NEW DELHI: Cancer of the lung is the commonest cancer among men in Delhi, while that of the breast is way ahead of all other forms of cancer among women in the national Capital.

Indian Council of Medical Research’s (ICMR) latest data on the 10 leading sites of cancer in Delhi shows that prevalence of breast cancer among women in Delhi stands at almost 27%, followed by cervix, whose recurrence is almost half of breast cancer cases at 14.6%. Among men, lung cancer is the most common at 10%, while 7% of all cancers are of the prostate.

According to the ICMR data, cancer of the tongue was the third commonest cancer (6.8%) among men, followed by larynx (5.9%). In women, cancer of the ovary (7.6%) has the highest prevalence after breast and cervix, followed by gall bladder (6.9%). As far as “sites of cancer associated with the use of tobacco” is concerned, the prevalence is high among men in Delhi.

Two in every five cases of cancer among men in Delhi is due to tobacco (39.4%), while it is one in every 10 women (11%). Dr Harit Chaturvedi, director of surgical oncology at Max Hospital, said, “Cancer of the prostate is on the rise among men and that of breast is increasing among women. In northern India cancer of the gall bladder is very common. This could be due to chemicals and fertilizers in the water.”

Dr Amit Aggarwal from Fortis

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NEW YORK/NEW DELHI: Less than a week after a similar move by micro-blogging site Twitter, Internet major Google has unveiled plans to make content on its blogger platform selectively available, depending on the local rules of each country.

Google is the latest entity to come out with the option to restrict online content amid a raging debate over moves by many countries, including India, to enforce regulations on the internet.

Google, which launched its blogging service — Blogger — in 1999, said the rules will be applicable in many countries such as India, Brazil, Honduras, and Germany. It is understood that Google plans to roll it out the new system globally also.

Google will now be able to restrict content in individual countries pursuant to requests by the local legal authority. The move will not require blocking worldwide access to a blog. It means, for example, that if a blog breaks an Australian law, Google can now block it in Australia but leave it up in the rest of the world, the company said.

“It will allow us to continue promoting free expression and responsible publishing while providing greater flexibility in complying with valid removal requests pursuant to local law,” Google said.

Google said it is deploying a country-specific uniform resource locator ( URL) scheme for its blogger platform, which will be redirected to a country-code top level domain, or ‘ccTLD’, in the coming weeks.

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WASHINGTON: An Indian-origin student has levelled allegations of racial discrimination against two prestigious American universities – Harvard and Princeton – in their admission policy, prompting a probe by US authorities.

The unnamed Indian-American student, who was among the top students in his California high school class and whose family originally came from India filed the complaints against the two institutions.

Acting on the complaint, the US education department is probing whether the Harvard and Princeton Universities discriminate against Asian-Americans in undergraduate admissions, Bloomberg reported.

The department’s Office for Civil Rights is investigating a complaint it received in August that Harvard rejected an Asian-American candidate for the current freshman class based on race or national origin, a department spokesman said.

The agency is looking into a similar August 2011 allegation against Princeton as part of a review begun in 2008 of that school’s handling of Asian-American candidates, said the spokesman, who declined to be identified, citing department policy.

The new complaints, along with a case appealed last September to the US Supreme Court challenging preferences for blacks and Hispanics in college admissions, may stir up the longstanding debate about whether elite universities discriminate against Asian-Americans, the nation’s fastest- growing and most affluent racial category, the report said.

Harvard “does not discriminate against Asian-American applicants,” and doesn’t comment on the specifics of complaints under federal review, spokesman Jeff Neal said.

Asian-Americans comprised 16 per cent of Harvard

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NEW DELHI: The suspense over home minister P Chidambaram’s alleged role in the 2G scam is likely to be over by tomorrow when a Delhi court would decide the plea of Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy to make him an accused in the case.

With the Supreme Court leaving the issue to be decided by the trial court, the ball is now now in the court of Special CBI Judge O P Saini, who has reserved orders in the case for tomorrow.

A bench of Justices G S Singhvi and A K Ganguly, which asked the lower court not to get influenced by its decision, had also refused to direct CBI to “investigate Chidambaram”.

The apex court, which came down heavily on Raja and cancelled 122 2G licenses, however, did not find any fault on the part of the Prime Minister and then finance minister P Chidambaram.

The Special Judge, on January 21, had reserved the order for tomorrow on the plea of Swamy who alleged that Chidambaram was equally culpable like former telecom minister A Raja as he also had a role in deciding the spectrum pricing and allowing telecom companies to off-load shares to foreign firms.

The court, on February 1, also halted for two days the ongoing day-to-day trial in the case for writing the much-awaited order on Swamy’s plea against Chidambaram.

Swamy, who concluded arguments in the trial court in support of

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