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100 killed as Nigerian jet 'mistakenly' bombed refugee camp

 More than 100 people have been killed after a Nigerian military jet mistakenly bombed a refugee camp in Borno state in northeastern Nigeria. The Independent quoted aid organisations and the local......

Gates Foundation to help fight kala azar in Bihar

 There is good news for the hundreds of people sufferingfrom the deadly kala azar (black fever) in Bihar's flood affected areas. The Washington-basedGates Foundation, the California-basedInstitute......

NRI driver sentenced for killing medical student

 A non-resident Indian driver, who sped off after knocking down a medical student on a pedestrian crossing in the central English city of Birmingham, has been sentenced to 18 months in......

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The Rohingya conundrum

 Syed Tashfin Chowdhury reports on the growing plight of the Rohingya community, which has been forced to seek refuge in Bangladesh and India, following the two-month-old violence in Myanmar.Last......

Wait for cheaper drugs might get longer

 Lobby group tells USTR it has got assurance from India on compulsory licensing. While the Budget is supposed to be aiming for mass availability of low-priced indigenous drugs, indications from US......

Why is Jairam Ramesh upset?

 Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh is unhappy. Reason: foreign agencies provide health services to people in Naxal-affected areas, which is something the government should be doing as its......

Patent offices come under lens

 Public interest groups and health advocacy firms have raised doubts over the validity of several medicine patents that have been granted by Indian patent offices in recent times. The medicines......

Pfizer first MNC to get HIV drug patent in India

 Global drug major Pfizer's new HIV/AIDS drug Celzentry (generic name: Maraviroc) has become the first known HIV/AIDS treatment drug to get a patent in India, in a significant development against......

WHO works on cheaper R&D for India

 Even as Indian pharmaceutical majors like Glenmark, Ranbaxy and Dr Reddys are hoping to come out with new drugs through in-house research and development (R&D), the World Health Organisation (WHO)......

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