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NEW DELHI: India’s World Cup hero and man of the tournament, Yuvraj Singh, has been diagnosed with cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy in the United States, his physiotherapist revealed on Sunday.
This was corroborated by sources in the family and in the Indian cricket board.
Yuvraj had earlier been detected with a tumour between his left lung and heart, which has since been termed malignant.
“He is suffering from cancer and this is the first stage. It’s curable and he will be fit to play in May. He will be back on the field very soon,” his physiotherapist Jatin Chaudhary told TOI.
BCCI officials, however, said the lay-off could be longer and that chemotherapy was scheduled to continue for nine weeks.
Family sources said Yuvi, who has made many comebacks into the Indian team, is determined to overcome the disease. They said the chemo sessions had begun and he had lost weight.
“He is showing common after-effects of the treatment – loss of appetite and nausea. He is anxious but also keen to fight the ailment,” a family source said.
TOUGH SPELL
Yuvraj has been in the US since January 26 for chemotherapy at Cancer Research Institute, Boston Tumour in lung detected earlier, now diagnosed as malignant.
Doctor says parts of tumour are just above artery of heart, 100% curable Physio Jatin Chaudhary says diagnosis delayed till Oct 2011 as first
MUNICH: After the first four “real” battlefields of land, air, sea and now increasingly space, India needs to get very serious about the virtual front as well. The country should begin planning a full-fledged military cyber command, instead of the current piecemeal and disjointed steps to bolster cyber-security, grappling as it already is with incessant online espionage and other attacks from China, Pakistan and others.
This was the clear takeaway from the deliberations on cyber-security and cyber-warfare in the high-profile Munich Security Conference on Sunday, even though India hardly figured in the discussions.
Experts said the emergence of “cyber-weapons” like the Stuxnet software ‘worm’ that was used to sabotage Iran’s nuclear programme over a year ago, had changed the entire security ballgame, almost on par with the use of nuclear bombs for the first time in 1945.
“Someone used a cyber-weapon in peacetime to physically destroy what the nation (Iran) would describe as its critical infrastructure. It was a new class of weapon that caused a thousand centrifuges in Iran to self-destruct,” said General (retd) Michael V Hayden, former director of the American CIA and National Security Agency.
Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt expressed fear that the risk of terrorists or others getting hold of cyber-weapons was possibly much higher than nuclear weapons. “Stealing and using Stuxnet might be more easy and dangerous than nuclear weapons,” he said.
Russian cyber expert Eugene Kaspersky,
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NEW DELHI: India is planning to make its undergraduate MBBS course six-and-a-half years long, instead of the present five-and-a-half years.
In a meeting on Saturday, health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and the Medical Council of India (MCI) discussed amending the MCI Act that would make a one-year rural posting compulsory for all MBBS students before they can become doctors. The proposal was first mooted by former health minister A Ramadoss in 2007.
Speaking to TOI, MCI chairman Dr K K Talwar said, “It is not that we have cleared the proposal. This was discussed on Saturday. In another two weeks time, we will prepare a module on how we can make MBBS doctors go and work in rural areas. The ministry will then take a call.”
Dr Talwar, however, cautioned, “We haven’t yet decided to introduce the six-and-a-half year MBBS course from next year. The proposal is still in planning stages now.”
According to Dr Talwar, if the proposal is cleared, India’s 40,000 students will be utilized for a year in the National Rural Health Mission.
“Medicine is a long career. One year of rural posting, in which students will be exposed to unique cases and diseases, will only do them good. However, the students will not be paid as interns but as doctors during that extra year of rural posting,” Dr Talwar said.
India is facing an acute shortage of human
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NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh is heading for a hung assembly with Samajwadi Party set to emerge as the single largest party, an opinion poll conducted by a TV news channel has said. The survey said no party or alliance would get anywhere close to the majority mark of 202.
SP is predicted to emerge as the single largest party with 127 seats which is 30 seats more than they managed in the last assembly election in 2007, according to the poll. The Congress looks set to make massive gain with 78 seats which is 56 seats more than their tally of 22 in the last election. The party , in alliance with Ajit Singh’s Rashtriya Lok Dal, is expected to garner 94 seats. RLD is expected to win 6 more seats this time with a tally of 16.
The ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP ) appears to be the biggest loser with only 108 seats , a loss of 97 seats on its magical tally of 205 in the 2007 election. The survey predicts fourth position for BJP with 57 seats , 6 more than its strength of 51 in the last assembly.
Although a lot of smaller parties and independents are also in the fray , the survey predicts only 17 seats for them. The survey found the Congress to be making major gains in Poorvanchal and Pashchim Pradesh. It seems set to increase its tally by 27 in Poorvanchal and by 15 in Pashchim Pradesh
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NEW DELHI: India and China are working on a possible visit by Chinese vice-president Xi Jinping sometime this year. If he does come this year, it would be the first time a prospective president of China would have visited India before assuming charge. President Hu Jintao will be in India in March for the BRICS summit, which is being held here this year.
Meanwhile, India and China exchanged written frameworks for the settlement of the border dispute during the recent meeting of the special representatives. Shivshankar Menon and Dai Bingguo will now parse the other’s framework to try and arrive at a common framework which will be the basis for ultimately putting a line on the ground. Despite the exchange of documents though, this process is a long way away from completion.
The special representatives talks have now evolved into a forum for reviewing bilateral relations. This year, India and China agreed to work together for maritime security, not only in the Gulf of Aden but even eastwards towards the Straits of Malacca, and further. “Our understanding is that we’re working on cooperating on maritime seucirty that will not only be confined to the Gulf of Aden only,” said sources. This would be a major confidence-building exercise if carried through.
This fledgling effort, sources said, was being hit by statements from the US director of national intelligence, James Clapper predicting a limited war between India and China in the
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