Month: June 2015

Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav was on Saturday discharged from a private hospital here after being treated for viral fever and abdomen infection, a doctor said.

The 75-year-old former Uttar Pradesh chief minister came to Medicity Medanta Hospital on Friday after feeling unwell.

“Yadav was diagnosed for viral fever and an infection in his abdomen. Senior cardiologist Dr. Naresh Trehan and Dr. Sushila Kataria were monitoring his diagnosis process,” a doctor at Medanta, who did not wish to be named told IANS.

The devastating heat wave that struck Pakistan’s Sindh province is slowly subsiding but the toll has climbed to 1,242 with 32 deaths reported in Karachi on Saturday.

Various government-run hospitals in Karachi confirmed that at least 32 people died of heatstroke on Saturday, reports Dawn.

At least 13 people died in Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC), 11 in Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (ASH), two in Qatar Hospital, three in hospitals owned by Karachi Municipal Corporation (KMC) and three in other hospitals in the city.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will skip the meeting of Finance Ministers of 57 countries to approve setting up of US $100 billion Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) in Beijing on Monday.

“The Minister is not be going to China,” a Finance Ministry official said.

The official, however, did not give any reasons for Jaitley skipping the meeting but it may be because of pressing domestic issues.

The Mumbai electricity regulatory authority has allowed three utilities Tata Power, Reliance Infrastructure and Mahavitaran to increase their tariff with effect from this month.
Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) has approved an increase in tariff of 2.44% for Mahavitaran, while 5.2% and 3.92% for RInfra and Tata Power (TPC), respectively. The new rates will now be applicable from June 1.

Accused of involvement in a ‘scam’ for clearing purchases worth Rs 206 crore without inviting tenders, Maharashtra Minister Pankaja Munde on Saturday shot back, claiming her efforts to break the hold of contractors’ lobby on the

Women and Child Development (WCD Department had provoked such accusations. She also demanded that those who have made the allegations come up with proof to substantiate the charges.

“Where is the proof?” she asked, and claimed no procedures were overlooked by the department.

A seven-year old girl on Saturday fell into a borewell in Rajasthan’s Sikar district.

Police officials reached the spot to rescue the girl.

The area around the borewell is being dug in an effort to rescue the seven-year old.

Further details are awaited. (ANI)

The Sports Injury Centre (SIC) at the Safdarjung Hospital has been approved as a referral centre for elite Indian athletes selected for the next Olympic Games.

A decision in this regard was taken recently at a meeting which included all the sports federations of the country.

The SIC was selected as the referral centre by the Sports Authority of India (SAI) for all its national and international events, said the centre’s director, Dr. Deepak Chaudhary.

The centre is fully equipped and trained to handle all cases of injuries to the athletes selected for the Olympics.

Andhra Pradesh HRD Minister Ganta Srinivas Rao said that the people of Andhra Pradesh would demand Union Territory status for Hyderabad, if Section-8 of AP Reorganisation Act is not implemented.

AIMIM president and Hyderabad MP Barrister Asaduddin Owaisi expressed his grave concern over the Allegations made by National investigation Agency Special Public Prosecutor Adv. Rohini Salian that investigation Agencies were pressuring her to go soft on this terror case.

Owaisi said that the government was trying to protect all accused who are associated with Hindutva outfits. This shows the government and investigation agencies are running on communal lines it is very dangerous threat to the judicial system, he said.

Chennai’s only multi-speciality facility, Kauvery Hospital, has extended its healthcare services to senior citizens by launching the first-of-its kind orthogeriatrics department for comprehensive orthopaedic care.
The dedicated department combines the medical specialties of orthopedic and geriatrics to provide holistic care with top-of-the-line infrastructure and patient-friendly amenities.

WNS (Holdings) Limited, a leading provider of global business process management (BPM) services, has announced plans to become a founding partner sponsor at the 2015 Travellers Championship.

The Travelers Championship, a premier PGA tour golf event, began on June 22 at TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Connecticut.

“We are proud to be a founding partner for the Travelers Championship, and glad to be associated with this prestigious PGA tour event,” said Group CEO, WNS, Keshav R. Murugesh.

Ben Affleck and his bestie Matt Damon may soon have a collaboration for Warner Bros. to produce a flick based on the high-profile FIFA scandal with their production company Pearl Street Films.

According to Hollywood Reporter, Warner Bros. have attained the rights of a book Houses of Deceit written by BuzzFeed investigative reporter Ken Bensinger, that will details the whole story behind the American FIFA executive Chuck Blazer and his involvement in the widespread corruption surrounding the soccer league.

RSS ideologue K.N. Govindacharya on Saturday asserted that the Narendra Modi-led NDA Government should have a bi-focal vision, and said that politics should help the people and not a ‘particular person’.

“I think the government should have a bi-focal vision. Politics should help people not particular person,” Govindacharya told ANI.

All arrangements, including security are in place for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s expected visit to Varanasi tomorrow.

Modi will be launching the Integrated Power Development Scheme (IPDS) in his Lok Sabha constituency.

The scheme is aimed at strengthening sub-transmission network, metering, customer care services, IT application, provisioning of solar panels and completion of the ongoing works of Restructured Accelerated Power Development and completion of the Reforms Programme (RAPDRP). (ANI)

Iran is ready to sign a deal that respected the nuclear rights and interests of Iranians, the Islamic Republic’s foreign minister has said.

On arriving in the Austrian capital of Vienna on Saturday, Mohammad-Javad Zarif said that a deal will be reached if the other party was willing to recognise Iranians’ rights, lift sanctions, fulfil its commitments and not make excessive demands, reported Xinhua.

He also added that time was not important but a good deal and appropriate result was.

The latest message released by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on completing a year as a self-proclaimed caliphate has urged its supporters to take up arms and carry out acts of terror.

The people of Jaipur staged a protest on Saturday demanding the resignation of Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje’s resignation of the Lalit Modi row.

The shouted slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA Government.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which has been defending External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj despite opposition demands that she be sacked for helping Lalit Modi, was hit with another worry last week when the former IPL boss claimed that Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje secretly supported his immigration plea in Britain.

In a bid to restore balance between bat and ball, the International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced that the key rule changes affecting 50-over one-day and Twenty20 international matches will come into effect in July.

Following the conclusion of a run-feast World Cup this year, the ICC has decided that five fielders would be allowed outside the 30-yard circle between the 41st and 50th overs, rather than the current four in all series starting on or after July 5.

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday asserted that the Congress Party is not doing its home-work before demanding the resignations of Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj over the Lalit Modi row.

“The Congress party has not done its home-work and they are demanding resignations of BJP leaders,” said BJP spokesperson Shrikant Sharma.

The Congress party has been mounting pressure on the BJP to sack Raje from her post.

Meanwhile, Raje arrived in New Delhi to attend the NITI Aayog meet. (ANI)

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj arrived in Bangkok on Saturday to pay a two-day visit to Thailand.

The External Affairs Minister will also be attending the Vishwa Sanskrit Sammelan and a meeting of the Indo – Thailand Joint Commission during her visit to the country.

The Vishwa Sanskrit Sammelan (World Sanskrit Conference) is the most prestigious academic gathering of scholars related to Sanskrit studies. The conference will be held in Bangkok from June 28 to July 2. (ANI)

Commonwealth Games silver medallist pair of Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa progressed to the semi-finals of the Canada Open badminton tournament after claiming straight sets win over Chan Kaka Tsz Ka and Yuen Sin Ying in their women’s doubles contest.

Jwala and Ashwini overcame the Hong Kong duo 21-19, 21-13 in a thrilling contest that lasted mere 27 minutes at the Markin MacPhail Centre.

The third seeds Indian pair will next face Japan’s Shiho Tanaka and Koharu Yonemoto to book a berth for the summit clash. (ANI)

Mohit Suri’s latest direction ‘Hamari Adhuri Kahani’ has been adapted by the movie’s producer, Mahesh Bhatt, and will be staged in Delhi on August 1, and then in Karachi.

The Bollywood director recently broke the news on Twitter by mentioning that he will soon be directing a project adapted from his recent production starring Emran Hashmi and Vidhya Balan, with the award winning National School of Drama (NSD) graduate, Happy Ranajit, and the Pakistani sufi rock band Raeth, the Dawn reported.

Commenting on the recent episode where former ACB chief S S Yadav allegedly threatened to commit suicide, Congress Party leader Sandeep Dikshit said that Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung must initiate immediate action and clean up the entire department.

Dikshit called Yadav ‘incompetent’ and criticised him for acting like a feudal servant of the Delhi Government.

Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today said he expects Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to grant payment licence to the proposed Post Bank of India by August.

This will enable the network of 1,54,000 post offices (including 1,30,000 rural post offices) to offer banking services to the masses in the country.

“We expect RBI to give payment bank licence to post (department) in August,” Minister of Communications and IT Prasad said.

In last one year, the Department of Post (DoP) has networked 27,215 post offices into one national unit through computers.

West Bengal’s credit-deposit (C/D) ratio, a key indicator of a state’s credit offtake, has inched-up to 68%, but was still below the national average of more than 70%.

West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra, who chaired the State Level Banker’s Committee meeting here on Saturday, told reporters that the C/D ratio of the state had increased from 67% to 68%.

“It was below the national average, which was little more than 70%,” he said.

The minister said that credit disbursements to the minority and the SC/ST sectors had increased considerably in the state.