New Delhi, August 22 : President Pratibha Devi Singh Patil, Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansariand Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday congratulated Vijender Kumar for capturing the bronze medal in the boxing middleweight 75 Kilograms division at the Beijing Olympics.

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New Delhi, Aug. 22 : Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Dr. Anubmani Ramadoss said on Friday that no policy can be effective without taking into consideration the social reality of exclusion.

Pointing to the huge cor-relation between the low health indicators and the fact of social deprivation among the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, other backward sections and minorities, Dr. Ramadoss said that development has to be an all inclusive process. He said that without including deprived sections, growth could not be termed as real.

New Delhi, August 22: Authorities in Beijing claim that food supplies for the Olympics are "100 percent" safe, and that not even one accident has been reported thus far.

Tang Yunhua, spokeswoman for food safety coordination with the Beijing Food Safety Administration Office, has revealed that supervisors have monitored over 1.6 million shares of food since the Olympics started.

New Delhi - Tata Motors said Friday it would move its low cost Nano car project out of India's communist-ruled eastern West Bengal state if violent protests over the plant persisted.

The move would come at a great cost to the company, its shareholders and the state, Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata said at a televised media briefing at the state capital Kolkata.