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WHO South-East Asia Region calls on member states to raise awareness about heart health

New Delhi, Sep 28 (PTI) On the eve of World Heart Day, WHO South-East Asia Region urged its member states to join the global call to raise awareness about heart health and accelerate actions to prevent, detect and manage cardiovascular diseases. The region is home to a quarter of the world’s population, said WHO Regional Director for South-East Asia Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh. It is experiencing a very high burden of noncommunicable diseases, she said and added that cardiovascular diseases are responsible for 3.9 million or 30 per cent of all deaths annually. ”Alarmingly, almost half (48 per cent) of

SBI employees of Himachal Pradesh donate over Rs 77 lakh to state relief fund

Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India], September 28 (ANI): The employees of State Bank of India (SBI) in Himachal Pradesh have contributed Rs 77,29,825 towards Aapda Rahat Kosh-2023 as part of their one-day salary. Chief General Manager SBI Vinod Jaiswal presented a cheque to Chief Minister Thakur Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu here on Thursday. Apart from this, the SBI has also provided an ambulance to the state government which will play a vital role in delivering swift medical aid during emergencies and disaster like situations. CM Sukhu commended the dedication of the SBI employees towards the welfare of the society and said that

M.S. Swaminathan, ‘father’ of India’s green revolution, dies at 98

NEW DELHI, Sept 28 (Reuters) – Indian agricultural scientist Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan, who ushered a “Green Revolution” in India nearly six decades ago that helped end famine and transformed the country as a top producer of wheat, died on Thursday aged 98. Swaminathan died at his home in southern India’s Chennai city following age-related illness, local media reported. He revolutionised farming in the 1960s when China was engulfed in a deadly famine and India barely got by on hand-to-mouth imports. Back then, Swaminathan was a young scientist who turned down plum positions in academia and the government to work in

India imposes curfew in strife-hit areas of Manipur state

India imposes curfew in strife-hit areas of Manipur state

GUWAHATI/NEW DELHI, Sept 28 (Reuters) – India imposed curfew in the capital and some areas of its restive state of Manipur on Thursday, after scores of students were injured in violence following protests against the alleged abduction and murder of two students, authorities said. Ethnic violence has plunged the northeastern state bordering Myanmar into what many security experts describe as an intense civil war fought over land, jobs and political clout between its two largest local groups. Imposed Curfew Amidst Chaos “Indefinite curfew had to be implemented in Imphal and in some other districts,” L. Kailun, a senior police official based

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