New Delhi: The Shunglu committee has submitted its sixth and final report on irregularities in conducting the Commonwealth games. Suresh Kalmadi, former Urban Development Minister Jaipal Reddy and CWG OC CEO Jarnail Singh have been held responsible for the shoddy preparations. The report says the budget overshot by 57 per cent and no one took ownership of the event. The report comes even as more raids were conducted on officials...
08:34 PM, Apr 05, 2011
New Delhi: Two more persons, including a pilot, were arrested in Ahmedabad by Delhi Police for allegedly using forged marksheets to procure licence from the country's airline regulator DGCA, taking the total number of arrests in such cases to 11. Hiren Nagar (27), a pilot, and a tout Eknath Patil(46) were arrested from Ahmedabad by a team of Delhi Police's Crime Branch on Monday following the arrest of Abhinav Kaushik...
10:36 AM, Apr 05, 2011
Beijing: Chinese scientists claimed to have successfully carried out the first phase of a clinical trial of an HIV vaccine and geared up to launch the second stage in a few months. Shao Yiming, chief expert of China's National Centre for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, told China Daily that the second phase of experiments on the vaccine, which has been approved by the national drug administration, "is likely to start...
03:00 PM, Apr 04, 2011
New Delhi: Bill Gates has wrapped up his high-profile visit to India, and with that, the massive funding for the country's HIV/AIDS programmes through the Gates Foundation has also officially ended. Gates cited the fact that HIV/AIDS infection rates have declined in the country. "The Avahan initiative has been a phenomenal success. I should note though that the Government of India has been together on this on every step of...
10:02 AM, Mar 28, 2011
This means is almost $338 million less to fight the HIV/AIDS epidemic in India after 2012. ...
09:09 AM, Mar 28, 2011
Hyderabad: Income Tax officials on Wednesday raided houses and offices of leading Telugu film actors in Hyderabad and other cities of Andhra Pradesh. Houses, offices and other properties of actors Nagarjuna, Ravi Teja, actress Anushka Shetty and producer D. Shiva Prasad Reddy in Banjara Hills and Jubilee Hills neighbourhoods were raided simultaneously. The IT sleuths reportedly seized some documents relating to purchase and sale of properties, sources said. The raids...
04:43 PM, Mar 23, 2011
Hyderabad: Income Tax Department on Wednesday conducted searches at the residences and offices of several Telugu film personalities, including Nagarjuna. According to a senior official, the investigations wing of the Department carried out the searches. Film industry sources said the action was prompted when the department found out about large number of land transactions involving film personalities in Visakhapatnam, the second-largest city in the state after Hyderabad. "The searches were...
04:16 PM, Mar 23, 2011
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday conducted raids at Hasan Ali's chartered accountant's residence in Pune. Hasan Ali and his chartered accountant Sunil Shinde were in Mumbai to attend the tribunal hearing in connection with the black money case when the raids took place. Speaking to CNN-IBN, Sunil Shinde said, "It's because I am Hasan Ali Khan's CA the raids have happened." "I am in Mumbai for the...
10:18 AM, Mar 23, 2011
Ahmedabad: Obesity kills more people than AIDS and is emerging as a serious threat, said health experts here Friday. Shashank Joshi, president of the governing council of the All India Association of Advanced Research in Obesity (AIAARO), said obesity was not a new problem in India. Speaking on Obesity in 2011, on the first day of the two-day national conference, the expert said that obesity was described in the ancient...
12:31 PM, Mar 19, 2011
New York: New York man has contracted the AIDS virus in the nation's first case of transmission from a living organ donor since a screening test was implemented to prevent such infection, the New York State Department of Health said on Thursday. The recipient of a live kidney transplant in a New York City hospital tested positive for the HIV virus, department spokeswoman Claudia Hutton said. While screening was properly...
10:25 AM, Mar 18, 2011
New Delhi: People people living with HIV/AIDS want to send the government a strong message. More than four lakh people on life-saving anti-retroviral drugs in India could lose access to the affordable medicines. If a proposed Free Trade Agreement with the European Union goes through. Daisy David who is living with HIV said, "Right now they have access to free ARV, they cannot afford to buy costly drugs." While annual...
08:18 AM, Mar 08, 2011
New Delhi: The CBI on Friday filed an FIR against suspended Prasar Bharti CEO BS Lalli for causing a loss of Rs 135 crores to the Exchequer. The CBI carried out searches at the residences of B S Lalli and Wasim Dehlvi, owner of Zoom - a TV production equipment supply firm that provided services in CWG - in connection with alleged irregularities in the award of broadcasting rights of...
08:23 AM, Mar 04, 2011
Washington: Scientists have developed a new type of nanoparticle which they say can safely and effectively deliver vaccines for diseases such as malaria and HIV-AIDS. Developed by a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the new particles consist of concentric fatty spheres that can carry synthetic versions of proteins normally produced by viruses. These synthetic particles, the researchers said, elicit a strong immune response, comparable to that produced...
07:00 PM, Mar 01, 2011
In a bold new approach ultimately aimed at trying to cure AIDS, scientists used genetic engineering in six patients to develop blood cells that are resistant to HIV, the virus that causes the disease. It's far too early to know if this scientific first will prove to be a cure, or even a new treatment. The research was only meant to show that, so far, it seems feasible and safe....
01:19 PM, Mar 01, 2011
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday conducted raids at the premises of Commonwealth Games Organising Committee officials. Raids were conducted at the premises of AK Saxena, Nikesh Jain, RP Gupta, KUK Reddy and Sujith Lal. The CBI also conducted raids at the premises of an overlays supplier Praveen Bakshi. An FIR was filed against these officials in the CWG overlays scam. There have been large scale...
08:53 AM, Feb 18, 2011
New Delhi: The CBI on Friday raided the in the offices and residences of top management of DMK-run Kalaignar TV in connection with the 2G spectrum scam. The raids came in the wake of allegations that that there was a connection between accused Shahid Usman Balwa-promoted Swan Telecom and the channel. The agency carried out searches at Kalaignar TV Managing director Sharad Kumar's residence. The searches began in the wee...
08:35 AM, Feb 18, 2011
Mumbai: Priyadarshan has worked with Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan. The prolific director is now set to work with the third Khan - Aamir - and it will be a film on AIDS. "I met Aamir and narrated my idea. He loved it. I now need to complete the script," said Priyadarshan. The film on AIDS will have no songs, no comedy and no commercial trappings at all and...
03:47 PM, Feb 15, 2011
Geneva: Alcohol causes nearly 4 per cent of deaths worldwide, more than AIDS, tuberculosis or violence, the World Health Organization warned on Friday. Rising incomes have triggered more drinking in heavily populated countries in Africa and Asia, including India and South Africa, and binge drinking is a problem in many developed countries, the United Nations agency said. Yet alcohol control policies are weak and remain a low priority for most...
12:12 PM, Feb 13, 2011
London: In what could be called a possible breakthrough, scientists claim that they may have found a way to cure AIDS. An international team, which carried out a research funded by the Australian and Canadian governments, claims that they probably found a "genetic" method which would help the body cure itself of HIV. In fact, in a series of tantalising experiments on rats, the scientists were able to harness the...
03:30 PM, Feb 04, 2011
Mumbai: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday continued its search operations at the Adarsh Housing Society office in Mumbai. Key Adarsh promoters RC Thakur and retired Brigadier MM Wangchu have been absconding since Sunday. On Sunday, the CBI conducted raids in connection with the Adarsh Society scam. CBI conducted raids in seven cities across the country including Patna, Nagpur, Pune and Mumbai - at the residences of promoters...
09:22 AM, Jan 31, 2011
