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BL KAK
NEW DELHI, Apr 25:
Abortion and miscarriage. Do they increase the risk of breast cancer? "No", according to a Harvard study in Monday's Archives of Internal Medicine. Karin Michels of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston has been quoted as saying: "If you look at the high-quality evidence, it does not support an association between induced abortions and breast cancer".
The study also supports earlier findings in 2003 by a panel of experts from the National Cancer Institute that having an abortion does not increase a woman's risk of getting breast cancer. What evidence shows in the new study is that childbearing b... | |
| | | | Guns fall silent in UP for first time | | | | BL KAK
NEW DELHI, Apr 25:
"We have done well in four exams and there are three more papers to go". These words have come from the Chief Election Commissioner, N Gopalaswami. Four phases of the Assembly polls are over. The polls have been, for the first time, been almost violence-free.
The guns have fallen silent and not a single instance of violence has been reported from the four phases of polling so far. i is generally felt that the phenomenon has been due to 18 months of planning done by the Election Commission to micro manage each of the 403 constituencies. For the first time in India’s electoral history the concept of vulnerability mapping... | |
| | | | Overcrowded mini-bus goes down the gorge yet again | | | | Jammu, April 25:
At least thirty four bus passengers were killed and fifteen others were injured in a road accident in the border district of Poonch on Wednesday morning.
According to reports, 34 persons including 4 infants traveling in a mini bus died and fifteen others were injured, seven among them critically, when their bus skidded off the road and fell deep in the Poonch river around 10.20 a.m near Kalai bridge in the border district of Poonch.
Seven critically injured bus passengers Murtaza Khan,Bag Hussain,Sajjad Ahmed.Mohd Shakeel,Fareeda Bi,Chengaz Khan, Rashida Bi were later airlifted to Jammu for specialized treatment.
Though the exact cause of the accident was yet ... | |
| | | | Fresh KAS result triggers old debate, Kashmiris rue dominance of Jammuites | | Want the selection list 70 percent Muslim, 30 percent Hindus | | | Abhishek
Jammu, Apr 25
Is it a political ploy or the grudge of certain disgruntled elements that the declaration of the KAS aspirants has once again created a row among Kashmir and Jammu.
For the uninitiated the declaration of Kashmir Administrative Services result by the Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission, which is still subject to a Supreme Court order has come under criticism in the Kashmir valley over the dominance of Jammu based candidates in this examination.
It seems that certain disgruntled political elements and intelligentsia with Kashmir based mindset want to see the Kashmir Adminsitrative Services literally to be the domain of Kashmiris and that too living within... | |
| | | | WGs recommendations to be implemented in two months: Azad | | ‘Peace, progress to go hand in hand’ | | | Srinagar, April 25
Chief Minister Mr. Ghulam Nabi Azad said on Wednesday that recommendations of working groups would be implemented to provide succour to the people of the state. “Within next two months the process of implementation will begin”.
Addressing a massive public rally at Larnoo, 110 kms from here in South Kashmir, he said that the marathon Delhi roundtable conference, presided over by Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh yesterday, deliberated upon the recommendations for over 10 hours. He said besides other matters rehabilitation of militancy victims, orphans, widows, destitutes and those rendered unemployed also came up for discussion. He said matters pertaining to facilitat... | |
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