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India lacks quality renal care: kidney foundation

by Indo-Asian News Service March 13, 2008 Health

Kidney patients in India do not have access to quality renal care, due to lack of infrastructure, awareness about the disease and methods of prevention, according to the Indian Renal Foundation (IRF).
Mobilising public awareness about the disease, which is crippling in nature, would help in preventing it, IRF chairman Chinnubhai R. Shah told reporters here [...]

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Gujarat potato plus McCain Foods is McDonald’s Indian French fry

by Indo-Asian News Service March 8, 2008 Business

Millions of consumers in India munch McDonald’s French fry, also called Mac Fry, every day. But many of them might not be knowing that the potato they relish comes from Gujarat, thanks to an initiative by the Indian subsidiary of US multinational McCain Foods.
McCain Foods India (MFI) processes and supplies frozen potato products from its [...]

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12 killed in Ahmedabad hotel collapse

by Indo-Asian News Service February 3, 2008 India News

At least a dozen people were killed and several injured when a three-storied hotel collapsed here Sunday morning.
The hotel is located opposite the city railway junction and can accommodate 120 people.
City municipal commissioner I.P. Gautam said there could be more casualties.
Fire brigade officials have deployed cranes at the site to remove the debris. The reason [...]

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The battle lines have been drawn, says defiant Vanzara

by admin May 5, 2007 India News

Ahmedabad, May 5 (IANS) In a clear indication that he was not going to take the charges against him lying down, arrested Gujarat police officer D.G. Vanzara maintained Saturday that the accusations of staged killings against him were concocted.

Talking informally to reporters while he was sitting in the court along with two other arrested police [...]

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Remand for three cops, Congress demands Modi’s resignation

by admin April 26, 2007 India News

Ahmedabad, April 25 (IANS) The three senior police officers arrested in Gujarat for killing a Muslim man after wrongly terming him a terrorist were Wednesday remanded in a seven-day police custody even as the opposition Congress demanded Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s resignation.

D.G. Vanjhara and Rajkumar Pandyan of the Gujarat police and Dinesh Kumar of the [...]

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IIMs to decide on admission soon

by admin April 24, 2007 India News

Ahmedabad, April 23 (IANS) The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) Monday said they would take a decision on the admission process at the earliest now that there was some “clarity” after the Supreme Court rejected the government’s plea to vacate the stay on a law providing for quota in higher education.
“There was some lack of [...]

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IIM Ahmedabad hikes fees

by admin March 31, 2007 India News

Ahmedabad, March 31 (IANS) The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA) Saturday announced a nearly 12 percent fee hike for its prestigious two-year post-graduate programme.

“The IIMA has decided to hike its fees for PGP (post-graduate programme) by 12 percent,” Vijaypat Sighania, chairman of the IIMA board of directors, told reporters.
“The IIMA board of directors has [...]

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IIM-A to follow apex court ruling on quota

by admin March 31, 2007 India News

Ahmedabad, March 31 (IANS) The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA) will not implement new cast-based reservation policy from the next academic year if the Supreme Court stay on the issue is not vacated.

“This institute will not violate any law of the land,” IIMA board of directors chairman Vijaypat Singhania told reporters here.
The Supreme Court [...]

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