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PNB Metlife is an insurance-company using logo of public-sector Punjab National Bank, but there is absolute no clarity on exact relationship between Punjab National Bank and PNB Metlife where agents of PNB Metlife lure members of public through highly lucrative investment-offers but without giving any brochure or highlights of the offered schemes on website. It is clear that no government-saving scheme presently provides annual-interest more than eight-percent that too taxable and only for senior citizens. It is impossible that any public-sector company like PNB Metlife may provide above-referred extra-lucrative scheme. Punjab National Bank should make their relationship with PNB Metlife clear through newspaper-advertisements and prominently on their websites. In case PNB Metlife is ...

Medicated stents are widely used to unblock heart arteries. While the drug prevents the growth of muscle cells around the stent, it however,  retards endothelial cells necessary for healing the wound site and may result in the formation of clots. That’s why anti-clotting medications are given, which must be taken life-long; also, they come with adverse side effects.  To minimise such stent-related complications, a group of Indian researchers has developed a dual drug delivery therapy. Laboratory tests have shown that the drug combination can inhibit the growth of muscle cells and prevent clotting at the stent site. Moreover, the drugs are loaded into a flexible polymer which eliminates problems that occur during crimping and implantation of stents. Two widely prescribed lipid-lowerin...

It is quite usual that many a times some medical-practitioners including in Unani, Ayurvedic and Homeopathic fields mix strong doses of steroids in unbranded medicines like powders and syrups in a bid to exhibit their self-acclaimed expertise in curing diseases. (I have my own bitter experience when my mother died at an early age of just 58 years on 21.08.1980 due to such daily dose of steroid-mixed unbranded Ayurvedic powder). Central government should formulate some effective remedy to overcome the problem. Even though remedy lies in banning unbranded medicines, but the step is liable to open a pathway for minting money for drug manufacturers. Best remedy is that Central government may establish its own production units for all types of medicines including Allopathic, Unani, Homeopathic ...

Presently there is a flood of SMSs on mobile-phones offering a complete package of so many blood-tests at just rupees 999 that too with facility to collect blood-samples from residences or work-places of desiring ones. But these SMSs do not give details and addresses of laboratories where blood-tests are to be conducted. Either such offers do not come from recognised and government-approved laboratories, or normal pathological laboratories are looting public. Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare should probe into the matter. Those offering such economical packages should be directed to give details of laboratories in SMSs with compulsion to have a proper website of such laboratories. Union Health Ministry should also develop a software to be compulsorily used by all recognised...

श्रीरामकथा के अल्पज्ञात दुर्लभ प्रसंग जब रावण ने जटायु को छल-कपट, असत्य से पराजित किया गृघ्रराज जटायु की श्रीराम से वन में भेंट के समय उसकी आयु ६०,००० वर्षों की थी। वह वन में पक्षियों का अजेय राजा था। सीताहरण के समय रावण द्वारा उसके द्वंद्व युद्ध में रावण हिम्मत हार गया। उसने श्रीराम के नाम का सहारा लेकर जटायु से छल कपट, असत्य का सहारा लेकर पराजित करने का प्रयत्न किया। सत्य को प्रकट करने हेतु यहाँ कथाएँ दी जा रही है। वाल्मीकीय रामायण में गृघ्रराज जटायु, श्रीराम, सीताजी एवं रावण का प्रसंग एक अपनी अलग विशेषता लिए हुए वर्णित है। पंचवटी में श्रीराम की जटायु से प्रथम भेंट होती है। श्रीराम एवं लक्ष्मण ने वन मार्ग में विशालकाय पक्षी को देखकर उससे पूछा कि आप कौन हैं? तब जटायु ने जो कुछ कहा वह अत्यन्त ही आत्मीय वार्तालाप है। यथा- ततो मधुरया वाचा सौम्यया प्रीणयन्निव। उवाच वत्स मां विद्धि वयस्यं...