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  • COVID 19 awareness campaign launched in Assam
  • 1598 new COVID 19 cases, tally reaches 1,73,063 in Bihar
  • Major Port Authorities Bill passed in Lok Sabha
  • Haryana registers 1,986 new COVID-19 cases, 27 fatalities
  • 67 new COVID cases in Nagaland, tally rises to 5671
  • Rafale makers violated offset obligations: CAG
  • Lok Sabha adjourned sine die, productivity of House 167 per cent
  • Tomar assumes additional charge of Food Processing Industries Ministry
  • ED arrests two in Bihar for hawala transaction
  • Two detained for chain-snatching in Thane
  • HP Governor tests negative, continue in home isolation: spokesperson
  • OERC hikes power tariff by 20 paisa per unit for all barring Kutir Jyoti, Agricultural consumers
  • SAT orders Bengal govt to pay arrears of DA by Dec 16,2020
  • HP police SIT makes first arrest in fake degree case
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Cancer:Statistics very alarming;Need to act fast: Expert

Kolkata, Feb 04 (UNI) Lifestyle changes and industrial and environmental pollution are among a host of factors leading to an alarming rise in the number of cancer cases in India.
'India sees 1.2 million new cancer cases every year which means one in every four cases reported globally are from India,' Dr Naresh Purohit, Advisor-National Cancer Control Programme told UNI after a seminar on the occasion of World Cancer Day today.
Increasing urbanisation, life style changes, high consumption of tobacco, processed food, industrial and environmental pollution are factors that are spurring an alarming rise in the number of cancer patients in India.
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