Medical representatives around the world are not fully equipped to meet the changing needs of doctors on upgraded medicine, revealed a study on Tuesday.


Medical representatives not equipped to meet doctors' changing needs


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The Ayush Ministry alone has spent Rs 34.50 crore on the International Yoga Day in the past two years, it said in reply to an RTI application, adding that data on expenditure by other ministries is not available.


Ayush Ministry spent Rs 34.50 crore on Yoga Day in two years


Super 30, a free coaching centre which helps children of the poorest of the poor get into the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), has joined hands with a non-resident Indian for financial help.


Saudi-based NRI to fund Super 30 initiative for free IIT-JEE coaching


Nine of India's poorest states -- home to 581 million or 48 per cent of the population -- account for 70 per cent of the country's infant deaths, 75 per cent of under-five deaths and 62 per cent of maternal deaths, but do not spend even the money they have set aside for healthcare, according to an IndiaSpend analysis of 2017 Reserve Bank of India data on state budgets.


Why 581 mn Indians endure the country's worst healthcare


Drawing inspiration from Bollywood movie "Munna Bhai M.B.B.S.", a Delhi University student sought to cheat in the  Faculty of Law's LLB course entrance exam here, but was caught, the police said on Monday.


DU student held for cheating in law faculty entrance exam


An unknown rare pencil portrait of Mahatma Gandhi, drawn by artist John Henry Amshewitz and inscribed by Gandhi, is set to be offered at Sothebys London on July 11.


Rare portrait, unpublished letters of Gandhi on sale


The Supreme Court on Monday allowed a Kolkata-based expectant mother with 26-week-old pregnancy to abort the foetus which is suffering from serious abnormalities.


SC directs termination of 26-week-old pregnancy with abnormal foetus


The national capital was battered by heavy rains on Sunday morning, flooding the streets and disrupting normal life.


Flooded streets as monsoon hits national capital


More than a week after an 11-year-old boy died in a six-feet (1.83 metres) deep compost pit in a park here, many of the 700 compost pits in parks across the city still remain unprotected, becoming death traps for children.


After child's death - 700 compost pits in Delhi parks remain life-threatening


The introduction of the world's first emergency call telephone number 80 years ago was celebrated on Saturday by police forces across Britain.


World's oldest emergency phone line marks 80th anniversary


After the countrywide launch of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) on Friday midnight, many businessmen in Delhi-NCR on Saturday seemed confused about the new indirect tax regime, with some even refraining from buying and selling any products.


Confused about GST rates, many refrain from doing business


Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Saturday sanctioned Rs 3,56,700 from the Chief Minister's Relief Fund, on humanitarian grounds, to facilitate the return of a Gurdaspur resident from a ship he is stuck in at Sharjah Port.


Amarinder sanctions Rs 3.56 lakh for Punjab youth stuck in Sharjah


Disabled people here on Friday organised a candle light vigil against the Goods and Services Tax (GST) on their helping aids and appliances and demanded subsidies, concessions and incentives.


Disabled people protest against GST on helping aids


Enthusiastic people could be seen clicking selfies and pictures with decorated Parliament House in the background as a posse of policemen looked on in rapt attention.


Parliament decked up for GST rollout


Traffic movement on the busy Hero Honda Chowk on the Delhi-Gurugram expressway was eased on Friday evening after authorities opened a flyover for motorists coming from Jaipur to Delhi and vice versa, an official said.


Flyover on expressway helps ease traffic on Hero Honda Chowk


Bihar is likely to declare Sitamarhi and Rohtas as the first two open defecation free (ODF) districts in July 2017, followed by one or two districts by the end of this year, officials said on Friday.


Bihar set to declare two districts ODF soon


Ride-hailing app Uber announced it has completed over 5 billion trips.


Uber completes over 5 bn trips


Japanese tech giant Sony announced on Thursday it will resume vinyl production after suspending it in 1989.


Sony to resume vinyl production


The Delhi High Court on Wednesday commuted to life term the death sentence awarded to a dacoit Sonu Sardar, guilty of murder of five persons, including two children, in Chhattisgarh in 2004.


HC commutes death penalty of dacoit Sonu Sardar to life term


With the arrival of the monsoon season, major domestic airlines have announced special fares starting as low as Rs 699.


Domestic airlines offer monsoon special fares


Delhi Police on Wednesday saved the life of a mentally unstable person, who had climbed an over 50-feet high-voltage electric pole in the national capital.

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