BOSTON: Mitt Romney adopted a mixed bag of immigration policies during his four years as Massachusetts governor.
He fought against in-state college tuition rates for illegal immigrants, pushed hard to give state troopers expanded powers to arrest those in the country illegally, and championed English-only classes for bilingual education students.
Yet Romney also showed a more compassionate side, personally interceding on...
NEW YORK: India is fast becoming world's capital of diabetes, cardio vascular diseases and cancer. Its time government and physicians of Indian-origin jointly devised an action plan to reverse this trend, said Dr Pratap C. Reddy, President of Global Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (GAPIO).
Addressing the two-day mid-year conference of GAPIO at Westin New Port Hotel and Convention...
WASHINGTON: From dark days to a critical turning point in the AIDS epidemic: The landscape has changed dramatically in the two decades since the world's largest AIDS conference last met in the United States.
Back in 1990, the first good medicines were still a few years away. Before they arrived, caring for patients with HIV was like ``putting Band-Aids on...
NEW DELHI: WHO estimates that more than 5 million people in the WHO South-East Asia Region will die from the consequences of viral hepatitis in the next 10 years. There are an estimated 100 million people living with chronic hepatitis B infection and 30 million people with chronic hepatitis C infection in the Region.
WHO World Hepatitis Day was observed...
SACRAMENTO, CA: Two University of California, Davis neurosurgeons have been banned from performing medical research on humans after they were accused of experimenting on dying brain cancer patients without university permission, the Sacramento Bee reported.r and Rudolph Schrot were banned from any research on humans after the university told the federal government that both surgeons took part in what...
NEW DELHI: India should introduce plain packaging of tobacco products with increased size of pictorial health warning carrying gory pictures to mitigate the tobacco epidemic, according to recommendations by a task force, which presented a policy document to the government.
The Australia-India Institute (AII) Taskforce on Tobacco Control said that over 70 per cent people in a survey sought introduction...
The search for home goes so very, very deep in the human psyche. Throughout all human history it has expressed itself in every single facet of our lives – in our art, our music, our science, our mathematics, our literature, our philosophy, in our quest for love, in our spirituality.Male and female seek each other, try to complete themselves...
All seeking is futile. Sentient beings are attached to forms and so seek externally for Buddhahood. By their very seeking they lose it. There is no way to Buddhahood, and, as such, cannot be studied: You must not allow this name (The Way) to lead you into forming a mental concept of a road.
Seeking enlightenment is a roadblock to...
Director of “Barfi”, Anurag Basu reveals that if Ranbir Kapoor would have said NO to the film, “Barfi” wouldn’t have been made.Said Basu in a statement, “If Ranbir wouldn’t have done this movie, I wouldn’t have made it. I always had Ranbir in my mind for this role. Even on the day when I was writing the 10th page...
The shots of Kareena Kapoor smoking in the trailer of the film 'Heroine' have been censored.All the scenes where Kareena is blowing smoke in the air have been blurred out. The Censor board says there will not be any smoking scene because the 'disclaimer' is not there in the trailer. In the full length film, there has to be...