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  • Preventive oncology important part of healthcare says Bengal governor

    With the introduction of sophisticated techniques in cancer detection and therapy like PET-CT scan, preventive oncology has become a critical part of modern healthcare, said West Bengal Governor M.K.Narayanan here Monday. "Preventive oncology has become important part. With passage of time, more sophisticated technologies have come forward. PET-CT scans are a quantum leap forward in ...

  • Womans body found in train in Rajasthan

    The body of a young woman was found stuffed in an unattended box in a train compartment at a railway station in Rajasthan's Bikaner district Monday, police said. A police officer told IANS that the victim seems to be about 25 years old and had burn injuries on her face. The body was spotted at Lalgarh junction in the district, 500 km from Jaipur. "Some passengers in the Awadh-Assam Express ...

  • Man found dead in Delhi train

    The body of an unidentified man, appearing to be in his mid-30s and bearing multiple wounds, was found in a local train here, police said Monday. "Several injury marks from a sharp-edged weapon, were found on the body parts of the deceased. The body was spotted by a passenger in a train at Shakur Basti railway station in west Delhi Monday early morning," said a police officer. A murder case ...

  • Seven pilgrims killed in UP road accident

    Seven people were killed and five injured when a bus carrying pilgrims rammed into a stationary truck in Muzaffarnagar, police said Monday. A mini bus carrying pilgrims was headed to Haridwar from Hathras when the driver lost control at the Mansuri-Delhi-Haridwar highway and rammed into a truck parked by the roadside. Police rushed the injured to hospital where the condition of three is ...

  • Timex plans to grab more market share from 2014

    Watchmaker Timex Group India, which currently enjoys eight to nine percent market share in organised watch sector, Monday said it is aiming to grab one to two percent market share in every year from 2014. "Our company currently has 8-9 percent share in the Rs.5,000 crore organised watch market of the country. Due to the difficult economic conditions, the market share is likely to remain ...

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Spartan

Spartan

In Spartan, David Mamet takes his signature elliptical approach to the well-worn Tom Clancy-ish spy genre, deflating it of its emphasis on straightforward plot-point-to-plot-point narrative structure and refilling it with a politically charged undercurrent thats all too timely. As with so ... ...

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  • Gunfight after rebels attack Meghalaya Police

    A gun battle ensued in Meghalaya's restive West Garo Hills district Monday after Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) rebels tossed a faulty grenade at a police team. No casualty was reported, police said. The gun battle, which lasted for 10 to 15 minutes, began when GNLA rebels lobbed a grenade at towards a police team in Rangdapara area. The rebels were on the way to a market to collect ...

  • Britain offers same day visa in Chennai

    Britain's deputy high commission in Chennai will issue visas on the day of application from Tuesday to Indians in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu,, an official said Monday. "The new visa service will facilitate urgent travel to Britain and compliments our fast track service with online payment options," UK Visas and Immigration regional director Thomas Greig said in a statement ...

  • Facility to test bird hits on aircraft in Bangalore

    The state-run Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and its National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) have jointly set up a research facility here to test bird strikes on aircraft using air guns, the institute said Monday. "The integrated impact and crashworthiness research facility is equipped with capability for bird strike testing using one of the largest air guns in the world," ...

  • Youth killed by neighbours in Delhi

    A 19-year-old was stabbed to death by four of his neighbours here over an enmity, police said Monday. Shobin was attacked with sharp-edged weapons and sticks near his house in south Delhi's Ambedkar Nagar area Sunday late evening. "All the accused have been identified and will be arrested soon," said a police officer. He added that a few days ago, the victim and the accused had a heated ...

  • Trinamool Mahila Congress rally demands impartial poll panel

    In a bid to increase pressure on the West Bengal State Election Commission, hundreds of activists of the Trinamool Mahila Congress Monday took out a rally in the heart of the city demanding it carry out its duties for the coming panchayat polls "impartially". Carrying banners demanding "impartiality" on the part of the SEC, the activists marched from the Birla Planetarium till they were stopped ...

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