MUMBAI: Sounding alarm bells that chronic diseases afflicting millions of people in India will pull down economic growth by one per cent, a drive has been launched to lower the toll of chronic diseases in the country with help of doctors, NGOs and pharma companies.

Section 245(k) of the Immigration & Nationality Act (INA) is a great boon for aliens who are applicants for adjustment of status to permanent residence (Form I-485), but have violated their status for less than 180 or less days from their last lawful admission.

NEW DELHI: As the government intensified its relief efforts in flood-affected Bihar, the armed forces rushed 80 more divers and 50 boats to join the rescue mission.

NEW JERSEY: Zee TV celebrated its 10th Anniversary in the US with Zee Carnival at the Meadowlands Expo Center in New Jersey this Labor Day weekend.

Statuesque. That is the first adjective that comes to mind when you first see her. Tall, nattily dressed, not a hair out of place; not a crease on her stylish black dress, not a speck of dirt on her gleaming lavender stilettos. Then you look at her tag: Parool K Shah, Director, Public Relations, Rancho Mirage Ritz-Carlton, Palm Springs, California.

If you focus the rays of the sun through a lens, they can burn cotton or a piece of paper; but, the scattered rays cannot do this act. If you want to talk to a man at a distance, you make a funnel of your hand and speak. The sound-waves are collected at one point and then directed towards the man.

NEW YORK: Leander Paes completed a career mixed doubles Grand Slam with Zimbabwe's Cara Black to beat Britain's Jamie Murray and American Liezel Huber 7-6 (8/6), 6-4 in the US Open final.