Former cricketer Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi passes away

Saif Ali Khan's father, ex-cricketer Pataudi criticalNew Delhi, Sept 22: Former India Cricket Captain Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi has been shifted to ICU after he was admitted to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital following a lung infection.According to the bulletin released by the hospital, 70-year-old Mansur Ali Khan remains to be critically ill. He has been put on high level oxygen support and requires intermittent BIPAP (Bilevel Positive Airway Pressure). His cardiac function remains stable and is conscious.He is also being observed by a team of critical care specialists and pulmonologists, said the bulletin.Pataudi was admitted to the hospital in Aug end and was diagnosed with interstitial lung disease, a medical condition where the oxygen passage...

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Albert Szent-Gyorgyi | Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Google Doodle appears | Albert Szent-Györgyi - Biography

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Google Doodle appearsGoogle celebrates Albert Szent-Gyorgyi’s birthday, vitamin C’s discovery.Citrus fruit a day keeps a cancer away! Search engine giant Google celebrates the life of Hungarian physiologist Albert Szent-Gyorgyi with a Google Doodle, or the tweaked logo of the search engine site that features the contribution of the person, or components of historical events. The new Szent-Gyorgyi doodle is a simple jpeg file showing off fruits like Oranges, Pineapple and lemon. Apparently, all fruits featured in the Google homepage are fruits that contain high-level of vitamin C. For example, Oranges contain 45 mg (54%) of Vitamin C per 100g of serving, Pineapple contains 36.2 mg (44%) per 100g, and lemon leads...

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Google does an animated music video doodle for Freddie Mercury's 65th birthday

Freddie Mercury was born Farrokh Bulsara on Thursday September 5th 1946 on the small spice island of Zanzibar. His parents, Bomi and Jer Bulsara, were both Parsee (Persian). His father, Bomi, was a civil servant, working as a High Court cashier for the British Government. Freddie's sister, Kashmira, was born in 1952. In 1954, at the age of eight, Freddie was shipped to St Peter's English boarding school in Panchgani, about fifty miles outside Bombay. It was there his friends began to call him Freddie, a name the family also adopted. As St Peter's was an English school, the sports played there were typically English. Freddie loathed cricket and long-distance running, but he liked hockey, sprint and boxing. At the age of 10 he became a school...

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