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50% rise in diabetes deaths across India over 11 years

IANS | IndiaSpend.org By Swagata Yadavar With a genetic predisposition brought to the fore by changing lifestyles, deaths due to diabetes increased 50 per cent in India between 2005 and 2015, an

/ 13th October 2016
UNSC “Perilous Interventions” in War Zones

Thalif Deen Inter Press Service When the UN Security Council last week discussed the deliberate attacks on medical facilities in war-ravaged Syria and Yemen, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon implicit

/ 13th October 2016
Idol immersions: polluting Ganga in the name of faith

Imran Khan IANS Several hundred Durga idols were immersed in the Ganga here and elsewhere in Bihar on Dashami -- each of them a toxic cocktail of plastics, chemicals and non-biodegradables that will further

/ 13th October 2016
How voters vote in Manipur

By Witoubou Newmai Peculiarities and odd situations are not anomalies in Manipur. One significant peculiarity in the state is the placid voting pattern during assembly elections witnessed in the past two dec

/ 13th October 2016
'I'll humiliate you': Duterte challenges West to probe Philippines drugs war

MANILA, October 13 (Reuters) - Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte called U.S. President Barack Obama, the European Union and United Nations "fools" on Thursday, and warned they would end up humiliated and outsma

/ 13th October 2016
United Nations appoints Portugal's Guterres as next U.N. chief

UNITED NATIONS, October 13 (Reuters) - The 193-member United Nations General Assembly unanimously appointed former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres on Thursday as the ninth secretary-general of the wo

/ 13th October 2016
UNHRC Resolution on Journalist Safety Passed, But Long Way to Go

Tharanga Yakupitiyage Inter Press Service The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) advanced its commitment to the safety of journalists after adopting a groundbreaking resolution with measures for stat

/ 13th October 2016
Scotland's Sturgeon seeks to unite opposition to 'hard Brexit'

GLASGOW, October 13 (Reuters) - Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will seek to unite and lead political opposition throughout Britain to any "hard Brexit", according to a speech to be given on Thursday.

/ 13th October 2016
"Greatest living poet" Bob Dylan wins Nobel literature prize

STOCKHOLM, October 13 (Reuters) - Bob Dylan, regarded as the voice of a generation for his influential songs from the 1960s onwards, has won the Nobel Prize for Literature in a surprise decision that made him t

/ 13th October 2016
Thailand's King Bhumibol, world's longest reigning monarch, dies at 88

BANGKOK, October 13 (Reuters) - Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who was the world's longest-reigning monarch, died in hospital on Thursday, the palace said in an announcement. He was 88. King B

/ 13th October 2016
India struggling to integrate mentally ill into society

Kolkata, Oct 13 (IANS) A mental health integration index for the Asia-Pacific region has ranked India a low 11th among 15 listed countries for their commitment to integrating people with mental illness into the

/ 13th October 2016
Putin says India 'privileged strategic partner'

Moscow, October 13 (IANS) President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said Russia remained the top supplier of advanced weapons and defence technology to its "privileged strategic partner" India and added that Moscow

/ 13th October 2016
BRICS relevant due to Western unilateralism: Putin

Moscow, October 13 (IANS) BRICS reflects the member-countries' commitment to uphold international law when some Western countries are trying to promote unilateral approaches, Russian President Vladimir Putin sa

/ 13th October 2016
Haiti tries to get hurricane aid right, but cholera blamed on U.N. weighs

PORT-A-PIMENT, Haiti, October 13 (Reuters) - Foreign medics with orange stretchers and gallons of chlorine are stemming a cholera outbreak on Haiti's hurricane-struck coast but the focus on a disease U.N. peace

/ 13th October 2016
Concerned about king's health, Thais flock to Bangkok hospital

BANGKOK, October 13 (Reuters) - About 300 people gathered at a Bangkok hospital on Thursday where Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world's longest reigning monarch, is in an unstable condition as the gov

/ 13th October 2016
Survey points to higher U.S. birth rate in future: CDC

October 13 (Reuters) - More U.S. women expect to have children some time in the future than they did in 2002, according to a federal study released on Thursday, which could point to a higher U.S. birth rate.

/ 13th October 2016
Samsung shares recover from crash following Note 7 withdrawal

Seoul, October 13 (IANS) Shares of South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics recovered at the Seoul stock exchange on Thursday after crashing earlier in the week. The stocks of the company had cr

/ 13th October 2016
Heart failure not as life-threatening as heart attack: Experts

New Delhi, October 13 (IANS) Heart failure may be a serious health hazard but not life-threatening like a heart attack, health experts say. "Heart failure refers to the heart's inability to circula

/ 13th October 2016
Russia India's leading military supplier: Putin

Moscow, October 13 (IANS) President Vladimir Putin has said Russia remained India's leading supplier of advanced weapons and defence technology as the two countries have been active military partners.

/ 13th October 2016
British PM to human traffickers - 'We are coming after you'

LONDON, October 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - British Prime Minister Theresa May vowed on Wednesday to put the UK at the forefront of global efforts to eradicate modern slavery, warning human traffickers: "

/ 13th October 2016