AIIMS bags highest budget share among medical colleges, hospitals | ummid.com.
India’s health budget has been hiked by 28 percent with Finance Minister P. Chidambaram allocating Rs.37,330 crore (Rs. $6962 million), with a special focus on medical education, training and research.
Women don’t need to veil, can travel alone: Saudi Mufti | ummid.com.
According to Al Arabiya, Sheikh Ahmed Bin Qassim al-Ghamdi, the former head of Mecca’s Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice committee, in statements posted on Twitter said: “It is permissible for people to look at what is not forbidden in women like their faces and their arms.”
Left Front set to retain power in Tripura | ummid.com.
Chief Minister Manik Sarkar was heading for victory from Dhaunpur in west Tripura while Finance Minister Badal Chowdhury and other cabinet colleagues were also leading against their Congress nominees.
Cops throw old couple off moving train, woman dead | ummid.com.
Sub-inspector Ram Chandar and constable Subhash of the GRP asked the couple where they were headed. The couple responded that they were on their way to Saharanpur, only to be told that they were on the Shatabdi Express, which does not halt at Saharanpur.
Researchers create detailed heart atlas | ummid.com.
“This atlas is a statistical description of how the heart and its components — such as the ventricles and the atrium — look,” Corne Hoogendoorn, researcher at Pompeu Fabra University’s CISTIB centre, told SINC, the news agency of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology FECYT.
19 students of Crescent Academy clear IAS Main Exam | ummid.com.
Nineteen students of Delhi-based Crescent Academy have successfully cleared the Main Exam of IAS Examination, 2012, the results of which were announced recently. In the Prelims (first stage) 30 students were successful.
Muslim youth selectively being targeted: Parliament told | ummid.com.
“There has been miscarriage of justice to scores of Muslim youths who were arrested and charged in cases related to terror attacks. In some cases, these young men have remained incarcerated for more than 10 to 15 years. Later, they were acquitted by the courts,” the CPI (M) group leader Basudeb Acharia said.
Press council chief urged to take action against bias media, stop Media trial | ummid.com.
Gen. Secretary of Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee Lateef Mohammed Khan in an open letter sent to the Press Council Chief, Justice (Rtrd.) Markandey Katju has urged him to take action against the ‘bias media’ and stop the Media Trial’ of the Muslim community.
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