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Bee Gees singer Maurice Gibb passes away
London: Bee Gees pop star Maurice Gibb died early January 12, his family announced. The 53-year-old bass player and singer had suffered a heart attack on January 9 while undergoing emergency abdominal surgery after collapsing at his home in Miami, Florida.
AIDS body seeks accreditation to blood banks
Coimbatore: National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) has mooted the idea of having accreditation to the blood banks and has approached the National Accreditation Board for testing and calibration Laboratories (NABL) in this regard, a senior official in NABL said on January 11.
French diaspora seeks to re-unite broken ties
New Delhi: It is a community that seems to have been forgotten and would find
mention in the footnotes of history books on the diaspora.
China targets $ 21.5 bn foreign tourism income
Beijing: China will woo more foreign tourists, including Indians, to the country in 2003 and earn a record $ 21.5 billion, a senior industry official has said.
Good music has the power to unite people, says PM
Pune: Stating that good music has the power to unite people, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on January 7 described the newly-constructed Savai Gandharva Memorial as a fitting tribute by Pandit Bhimsen Joshi to his guru Savai Gandharva.
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