Honorary degree to Canada’s Guv General
The National law University on Monday conducted a special convocation ceremony at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi to confer the honorary degree Doctor of laws (ll.D) to David Johnston, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada, in view of his achievements of over four decades in the field of law and legal education and lifetime commitment to the service of human kind. The event was attended by distinguished guests, including Delhi High Court Judge and NlU Delhi Chancellor Justice Badar Durrez Ahmed, Stewart Beck, High Commissioner for Canada to India, Admiral Nirmal Verma, High Commissioner of India to Canada, and Justice S Ravindra Bhat, Judge, Delhi High Court. Delivering the convocation address Salman Khurshid applauded achievements of Johnston and urged the gathering to remember an important lesson that life of Johnston had taught all “never give in to handicap in pursuit of excellence”.
Cervical cancer awareness car rally held
In an initiative to spread awareness about the endemic cervical cancer among Indian women, Delhi Gynaecologist Forum organised a car rally in the Capital recently. It began from Hotel Wood’s Apple Preet Vihar, passed through roads of East Delhi and ended at Indian Medical Association Bhawan, East Delhi. According to WHO worldwide about
5 lakh new cases are diagnosed every year and 2.5 lakh women die every year of cervical cancer. Unfortunately every third woman dying of cancer is an Indian, even when the disease is preventable. Everyday 200 Indian women die of cervical cancer. Cervical cancer is caused by HPV or Human Papilloma Virus infection through skin to skin contact during sexual activity, commonest age group being 25-49 years.