Specially-abled student tops school

Specially-abled student tops school

Keshav Sutar | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Keshav Sutar with his parents Gayatri and Vishnu Sutar. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Specially-abled student Keshav Vishnu Sutar of Shri Shanteshwar High School has topped in the school by securing 586 marks out of 625 in the SSLC examinations. Keshav had a normal birth but started losing … Read more

Kollam tops in Jal Jeevan Mission works with 2,13,339 connections

Kollam tops in Jal Jeevan Mission works with 2,13,339 connections

Drinking water will be provided to all households in rural areas by 2024-25, Minister for Water Resources Roshy Augustine has said. Chairing a review meeting of the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) and related drinking water projects in the district, he said that 14 lakh connections had been provided across the State under the JJM. Kollam … Read more

Gujarat elections | 330 of 1,621 candidates have criminal records; AAP tops with 61, says ADR report

Gujarat elections | 330 of 1,621 candidates have criminal records; AAP tops with 61, says ADR report

Cutouts of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal at a Election material related store in Surat, Gujarat on November 19. | Photo Credit: Vijay Soneji As many as 330 of 1,621 candidates, or around 20%, contesting the next month’s Gujarat Assembly elections have criminal cases registered against them, … Read more

S24 Parganas in Bengaluru employs embroidery artisans from Bengal

S24 Parganas in Bengaluru employs embroidery artisans from Bengal

During the first Covid-induced lockdown in 2020, Bengaluru-based entrepreneur Sosha Thomas received a call from an embroidery artisan in need of help. “He used to work with me earlier, and had lost his job due to the pandemic. He was expecting his first child and did not want to go to his village in West … Read more

In U.S., Price Tag for MS Care Tops $85 Billion

In U.S., Price Tag for MS Care Tops  Billion

By Robert Preidt HealthDay ReporterHealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, April 14, 2022 (HealthDay News) — In 2019 alone, multiple sclerosis (MS) cost Americans an estimated $85.4 billion, a new study finds. That amount included over $63 billion in direct medical costs and $22 billion in indirect non-medical costs. “The findings of this study help underscore the burden … Read more

Digital health mission: Indore tops in issuing e-health IDs – ET HealthWorld

Digital health mission: Indore tops in issuing e-health IDs – ET HealthWorld

INDORE: All districts in the state have failed to achieve target of making e-identity cards under round one of National Digital Health Mission till December 12, but Indore tops with around 65% achievement, shows record. The state health authorities have asked all districts to issue around 7,500 e-identity cards to residents under round 1 of … Read more

COVID Death Toll Tops 5 Million Worldwide

COVID Death Toll Tops 5 Million Worldwide

MONDAY, Nov. 1, 2021 (HealthDay News) — The worldwide death toll from COVID-19 surpassed 5 million on Monday, and the more than 740,000 lives lost in the United States is the most of any nation, Johns Hopkins University data show. “This is a defining moment in our lifetime,” Dr. Albert Ko, an infectious disease … Read more

Mask Use by Americans Now Tops 90%, Poll Finds

Mask Use by Americans Now Tops 90%, Poll Finds

By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, Oct. 22, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Here’s good news for public health officials who’ve been hammering home the need to wear face masks: Your messages have been getting through. A new HealthDay/Harris Poll shows that more Americans than ever are donning face masks to protect … Read more

Coal miner’s daughter survives ISIS blast, tops country-wide university exam in Afghanistan

Coal miner’s daughter survives ISIS blast, tops country-wide university exam in Afghanistan

Eighteen-year-old Shamsia Alizada survived a deadly suicide-attack blast by ISIS on her academy two years ago. It killed more than 40 students and wounded numerous others. Scared, she briefly dropped out from Mawood Education Centre, but then went back with encouragement from her teachers. This deadly incident however couldn’t stop her from topping the university … Read more