Indore, August 25: Former RSS chief S Surdarshan here today said Pakistan founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah was committed to undivided India.

On being asked if he considered the Muslim League leader secular, he said, “Jinnah had many facets. He was once associated with Lokmanya Tilak and was totally committed to undivided India.”

On Jaswant Singh’s expulsion from BJP, he said, “it is an internal matter of the party.”

New Delhi, August 25: Reliance Industries has hit back at the Anil Ambani group for unleashing a “malicious, mischievous, baseless and ill-informed” propaganda against its gas field costs and said the campaign by people with little experience of large projects should be nipped in the bud.

RIL said capital expenditure for KG-D6 fields increased from USD 2.47 billion in 2003 to USD 8.83 billion due to a 2.5 times increase in reserves, trebling of production facilities, doubling of peak production, hike in number of wells, field life and inflation in equipment and services industry.

Chennai, August 25: Madras High Court today directed a city doctor practicing Indian system of medicines not to practice Siddha or Ayurvedic treatment.

Justice K N Basha also restrained Vijayakumar, who was arrested on July 16 for allegedly charging exorbitant fees to cure patients but not curing them, from running nursing home in the city either himself or through his relatives or others until production of authenticated documents regarding his qualifications and registration as a practitioner before an investigating officer.

New Delhi, August 25: Expressing unhappiness over the ongoing debate on judges’ assets declaration issue, former Chief Justice of India J S Verma today said CJI K G Balakrishnan should cut short “unsavoury” debate on the issue by making public his own assets, claiming that most of the judges are ready for it.

“Many judges have talked to me personally, both of the Supreme Court and High Court. They have all said that they want to do it…I only wish that the CJI cuts short this unsavoury debate and makes a declaration himself,” the former CJI said in an interview to the CNN-IBN.

Ahmedabad, August 24: Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Ltd (SSNNL), which implements the crucial Narmada project in Gujarat, has decided to engage Central PSU National Hydro Power Corporation (NHPC) to design, develop and implement the river bed power houses to be put up on the canals.

“We have decided to rope in NHPC for putting up power houses on the Narmada canals. SSNNL and NHPC will soon sign an agreement in this regard,” a senior SSNNL official told PTI.

Ahmedabad, August 24: Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has issued ten quarantine notices to premier B-school IIM-A after three of its students tested positive for swine flu, an official said.

So far three IIM-A students have tested positive for H1N1 virus.

“We have issued ten quarantine notices to IIM-A that enumerate all the preventive measures to be adopted after two more students on the campus tested positive for swine flu recently,” AMC Medical Health Officer S P Kulkarni said.

New Delhi, August 24: Four persons, including an infant and a businessman, succumbed to the dreaded swine flu, pushing the countrywide death count from the H1NI pandemic to 74 even as 137 more contracted the infection since last evening.

Two fatatlities occurred in Karnataka and one each in Maharashtra and Gujarat as the number of those afflicted with disease topped the 2,900 mark.

A two-and-a-half-year-old child, who was admitted to a hospital in Pune, the worst-hit by the virus, on August 21 after she tested positive, died last night, health officials said.