Chennai Metro Ph-2, Regional Rail Corridors, High-Altitude Transport System: Bonanza For Tamil Nadu Ahead Of Polls

Last Updated:April 11, 2025, 07:00 ISTCNN-News18 has accessed details of these projects --- including 119 Km of metro in Chennai and three RRTS corridors of nearly 500 Km --- which…

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WHO EMRO | Message from Dr Hanan Balkhy Regional Director WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region on the occasion of the World Tuberculosis Day | News

Tuberculosis remains a major public health challenge in the Eastern Mediterranean region, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. In 2023 alone, the region recorded 936,000 new TB cases and nearly…

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WHO EMRO | Statement by Dr Hanan Balkhy, WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, at the heath emergencies press briefing | News

18 March 2025 Colleagues, members of the press,  Good afternoon.  Thank you for joining us today.  Before I begin my briefing, I would like to mention that the Eastern Mediterranean…

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‘She Herself Used Tamil Letter Ru’: Stalin On Nirmala Sitharaman’s ‘Regional Chauvinism’ Remark

Last Updated:March 16, 2025, 22:52 ISTTamil Nadu CM MK Stalin defended using the Tamil letter 'Ru' in the state budget logo, citing commitment to Tamil. Critics, including Nirmala Sitharaman, called…

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WHO EMRO | WHO Regional Director’s address to the Policy Dialogue to Scale Up the Implementation of the Regional Director’s Flagship Initiative to Strengthen the Public Health Response to Substance Use in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, 28 February 2025 | News

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates 28 February 2025 Excellencies, Distinguished Guests, Partners, and colleagues, As this policy dialogue on strengthening the public health response to substance use draws to a…

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WHO EMRO | WHO Regional Director’s address to the Policy Dialogue to Scale Up the Implementation of the Regional Director’s Flagship Initiative to Strengthen the Public Health Response to Substance Use in the Eastern Mediterranean Region | News

26 February 2025 Excellencies, Distinguished Guests, Partners, We are gathered here today to discuss an extremely grave and urgent matter. A matter that destroys individuals, tears families apart and eviscerates…

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Jat, Sikh To Purvanchali: Rekha Gupta’s Delhi Cabinet Bears BJP’s Stamp of Regional, Caste Calculations

Last Updated:February 19, 2025, 22:11 ISTGupta, along with the new cabinet ministers, will take the oath as the next Chief Minister of Delhi on February 20 (Thursday) at the Ramlila…

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WHO EMRO | Address by Dr Hanan Balkhy Regional Director WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region at the inauguration of the poliovirus environmental surveillance diagnostic laboratory, Oman | News

13 February 2025 Your Excellency, Ladies and Gentlemen, It gives me great pleasure to join you in inaugurating the Poliovirus Environmental Surveillance Diagnostic Laboratory at the National Polio Laboratory in…

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WHO EMRO | Address by Dr Hanan Balkhy Regional Director WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region to the Second Healthy Cities Conference in Kuwait | News

10 February 2025  Your Excellency Dr Ahmad Abdulwahab Al-Awadhi, Minister of Health of Kuwait, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a great pleasure to join you here today at Kuwait’s second…

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WHO EMRO | WHO Regional Director’s statement for the Executive Board 156: Health conditions in the occupied Palestinian territory, including east Jerusalem | News

February 2025 Esteemed Chair, Your Excellencies, Director-General, The suffering in the Gaza Strip is beyond comprehension. Tens of thousands of people have died, and around 30 000 have life-changing injuries.…

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