June2017
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Diabetes in India is increasingly common among poorer people in more affluent cities
Jun 10, 2017News Hour: India’s diabetes epidemic is shifting, with the disease now increasingly common among people from low socio-economic backgrounds living in urban areas of the more affluent states, according to a study published in The Lancet... -
Angela Merkel lends support to Mexico over NAFTA
Jun 10, 2017News Hour: Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday backed Mexico to press for a successful renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement with Donald Trump, thanking its government for keeping German interests in mind during... -
Tiger Woods told arresting officer he had taken Xanax
Jun 10, 2017News Hour: Tiger Woods told police he had taken the anti-anxiety drug Xanax when he was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of an intoxicant in Florida last month, golf.channel.com reported on its website... -
China contributes $5 million to WFP’s emergency operation in South Sudan
Jun 10, 2017News Hour: Today the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a contribution of US$5 million from the Government of the People’s Republic of China to provide food assistance to 160,000 people affected by acute... -
Novartis announces clinical collaboration with Bristol-Myers Squibb to evaluate potential treatments in metastatic colorectal cancer
Jun 10, 2017News Hour: Novartis announced it has entered into a clinical research collaboration in which Bristol-Myers Squibb will investigate the safety, tolerability, and efficacy of Mekinist (trametinib) in combination with Opdivo (nivolumab) and Opdivo + Yervoy (ipilimumab)... -
UN migration agency tracks displacement in drought affected Madagascar
Jun 10, 2017News Hour: Since 2013, the Greater South of Madagascar (“Grand Sud”) has been experiencing a prolonged drought and below-average rainfalls, affecting 1.8 million people. National disaster risk management experts and representatives of the development cooperation community... -
Microsoft makes major announcements at Build developer conference
Jun 10, 2017News Hour: At this year’s Build 2017, Microsoft’s annual developer conference held in Seattle, USA, Satya Nadella announced that Windows had reached 500 million Windows 10 monthly active devices. At the conference, Microsoft also shared the... -
ADB mobilizes commercial cofinancing to support China’s dairy industry
Jun 10, 2017News Hour: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed today agreements in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, with leading commercial banks to support Inner Mongolia Saikexing Breeding and Biotechnology Group (Saikexing) to reduce environmental pollution, improve food safety, and... -
Grameenphone launches Mobile Handset Recycling campaign
Jun 10, 2017News Hour: On the occasion World Environment Day, Grameenphone has launched a ‘Mobile Handset Recycling’ campaign at its Farmgate GPC. Md. Raisul Alam Mondal, Director-General, Department of Environment, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, inaugurated... -
Save the Children starts one stop services in Dhaka for HIV positive people who inject drugs
Jun 10, 2017News Hour: Considering the rising HIV epidemic among people who inject drugs (PWID) in Dhaka, Save the Children introduced one-stop-services through comprehensive drop-in-centers (DICs) to reverse the trend. In this process, PWID is tested for HIV....
