Nine more persons, including three girl students of St Anne's school, which recorded the first fatality of swine flu in Pune, have tested positive for the virus. The three schoolmates of the deceased Reeda Shaikh, the class 9 student of St Anne's who died of the infection on August 3, belong to different classes, leading to concerns about the virus having spread in the school. This represents the largest chunk of the 172 swine flu infections in the state.
India has covered enough population with vaccine and infection, but protein vaccines should remain available on payment basis for elderly and those with comorbidities.
India registered its first swine flu death on Monday after a 14-year-old school girl from Pune fell victim to the virus, a week after she was admitted to a private hospital with symptoms of the disease.
Swine flu claimed yet another victim, a 13-year-old girl in Pune became the eighth person to succumb the to the virus on Tuesday. Shruti Gawade, a student of Ahilyadevi school, became the sixth victim of the H1N1 virus in the state.
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'When I was toying with 10 different ideas, my father was diagnosed with lung fibrosis and his condition deteriorated so badly that we lost him in six months. He was very unsatisfied with the lack of proper diagnosis.' 'It made me think will anyone do a biopsy if there is no symptom? Why is it that we do not have any non-invasive diagnostic method?' 'This idea was the strongest out of the ten, and with Snahlata Singh with her cancer biology background joining me, the idea got a real boost.'
The doodle you're seeing on Google's home page today is created by Vaidehi Reddy, a class 9 student of Army Public School, Pune.
The country's largest paramilitary force -- the Central Reserve Police Force -- is literally going to 'school' as the force has recently created six new institutions to hone the operational and intelligence gathering skills of its troops.
I did not take up research for any award.' 'What is more important is the medicine that I have developed.' 'This helps the patient recover and the family is happy that their relative has survived and they go back to their lives.
The Sports Ministry said the suspended Wrestling Federation of India has no authority to conduct the Senior National Championships.
'Not many films have a reference to a creature who talks, emotes, acts in a film. And Munjya is doing all of it.
'It would have made (Producer) Ramesh Taurani very happy if I taken two Bombay stars, but the reason why I kept mentally rejecting the regular sort of casting was to discover this excitement, you know, can I crack it?'
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A group of persons on Saturday ransacked the office of Prof Suhas Palshikar, who resigned as National Council Of Educational Research And Training adviser in the wake of the row over cartoon of B R Ambedkar in school text books.
The average domestic salary of top graduates of leading B-schools increased 10 per cent this year compared to last year, a study conducted by Association of Chambers of Commerce said.\n\n
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Monday suspended operations at Redbird Flight Training Academy, one of India's largest flight schools, across all five of its training bases in the country. This action was taken after five accidents involving the institute's planes in the past six months. The DGCA announced it would conduct an audit of the academy's maintenance practices and also proficiency checks of the institute's flight instructors before allowing it to resume operations.
'If someone were to ask you if you want to die tomorrow, no matter what problems you are grappling with, you would be hesitant, right?'
'You will really wish oh! Had I stayed in Dharavi I would have got a nice house. I can assure you that. We will make dreams come true.'
A financial loss of Rs 8 to Rs 10 crore has been estimated due to the violence.
Asif Lampwala, representing victim Reeda Shaikh's family, told media persons that notices have been sent to Jehangir and Ruby Hall hospitals as well as Dr Sanjay Agarwal against whom a complaint had been filed in the consumer court, alleging medical negligence leading to her death.
'Just because of my background and poor academic qualifications, most people disbelieve what I have done.'
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Swine flu on Wednesday claimed five more lives, four of them in worst-hit Pune alone, taking the countrywide toll to 17 even as authorities in Mumbai shut down schools and colleges for a week and cinema halls for three days to check the spread of the virus.
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Local train services came to a halt between Badlapur and Ambarnath section in Maharashtra's Thane district adjoining Mumbai due to water-logging on railway tracks after heavy rains, officials said.
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A group of retired army officers have come together to provide a home for girls who never had a home before.
London Olympic bronze medallist Gagan Narang on Wednesday said that sports should be made a part of school curriculum and asked others states to take a leaf out of Maharashtra and Haryana's books as far as promoting sport was concerned.
'Students of Tier-II and Tier III engineering colleges in the south may find 2023 to be one of the toughest years for getting jobs.'
Maharashtra has reported 31 positive cases, Kerala 19, Uttar Pradesh 11, Delhi and Karnataka six each, Ladakh three, Jammu and Kashmir, Rajasthan and Telangana two each; and Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Punjab one case each. The total number of confirmed cases also includes 17 foreigners -- 16 Italian tourists and a Canadian, it said.
