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HIV positive children dream big… unaware of their ill health

By Prashant K. Nanda • Nov 30th, 2009
Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Hyderabad, Nov 30, Ignorance is bliss and this adage perhaps best suits a group of children in Andhra Pradesh who want to make it big by becoming doctors, engineers, pilots or even cricketers like “captain Dhoni”. But they are all HIV positive and don’t know about it.



HIV positive children dream big… unaware of their ill health

By Prashant K. Nanda • Nov 30th, 2009

Hyderabad, Nov 30, Ignorance is bliss and this adage perhaps best suits a group of children in Andhra Pradesh who want to make it big by becoming doctors, engineers, pilots or even cricketers like “captain Dhoni”. But they are all HIV positive and don’t know about it.



Green Games? Turning browns into greens is a tall order

By Prashant K. Nanda • Oct 15th, 2009

New Delhi, Oct 15, Will Delhi be able to green itself in time for the 2010 Commonwealth Games? With barely 11 months to go for the opening ceremony, there are no visible signs of the promised ‘Green Games’.



NIT-Warangal to become university with medical, law courses too

By Prashant K. Nanda • Sep 29th, 2009
Kapil Sibal

Warangal (Andhra Pradesh), Sep 29, After serving as a premier engineering school for 50 years, the National Institute of Technology (NIT)-Warangal is set to become a full-fledged university that will offer a host of courses, including medicine, law as well as postgraduate degrees in humanities and business economics.



Many gays opting for sex change: Doctors

By Prashant K. Nanda • Sep 24th, 2009

New Delhi, Sep 24, Even as gay activism grows in India and some slowly find the courage to come out of the closet, many from the community – especially the well educated and well heeled in the cities – are opting for expensive sex change procedures, say doctors.



Swine flu surge: Karnataka blames pollution, IT employees

By Prashant K. Nanda • Sep 12th, 2009

Bangalore, Sep 12, With the H1N1 virus claiming 53 lives in Karnataka, the state authorities are blaming frequently travelling IT professionals and pollution in cities like Bangalore for the surge in swine flu cases.



Old IIMs have ‘limited role’ in mentoring new ones

By Prashant K. Nanda • Sep 9th, 2009

New Delhi, Sep 9, Unlike the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), existing Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) won’t have much of a role in adopting and nurturing upcoming IIMs as they don’t have “much resources”.



CBSE Class 10 will have two semesters

By Prashant K. Nanda • Sep 8th, 2009

New Delhi, Sep 7, The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will divide the Class 10 into two semesters, as in management and engineering colleges, to make the evaluation process easier and smoother after board exams are scrapped from 2011.



IGNOU goes CBSE way in student evaluation

By Prashant K. Nanda • Sep 3rd, 2009

New Delhi, Sep 3, Here’s good news for 2.5 million students of the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). Their exam results are set to come in faster and they won’t have to travel all the way to Delhi in case they have a complaint.



India developing indigenous swine flu vaccine

By Prashant K. Nanda • Aug 9th, 2009

New Delhi, Aug 9, India is expected to be among the first few countries to develop an indigenous, injectable swine flu vaccine and the government has already invited health centres to carry out human trials, says a top health official.