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Throughout the world T.B has been recognized as a dangerous disease. Although disease exhibits its direct relation with poverty and malnourishment but social inequalities make it more severe. In such conditions, women facing social inequalities are more prone to TB. After becoming TB patient, women are already facing humiliation of social discrimination, forced to tolerate the soreness of exclusion. If women are found suffering from TB, the chances to get family support for treatment and mental well being are comparatively much lesser in comparison to men.

LUCKNOW: The manner in which Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav promoted two ministers of state to cabinet rank has made it clear that Samajwadi Party wants to put up big challenge in Amethi and Rae Bareili, which are considered to be pocket boroughs of Gandhi family.

Why is Congress president Sonia Gandhi suddenly lobbying for higher gold import into India? If her reported letter to Commerce Minister Anand Sharma seeking relaxation in import duties on gold is true, it goes totally against the interest of the nation. Indian economy has been reeling under the burden of an unprecedented increase in gold imports since 2010, making a laughing stock of this poor country as it emerged the world’s largest gold importer and consumer.

New Delhi: The visiting Japanese Prime Minister and the Chief Guest at India’s Republic Day parade Shinzo Abe and his wife Akie Abe could not view the portrait of country’s strike missile Agni-V which has a range of 5,000 miles as it was not on display on the occasion.

New Delhi: India and Japan signed a joint statement to further intensify their Strategic and global Partnership, particularly in relations to defence and security.

Even as Dr Raghuram Rajan tries to battle inflation, a ‘destructive disease’ as he calls it, and favours a redefined monetary policy targeting on consumer price inflation, as part of a host of radical financial sector reforms on his plate, he finds a Government not only questioning his premise but also becoming further enfeebled to act on what needs to be done for macro-economic stability. This is, to a large extent, due to unstable political conditions in the run-up to the critical May elections.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It is a double whammy for the Kerala CPI(M), which has suffered a severe setback with the trial court verdict in the TP Chandrashekharan murder case.

Arvind Kejriwal made the first mistake in his four-week long career as Delhi’s Chief Minister too early and the result was a sudden brake to rising graph of his popularity. He took up an absolutely wrong cause and, worse still, to press unreasonable demands, he went on an uncalled for Dharna just outside Parliament house, a high security zone. The protest saw four metro stationed closed down, traffic jams and colossal chaos that inconvenienced lakhs of people from office-goers to ordinary commuters.

New Delhi: Apart from the display of India's military might, the visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shizo Abe, who is the Chief Guest at the Republic Day Parade, will witness 18 tableaux of various states, union territories and central government ministries/departments passing by him depicting India's varied cultural diversity, freedom struggle, way of life, developments in science and technology and economic strength.

If the recommendations of the Urjit Patel Committee on monetary policy-making are adopted in full, the governor of the Reserve Bank of India, and the members of the freshly recommended monetary policy committee, might have to face repeated public embarrassment.