Mumbai: A 23-year-old girl was stabbed to death by an unidentified man in suburban Mumbai, police said. The victim Seema Parab residing at Malad worked with a beauty parlour at Borivili. She was stabbed with a knife soon after she had left for work at around 9 am on Friday, they said. She was stabbed twice in her stomach, once in her shoulder and once in neck by an unidentified...
09:32 AM, Mar 24, 2012
New Delhi: Another honour for India born doctor Siddhartha Mukherjee. He has bagged the 10 thousand pound Guardian First Book Award for his book on cancer. 'The Emperor of All Maladies' which won the Pulitzer prize earlier in April, was the only work of non-fiction on the shortlist. Mukherjee is an oncologist who treats cancer patients at the Columbia University Medical Center. ...
03:18 PM, Dec 02, 2011
London: A history of cancer, 'The Emperor of All Maladies', won the 2011 Guardian First Book Award on Thursday, beating four works of fiction also on the shortlist. The author, American oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee, has described the work as a "biography" of cancer, or "an attempt to enter the mind of this immortal illness, to understand its personality, to demystify its behaviour". The annual prize organised by British newspaper The...
11:51 AM, Dec 02, 2011
Washington: Indian American Pulitzer Prize winner Siddhartha Mukherjee is delighted that his book on cancer has been listed 75th among Time magazine's "All-Time 100 Best Non-fiction Books" with President Barack Obama's autobiography in the third place. The Delhi-born cancer specialist's book "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer" that made it to the Time magazine's top 10 non-fiction books of 2010 and The New York Times' top five...
11:39 AM, Aug 31, 2011
Washington: It's just been a couple of days since he won the Pulitzer, but Indian American cancer specialist Siddhartha Mukherjee has no time to celebrate. He is already back at work, seeing patients and even doing some writing - though he says it will be a while before he gets a topic for another book."You know, I have gone back to work really - full clinic, clinical responsibilities, back to...
06:50 PM, Apr 22, 2011
Washington: Indian American cancer specialist, Siddhartha Mukherjee who won a 2011 Pulitzer Prize for his very first book, says there is no conclusive study linking the use of cell phones to brain cancer. But no study conclusively ruled it out, either, says Mukherjee, an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University. Mukherjee's book "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer" won him the coveted honour. "Finding a causal...
12:00 PM, Apr 20, 2011
Siddhartha Mukherjee's monumental 'The Emperor of All Maladies' meticulously outlines the trajectory of cancer (derived from the Greek word "karkinos," meaning crab) over thousands of years, starting in ancient Egypt. In 2010, seven million people around the world died of cancer. Many have experienced the horrors of this disease through personal experience. The author provides us with a global view of this "shape-shifting entity [that is] imbued with such metaphorical...
11:51 AM, Apr 20, 2011
Boston: Indian-American physician Siddhartha Mukherjee's acclaimed book on cancer, 'The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer' has won the prestigious 2011 Pulitzer prize in the general non-fiction category. According to the Pulitzer citation, the book by the New York-based cancer physician and researcher is "an elegant inquiry, at once clinical and personal, into the long history of an insidious disease that, despite treatment breakthroughs, still bedevils medical science"....
09:34 AM, Apr 19, 2011
New Delhi: It has been a season of scams. Sukhna, Adarsh, Malad - the list is long and the presence of top military officials including a former army chief is only causing more embarrassment. Defence minister AK Anthony said, "After proper enquiry, we will take actions. No cover ups, no question of showing any mercy to guilty people. But no vendetta." So while a Central Bureau of Investigation enquiry is...
08:07 PM, Jan 13, 2011
Washington: Indian American cancer specialist Siddhartha Mukherjee, whose very first book has become a runaway success, advocates a strong anti-smoking campaign and breast cancer screening to battle the growing incidence of the disease in India. Less than a month after publication, Mukherjee's book, "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer", on the history of the disease, features among "The 10 Best Books of 2010" in the New York...
02:01 PM, Dec 13, 2010
London: Adolf Hitler who hated being watched enjoyed bread and marmalade alongside coffee for breakfast, a media report said Friday. He complained about his health and was prone to banging tables during meetings, according to documents released by the National Archives, Daily Mail reported on its website. Details about the Nazi leader's life come after an Austrian deserter gave a detailed description of the time Hitler spent at his retreat...
06:33 PM, Oct 29, 2010
The colony owes Rs 7 lakhs in arrears, which is why the supply was cut off. ...
08:35 AM, Nov 20, 2007
Chicago has chosen
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri for its programme, 'One Book, One Chicago'. ...
03:35 PM, Sep 06, 2006
The Malad Soorono Church of Mumbai attracts hundreds of devotees every year between September 1 to 8. ...
11:28 PM, Sep 02, 2006
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