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A study has found that New York's Riker's Island, Chicago's Cook County Jail and the Los Angeles County Jail are the largest mental health institutions in the nation.

15 percent of the inmates of those three jails are mentally ill, making penal institutions, not hospitals, the three largest U. S. mental health institutions, say Members of the International Association for Forensic and Correctional Psychology.

New Delhi, July 14 - Just what does it take a supermodel who is only part Indian and has lived in Australia and the US to get her act right in Bollywood? For Lisa Haydon, who stars in "Aisha", the answer is "learning to speak Hindi minus an accent!"

"Well I had to work a lot on my diction. I had to speak dialogues in Hindi, something I wasn't comfortable with. So when I grabbed the role in 'Aisha', I started taking Hindi classes," Lisa told IANS in a telephonic interview from Mumbai.

Mumbai, July 14 - Emraan Hashmi's bad boy image doesn't bother Prachi Desai, who plays his love interest in the forthcoming underworld drama "Once Upon A Time In Mumbai". She says people should talk about her co-star's achievements as an actor rather his on-screen kisses.

"Working with Emraan was one of my fondest experiences so far. He is one of my favourite co-actors," Prachi, 21, who made her big screen debut as Farhan Akhtar's wife in "Rock On!", told IANS in an interview.

Mumbai, July 14 - Aamir Khan Tuesday paid tribute to late Asheem Chakravarty of the Indian Ocean at the music launch of his production "Peepli Live" and said that the song "Zindagi Se Darte" used in the film was the last song he composed.

"He (Asheem) was one of the members of Indian Ocean and unfortunately he passed away. It's a great loss to all the people who are close to him - Indian Ocean, his family and to his fans all across the world... and 'Zindagi Se Darte' was his last song," Aamir said.

Scientists have developed a vaccine that will stop or shrink the spread of cancer cells. It will be introduced in next five years and will be capable of fighting against all types of cancers.

The vaccine will be effective in all parts of body including the breast, bowel and cervix. According to Daily mail it is reported that it has been tested on few patients.

The India's largest iron ore miner NMDC Ltd, Tuesday reinstated the manufacturing to its best of ability from its vital mining provision based in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district, a day subsequent to the Maoists thronging fire at the compound, as per an official.

According to senior NMDC official the hit made by the Maoists interrupted the night shift mining work on Monday at depot No. 5 and fabrication of some 20,000 tons iron ore which got misplaced but the work picked up again normally from Tuesday.