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It has been announced that the Indian rupee will have its own symbol form now onwards. The symbol is a mix of the Devanagri ‘Ra’ and Roman ‘R’. This new symbol for the Indian rupees has been designed by Mr. D. Uday Kumar.

However, the symbol is yet to be approved by the Union Cabinet. This has been informed by the Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni.

She has conducted a press meet after the Cabinet meeting.

Medical College of Georgia has conducted a new research on tea which shows that Heavy tea drinkers can come across with bone problems.

They discovered that fluoride concentration in black tea is much more than expected.

Dr. Gary Whitford, Regents Professor of oral biology in the School of Dentistry said that normally intake of two to four cups of black tea in a day will not cause any harm but intake of large amount of tea in a day can cause serious health problems.

According to the survey commenced by National Family Health Survey, it was revealed that approximately 30 million Indians are obese and approximately 20 per cent of school children are in the lieu of becoming overweight.

The survey put lights on increasing levels of obesity across the world and India has also joined the race of obesity. The survey shows that mostly developed countries across the world have unexpected levels of obesity.

It was a blissful moment for peace, patience and their parents after these twins gets separated by the doctors. The twins had come from Nigeria to get themselves separated.

The twins had been operated on June 7 at the Narayana Hrudayala Women and Child Institute and got separated. Before flying to their home in Benin; they were kept in rehab in Bangalore for three weeks.

The girls' father Emmanuel is delighted to see her both daughter separated. He was happy that her daughters would be able to live normal and healthy life like any other children.

Swine flu has also reached West Bengal and gets hold of West Bengal Minister, taking the total count of affected persons to 12 in the city.

State health department's nodal officer for swine flu Asit Biswas said that Nandagopal Bhattacharya, West Bengal Water Resources Minister has been diagnosed with the infection.

Bhattacharya's throat swab and soon after he shows the symptoms, he was rushed to the city clinic where he was admitted and brain haemorrhage, has tested positive, said by Health Minister Suryakanta Mishra.

Indian TV empress Ekta Kapoor is busy cooking up the desi version of the hit `Twilight Saga'. The original series features heart-throb Robert Pattison and is a love story that involves vampires. Ekta has decided that Robert Pattison's character would be played by Vivan Bhatena. The lead character is called Abhay. The character of Abhay is based on that of Pattison.