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With the aim to meet up the rising demand for organ transplants, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in association with government and private hospitals decided to begin the National Organ Transplant Programme as a pilot project in the national capital.

At the first Indian Organ Donation Day on Thursday, Mr. RK Srivastava, director general health services stated, "We are setting up a system in place that will connect registered hospitals and their ICUs for organ donations. This will also connect patients on the organ waiting list."

As per fresh reports, the Oshiwara police caught Bhojpuri actor Raja Chaudhary on Friday night.

The police officials arrested Raja after a police officer filed a complaint against him for creating ruckus at his lady friend Shradha Sharma's home in suburban Oshiwara.

The police stated that Raja reached Sharma's flat where they had a fight over an unimportant matter, with the former also ransacking her house.

Raja allegedly attacked the girl, who has been admitted to hospital.

The 37-year-old Rahat Tasneem has become the first participator to win a whopping Rs one crore in the fourth season of popular game show 'Kaun Banega Crorepati' (KBC) hosted by megastar Amitabh Bachchan.

Tasneem, who hailed from Jharkhand's small town 'Giridih', stated that she played really well and used different lifelines 'phone a friend', 'double dip', 'expert advice' and 'audience poll' very smartly.

She also said that she was confused at first and had to make use of the lifelines.

A new research has revealed that pomegranate juice could help combat kidney problem.

Boffins in Israel have discovered that consumption of pomegranate juice can ward off problems in kidney patients on dialysis, including diminishing the high casualty rate from infections and related heart troubles.

The researchers said that pomegranate juice is helpful due to its high intensities of antioxidants.

The officials have unveiled Gujarat's first green building, a 150-bed multi-super speciality hospital, on Thursday.

The multi-super speciality hospital has been built and equipped at a total cost of 150 crore, and it would necessitate a similar sum for further growth.

Mr. Keyur Parikh, chairman of the hospital and interventional cardiologist, stated that the Care Institute of Medical Sciences (CIMS) has forwarded growth plans to increase the bed capacity to 450 beds.

Mr. Parikh stated that the hospital was planned and developed in order to endorse the green building idea.

Johns Hopkins scientists with the recent fete seem to have tracked the aftermath of a group of immature cells that persevere in the adult brain.

The findings reveal that the cells, named as NG2, seem to sprout fast at an early phase of life, and eventually resulting in develop into mature nervous system cells called oligodendrocytes. These "oligos" aid in fastening the process of transmission of electrical impulses by offering insulation in the vicinity of nerve cells.

This insulation is termed as myelin, and seemingly disrupted in nervous system ailments like multiple sclerosis.