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Electrical executive engineer booked for disproportionate assets in Patna

Patna (Bihar) [India], September 21 (ANI): The special Vigilance unit of Patna raided the house of an electrical executive engineer working in power department in Patna and unearthed assets highly disproportionate to his known source of income running into more than one crore rupees, the agency said in a statement. The sleuths carried out raids at the office and residential premises of the accused at the Banka, Purnia and Bhagalpur following a search warrant issued by the Ld Court of Special Judge Vigilance, Patna on September 19, as per officials. Following this, the agency filed a case against the accused,

Alcohol-related liver disease deaths almost 3 times more than cirrhosis

New Delhi, Sep 21 (Healio) Liver disease was the primary cause of death in patients with alcohol-related liver disease several years after diagnosis, with the risk for mortality almost three times higher in those with decompensated cirrhosis, according to research. “Patients with alcohol-related liver disease have a 1-year mortality risk of 25%, despite their young median age of 60 years,” Anna Emilie Kann, MD, of the gastroenterology and hepatology section at Zealand University Hospital in Denmark, and colleagues wrote in The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology. “Knowledge of the causes of death in patients with alcohol-related liver disease is essential in

Former Telecom GM, Nalanda Telecom Service proprietor sentenced to 5 years’ jail for corruption

New Delhi, Sep 20 (PTI) A Special Court in Patna has sentenced former GM (Telecom) B B Rai, former Telecom Divisional Engineer Rampati Chikhaiyar, and Nalanda Telecom Service proprietor Perwez Ahmad to five years rigorous imprisonment for corruption in a 27-year-old contract for repair of faulty EPBT cards, officials said Wednesday. The court also slapped a fine of Rs 6 lakh each on Rai and Chikhaiyar, and Rs 16 lakh on Ahmad, they said. The CBI had taken over the probe in the case on January 29, 1996, to investigate the allegations that Rai, while working as Director (Officiating) in

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