Round up Bihar’s top cop has voting hassles Director general of police (police training) Abhyanand today faced embarrassment when he was denied permission to vote as his name did not figure on the voter’s list, media sources reported. “I really felt embarrassed,” Abhyanand told reporters after being disallowed to cast his vote at a booth at Patel Nagar under Digha assembly constituency in Patna. Abhyanand said when he along with his family members with EPICs went to the booth, they discovered that their names had been deleted from the voter’s list. “It... 

October 24, 2010 marks World Polio Day While the world lauds the success of two decades of committed global eradication programs, that have significantly cut the incidence of the disease, the event is also time for stock taking of what remains to be done to ‘Stop Polio Forever’. Caused by a virus that invades the nervous system, polio paralyses the nervous system within a few hours of infection. Children below the age of five are susceptible to the disease. The global polio eradication initiative in India seeks to arrest the transmission of Type 1 polio virus, especially in Western...