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 Hair Transplant? NEW
DELHI: A hair transplant expert has been directed by a consumer court
to pay a
refund and compensation of Rs 60,000 ($1,487.36) to a patient whose
baldness could
not be
cured to his satisfaction. The procedure could not be completed in one
sitting,
as promised, and left the complainant in extreme
pain.
State Consumer Commission
president Justice J D Kapoor held doctor V S Malik guilty of deficiency
in
service for not delivering the kind of results which were promised to
the
complainant Avik Mukherjee and also for not completing the procedure in
one
sitting and subjecting the complainant to mental
agony.
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 Poor Children UNICEF has damned Britain and the United States as the worst places for children to live among wealthy nations, in a new report which caused
widespread soul-searching.
The Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark and Finland topped the 21
industrial powers assessed for the child well-being report released
Wednesday.
Britain's youngsters had the worst relationships with
their family
and peers, suffered more from poverty and indulged in more "binge
drinking" and hazardous sex than children in other wealthy nations,
said the report.
The United States placed 20 and Britain 21 on the list.
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 Machu Picchu, Peru In the first
global election ever held people have selected the New Seven Wonders of the
World. After months of heavy worldwide voting the New Seven
Wonders of the World were announced on July 7th, 2007 (07-07-07) by The
New7Wonders Foundation, which is the body behind the New7Wonders
campaign. The New7Wonders Foundation has the express aim of
documenting, maintaining, restoring and reconstructing world heritage
under the motto: 'Our heritage is our future.' The New7Wonders
Foundation calls on all citizens of the world to
support it. Through film, television, the Internet and books,
people
shall be alerted to the destruction of nature and the decay of our
man-made heritage. Monuments in jeopardy, perhaps in a dangerous state
of decay, can be saved by publicizing their beauty and highlighting
their plight to the international community.
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 Iraq Invasion How does the rest of the world see the invasion and occupation of Iraq by America and Britain? This article from the Hindustan Times, New Delhi, India gives an insight as to how it is viewed in India on the exact opposite side of the world from America.
Vox Populi and the Iraq Invasion - Counterpoint by Vir Sanghvi: A few months before America and Britain invaded Iraq, my colleague Aditya Sinha had an idea. In those days, Aditya was editor of the Sunday Hindustan Times — he has since moved up in the world and become Editor-in-chief of the New Indian Express — and he was keen to commission an opinion poll for the paper.
At that stage, nobody had polled the Indian people about our attitude to the US invasion of Iraq, and many journos — hard as this is to believe now — thought that there might be public support for military action. |
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