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After Angiography, PM Discharged From Hospital

After Angiography, PM Discharged From Hospital After undergoing a coronary angiography, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh was discharged from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) today morning.

Dr. Singh was taken to India’s premier state-run medical facility on Wednesday after he complained of chest pain.

Following this, doctors took decision to carry out heart-related examinations.

Deepak Sandhu, principal information officer, “Yes, the prime minister is back.”

But, she refused to give any further details.

Govt Declares Jan 24 As National Girl Child Day

Govt Declares Jan 24 As National Girl Child DayIt seems that the government of India does not want to leave any stone unturned to ensure full awareness about welfare and empowerment of girl child.

Therefore, Minister for Women and Child Development, Renuka Chowdhury announced that the country would celebrate January 24th every year as ‘National Girl Child Day’.

Dissident author says Vietnam founder Ho Chi Minh’s mistress was ''murdered by his comrades''

Dissident author says Vietnam founder Ho Chi Minh’s mistress was ''murdered by his comrades''Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), Jan. 22: Ho Chi Minh, the father of modern Vietnam, kept a mistress 40 years his junior who was murdered by his comrades, an author claims.

The Telegraph quotes Duong Thu Huong, 61, whose works are banned but widely admired in Vietnam, as saying that the man the Vietnamese worship as ''Uncle Ho'' kept a mistress 40 years his junior who was murdered by Communist Party bosses.

Man U hoping to land £125M sponsorship deal with Saudi Telecom

Man U hoping to land £125M sponsorship deal with Saudi TelecomLondon, Jan 22: English football club Manchester United is hoping to land a 125million-pound sponsorship deal with Saudi Telecom.

The club had ended their deal with ailing insurers AIG, and are looking into finding a new sponsor, reports the Sun.

The American insurance corporation had confirmed on January 21 that they would not be renewing their shirt sponsorship deal worth 19million pounds a year at the end of next season.

More Britons than Americans died in Titanic tragedy ''due to good manners''

London, Jan 21 : More Britons would have died aboard the Titanic than their American counterparts because of their `good manners', according to an Australian study.

English people were seven per cent less likely to survive the 1912 tragedy, for they may have insisted that lifeboat places were given to "women and children first" while they queued for a place.

On the other hand, Americans were 8.5 per cent more likely to survive than the norm.

Yet there was practically no difference in the survival rate among the two countries'' women, indicating that English gentlemen gallantly sacrificed themselves.

Indian test fires supersonic cruise missile BrahMos

Indian test fires supersonic cruise missile BrahMosIn an operation aimed to showoff and fine-tune its missile power, the Indian Army, yesterday, test fired the land-attack version of its supersonic cruise missile BrahMos from the Pokhran range in Rajasthan. It was the 18th successful test flight of BrahMos.

Inducted into both the Navy and the Army, BrahMos was jointly developed by India and Russia; its name has come from Indian River Brahmaputra and the Russian River Moscowa.

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