VIJAYWADA: Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Sunday proposed to set up 100 health care ATMs in the state on a pilot basis to supply medicines to people at reasonable rates. Naidu said this during a review of the health department on various issues of health sector here today. Based on the response to the ATMs under the […]
» Read moreChennai: Veteran Tamil actor Manorama died of cardiac arrest late in the night on Saturday in Chennai. She was 78. Fondly called Aachi, Manorama has acted in more than 1,200 films and 1,000 plays. She set a Guinness record when she completed 1,000 films. Manorama has acted with five chief ministers including Anna Durai, M G Ramachandran, M Karunanidhi, N […]
» Read moreKabul: A Taliban suicide bomber targeted a Nato convoy in downtown Kabul on Sunday, triggering a powerful explosion in a rush-hour attack that comes just days after the resurgent militant group overran a key northern city. No casualties were immediately reported from the bombing, which sent a thick plume of smoke rising into the sky, as the Taliban ramp up […]
» Read moreLondon: Teenage Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai is considering leaving Britain to study for a politics degree at Stanford University in the US. The Pakistani schoolgirl survived a Taliban bullet to her head after being airlifted to Birmingham, where she now lives with her family. The 18-year-old has already made a visit to the California-based Ivy League university campus, ‘The Sunday […]
» Read moreNew Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday carried out searches at residential and official premises of liquor baron Vijay Mallya and his now defunct company Kingfisher Airlines at five places in connection with alleged default of an over Rs 900 crore loan from IDBI Bank. CBI sources said searches were carried out at the offices and residence […]
» Read moreANKARA: At least 86 people were killed when two suspected suicide bombers hit a rally of pro-Kurdish and leftist activists outside Ankara’s main train station on Saturday, weeks ahead of an election, in the deadliest attack of its kind on Turkish soil. Bodies covered by flags and banners, including those of the pro-Kurdish opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), lay scattered […]
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