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Top 6 Countries To Study Abroad

Top 6 Countries To Study Abroad

Rediff.com11 Nov 2025

Study abroad experts explain how Canada, Australia, Germany, France and Dubai are redefining global education.

What To Do If Your Visa Is Delayed...

What To Do If Your Visa Is Delayed...

Rediff.com24 Oct 2025

Divya Nair/Rediff spoke to international career counsellors to understand what you can do if your visa is delayed or denied when you have received a scholarship.

H1B Visa Hike: Come Back Home, Say Experts

H1B Visa Hike: Come Back Home, Say Experts

Rediff.com24 Sep 2025

'Returning Indians can leverage their international skills and the strong funding environment for start-ups here.'

Woman with postpartum psychosis puts 15-day-old baby in fridge

Woman with postpartum psychosis puts 15-day-old baby in fridge

Rediff.com10 Sep 2025

Hearing the baby's cries, the grandmother rushed to the kitchen, found the child inside the refrigerator and rescued him. The baby was immediately taken to a doctor who confirmed that he was stable, family members said.

Tobacco, alcohol, vaping harming fertility, warn experts

Tobacco, alcohol, vaping harming fertility, warn experts

Rediff.com8 Jun 2025

While smoking increases the risk of a miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy, it also causes DNA damage in sperm, which can lead to miscarriage and birth defects, they say.

Study USA: New OPT Rules For F-1 Students

Study USA: New OPT Rules For F-1 Students

Rediff.com30 Jun 2025

Dr Karan Gupta offers guidance on how to pick the right international course and university.

Mpox Puts Health System On High Alert

Mpox Puts Health System On High Alert

Rediff.com17 Aug 2024

Strict screening protocols are to be implemented for passengers arriving from central African countries affected by the outbreak.

US lawmaker opposes Dr Gupta's nomination

US lawmaker opposes Dr Gupta's nomination

Rediff.com9 Jan 2009

Congressman John Conyers of Michigan -- Gupta's home state where he was born and raised and went to medical school -- in his letter urged his fellow Democrats to join him in 'signing a letter to President-elect Barack Obama that Dr Sanjay Gupta not be nominated for the post', arguing that the celebrity physician and medical correspondent 'lacks the requisite experience needed to oversee the federal agency that provides crucial health care assistance.'

World Heart Day: BEST Learns CPR

World Heart Day: BEST Learns CPR

Rediff.com29 Sep 2022

On Wednesday, September 28, on the eve of World Heart Day on September 29, Wockhardt Hospital Mumbai Central engaged with BEST -- Mumbai's public bus transport undertaking -- to create awareness of heart diseases by teaching CPR to 100 plus BEST staffers.

Sheena Bora Case: Lawyer, witness wrestle over facts

Sheena Bora Case: Lawyer, witness wrestle over facts

Rediff.com23 Jan 2020

Dr Gupta handled Shivade's blows with quite some equanimity... So it was often only Shivade down in the mud pit, egging and enticing the doctor to join the fight, while Dr Gupta cautiously kept to the sidelines, barely stepping a toe into the mud.

Sheena Bora Case: Indrani argues her case!

Sheena Bora Case: Indrani argues her case!

Rediff.com29 Jan 2020

Dressed in pink, her hands flying about in eloquent gestures, excitement on her face, Indrani made quite a picture. There was pin-drop silence as she made strong points about why nothing in the hearings had uncovered anything against her. She spoke about there being "Not a shred of evidence... No scientific evidence because it didn't happen!"

'Omicron may make you more sick'

'Omicron may make you more sick'

Rediff.com29 Nov 2021

'This virus may have more immune evasion capability and therefore, it may make you more sick.'

Sheena Bora case: Doctor in trouble?

Sheena Bora case: Doctor in trouble?

Rediff.com17 Jan 2020

Judge Jagdale halted Dr Gupta's testimony several times because he felt it had neither order nor direction. Tightly controlling his irritation, his lips compressed, the judge explained as patiently as he could: "What he has done in this case should come (out in his testimony) in a lucid manner. You eat chapati and then rice. You cannot eat half a chapati and then have rice and then eat half a chapati..." "He is not a witness of facts. He is an expert witness. Either he is not prepared. Or you are not prepared."

Mulayam Singh Yadav 'quite critical': Hospital

Mulayam Singh Yadav 'quite critical': Hospital

Rediff.com9 Oct 2022

Dr Sanjeev Gupta, medical director at Medanta Hospital in Gurugram said that the founder of the Samajwadi Party is being treated in the intensive care unit (ICU) of the hospital by a comprehensive team of specialists.

Sushant case inputs must be obtained from CBI: AIIMS

Sushant case inputs must be obtained from CBI: AIIMS

Rediff.com5 Oct 2020

The medical board has ruled out murder in the death of Rajput, terming it 'a case of hanging and death by suicide', the premier institute's forensic chief Dr Sudhir Gupta had said last week.

Experts feel COVID-19 has reached endemic phase

Experts feel COVID-19 has reached endemic phase

Rediff.com30 Oct 2022

According to some experts, there is not much difference in the number of seasonal flu cases and that of COVID-19, even though they stressed that surveillance for newer variants should continue in the off chance of a new lineage of coronavirus catching the country off guard.

Anti-cancer drugs, antibiotics, vaccines set to become cheaper

Anti-cancer drugs, antibiotics, vaccines set to become cheaper

Rediff.com13 Sep 2022

Anti-infectives like Ivermectin, Mupirocin and Meropenem have also been added to the list, taking the total drugs under it to 384.

UP man dies 2 days after Covid shot, docs say no link to vaccination

UP man dies 2 days after Covid shot, docs say no link to vaccination

Rediff.com18 Mar 2021

A labourer died in this district two days after getting vaccinated against coronavirus but doctors have not linked the death to the inoculation.

AIIMS rules out murder in Sushant death case

AIIMS rules out murder in Sushant death case

Rediff.com3 Oct 2020

"There were no injuries over the body other than hanging. There were no marks of struggle/scuffle in the body and clothes of the deceased," said Dr Gupta who is chairman of the AIIMS Forensic Medical Board comprising seven doctors.

Gave conclusive opinion on Sushant's death to CBI: AIIMS forensic chief

Gave conclusive opinion on Sushant's death to CBI: AIIMS forensic chief

Rediff.com29 Sep 2020

The AIIMS and the CBI are in agreement and on the same page in the matter, AIIMS' forensic chief said.

Sunanda death case: Tharoor refuses to comment on controversy

Sunanda death case: Tharoor refuses to comment on controversy

Rediff.com3 Jul 2014

Refusing to comment on the controversy stirred by a senior AIIMS forensic doctor's allegation that he was pressured to manipulate the postmortem report of Sunanda Pushkar, former Union Minister Shashi Tharoor on Thursday merely said that it was up to the investigators "to sort it out"

'GDP alone can't determine growth'

'GDP alone can't determine growth'

Rediff.com14 Oct 2020

'This debate is going on all over the world and everybody is saying that only GDP cannot estimate the real (economic) situation of a country.'

Risk of Covid spread from dead bodies unlikely: AIIMS doc

Risk of Covid spread from dead bodies unlikely: AIIMS doc

Rediff.com25 May 2021

Coronavirus doesn't remain active in nasal and oral cavities 12 to 24 hours after the death of an infected person as a result of which the risk of transmission from the deceased is highly unlikely, All India Institute of Medical Sciences Forensic Chief Dr Sudhir Gupta said.

5 days on, Bihar cops clueless about abducted doctor, wife

5 days on, Bihar cops clueless about abducted doctor, wife

Rediff.com5 May 2015

A Special Investigation Team, constituted by Bihar Director General of Police P K Thakur to trace the couple, suspects the involvement of an inter-state gang in the abduction.

Plasma bank to be set up in Delhi for COVID-19 patients

Plasma bank to be set up in Delhi for COVID-19 patients

Rediff.com29 Jun 2020

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said the bank will start working in the next two days, adding that the Aam Aadmi Party government will encourage those who have recovered from COVID-19 to donate their plasma.

Dr Shaibal Gupta on caste, politics and Bihar

Dr Shaibal Gupta on caste, politics and Bihar

Rediff.com20 Oct 2010

Bihar expert Dr Shaibal Gupta tells Sheela Bhatt why the upcoming assembly election is a benchmark in the state.

Sunanda case: AIIMS forensic chief alleges pressure on autopsy

Sunanda case: AIIMS forensic chief alleges pressure on autopsy

Rediff.com2 Jun 2015

Dr Sudhir Gupta has alleged a "tacit understanding" between the institute's director and Congress leader Shashi Tharoor for making a "tailor made" post-mortem report on Sunanda Pushkar's death.

PM Modi leads tributes to BAI chief Das Gupta after demise

PM Modi leads tributes to BAI chief Das Gupta after demise

Rediff.com12 Apr 2017

Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the tributes that poured in for Badminton Association of India president Dr. Akhilesh Das Gupta, who passed away in Lucknow after suffering a heart attack on Wednesday.

'Hypertension is leading cause of death in urban areas'

'Hypertension is leading cause of death in urban areas'

Rediff.com3 Apr 2013

In this exclusive interview with Rediff.com's Shobha Warrier from Jaipur, Dr Gupta talks about the study and what the urban population to do to fight hypertension.

Dr Shaibal Gupta on the Bihar elections

Dr Shaibal Gupta on the Bihar elections

Rediff.com20 Oct 2010

The man who has studied Lalu Prasad Yadav and Nitish Kumar from a vantage position in Patna's corridors of power speaks to Sheela Bhatt about the upcoming Bihar assembly election.

Doctor behind Chhattisgarh sterilisation horror arrested

Doctor behind Chhattisgarh sterilisation horror arrested

Rediff.com13 Nov 2014

The surgeon, who conducted sterilisation surgeries on 83 women at a state-run camp which claimed the lives of 12 women in Pendari village in Chhattisgarh's Bilaspur district, has been arrested.

Dr Sanjay Gupta may be Obama's Surgeon General

Dr Sanjay Gupta may be Obama's Surgeon General

Rediff.com7 Jan 2009

President-elect Barack Obama has offered the job of surgeon general to Dr Sanjay Gupta, a neurosurgeon and correspondent for CNN and CBS, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday. The report, quoting highly-placed sources, said Dr Gupta has sought a few days to figure out the financial and logistical details of moving his family from Atlanta to Washington, but is expected to accept the offer.

Indian origin doc heads New Jersey medical body

Indian origin doc heads New Jersey medical body

Rediff.com13 Jun 2008

Dr R Prasad Gupta, who took over recently as the 216th president of the Medical Society of New Jersey, has pledged to work to preserve the integrity of the patientphysician relationship and decision-making.

In search of the Fountain of Youth

In search of the Fountain of Youth

Rediff.com10 May 2007

CNN star Dr Sanjay Gupta's first book offers a few lessons for life.

Case of abetment to suicide registered in JNU scholar death

Case of abetment to suicide registered in JNU scholar death

Rediff.com15 Mar 2017

The board at AIIMS including members belonging to SC/ST said Krishnan died due to asphyxia and no injury mark was found on the body.

Cops hunt for clues in doctor and wife's abduction in Bihar

Cops hunt for clues in doctor and wife's abduction in Bihar

Rediff.com3 May 2015

Dr Pankaj Gupta along with his wife Subha was abducted near Barachatti on the Grand Trunk Road in Gaya on Friday evening.

Tharoor, forensic doctor will be examined if needed, says police

Tharoor, forensic doctor will be examined if needed, says police

Rediff.com2 Jul 2014

With a senior All India Institute of Medical Sciences forensic doctor reportedly alleging that he was pressurised to manipulate the autopsy report of Sunanda Pushkar, Delhi police on Wednesday said it will "examine" him and former Union Minister Shashi Tharoor if needed.

IMA puts out names of 382 doctors martyred in war against Covid

IMA puts out names of 382 doctors martyred in war against Covid

Rediff.com17 Sep 2020

Taking exception to Health Minister Harsh Vardhan not mentioning the death of healthcare workers due to Covid-19 in his statement in Parliament, the Indian Medical Association has published a list of 382 doctors who died due to the viral disease and demanded that they be treated as "martyrs".

The Chhattisgarh tragedy and Indian surgeons' love for speed

The Chhattisgarh tragedy and Indian surgeons' love for speed

Rediff.com28 Nov 2014

This cult of speed reaches its crowning glory during that peculiar Indian spectacle called medical camps. Medical camps are an activity in which doctors from cities travel to underserved areas, often on weekends, where the poor are then herded in hundreds for deliverance, photo-ops and freebies. In their more evolved form, there are surgical camps where bewildered and overawed patients are put onto operating tables and, much like an assembly line, a series of operations are performed in rapid succession. The surgical instruments are often magically sterilised in minutes between procedures, says Dr Sanjay Nagral.