Indian School Principal Who Didn’t Remit Students’ Examination Fees Hangs Himself

A young school principal in Bangalore, capital of the southern Indian state of Karnataka, hanged himself Friday, apparently overpowered by guilt.
Vivek Vardhan, 29, had failed to remit examination fees collected from students to the government, thus preventing them from sitting for their examinations.
When repeated knocks on his doors by the maid went unanswered, friends and [...]

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Indian School Principal Who Didn’t Remit Students’ Examination Fees Hangs Himself

A young school principal in Bangalore, capital of the southern Indian state of Karnataka, hanged himself Friday, apparently overpowered by guilt.
Vivek Vardhan, 29, had failed to remit examination fees collected from students to the government, thus preventing them from sitting for their examinations.
When repeated knocks on his doors by the maid went unanswered, friends and [...]

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11-year-old Girl Dies of Diabetes in US as Parents Opt to Pray and Not Take Her to Doctor

Blind faith has claimed the life of a 11-year-old girl in the state of Wisconsin in the US. Her parents chose to pray instead of taking her to hospital.
Madeline Neumann died Sunday of a treatable form of diabetes, known as diabetic ketoacidosis, a condition that leaves too little insulin in the body.
The poor girl had [...]

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Gene Mutation may Be Underlying Cause of Schizophrenia

Researchers at the University of Washington and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories have found a link between genetic errors and schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia is a debilitating psychiatric disorder in which people suffer from hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized thinking, and are at risk for unusual or bizarre behaviours.
Researchers found that deletions and duplications of DNA are more common in [...]

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Scientists Reveal How Dengue Virus Matures, Becomes Infectious

Biologists at Purdue University have found how the dengue virus matures and becomes infectious.
Dengue is prevalent in Southeast Asia, Central America and South America. The virus, which is spread by mosquitoes, infects more than 50 million people annually, killing about 24,000 each year, primarily in tropical regions.
The researchers found that critical changes take place as [...]

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Scientists Reveal How Dengue Virus Matures, Becomes Infectious

Biologists at Purdue University have found how the dengue virus matures and becomes infectious.
Dengue is prevalent in Southeast Asia, Central America and South America. The virus, which is spread by mosquitoes, infects more than 50 million people annually, killing about 24,000 each year, primarily in tropical regions.
The researchers found that critical changes take place as [...]

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Restoring Rainforests is a Realistic Possibility

A new research has determined that it may be possible to restore a tropical rainforest ecosystem.
Carried out by researchers from the Boyce Thompson Institute in US, the research involved planting a sampling of local trees, native species in worn-out cattle fields in Costa Rica.
The results revealed that the newly planted native species began to move [...]

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Pammy Still ‘traumatised’ by Leech Attack

Leeches might have proven to be the beauty secret for Demi Moore, but they were certainly traumatising for Pamela Anderson, who was attacked by the blood-sucking organisms while swimming in a lake as a child.
Showing of her scars, the Baywatch hottie spoke up after Demi Moore revealed on The David Letterman Show that her latest [...]

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S.Africa Launches TB Tracer Teams

South Africa on Friday launched a four million dollar programme to track down tuberculosis patients who have defaulted treatment, leading to resistant strains of the illness.
Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, speaking in the Northern Cape on TB Day, said all nine provinces had established TB tracer teams of nurses and community health workers to follow up [...]

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Britney Undergoing Colon Cleansing Sessions to Detox

Britney Spears’ is reportedly undergoing regular colon cleansing sessions in a bid to improve her messy lifestyle.
According to sources, the singer is having lingering traces of Frappucino and Cheeto flushed out of her system at a Beverly Hills clinic as part of a new health kick.
“Cleansing a few times a week gets rid of lingering [...]

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