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  Eligible elderly be paid pension regularly, states to provide them medicines, masks & sanitisers: SC

  India | August 04, 2020 20:34 IST

  The Supreme Court Tuesday directed that all eligible old age persons should be regularly paid pension and states should provide them necessary medicines, masks, sanitizers, and other essential goods in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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  Yoga for Senior Citizens | Swami Ramdev shares how you can keep sugar, BP and joints pain away

  Health | July 09, 2020 10:06 IST

  Growing age brings along with it a lot of diseases. Therefore it becomes necessary for everyone to take care of their health in the young age itself. If you want to keep yourself young even in old age, then do these yogasanas suggested by Swami Ramdev daily.

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  COVID-19: Dia Mirza raises concern for senior citizens living alone

  Celebrities | March 25, 2020 14:31 IST

  Actress Dia Mirza has taken to social media to raise concern for senior citizens living alone as there is a lockdown across the nation amidst widespread coronavirus scare. She has tweeted urging the government to clarify curfew guidelines so that the vulnerable sections of society can plan better for the days ahead. 

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  Bangla Sahib to be differently-abled, senior citizen-friendly

  India | October 20, 2019 14:16 IST

  The Delhi SGMC has initiated the movement to maintain, provide, renovate and repair existing infrastructure to ensure that the elderly and differently-abled have easy access to the gurdwara complex

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  Hoardings crash in Mumbai, kills one

  India | June 12, 2019 19:26 IST

  A cement hoarding sheet uprooted by gusty winds crashed on a pedestrian outside Churchgate station, injuring him seriously, the BMC Disaster Control said here on Wednesday.

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  33% elderly suffer misbehaviour, mistreatment in Delhi-NCR, claims NGO study

  India | April 03, 2019 22:50 IST

  The survey sample respondents included 8,000 elderly people from Delhi-NCR and concluded that out of 2,743 affected elderly respondents, 985 persons ranked misbehaviour as the most common form of abuse of elders.

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  World Senior Citizens Day: AMD, leading cause of chronic blindness in elderly

  Lifestyle | August 21, 2018 12:58 IST

  The rate of depression amongst AMD patients is substantially higher than depression due to other reasons amongst the elderly population.

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  Delhi: CM Arvind Kejriwal launches free pilgrimage scheme for senior citizens

  India | July 09, 2018 22:26 IST

  Under the 'Mukhyamantri Teerth Yatra Yojana', any resident of Delhi above the age of 60 will be eligible to undertake pilgrimage, accompanied by an attendant above the age of 18, whose expenditure will also be borne by the government.

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  Govt approves ‘Varishtha Pension Bima Yojana’ for seniors with 8 pc return

  January 24, 2017 16:49 IST

  Cabinet today approved a pension scheme for senior citizens under which public insurer LIC will provide a guaranteed return of 8 per cent for 10 years, as part of government's social security and financial inclusion programme.

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  Delhi Senior Citizen Killed In Fight Over Water With Policeman

  India | February 29, 2012 21:04 IST

  New Delhi, Feb 29: Asking a Delhi policeman for water cost a 66-year-old businessman his life on late Tuesday night. The incident took place at Subroto Park police station at around 1 AM where the deceased's