Karvy Stock Broking Limited has maintained ‘Buy’ rating on Reliance Industries stock to achieve a target of Rs 1200-1220 within 1-2 days.

According to Karvy, day traders can buy the stock below Rs 1150 with a stop loss of Rs 1125.

Shares of the company, on Monday (Mar 09), closed at Rs 1153.85 on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). Current EPS & P/E ratio stood at 99.41 and 11.92 respectively. The share price has seen a 52-week high of Rs 2706 and a low of Rs 930 on BSE.

The newest edition of the "Tobacco Atlas" released on Monday paints a grim picture of Tobacco usage, which is likely to take lives of around six million people throughout the world by 2010.

The report also disclosed that it drain approximately $500 billion from the global economy, on a yearly basis, as the industry has shifted its focus to poor nations, which have less effective public health plans.

World Lung foundation jointly with American Cancer society (ACS) prepared the Atlas.

In the Saurashtra-Kutch region, around 2,800 private doctors struck work on Monday to protest what they called as harassment from civic officials in the drive to guarantee safe disposal of bio-medical waste.

The officials have been raiding the doctors’ clinics after the death of 62 patients in the state in February-March because of the suspected use of contaminated syringes.

Public health officials advised people who received tattoos or piercing at a Cooksville tattoo and piercing parlour, Mississauga between March 2005 and last month to get blood tests.

Inspection by health officials revealed that the tattoo parlour failed to keep adequate maintenance records for its sterilization equipment. It is estimated this negligence of proper sterilization can put nearly 3,000 people at risk of contracting HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C.

Findings from a 10-year study indicated that intake of nutrient in large quantity can increase risk of some diseases rather than reducing them. This study revealed that men who took folic acid supplements were at more than twice risk of prostate cancer as compared to those who didn't take the supplements. However men who got adequate amounts of folate in their diet were at slightly lower risk. Folic acid is a synthetic version of folate, a basic nutrient found in green, leafy vegetables.

Recent study revealed that blood tests and ultrasound scans can diagnose deadly ovarian cancer at the most early and treatable stages. According to statistics, ovarian cancer was diagnosed in more than 21,000 women in the United States in 2008 and it killed more than 15,000; in Britain 7,000 women are affected by it annually and more than 4,000 lost their lives due to it.