pope Francis Thursday welcomed the decision of the US and Cuba to take steps towards normalizing relations, noting that “we are all happy to see how two peoples who had been distant for years have moved a step closer”. US sources credit the Vatican and Pope Francis personally for acting […]
New Delhi, Dec 18 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi was Thursday admitted to the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital here for an infection in the lower respiratory tract. Her condition was stable, a hospital official said. “Sonia Gandhi was today (Thursday) admitted to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital around 5 p.m. She has an infection in the […]
Chandigarh, Dec 18 (IANS) Authorities in Chandigarh Thursday evening started culling of all birds in and around the city’s famous Sukhna lake after a dead goose was confirmed with the H5N1 (avian influenza or bird flu) virus. “On communication received from the central government, culling of all birds in the vicinity of Sukhna lake — […]