Articles by Gaurav Saigal
MCI's 3-tier strategy to fight teachers'shortage
The Medical Council of India's Board of Governors has devised a three-tier approach to meet the crisis of medical teachers in the country. Gaurav Saigal reports.

Updated on Aug 21, 2010 01:44 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Gaurav Saigal, Lucknow
All cleft lip operations free soon
Good news for cleft lip children in India. They will now not only be operated upon free of charge but also offered treatment for associated problems such as speech problem or oral and dental surgery.

Updated on Aug 19, 2010 12:31 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Gaurav Saigal, Lucknow
Digitized plan to map out water logging
Geologists have concluded this after a recent study over water logging problem in Lucknow. They were able to predict water logging in specific areas of the district and even suggested solutions for the problem.

Updated on Aug 11, 2010 09:06 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Gaurav Saigal, Lucknow
Aamir and I share same views: Kapil Sibal
Union Human Resource minister Kapil Sibal and actor Aamir Khan are in sync these days. Their thoughts about education system in India are similar.

Updated on Jul 25, 2010 06:34 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Gaurav Saigal, Lucknow
This cop has the model
The system can be set up with just Rs 10,000. It requires a little space. Gaurav Saigal reports.

Updated on Jul 25, 2010 05:50 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Gaurav Saigal, Lucknow
Super 30 scouting for talent in UP
After having shaped the mind and future of poor children in Bihar, the Super-30 team has now forayed into Uttar Pradesh. Gaurav Saigal reports.

Updated on Jul 25, 2010 05:44 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Gaurav Saigal, Lucknow
House that! Learn Parliament etiquette
Hundreds of students across the country will be apprised about the working of the Parliament and its etiquettes in the next few weeks as part of a learning activity planned by the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs in collaboration with Kendriya Vidyalayas. Gaurav Saigal reports.

Updated on Jul 25, 2010 04:18 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Gaurav Saigal, Lucknow
Community colleges gain ground
Unable to take out time for college but want to study. Try community college where you can do a certificate or a diploma course and receive IGNOU certificates on completion of the course, reports Gaurav Saigal.

Updated on Jul 20, 2010 12:17 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Gaurav Saigal, Lucknow
LU geologists discover new theory for Himalaya
The Himalaya is younger than we thought. A new study done by Lucknow University geologist suggests the rise in the mountain range essentially happened 15-million years ago and not 65-million years before, which is the common belief among researchers.

Updated on Jul 16, 2010 09:19 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Gaurav Saigal, Lucknow
Homoeopathy can help control JE
It’s official now. Homoeopathy can help eradicate Japanese Encephalitis – the disease that has killed over 500 children in Uttar Pradesh in the past one year.

Updated on Jul 14, 2010 09:36 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Gaurav Saigal, Lucknow
UP messes up plan for the blind
Fate of blindness control programme for school kids hangs pendant in Uttar Pradesh with poor requisition from the districts.

Updated on Jun 25, 2010 07:28 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Gaurav Saigal, Lucknow
UP medicos earn as much as labourers
The sixth pay commission has escalated doctors' salary but the monthly internship allowance for medical students in Uttar Pradesh remains Rs 1,950, the least in the country.

Updated on May 02, 2010 11:52 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Gaurav Saigal, Lucknow
Innovation brings down cost of kidney stone operation
Dr Diwakar Dalela of the Urology department at CSM Medical University (CSMMU) has indigenously developed a similar sheath, priced at Rs 100 for each sheath. And this one can be reused several times.

Updated on Apr 26, 2010 03:50 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Gaurav Saigal, Lucknow
Over 30% PG medical seats in UP not recognised
Over 30 per cent of the Post Graduate medical seats in Uttar Pradesh san lack recognition from the Medical Council of India (MCI).

Updated on Apr 17, 2010 04:58 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Gaurav Saigal, Lucknow
Meet Gorakhpur’s women of soil
Farmer Prabhawati Devi, 40, rubs shoulders with landowners in the village haat as she selects seeds, pesticides and fertilizers for her crops and decides where the yield should be sold, reports Gaurav Saigal.

Updated on Mar 08, 2010 12:59 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Gaurav Saigal, Gorakhpur
Ozone may provide cure for some ailments
Ozone, known to protect us from ultraviolet rays, could soon be tamed to help cure few diseases too. Trials in different parts of the world have given evidences that ozone is capable to treat foot ulcers among diabetic patients and minor skin ailments.

Updated on Feb 19, 2010 11:08 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Gaurav Saigal, Lucknow
MCI makes student union mandatory at colleges
Medical institutes across the country will now compulsorily conduct student union elections on the campus.

Updated on Feb 13, 2010 10:10 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Gaurav Saigal, Lucknow
MCI notice to medical collges in UP
Fate of students of five state run medical colleges in Uttar Pradesh hangs in balance after notice from Medical Council of India (MCI) to either correct shortcomings or they may face de-recognition.

Updated on Feb 10, 2010 08:12 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Gaurav Saigal, Lucknow
Bivalent polio vaccine to be use in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh
Bivalent polio vaccine likely to be introduced in India from January 2010 will focus upon kids in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, two states that share majority of the new poliovirus cases registered in 2009.

Updated on Nov 27, 2009 04:38 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Gaurav Saigal, Lucknow
Beware, canned beer can cause Alzheimer's
Tinned soft drink or beer carry a common hazard for you. The container walls have Aluminum (Al), which blends with the liquid in trace and reaches your brain, reports Gaurav Saigal.

Updated on Oct 26, 2009 08:17 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Gaurav Saigal, Lucknow
Groped in bus, Dane still loves India
In an incident that shows how unfair it is to brand an entire country for the acts of a few, a young Danish woman who was molested on a Lucknow bus has said her horrific experience would not change her image of India and Indians.

Updated on Jun 18, 2009 12:25 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Gaurav Saigal, Lucknow
Operation bungle: 12 lose eyesight
Several persons, most of them senior citizens, who were operated upon on January 11 at a cataract surgery camp in Barabanki district in Lucknow have lost their vision a few days after operation, reports Gaurav Saigal.

Updated on Feb 02, 2008 03:04 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Gaurav Saigal, Lucknow
Flawed result snuffed out his life
Gautam killed himself for ‘flunking’ CPMT. He passed in the corrected result, reports Gaurav Saigal.

Updated on Jun 22, 2007 02:47 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Gaurav Saigal, Lucknow
UP university admits error in pre-medical test results
Authorities of the Veer Bahadur Singh Poorvanchal University accept that a ‘technical error’ caused gross inaccuracy in the results of the test, reports Gaurav Saigal.

Updated on Jun 17, 2007 02:21 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Gaurav Saigal, Lucknow
Maya Govt to rename KGMU as CSJMMU
A bill seeking to rename the university was passed in the assembly by a voice-vote, reports Gaurav Saigal.

Updated on May 22, 2007 09:21 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Gaurav Saigal, Lucknow
Part of her was tumour!
Doctors of King George's Medical University show some rare skills and save the life of one-year-old Anshu by removing the tumour from her liver, reports Gaurav Saigal.

Updated on May 19, 2007 09:29 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Gaurav Saigal, Lucknow
Homoeopathy colleges short of teaching staff
Faculty positions in almost all State-run homoeopathy colleges are lying vacant, reports Gaurav Saigal.

Updated on May 14, 2007 08:55 PM IST
None | Gaurav Saigal, Lucknow
Some herbs can fight killer oxygen
A research says the anti-oxidative effect of some of the herbs has been proved along with their role as hypoglycemic agents – one that reduces the blood glucose level, reports Gaurav Saigal.

Updated on May 04, 2007 08:25 PM IST
None | Gaurav Saigal
KGMU alert: Don't fall sick as doctors holiday
The summer vacations are going to play killjoy for patients as half of the faculty in each of the departments of KGMU has left for vacations, reports Gaurav Saigal.

Updated on May 03, 2007 07:49 PM IST
None | Gaurav Saigal
Affidavits sought from KGMU faculty
The affidavits sought are similar to what was recently demanded from the doctors working in the government sector under the CMO, reports Gaurav Saigal.

Updated on Apr 08, 2007 05:47 AM IST
None | Gaurav Saigal, Lucknow