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JNU students' union chief rusticated Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union JNUSU president Batti Lal Bairwa and Manoj Purohit have be...

JNU students8217; union chief rusticated

Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union JNUSU president Batti Lal Bairwa and Manoj Purohit have been rusticated for 19 months. All their college facilities have been withdrawn and they have been asked to vacate their hostels.

The order was issued by an inquiry committee that submitted its report on Thursday, finding both the students guilty of having beaten up a karamchari and misusing the University ambulance.

Free eye camp

Lions Club Delhi, Karol Bagh, is organising a free eye camp on January 17 at Enkay clinic on Pankha Road in Janak Puri. Free consultation for all eye diseases, defects and medicines will be provided to poor patients. Besides this, patients would also be registered for all types of intra- and extra-ocular surgeries.

Polio immunization

In the second phase of the pulse polio immunization programme, about 1.6 million children are targeted to be immunised in the Capital on January 18.

Calling upon the people, especially the parents, to get their children immunised, an official release of the government said that about 6 lakh immunisation booths would be set up all over the country including 3,600 in Delhi alone.

The programme , which was started by the Delhi government, was gradually picked up by the other states and SAARC countries.

Coin exhibition

The New Delhi YMCA will be organising a Jubilee Coin Exhibition on January 17 and 18 at the Heinz Auditorium at the YMCA tourist hostel on Jai Singh Road. Titled quot;The World of Money and the Coinage of India Through the Agesquot; the exhibition will be a treat for numismatic buffs.

Seminar on better scouting begins

Bharat Scout and Guides, India, hosted the second Asia-Pacific Regional Adult Resources Management seminar from January 13 to January 15 to evolve ways for better scouting. The key note address was delivered by Vice-Chancellor Kota Open University Professor B.S.Sharma. Among those present were: Rameshwar Thakur, the former Minister of State for Finance and working president of the Bharat Scouts and Guides and Bhaskar Barua, the Secretary, Youth Services and Sports.

Unani, homeopathic clinics open at RML, Safdarjung

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In an attempt to include the Indian systems of medicine in its health care infrastructure along with allopathy, the Centre on Wednesday opened its first clinics of unani and homeopathic medicines at Ram Manohar Lohia RML and Safdarjung hospitals respectively.

The RML clinic, to be run by the Central Council for Research in Unani Medicine CCRUM, will provide treatment for select disorders like leucoderma, rheumatoid arthritis, bronchial asthma, sinusitis and filaria, besides general OPD services. The homoeopathy clinic at Safdarjung, to be run by the Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy, will offer free treatment and medicines, to patients.

The clinics have been set up in accordance with the Centre8217;s recent resolve to promote and introduce the Indian Systems of Medicines and Homoeopathy ISM amp; H at its hospitals in the city.

Next on the cards is an Ayurveda clinic at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences.

quot;Systems like Unani, Sidha, Homoeopathy and Ayurveda provide more effective treatment for some disorders. The government has decided to make the best use of their potential in the essential health care delivery to the people,quot; said Shanta Shastry, secretary ISM amp; H with the Union Health Ministry.