It was recently reported in a British daily that the Booker award winner ‘Aravind Adiga’ sacked his agent who helped him in winning the august prize. The 34 year old Aravind recently bagged the most coveted award in literary arena for his debut book, 'The White Tiger'.
The ENT department of Apollo Hospital conducted a total of 18 cochlear operations on stone deaf children on Friday. The operations which were funded by the Rajiv Arogyasri programme of the government, was done successfully on children between the age group 2 to 9 years who for the first time ever will be able to hear and talk.
After 3,988 cases and 49 deaths because of dengue being reported across the nation except few states, it is now the State of Punjab which is falling under the grip of it. Number of hospitals are getting cases from across the state who are now finding it difficult to manage the inflow of patients.
The difficulty is all the more aggravated as the government hospitals are not properly equipped with the facilities required and the patients are now being sent to PGI in Chandigarh or private medical college hospitals in Ludhiana. It has been reported that more than 50,000 cases approximately has come up.
The infamous Aarushi murder case which happened in Noida on May 16 took another turn when the important records were reported missing from the Noida district government hospital. The files in which the pathology tests of the deceased were kept, held the cue as to whether the girl was sexually assaulted by the suspects or not were vanished.
Hamburg - Rafael Nadal of Spain led the way in the men's tennis rankings, with the latest list published on Monday by the ATP seeing an unchanged top 10.
Nadal, who has already clinched the prestigious year-ending top spot for the first time in his career, has 7,100 points.
Former number one Roger Federer, who won a third straight home title at the Swiss Indoors in Basle on Sunday, is second with 5,805 points, and third-ranked Serb Novak Djokovic has 4,575 points.
Vienna- The price for crude oil produced by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) fell below 60 dollars Friday, despite the cartel's decision to curb production.
Growing recession fears sent stock markets and oil prices downward, with one barrel (159 litres) of OPEC crude standing at 57.57 dollars Friday, 2.70 dollars lower than on the previous day, according to data provided by OPEC on Monday.
The 19-month low came on the same day that OPEC oil ministers decided at an emergency meeting in Vienna to cut their total output by 1.5 million barrels per day from November 1, in order to stop the oil price from falling.
It was recently reported in a British daily that the Booker award winner ‘Aravind Adiga’ sacked his agent who helped him in winning the august prize. The 34 year old Aravind recently bagged the most coveted award in literary arena for his debut book, 'The White Tiger'. 
The ENT department of Apollo Hospital conducted a total of 18 cochlear operations on stone deaf children on Friday. The operations which were funded by the Rajiv Arogyasri programme of the government, was done successfully on children between the age group 2 to 9 years who for the first time ever will be able to hear and talk.
After 3,988 cases and 49 deaths because of dengue being reported across the nation except few states, it is now the State of Punjab which is falling under the grip of it. Number of hospitals are getting cases from across the state who are now finding it difficult to manage the inflow of patients.
The infamous Aarushi murder case which happened in Noida on May 16 took another turn when the important records were reported missing from the Noida district government hospital. The files in which the pathology tests of the deceased were kept, held the cue as to whether the girl was sexually assaulted by the suspects or not were vanished.
Hamburg - Rafael Nadal of Spain led the way in the men's tennis rankings, with the latest list published on Monday by the ATP seeing an unchanged top 10.
Vienna- The price for crude oil produced by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) fell below 60 dollars Friday, despite the cartel's decision to curb production.
