New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed FIRs against five companies in connection with coal blocks allocation. The companies include Vinni Iron and Steel, Nav Bharat Steel, JLD Yavatmal, JAS Infrastructure and Power and AMR Iron and Steel. Cases have been registered under cheating, criminal conspiracy against the companies, owners of the companies and unknown officials of the Coal Ministry and state governments. The agency had questioned...
07:55 AM, Sep 04, 2012
Mumbai: If all goes well then Akshay Kumar will be doing Priyadarshan's much-awaited film based on AIDS, which is targeted for international festival circuits. "Akshay knows the subject. I have not given him the script yet. We may go with Akshay and if not him then newcomers. Whatever I tell him he will do it because of the rapport and great relation that we share," said Priyadarshan. "I have never...
05:20 PM, Aug 28, 2012
New Delhi: The number of new annual HIV infections has declined by around 56 per cent during the last decade in the country, the Lok Sabha was informed Friday. Minister of State for Health S Gandhiselvan said that based on HIV estimations 2010, it is estimated that India had approximately 1.2 lakh new infections in 2009, as against 2.7 lakh in 2000. "Similar reduction in HIV incidence has been noted...
03:24 PM, Aug 24, 2012
New Delhi: Drug major Cipla on Tuesday said it has launched 'Qvir', a four-drug kit priced at Rs 158 per kit to be used for treating HIV/AIDS. The kit consists of two tablets packaged together in one strip which represents a single day's treatment, Cipla said in a statement. Commenting on the introduction Cipla Chairman and Managing Director YK Hamied said: "While we are committed to making drugs affordable and...
05:37 PM, Aug 14, 2012
Hyderabad: The state has seen a significant rise in the use of condoms, which in turn has reduced the risk of AIDS among the high risk group like sex-workers and truck drivers. There has been a 100 percent rise in condom usage in the state for the past four years, said Dr PL Jayachandra Reddy, joint director of AP State AIDS Control Society (APSACS). For 2012-13, the National AIDS Control...
01:17 PM, Aug 13, 2012
Police raided ex-Haryana minister Gopal Kanda's Sirsa residence for the second time on Thursday hours after the Delhi High Court rejected his anticipatory bail plea. ...
11:43 AM, Aug 10, 2012
Sirsa: The Delhi Police on Thursday raided the residence of former Haryana minister and prime accused in the Geetika Sharma suicide case, Gopal Goyal Kanda, in Sirsa and several other properties of his in Delhi and the NCR. Kanda is believed to be absconding, while his colleague and MDLR Manager Aruna Chadha was arrested on Wednesday in connection with the case. Twenty-three-year-old Geetika Sharma committed suicide on Saturday night and...
08:37 AM, Aug 09, 2012
Mumbai: LeT operative Sayed Ansari alias Abu Jundal has told interrogators that four Indians were working for the banned terror outfit in Pakistan in 2006 and the raids conducted by the Army and Federal Investigation Agency on terror camps in that country after the 26/11 strike were an "eyewash". "Elaborating the structure and functioning of the LeT in Pakistan, Jundal stated that in 2006 he had met four Indian nationals...
02:50 AM, Aug 04, 2012
New Delhi: The former vice chancellor of the Indira Gandhi National Open University, VN Rajasekharan Pillai, was on Thursday charged with corruption by the CBI. Pillai is accused of favouring the Sikkim Manipal and the Punjab Technical universities without following due procedures. The CBI on Thursday conducted raids at his properties in Thiruvananthapuram and Kottayam in Kerala, following which a corruption case was registered against him. ...
09:40 AM, Jul 27, 2012
A group of the world's top scientists is collaborating on one common goal: finding a real cure for AIDS. ...
03:03 PM, Jul 24, 2012
Mumbai: Thirty years since the first reported case of a person infected with the HIV virus and 25 million deaths later, an AIDS-free generation still seems an audacious goal. According to the UNAIDS, globally close to 3 million people get infected with HIV every year. So with the common goal of marking the "beginning of the end of the AIDS epidemic", close to 25,000 international HIV scientists will meet in...
01:30 PM, Jul 20, 2012
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh has the highest number of HIV patients in the country. According to official statistics, the state had 5 lakh of the 24 lakh HIV positive patients in the country during 2011-12. Andhra Pradesh is followed by Maharashtra (4.19 lakh), Karnataka (2.45 lakh), West Bengal (1.67 lakh), Tamil Nadu (1.54 lakh), Gujarat (1.36 lakh) and Uttar Pradesh (1.09 lakh). All other states together account for 6.66 lakh HIV...
10:28 AM, Jul 20, 2012
New Delhi: New HIV cases among adults have declined by half in India since 2000, according to a new UN report which praised India's contribution to AIDS response through manufacture of generic antiretroviral drugs. Though rate of HIV transmission in Asia is slowing down, atleast 1,000 new infections among adults continue to be reported in the continent every day in 2011. An estimated 3,60,000 adults were newly infected with HIV...
08:14 PM, Jul 19, 2012
Washington: The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved the first drug shown to reduce the risk of HIV infection, the latest milestone in the 30-year battle against the virus that causes AIDS. The agency approved Gilead Sciences' pill Truvada as a preventive measure for healthy people who are at high risk of acquiring HIV through sexual activity, such as those who have HIV-infected partners. The decision comes less than...
11:27 AM, Jul 17, 2012
In a big breakthrough in HIV research, the US Food and Drugs Authority on Tuesday gave the nod for a pill that prevents HIV. ...
09:37 AM, Jul 17, 2012
Washington: The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first over-the-counter HIV test, allowing Americans to test themselves for the virus that causes AIDS in the privacy of their homes. The OraQuick test detects the presence of HIV in saliva collected using a mouth swab. The test is designed to return a result within 20 to 40 minutes. Government officials estimate one-fifth, or about 240,000 people, of the 1.2 million...
10:07 AM, Jul 07, 2012
Madurai: Fighting the social stigma and isolation, they toiled to earn a living. They ignored illness to support their family, to raise their kids. But things took a shocking turn for 21 HIV positive women, who were working as sanitation workers in the Government Rajaji Hospital, were kicked out for reasons unknown. While government and social organisations are spending crores to campaign against discrimination of HIV positive patients, these hapless...
12:23 PM, Jul 06, 2012
Washington: US military and intelligence officials are so frustrated with Pakistan's failure to stop local militant groups from attacking Americans in neighboring Afghanistan that they have considered launching secret joint US-Afghan commando raids into Pakistan to hunt them down, officials told The Associated Press. But the idea, which US officials say comes up every couple of months, has been consistently rejected because the White House believes the chance of successfully...
03:26 AM, Jun 23, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday conducted raids at alleged suspect Abhishek Verma's premises across Delhi and NCR in connection with the Navy war room leak case. Sources say about 10 places belonging to the US-based businessman were raided. The raids came after an FIR was registered on Wednesday based on Abhishek Verma's former associate Edmond Allen's allegations. Allen alleges that Verma was involved in forgery,...
08:48 AM, Jun 07, 2012
New Delhi: Millions of the world's poorest people could have easier access to life-saving drugs if India introduces an air ticket tax to help fund purchases of cheap medicines for HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, a senior UN official said. UNITAID, a UN agency which negotiates for cheap medicines from pharmaceutical manufacturers to treat deadly diseases, is lobbying countries such as India to join its air ticket levy initiative which began...
01:41 AM, Jun 06, 2012
