It is being celebrated on May 8 to spread awareness about thalassaemia being a blood disorder, myths related to the disease, and to help the patients lead a normal life.
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was re-elected as WHO Director-General for a second five-year term by WHO Member states during the 75th World Health Assembly.
Chinese scientists have proposed a space project to survey the sky through a space-borne telescope to hunt for habitable Earth-like planets outside the Solar System, some 32 light-years away from Earth.
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