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
This comes even as it's been two decades since the government launched its battle against the discrimination against HIV positive people. ...
09:49 PM, Jun 05, 2012
Pune: Maharashtra Health Minister Suresh Shetty has promised to look into the case of a bus driver who was sacked by the state transport corporation last month for being an HIV positive. He said, "It is unfortunate if it is true. I will speak to the transport secretary about the dismissal of the HIV positive state transport bus driver. It is not the correct approach. I will need to find...
12:48 PM, Jun 05, 2012
Pune: It's been two decades since the government launched its battle against discrimination of HIV positive people with an iconic advertisement, crores of rupees have been spent to counter persecution of the HIV infected. But the campaign ironically has failed to eliminate prejudice even within the government departments. A 41-year-old bus driver from Pune, an HIV positive, was sacked by the State Transport Department last month. The sole breadwinner in...
06:21 AM, Jun 05, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistani cricketer Umar Gul's house in Peshawar was raided by the Pakistan Army commandos on Tuesday. Reports say his brother Meraj was arrested for allegedly providing shelter to his uncle Haji Daly, who is believed to be an active member of the banned outfit Lashkar-e-Islam. Two others were also arrested, said a report in The Express Tribune. Reports say Daly was injured in an operation in Bara and had...
12:23 PM, May 30, 2012
As a part of his crisis management arising due to the continuous flop show of his films, Megastar Mammootty has preponed the shoot of his new project with director Ranjith. The movie will be the first project as a producer from Mammootty's Manager George. Shankar Ramakrishnan of 'Urumi' fame will script this movie which will start its production activities by June, soon after the release of Ranjith's Mohanlal film Spirit....
02:36 PM, May 22, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) conducted raids at 39 places across Jharkhand and some places in Kolkata. The premises of over 12 MLAs from different parties were raided. The raids were conducted in connection with the recovery of over Rs 2 crore during the Rajya Sabha elections. ...
08:56 AM, May 18, 2012
Bangalore: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday conducted raids at eight premises belonging to former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, his sons B Y Raghavendra, B Y Vijayendra and son-in-law Sohan Kumar in Bangalore and Shimoga district. The raids by the investigating agency were carried out a day after registering of an FIR against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader. Meanwhile, CNN-IBN has accessed the details of...
05:36 PM, May 16, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday carried out raids in Jammu, Srinagar, Patna and Delhi regarding a defence land scam in Srinagar. A new case was registered after a preliminary enquiry against a Defence Estates Officer (DEO) of 1997 batch, and others showed that a No Objection Certificate (NOC) was given to private persons to sell/build on defence land sprawling several acres. The CBI has named...
09:40 AM, May 11, 2012
Bhopal: A deputy forest officer was raided by the Madhya Pradesh Lokayukta on Tuesday. The raids were conducted at three places - Ratlam, Neemuch and Mandsaur. Sources say that the raids against Forest Officer SK Palaash revealed property worth Rs 30 to 35 crore. It included Rs 24 lakh in cash, Rs 30 lakh in jewellery and 4 luxury cars. Officials also found a plot of land and a gas...
09:23 AM, May 01, 2012
Mumbai: Superstar Aamir Khan is likely to feature in Priyadarshan's much-awaited film based on AIDS. "The project on AIDS is on, but the script is not yet ready... (I had) too many schedules and things to do so couldn't finish the script. I had discussed it with Aamir earlier and that time he wanted to do the film," the director told PTI. The 55-year-old filmmaker has been talking about this...
12:21 PM, Apr 30, 2012
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Vigilance officials on Thursday conducted raids at the premises belonging to former DMK minister EV Velu in connection with a disproportionate assets case. The raids were in progress in Chennai and Tiruvannamalai districts, Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) sources said. Velu, presently legislator elected to the Assembly from Tiruvannamalai, was food minister during the DMK regime. Several DMK leaders and former Ministers besides MLAs have faced...
11:17 AM, Mar 22, 2012
London: Women engaged in sex trade in most developing countries, especially in Asia, are nearly 14 times more likely to get infected by HIV compared to general women population, a new study has claimed. The research, an analysis of over 100 studies involving nearly 100,000 female sex workers in 50 low and medium-income countries, found that overall prevalence of HIV in these women was 12 per cent. But, they are...
01:01 PM, Mar 15, 2012
New Delhi: Kousalya Periaswamy was the first Indian woman to openly admit that she was HIV positive. Over the years, she has helped over 20,000 women across the country fight the stigma by supporting them financially and legally. Vimly, a HIV positive woman, says, "My biggest fear is that if people come to know I am HIV positive, they will not come near me." Helping women like Vimla overcome their...
09:10 AM, Mar 15, 2012
New Delhi: The Karnataka Lokayukta police raided the house of an IAS officer and other officials of the Women and Child Welfare Department after CNN-IBN reported on malnutrition deaths in Raichur. The ADGP of the Lokayukta Police said, "We had credible information that the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) run by Women and Child Department was not functioning properly..." "The quality of food was not good. We conducted raids at...
07:01 AM, Mar 10, 2012
You wouldn't associate someone who commanded three nuclear bases at the height of the Cold War in the 1970s with running the world's largest entertainment businesses. But that's exactly what Bill Roedy has done, and this book chronicles that journey. Roedy graduated from West Point (the US military academy) and served in Vietnam before commanding nuclear bases in North Italy. He left the army after 11 years to pursue an...
10:50 AM, Mar 09, 2012
