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Terming Baba Ramdev's charges against her as "diversionary tactics", Communist Party of India-Marxist leader Brinda Karat Saturday said attempts were being made to deflect attention from the core issue of violation of labour laws.
The government on Friday put the figure of people suffering from HIV/AIDS in the country at 2.5 million, a drastic reduction of around 50 per cent from last year.
The National Population Policy, 2000 aims at attainment of a total fertility rate of 2.1 by 2010.
Ramadoss ruled out invoking the Essential Services Maintenance Act against the striking doctors.
Several Mumbai residents were affected with the disease after the rains in July.
The pills have been available on medical prescription since 2001. Over 100 countries already have EC pills available as over-the-counter drugs.
Last year, the minister had proposed the compulsory rural postings for all MBBS students. The announcement met with stiff resistance.
The Congress secured the maximum of 48 seats.
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The health minister rubbished reports that a person has died due to bird flu.
The smoking ban in films will take effect from October 2.
They have been itching for revenge ever since PMK supporters reportedly ransacked some theatres in where Rajnikanth's film Baba was being screened.
Oriental Insurance Company Ltd hopes to bag the Air Sahara insurance business after its merger with Jet Airways.
The Tamil Protection Movement was floated, among others, by the PMK and the Dalit Panthers of India. It aims at making people in Tamil Nadu use Tamil in all walks of life.
Ramadoss said the Delhi government is doing well in containing the situation and his ministry is providing medication and chemicals to all affected states.
Health Minister A Ramadoss said the government would bring in a law which would make it mandatory for medical graduates to take up at least a year's posting in rural areas before getting registration for practice.
'Of equal importance was the AIADMK's precarious assembly membership, what with 11 of its MLAs including deputy chief minister OPS facing court cases for disqualification and by-elections due in another 21. To shore up the party's numbers for anticipated eventuality on the 11-MLAs' front, the AIADMK leadership in general and chief minister EPS in particular, were even more focussed on assembly seats than LS seats, just now,' says N Sathiya Moorthy.
The disease, which was due to bacterial infection, could be treated easily with the help of antibiotics, the Health Minister added.
A Chennai-based biotechnology firm on Monday said it is working on developing a chemical for application on mosquito nets, which would keep the pest away for a period of at least three years.
When asked to comment on his party's stand on premarital sex and the impact it may have on issues such as AIDS, he said, "There is nothing wrong in talking about safe sex, but it is wrong to say that pre-marital sex is alright."
There is no case of bird flu in the country but government has decided to stockpile ten lakh doses of the drug, Tamiflu, which helps in treating the infection.
In view of the enormous potential of health tourism in creating jobs and raking in foreign exchange, ministries of health and tourism on Wednesday decided to get started by setting up a Web site and a database.
Ramadoss said at present 500,000 to one million vaccines are being imported from countries like Japan, Thailand and Korea.
As many as 306 people have lost their lives due to the spread of infectious diseases in Maharashtra in the wake of the heavy rains and floods, the Lok Sabha was informed on Monday.
According to a study funded by the World Bank, 35 per cent of injections given at government hospitals were unsafe because of improper sterilization.
The Union health minister has announced that the government is considering a ban on scenes showing smoking on screen.
The known cases of AIDS are only 91,080 as the practice before 1998 was to report only confirmed cases.
Health minister Anbumani Ramadoss said some 2 to 2.5 million cancer cases were reported every year.
It is the third party in Tamil Nadu, after DMK and MDMK, to quit the BJP-led alliance.
Stalin has started campaigning in the name of father Karunanidhi as the party's CM's candidate, but does not seem to have given up hope.
The young woman's death has led to an outrage on illegal hoardings being put by political parties despite them causing inconvenience and posing a threat to people's safety.
This time round, even 'petrol coupons' were reportedly distributed for those attending campaign rallies, especially those addressed by top leaders, cutting across party lines. If this owed to the rising cost of petrol and diesel -- which is a poll issue this time -- there were the customary coupons for 'quarter' (liquor bottle size) and non-vegetarian biryani. Some media reports claimed that some of these 'crowds' attended more than one political rally on the same day in the last week, and at times for rival political parties in adjoining constituencies or districts, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
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The prime minister tweeted: "Pained to know about the passing away of Mrs Suvra Mukherjee. My condolences to Rashtrapati ji & his family in this hour of grief."
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