sana Mumbai, July 06: Overnight rain brought about the usual chaos in the city on Sunday, despite claims of monsoon preparedness by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).
Three people died, crushed by buildings or trees or electrocuted, the queue of sick people mounted at hospitals, streets were waterlogged and railway services went haywire.
Pune, July 06: Admission process to class XI of science, commerce and arts courses will be delayed by at least 10 days, while that of bifocal by four to five days.
The release of provisional merit list of bifocal courses, scheduled to be out on Monday, has been postponed until the final verdict on 90:10 formula. The decision was taken during an urgent meeting called by officials of the education department on Sunday.
Pune, July 06: Dearth of good students in basic science programmes at the undergraduate level has pushed the University of Pune (UoP) to think of a plan that will make at least some brilliant students turn to BSc courses.
The varsity plans to give scholarships to the students who get above 90 per cent marks in class XII. In most colleges affiliated to the university, BSc seats have been going vacant for the past few years, as students prefer professional courses such as engineering or medical after class 12.
Ludhaina, July 06: As many as 260 patients were examined today at a free medical camp organized by DMCH in the OPD block of the hospital. The consultants from the specialties of Medicine, Pediatrics, Skin, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Orthopaedics, Eye, ENT and Urology examined the patients.
Chandigarh, July 06: While the Panjab University Teachers’ Association (PUTA) and other university authorities are planning to initiate a campaign to seek Central university status for the Panjab University, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has made it clear that it will not allow the university to attain the Central university status.
Kolkata, July 06: The death toll in the Saturday’s minibus accident in Howrah rose to 12, with two of the injured, including a six-month-old baby, succumbing to their injuries.
Nine persons were killed on the spot when a minibus plying on the Sankrail-Howrah route skidded off the Bankim Setu and crashed down onto the tracks of Howrah station on Saturday.
A family in Entally lost three of its members — Pradip Das (27), his 22-year-old wife Suparna and six-month-old daughter Pooja. The bodies were handed over to the family after postmortem.
Mumbai, July 06: The Mumbai Police have requested the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) to go slow on part of the construction of the country’s first monorail project, for fear that it would put the safety of terrorist Ajmal Kasab in jeopardy.
Part of the monorail is coming up on N M Joshi Marg and Sane Guruji Marg, where Arthur Road Jail is located. Kasab is lodged in the jail and is being tried in a special court on the premises.
Mumbai, July 06: Michael Jackson’s father Joe Jackson has demanded that a third autopsy be conducted on the singer because he believes that the pop icon died of poisoning.
The Jackson patriarch who has been excluded from his son’s will which names his mother, Katherine Jackson and his three young children as the beneficiaries, has angered his family members by demanding a third autopsy, reported Contactmusic.
Joe, who was publicly accused of abuse by the ‘Thriller’ legend has been attempting to take control of the late star’s funeral thereby infuriating the family.
New Delhi, July 06: As Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee prepares to present UPA Government’s first Budget after its return to power, there is an expectancy among the industry and the common people alike. Here’s why:
Real estate firms hope for affordable housing boost
Reeling under the credit crunch and slump in demand, realty firms and consultants expect the Budget to provide more incentives for affordable housing sector and encourage buyers by doubling exemption limit on interest paid on housing loans to Rs 3 lakh.
New Delhi, July 06: With more than 43,000 applications, BA Programme was shaping up to be Delhi University’s most sought after course for this academic session.
Two rounds of admissions later, some “reputed” colleges have managed to fill merely 29 out of 82 stipulated seats.
“We are surprised the BA Programme cut-offs have come down so much and that admissions are still open after the third cut-off list. It is for the first time this has happened in our college,” Nirmal Kumar, admissions convener at Sri Venkateswara College, said.
New Delhi, July 06: The Delhi High Court has directed the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to pay Rs 10 lakh as compensation to a woman whose husband was killed by a stray bull four years ago.
Justice S Ravindra Bhat held the victim died as a consequence of the civic agency’s failure to remove stray cattle from the city roads.
“The accident was the consequence of neglect on the part of the MCD, which did not ensure proper supervision of the area for the removal of stray cattle… Considering these facts, the MCD is liable to pay compensation,” Bhat said.
New Delhi, July 06: A senior citizen was murdered and his wife critically injured by the couple’s long-time domestic help in Shreshtha Vihar area of East Delhi. Police suspect that Yashpal Soli, 63, a heart patient, was smothered to death, as there were no external injuries.
Wife, Sudha Soli, 60, was brutally assaulted with a hammer and she received severe head injuries. Currently recuperating in Max Hospital, her condition is stated to be stable.
New Delhi, 06: Some members of the CPM Politburo are learnt to have taken a view that disciplinary action should be taken against Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan who has been demanding that Pinarayi Vijayan step down as state secretary.
However, the top leadership at the two-day meeting could not arrive at a decision after serious differences erupted among members over punishing the veteran leader alone. The Politburo then decided to convene an emergency meeting of the Central Committee next weekend to end the stalemate.
New Delhi, July 06: With Justice Liberhan submitting his report on the Babri Masjid demolition after nearly 17 years, Uma Bharti, who was in the frontline of the agitation for a Ram temple at Ayodhya and is an accused in the demolition case, maintains that those who led the agitation must now not disown the responsibility for it.
New Delhi, July 04: The CPI(M) Polit Bureau on Saturday met here to find an end to the disunity in its Kerala unit with the two top State leaders — Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan and State party Secretary Pinarayi Vijayan — sticking to their stand.
Mr. Achuthanandan and Mr. Vijayan are understood to have presented their case in the meeting at AKG Bhavan, the CPI(M) headquarters, here on the first day. Sources said they have stuck to their position.
Islamabad, July 04: Pakistan has sealed its South Waziristan border with Afghanistan and imposed a curfew there to prevent Afghan militants from infiltrating into its territory in the wake of fresh offensives by US troops on the Taliban on the other side of the border.
US Marines push deeper into southern Afghan townsThe Pakistan Army has already deployed additional troops at the border on the directives of the federal government, the Online news agency said on Friday.
A curfew has also been imposed in the border areas to stop the likely infiltration of Afghan militants.
Dhaka, July 04: Torrential rains triggered landslides and flash floods killing six people and stranding half a million in their homes in Bangladesh, officials said on Saturday.
The landslides occurred near Habiganj district town, some 200 km (125 miles) northeast of the capital Dhaka on Saturday, burying all six members of a family.
Wellington, July 04: Three people have died of swine flu in New Zealand, the Ministry of Health announced on Saturday, reporting the country’s first fatalities from the H1N1 virus.
It said the chief coroner had reported that it was “strongly probable” the H1N1 virus was a major factor in the death of a 19-year-old man in Hamilton on Sunday and a 42-year-old man in Christchurch on Thursday.
A Ministry statement said that a young girl with underlying medical conditions died on Saturday morning in Wellington Hospital after testing positive for swine flu.
Mumbai, July 04: Heavy rains lashed the Mumbai and the neighbouring Thane district for the second day on Saturday, bringing respite from the sweltering heat and easing concerns of water scarcity.
In many parts of the suburbs people welcomed the rains by performing traditional ‘aartis’ and ‘poojas’ as the rains played truant over the last few weeks, as they feared of more water cuts due to delayed monsoon.
BMC has already effected 20 percent water cut in metropolis.
Hyderabad, July 04: Andhra Pradesh is now mulling fixing an upper limit on the fees charged by private schools. A panel constituted by the state government has recommended that private schools in urban areas should not charge more than Rs 24,000 per annum as tuition fee up to Class 5 and Rs.30,000 up to Class 10.
The six-member panel was constituted last month following public complaints that several schools effected a steep hike in tuition fees from the academic year 2009-10.
Dehradun, July 04: Controversy surrounded gunning down of an MBA qualified youth in an alleged police encounter, with his parents claiming that he has no criminal history, raising doubts that it could be a killing in a case of mistaken identity.
Ranbir Singh, 22, hailing from Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh, was shot dead Friday in an alleged encounter with police in Ladpur jungles here.
“We have ordered a magisterial inquiry into the incident,” Principal Secretary Home Subhash Kumar said.
Lucknow, July 04: A Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader and his two aides have been booked for allegedly raping a 25-year-old married woman in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly district, police said Saturday.
“BSP leader Sumer Singh, who is in charge of the party’s affairs in the Nawabganj Assembly constituency of Bareilly, along with two of his friends raped the woman after abducting her,” police Inspector Veer Singh Nayak said.
A case was registered against them Friday on the complaint of the victim’s husband.
Srinagar, July 04: Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Saturday directed exhumation of the bodies of two women allegedly raped and murdered in Shopian last month to collect their DNA samples subject to the consent of their family.
Noting that the DNA report is missing and post-mortem was done in a proper way, a division bench of the high court comprising Chief Justice Barin Gosh and Justice Mohammad Yaqub Mir ordered exhumation of the bodies of Asiya and Nelofar.
Justice Gosh directed the principal of medical college Srinagar to set up a team of doctors to perform the tests.
Washington, July 04: Suffering from diabetes? Fret not, just adopt a proper and healthy diet, for a new study has revealed that using lifestyle interventions on top of existing drug treatments can help controlling high blood sugar levels.
A team at University of Otago has provided intensive dietary advice to improve blood sugar control in diabetics — even though they’re on what is regarded as the best available medication.
London, July 04: Scientists are focussing on bacteria-killer proteins known as colicins to potentially open the way to new medicines.
A team led by Colin Kleanthous, biology professor from the University of York, will study how colicins use decoys to mimic key parts of the cells’ own protein machinery to evade their defences.