'...When it comes to my work, I am extremely meticulous.' 'I go through every contract, every detail.' 'This is because of past experiences, of being, sort of, conned.'
Disability activist Virali Modi recounts her life's most challenging moments and how she turned adversities in her favour.
The emotional moment when doctors delivered the baby of a Syrian woman injured by an airstrike.
A gush of Federal money helped in avoiding an economic meltdown.
The family of a kidney patient on Tuesday alleged that he died as their vehicle failed to reach the emergency section of the PGIMER hospital in Chandigarh in time, due to the tight security measures put in place for the visit of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The family of S P Verma, a resident of Ambala in Haryana, claimed that security personnel, including those from the Chandigarh police, deployed at the medical institute, did not allow their vehicle to reach the emergency
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Saturday
Teresa Heinz Kerry, 74, has been moved to a Boston hospital from the Nantucket Cottage Hospital, where she was initially admitted on Sunday.
Retired Argentine soccer great Jorge Valdano suffered minor injuries along with seven others in a helicopter crash in Mexico City.
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MUrgency is slated to launch services in Amritsar and Jalandhar in the last week of May and cover the entire state by June end.
The injured soldiers' doctor is the lanky 30-year-old son of Indian immigrants from Kolkata.
Several of the injured are said to be critical and rescue workers are searching for more casualties in the scorched area.
Taiwan's Department of Health said the number of probable SARS cases rose by 39 to 383 and a dozen more had died, bringing the toll to 52.
A 33-year-old Indian-American woman has been sentenced to 30 years in prison in the United States for female foeticide and child maltreatment of a dependent.
Australian Olympic champion rower Kim Brennan has spoken of her deep disappointment that her integrity as a clean athlete has been called into question over a shot of adrenaline administered in a medical emergency.
'The greatest danger is that the current crisis will clear a little, we'll be able to see our hands in front of our faces, and with great relief we'll forget all about it and willingly breathe poison until next November', says Mitali Saran.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Friday
A 33-year-old Indian-American woman has been sentenced to 30 years in prison in the United States for female foeticide and child maltreatment of a dependent.
'Restrict the amount of time you spend on social media.' 'We have people who are glued to it from morning to night, which is certainly not what we recommend.' 'And do not take the stuff that you read on WhatsApp as sacrosanct.' 'A lot of it is absolutely nonsense.'
Macroeconomic factors under control, says Rajan
From drinks with worms to a snake stuck in a woman's ear, here's the weirdest, funniest stories from the world around.
The source of the synthetic drugs was Asia, especially India and China.
The stiff 30-year prison sentence for an Indian-American woman for foeticide and child maltreatment has sparked a debate in the US on how prosecutors are using laws designed to protect expecting mothers to criminalise women for terminating a pregnancy.
Here's what you should know about the diseases and how to combat them.
With 11 hospitals in India and three more to come up, Columbia Asia is changing some of the rules of the game
After 40, getting into a romance is like batting your eyelashes at an approaching SUV before throwing yourself under its wheels, says Mitali Saran.
The RBI has made serious attempts to improve fiscal deficit.
Gamers are losing sleep because of the craze of catching Pokemons.
Resident doctors are the engines that run hospitals. For the patient, they are the face, hands, and voice of the hospital.
After opting for status quo in policy rates, Reserve Bank Governor Raghuram Rajan on Tuesday said any more cut will depend on further transmission of previous rate cuts by banks, softening in inflation and progress of monsoon.
'Government of India has the right to give directions to RBI'.
'I have to fight to ensure something like this doesn't happen to any other child, that no other parent faces what we are going through.' 'That is how I will find strength.'
'When I woke up on New Year's morning last week, it occurred to me that nobody had bothered to investigate how Christmas and the year end were different in my adopted home town of Bournemouth -- a charming place on the south coast of England -- from what played out on the streets of Pala in Kerala. This was clearly an important omission,' says Chindu Sreedharan, and sets out to correct it.
In a stellar performance, Indian American US Surgeon General Dr Vivek Murthy took on one critic after another at the Senate confirmation hearing. Aziz Haniffa reports.
The National Rifle Association aims to shoot down Vivek Murthy's Senate confirmation as United States Surgeon General, Aziz Haniffa reports
Purvi Patel is the first woman in America to be sentenced to prison for foeticide. Chaya Babu/Rediff.com reports on the verdict and the ripples of shock and fear it set off.
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