Islamabad: Pakistan wants new rules of engagement with the US and an assurance of "no Abbottabad-like unilateral action in future", Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said. The prime minister was referring to the May 2 killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden by US commandos who carried out the daring raid by swooping into Abbottabad town without informing Pakistan. Gilani on Wednesday said that Pakistan wanted new rules...
12:41 PM, Dec 22, 2011
New Delhi: A clerk in Madhya Pradesh has been accused of amassing assets disproportionate to his income. The police reportedly seized property papers worth Rs 40 crore from his residence. The clerk works at the regional transport office in Indore. Acting on a tip-off, EOW officials raided three residences of the clerk identified as Ramendra (Raman) Dhuldhoi and recovered details of properties worth over Rs 40 crore which is "hugely...
11:07 AM, Dec 19, 2011
Kabul: Voicing cautious optimism, the top NATO commander in Afghanistan said that he's seeing signs of a possible lifting of Pakistan's communications blackout imposed on the US-led coalition after NATO airstrikes killed two dozen Pakistani forces last month. Marine Gen John Allen revealed for the first time that he spoke on the phone on Monday with Pakistan army chief Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kayani their first conversation since just after the...
08:59 AM, Dec 14, 2011
Hyderabad: A pregnant woman was allegedly transfused with HIV positive blood in Nellore after she underwent a caesarean operation. Angry relatives staged a day-long protest against the hospital and the Red Cross society. An inquiry has now been ordered. "She was healthy throughout her pregnancy. Even her baby is healthy. After her delivery, the hospital said she is HIV positive. How is that possible? It is obviously because of the...
07:41 AM, Dec 14, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistani security forces on Saturday took control of a strategically important airbase in the country's southwest after US military personnel vacated the facility in line with a demand from the Pakistan government. Pakistan had asked the US to vacate Shamsi airbase in Balochistan province after a cross-border NATO attack on two border posts killed 24 soldiers on November 26. The US had been using the airbase since late 2001...
09:21 PM, Dec 10, 2011
BANGALORE:A large number of people including young women, students from various colleges, members of NGOs, community-based organisations of women in sex work, sexual minorities, people living with HIV and general public took part in an event to observe the World AIDS Day here on Thursday at Freedom Park. The park witnessed multitude of activities and several stalls that aimed to create education and awareness on HIV/AIDS among people. The event...
09:00 AM, Dec 02, 2011
New Delhi: On World AIDS day, CNN-IBN exposed how Delhi's top tuberculosis hospital has been putting the lives of hundreds of people at risk with contaminated blood and syringes making their way into the garbage bin. CNN-IBN exposed on Thursday that Patel Chest Institute dumps its medical waste like syringes in an a municipal garbage bin, which is a clear violation of bio waste rules. The hospital administration has reacted...
07:14 AM, Dec 02, 2011
Mumbai: Thirty years since the first reported case of a person infected with the Human Immuno-deficiency Virus or HIV and 25 million deaths later, there's still no realistic prospect of a vaccine against the disease, AIDS. One of the main reasons is that HIV is such a complex virus! There are two strains - both with three subtypes each and different continents see different sub-types. So far, scientists have identified...
09:21 AM, Dec 01, 2011
Kolkata: Tarit Chakrobarty, secretary of Bengal Network of People Living with HIV AIDS, is a young crusader in West Bengal is spreading awareness across the state. An AIDS victim himself, Tarit is a fighters teaching others like himself how to fight pain, stigma and alienation they meet as they are victims of this deadly disease. Bengal Network of People Living with HIV AIDS is an organisation comprising of men and...
08:54 AM, Dec 01, 2011
New Delhi: India is expected to avert 3 million new HIV infections during the period 1995-2015 by using targeted interventions among vulnerable groups, according to a World Bank study released on Wednesday. The study, 'Impact of Targeted Interventions on Heterosexual Transmission of HIV in India', evaluated the impact of targeted interventions among female sex workers in four high prevalent states - Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu. The study...
08:46 AM, Dec 01, 2011
Thiruvananthapuram: On the eve of the World AIDS Day on Dec 1, the Kerala government on Wednesday announced a monthly pension of Rs.520 for all those infected with HIV-AIDS. Chief Minister Oommen Chandy told reporters that this was the first such scheme being implemented in the state. "A monthly sum of Rs.400 would be given to each HIV-AIDS patient and in the case of the death of the patient it...
06:01 PM, Nov 30, 2011
Belgaum (Karnataka): In a dark room in Belgaum district, they sit together looking comfortable. They are in an office and are not even distantly related. But, as is often true of sexual minorities, the homosexuals and transgenders assembled here are as closely knit as biological families. Their biggest complaint is non-acceptance from society, and their strength is Sweekar, a community-based organisation that works to support the sexual minorities and spreads...
03:09 PM, Nov 30, 2011
New Delhi: Just a few days before the World AIDS day, an eye-opening report says at least 2.3 million people in the country are living with the virus. Many survivors have been fighting for quality of life. At least 2.3 million Indians live with HIV/AIDS, though the latest UNAIDS report states that the rate of infection in India has come down. It's no longer a death sentence, as survivor and...
09:27 AM, Nov 29, 2011
New Delhi: Shiba Phurailatpam, an HIV survivor, has been fighting for the rights of HIV positive people for the past 20 years. A drug user during his youth, Phurailatpam probably was infected through shared needles, along with many of his friends. "I have seen people, family putting this guy in a small room in their house and pushing the food through that hole underneath the door, saying you eat now....
08:51 AM, Nov 28, 2011
Mumbai: Since Thursday night, cops at the Kurla GRP police station have been quaking with fear. The source of their great apprehension is a man being incarcerated in a cell at the station, on charges of robbery and cheating, who claims he is HIV positive, and pounces on cops to bite them, whenever they approach him for interrogations. The cowering cops, terrified that they will contract the deadly infection from...
11:46 AM, Nov 25, 2011
New Delhi: Civil Society groups working with HIV/AIDS patients have been demanding that the HIV Bill should be taken up in the winter session of Parliament. The bill has been waiting approval by the Union Health Ministry for more than 5 years now. Even as politics held the first day of the winter session hostage, not far from Parliament, on Monday, protestors gathered over a long-pending bill to deal with...
10:02 AM, Nov 23, 2011
Chennai: The Tamil Nadu Vigilance and Anti-Corruption unit on Friday carried out raids at the residences of members of the state public service commission. The raids by the unit were conducted at 14 places. Alleged irregularities in the recruitment to government offices were the reason for the raids on the officials of the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission. The Under Secretaries of the TNSPC are under the scanner. ...
09:38 AM, Nov 18, 2011
Lucknow: The CBI carried out raids against 10 NGOs across Uttar Pradesh as part of its investigations in irregularities in the National Blind Mission. Sources have said that so far the CBI has detected irregularities to the tune of Rs 50 lakh. The CBI is looking at the involvement of 20 more NGOs. According to sources, NGOs were supposed to carry out cataract operation for free in rural areas, but...
12:17 PM, Nov 07, 2011
Chennai: The CBI on Monday conducted raids at former telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran's residence in connection with the 2G spectrum scam. An FIR was registered against the Maran brothers - Dayanidhi Maran, Kalanidhi Maran, Ralph Marshall and T Anandakrishnan on Sunday, under the Prevention of Corruption Act. The CBI conducted searches in Chennai, Hyderabad and Delhi. The CBI also conducted raids at Apollo Group's Sunita Reddy's residence. Reddy, who has...
08:04 AM, Oct 10, 2011
Chennai: The Directorate of Vigilance and Anti Corruption on Saturday conducted searches at the residence of DMK leader and former minister Suresh Rajan in Tirunelveli and Kanyakumari districts on charges of possessing disproportionate assets. Six places in Kanyakumari district and one in Tirunelveli came under the vigilance scanner this morning, sources said. Rajan, who held the Registration and Tourism portfolio, is the sixth former DMK minister against whom action has...
10:54 AM, Oct 08, 2011
