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Way back in 1973, the first satellite cancer registry was set up in Pune. Today, the registry is located in the Preventive and Social Medicine department of Sassoon General hospital, with only two social workers collecting data

Move follows poor survival rate of saplings taken by institutes and organisations In consideration of the low survival rate and 'misuse' of the saplings given by the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) and the Forest Department to institutes and organisations during plantation drives, the VMC has decided to put a break on this by introducing a monitoring system.

The National Institute of Design (NID) has, for the time being, decided not to take institutional action against Utsav Sharma, the 29-year-old student who stabbed former Haryana Police chief S S P Rathore outside a court in Chandigarh on Monday.

A student preparing for engineering entrance examination was killed and over a dozen others were injured during a violent protest in Patna against private coaching centres, which the students alleged were minting money but not completing courses before commencement of entrance tests.

When a public telephone booth metamorphoses into a local cybercafé, there is a revolution afoot. In the late 1990s, many such small but significant changes were taking place in Delhi's landscape.

When Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi refers to the Tamil film fraternity as his extended family, the allusion is quite literal.

Stepping up protests against the screening of Shah Rukh Khan-starrer My Name is Khan, Shiv Sena activists today vandalised nine theatres in the eastern suburbs of Mumbai.

Police will fan out across theatres screening My Name is Khan, frisk viewers and keep an eye on Shiv Sena activists everywhere, following Tuesday's attacks.

With Union Home Minister P Chidambaram giving a clean chit to the Trinamool Congress which the CPM had accused of maintaining links with the Maoists, the ruling party in the state today sought to play down the minister's remarks saying he was just sticking to his coalition dharma.

MMCB scam : CBI can probe all angles in the case... if Cong has evidence they can approach court, says Amit Shah Senior Congress leader and party spokesperson Arjun Modhwadia today demanded sacking of Minister of State for Home Amit Shah, alleging that he had taken a bribe of Rs 2.5 crore to help Ketan Parekh— the man involved in the Rs 1,600-crore Madhavpura Mercantile Cooperative Bank scam.

The doctor hired to care for Michael Jackson was charged on Monday with killing the pop star after a lengthy investigation that found a lethal cocktail of drugs in the singer's system when he died last year.

Los Angeles prosecutors on Monday charged Michael Jackson's doctor with involuntary manslaughter in the pop singer's sudden death last year from a lethal cocktail of drugs.

Fantasy "Avatar" and war movie "The Hurt Locker" claimed nine Oscar nominations each on Tuesday, including best film, pitting the two against one another as front-runners for the world's highest film honors.

Oscar voters broke with several traditions on Tuesday, including handing nominations for best film to two science-fiction movies, among them box-office smash hit "Avatar," which earned nine nominations overall.

Science-fiction adventure "Avatar" and war movie "The Hurt Locker" on Tuesday earned nine Oscar nominations each, including best movie, to lead the field in the competition for the world's highest film honors.

The Uttar Pradesh police on Monday made the first arrest in a fraud case against a US telecom infrastructure firm run by American diplomat JDJ Zeitlin.

Arun Khanvilkar, the Anti Terrorism Squad senior inspector arrested by the Anti Corruption Bureau on Friday for allegedly collecting money from a lottery shop owner from Kandivli, was also accused in a graft case in 2003.

Stay away from people who ?pose as media persons?, they can trap you in a sting operation, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has told its sleuths.

New Delhi, Feb. 9 -- He handled some of the most high profile crime cases in Delhi's history. He defended convicts Manu Sharma and Santosh Kumar Singh in Jessica Lall and Priyadarshini Mattoo cases respectively. In the end, he was allegedly bludgeoned by his own brother-in-law. After fighting for his life for 15 days, noted criminal lawyer R.K.

Stepping up their campaign against drink driving, the traffic police arrested 116 offenders on Sunday night; 35 of them were between 26 and 30 years old. Hindustan Times is partnering them in the campaign.