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200 kids fall sick playing Holi in Mumbai

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Nearly 200 children from Mumbai’s Dharavi slum suffered colour poisoning playing Holi Thursday and were admitted to hospital following allergic reactions, a hospital official said. All are now said to be stable.

“So far 176 children have been admitted to the hospital with complaints of skin allergy, burning of eyes, giddiness and vomiting,” a duty medical officer from Sion Hospital told IANS.

“More and more cases are coming in since the afternoon. They seem to have played with colours with some chemical elements,” he said.

IPS officer crushed to death in Mp by “MAFIA”

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An Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Narendra Kumar posted in Banmore town in Madhya Pradesh’s Morena District was allegedly killed by mining mafia on Thursday.

Police said IPS Kumar was trying to stop a tractor that was over-loaded with illegal stones but the driver ran over him instead of stopping. The sub-divisional police officer of Bamor, Morena was rushed to a nearby hospital but succumbed to his injuries on the way, they added.

The driver of the tractor, Manoj Gujjar, has been taken into custody.

Bindoo (Hijda) is responsible for BJP loss in Ayodhya

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BJP faced its waterloo at the hands of independent Bindoo Hijda candidate who started his canvassing atleast three months before any of the candidate. Independent candidate Gulshan alias Bindoo was fourth with 22,023 is the main reason for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has lost in Ayodhya Assembly constituency for the first time since the Babri Masjid was demolished on Demcember 6, 1992.

On women’s day, helpless woman attempts suicide in Kashmir

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While the world celebrated International Women’s Day, a helpless woman attempted suicide Thursday after her husband abandoned her on a highway in Kashmir.

Without giving her any idea about where she was, the husband literally threw her out of a truck on the Srinagar-Leh highway at Wussan village in north Kashmir’s Ganderbal district.

The husband, a truck driver, had brought her to Ganderbal from Baramulla district nearly 110 kilometres away from his home.



Deoband Maulanas ask “Maulana Mulayam” to full fill poll promises

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UP results have opened up the eyes of secular national parties but all giving headache to Hindutava forces who were very confident that they will get a role in forming the future govt in UP and thus taking forward their agenda for 2014 Parlimentary elections.

Every one is taken a back if you look at early morning trends at around 8:30 SP was leading in 39 seats band BJP was at no 2 with 30 leading and BSP with 22 and Congress with 25 .On each and every channel all the channel presenters were so happy that both the National parties are doing very well and now the Mandal politics are gone.

‘Zero-exercise during pregnancy sows the seeds of backache’

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In a study delving into the causes of backache among women, the Indian Spinal Injuries Centre (ISIC) Wednesday said postural changes during the pregnancy months is when back pain problems begin in over 50 percent of cases.

Out of 510 patients reporting back pain, nearly 43 percent were women. Among them, nearly 82 percent had done no exercises at all during pregnancy.

Four killed in fire

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At least four people were killed Wednesday evening in a huge fire in a firecracker unit in Andhra Pradesh’s Nellore district, police said.

The incident took place near Atmakur in Nellore, about 500 km from here.

Four workers were killed in an explosion. Three of them died instantly.

The entire building was gutted in the fire, which is being investigated by police.

Man barred from being with daughter alone

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A man in Britain has been banned from being alone with his eight-year-old daughter after he accidentally downloaded pornographic images of children.

Scaffolder Nigel Robinson, 43, turned worried after downloading the images and called up police to report about the incident. He said he was trying to access music on a file-sharing website, the Sun reported.

Robinson’s wife urged him to alert police so that whoever posted the indecent snaps could be traced.

The policemen later confiscated his laptop.

Improve ties with India, Gilani to Salman Bashir

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Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has told Salman Bashir, who has been named Pakistan’s high commissioner to India, to pay special attention to improving ties.

Gilani said Tuesday Islamabad attaches high priority to promoting regional peace, security, prosperity and stability, Associated Press of Pakistan reported.

Gilani expressed these views in a meeting with the former foreign secretary, who paid a farewell call on him at the PM’s House here.

Two women killed in Poonch firing

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Two women were killed and two people were injured in firing by an army soldier in Poonch town of Jammu and Kashmir Wednesday morning, police said.

According to police sources, a soldier of the Territorial Army, Tariq Pathan, went on roof top of his house in Poonch town, about 240 kilometers North-West of Jammu Wednesday morning and opened indiscriminate fire from his service rifle.

Two women in the neighbourhood died on the spot while a man and another woman were injured.

Indian spy held in Pakistan?

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Pakistan Wednesday said it has caught an Indian spy.

Police in Karachi recovered maps of “sensitive areas” from Daneesh, Online news agency reported. The arrest followed a tip off.

Officials said Daneesh had prepared maps of several locations.

Chronic kidney disease rising in India: Doctors

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Minimal physical activity, unhealthy diet, smoking and drinking are some of the reasons that are resulting in an increased number of chronic kidney diseases – especially among women – in both rural and urban India.

With World Kidney Day celebrated March 8, doctors opined that immediate measures should be taken to the curb the rising numbers.

Mallika supports homosexuals, to host gay friends’ engagement bash

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Mallika Sherawat, who recently shot for the NOH8 campaign demanding equality for homosexuals, has come out strongly in support of the gay community.

“There should be NO DISCRIMINATION,” tweeted the actress who has returned to Los Angeles after shooting for Bollywood film “Kismat, Love, Paisa, Dilli”.

The actress’ best friends are gay and she is set to host an engagement bash for two of her gay friends at a beach house in Malibu.

“It’s going to be so much fun,” wrote the actress.

ICC may allow local match officials in Pakistan

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The International Cricket Council (ICC) may allow local match officials for Bangladesh’s proposed tour of strife-torn Pakistan because it feels appointing “non-neutral match officials” may still be unsafe.

Pakistan has been a no-go zone for international teams since the attack on Sri Lankan team by gunmen in 2009 in Lahore. Bangladesh will be the first team to travel to Pakistan since the attack on the Sri Lankan team. The three-match ODI series would take place in Karachi and Lahore April 16-26.

We want to expand nationally: Trinamool

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Buoyed with its success in Manipur, where it emerged as the second largest party winning seven seats in the assembly polls, the Trinamool Congress Wednesday said it would aim to expand nationally in the coming days.

“All political parties have some aims and objectives when they are formed. We also have some objectives. Our party has a mission, vision and ideology. We want to expand nationally,” Trinamool Congress national general secretary Mukul Roy told IANS.

Was Osama not buried but body flown to US for cremation?

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While former Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden is popularly known to have been given a sea burial, some emails leaked from an intelligence analysis firm have suggested that his body had actually been taken to the US for cremation.

According to the emails, the Al Qaeda chief, shot and killed during the famous Navy Seal Team Six raid on his compound in Pakistan’s Abbottabad city May 2, was transported back to the US and cremated, the Daily Mail reported.

Indian-origin lawyer who smuggled drugs into prisons faces jail

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An Indian-origin solicitor faces years behind bars in Britain for smuggling drugs and mobile phones to prison inmates in oversized shoes.

Ritesh Brahmbhatt, 31, “abused his position of trust” as a lawyer to use legal visits to two prisons to smuggle in banned and illegal items in return for cash, the Daily Mail reported.

He was caught when sniffer dogs at one jail smelt the cannabis and meow meow, a stimulant drug, hidden inside his size 12 wide-fit shoes.

Congress should revive regional leadership, says NCP

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A day after its poor showing in the assembly polls, the Congress got a piece of advice from its ally Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) which asked it to revive leadership at the regional level.

“The Congress will have to work hard. It should revive regional leadership,” NCP leader Tariq Anwar told IANS.

He said the results were less than the expectations for Congress, but the party had the capacity to bounce back as it has done on several ocassions in the past.

Akhilesh tells SP cadres to stop hooliganism or face action

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Worried at violence by overzealous party workers, the Samajwadi Party (SP) has issued strict instructions to them to “mend their ways” or face “exit from the party”.

The terse message has been given to party workers by state president Akhilesh Yadav, who, sources said, was particularly miffed at the violence that marred the celebrations of the party’s return to power after five years.

Mayawati blames Congress, BJP, Muslims for rout

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After resigning as the Uttar Pradesh chief minister, Mayawati Wednesday blamed the rout of her Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on the Congress, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and mass Muslim voting for the Samajwadi Party.

Sounding as combative as ever, Mayawati also warned at a news conference here that the people of Uttar Pradesh will soon regret voting for what she said was the “SP culture” of thuggery.

“The people of UP will soon get fed up… When that happens, they will remember our governance.”

Sonia blames party weakness for debacle

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The Congress debacle in state elections will not “damage” the UPA government, party president Sonia Gandhi said Wednesday, blaming weak organizational structure and wrong choice of candidates among possible reasons for the disaster.

But Gandhi declared that there was no question of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh stepping down following the terrible electoral beating the Congress suffered in Goa, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh and poor showing in Uttarakhand.

UP: Akhilesh will be nominated as CM ?

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Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav is likely to nominate his son Akhilesh as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh after the party stormed to power in the state with a stunning majority routing Mayawati-led BSP, making this the biggest win in the state in 27 years. Akhilesh though says he will focus only on the party and not accept any position in the government.

83 people on Hurun rich list have $1.5 trillion

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Eighty-three individuals worldwide with a staggering combined personal wealth of $1.5 trillion have been listed on this year’s Hurun Global Rich List.

Carlos Slim, 73, tops the list with a personal fortune of $55 billion, according to the annual report released here Tuesday by Shanghai-based Hurun Research Institute.

Bill Gates, 57, ranks as the world’s second-richest individual with a $50-billion fortune, and Warren Buffet, 82, comes in third with $48 billion, Xinhua reported.

Child hunger worst in Afganistan

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Thanks to the ruthless decade-long war, children in Afghanistan suffer one of the highest levels of chronic malnutrition in the world, according to a report released Monday by the World Bank and the government.

More than half of Afghan children under the age of five go hungry, the report said, despite billions of dollars in aid that has come into the country over the years.

Army kills 14 innocent in firing

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At least 14 people were killed in Syria Tuesday as government forces took aim at citizens across the country, opposition activists said.
The deaths include five people in Hama and three in the opposition stronghold of Homs, said the opposition Syrian Network for Human Rights.
Also in Homs, the Syrian military targeted a bridge on the Orontes River near the Lebanese border used as a crossing by wounded Syrian civilians, dissidents and refugees fleeing to Lebanon, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, another opposition activist group.