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Nirmala Sitharaman, 3 other Indians among Forbes World’s 100 Most Powerful Women

New York, December 06, 2023: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, HCL Corporation Chairperson Roshni Nadar Malhotra, Steel Authority Of India Chairperson Soma Mondal and Biocon Executive Chairperson Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw are the four Indians among the 100 named in Forbes’ annual list of ‘The World’s Most Powerful Women’. Ranked at number 32, Sitharaman has made it to the list for the fifth time in a row. In 2022, the 64-year-old minister was ranked at number 36 on the list, while she was in the 37th spot in 2021, 41st in 2020 and 34th in 2019. In the profile, Forbes highlighted that Sitharman

India to probe Apollo Hospital Delhi’s alleged links to ‘cash for kidneys’ scandal

NEW DELHI/HYDERABAD, Dec 6 (Reuters) – India’s health ministry has ordered a probe into Apollo Hospital Delhi, part of largest private hospital chain Apollo Hospitals, after media reports linked it to the illegal sale by Myanmar nationals of their kidneys for organ transplants. The National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation, which falls under the health ministry, has asked Delhi Health Secretary S B Deepak Kumar to “get the matter examined, take appropriate action … and furnish an action-taken report within a week”, according to a letter seen by Reuters. A committee was being formed to probe the matter and details

Sign of diabetes could be hidden in your eyes

New Delhi, Dec 6 (Mirror) A common but perhaps little-known sign of diabetes could be hiding behind your eyes, a leading health charity has warned. If you’re struggling, however rarely, with blurred vision – an inability to see fine details without squinting, and a general loss of visual sharpness – a more serious medical condition may be at play. Diabetes mellitus, or just diabetes, causes a person’s blood sugar levels to become too high. Those diagnosed with diabetes are either unable to produce sufficient amounts of, or are resistant to, insulin – the hormone responsible for moving glucose out of

President Joe Biden tells donors: ‘If Trump wasn’t running I’m not sure I’d be running. We cannot let him win’

President Joe Biden

BOSTON (AP) — President Joe Biden told campaign donors Tuesday that he wasn’t sure he’d be running for reelection if Donald Trump wasn’t also in the race, warning that democracy is “more at risk in 2024” and that the former president and his allies are out to “destroy” democratic institutions. The president was using a trio of fundraisers to caution against what might happen should his predecessor again claim control of the White House, noting that Trump has described himself as his supporters’ “retribution” and has vowed to root out “vermin” in the country. “We’ve got to get it done,

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