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All bars here should be converted into yoga centres in order to have a better society and healthy living, said Baba Ramdev Saturday while laying the foundation stone of a yoga centre being built in the place of a nightclub that closed down four years ago.Ramdev, in his short speech, said: read more »
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The countdown to No Honking Day on April 7 has begun and Mumbai Traffic Police, in coordination with a host of other organisations, have begun appealing to motorists, especially drivers of taxis, autorickshaws and two-wheelers, to refrain from using their horns on this day, hoping to raise awareness on noise pollution.

As the campaign arouses interest, people have been left wondering how they read more »
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Popular yoga guru Ramdev has accepted the Indian Medical Association's (IMA) challenge to cure cancer patients and allow clinical trials of his treatment within three years.

An IMA member told Ramdev that 'We expect you to demonstrate a greater sense of responsibility and restraint during your discourse because you wield tremendous influence on the minds of millions of your followers the wor read more »
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Yesterday Civic Improvement Committee led by shiv sena proposed the revision in the policy for development of open spaces in mumbai. As per the revision open land will be given to private developers and corporates as a caretaker and in addition (to be read as “in return”) 25% of the land will be allotted to them for building swimming pools, health clubs, restaurants and other ancillaries. This ca read more »
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Children are tossed from a height of 20 feet in the premises of a temple in Maharashtra, in the belief that it would enhance the kids' physical health and stamina. read more »
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I guess that every lit bit helps ...

Maybe they should combine this with the global warming issue ;-)

COME December, cigarette packs will be required to carry pictorial warnings covering up to 50 per cent of the display area on the box as per the Indian Tobacco Control Act 2003.

Lobbies in favour of pictorial warnings are hopeful that this will have the same impact here as it did in Can read more »
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'Saala ek chotasa virus aadmi ko ...'

WARNING

The conjunctivitis infection sweeping Mumbai could even lead to paralysis in certain cases, experts have cautioned.

Warning citizens not to take the infection lightly, they said Mumbai had a history of conjunctivitis epidemics, some of which resulted in cross-infection and even left patients paralysed.

"Not many know that the innocuous read more »
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If you think of life as a great struggle, or the world as a battlefield where you have to compete with and overcome others, you will turn yourself into a warrior who has no room for peace or reconciliation in life. Then if you seek freedom or happiness, you will look for it beyond this life, not while you are living. The world that appears outside you is in fact a reflection, a mirror image, of h read more »
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The Maharashtra government will today take a major step in rural healthcare. To provide effective healthcare to villages, the government is embarking on an ambitious doctor-in-every-village scheme.rn read more »
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Trees cool the area, give out oxygen and absorb dust, noise and carbon dioxide. They control floods by retaining soil, thus preventing it from flowing down the river. Trees give nesting place to birds and today due to rampant tree cutting they have lost their natural habitat. It is said that many philosophers attained wisdom while sitting under a tree. Maybe the instant fresh oxygen helped! It is read more »
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Exactly 24 hours after Walkeshwar businessman Ashok Thakkar died of heamorrhagic fever caused by dengue the medical superintendent of Jaslok Hospital Dr JP Sharma wrote to the D ward medical health officer Dr M D Pradhan, notifying death due to dengue.

But till twelve days after not only did the BMC refuse to take any preventive action or notify dengue in the city--conveniently ignoring rising read more »
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The number of people infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in India has taken a sharp dip from 5.2 million to 2.5 million, Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss said on Friday.

Surprising, isn't it? Normal population double or half the infected people died during this year? Or seriously people are improved ethically.
With this rate of decline, we may not even need to find cure for read more »
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has said that nearly one-fourth of the milk produced in Maharashtra is adulterated. FDA officials collected samples from 866 dairies across the state between April 1, 2006 and May 31, 2007 of which 151 samples were found to be adulterated. Maharashtra produces 60 lakh litres of milk daily. read more »
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