WikiLeaks Cables

Delhi's Maulana Azad Medical College finds mention in WikiLeaks cable

New Delhi: The Maulana Azad Medical College finds a rare mention in a US diplomatic cable during Henry Kissinger era which says that the hospital caters to around 3,000 out patients daily. In a cable to Washington, the then US Ambassador Daniel Moynihan said Dr Hari Vaishnava, professor of medicine, gave them the information that there were at least 1,700 people admitted to Maulana Azad Medical College, associated with Irwin and Pant hospitals, at any given point of time.

The US mission here relayed the information to Washington after one Dr Ralph Yodaiken, Professor of Pathology in Emory Medical School in Atlanta, sought information about the diabetic clinic in the medical college.

"Maulana Azad Medical College associated with Irwin hospital and GB Pant Hospital, the combined outpatients attendance 3000 daily. Inpatients 1,700 at any one time. Annual turnover 65,000. Diabetic load 1,400 per year: 70 per cent above 40 year of age, ratio male to female 2:1. Diabetic Clinic has been in existence for last 12 years. Records of over 7,000 patients available. Modern facilities available including Radio Immunoassay of Insulin. So far over 50 publications on Diabetic," the cable on December 21, 1973, said.

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3 assassination bids were made on Sanjay Gandhi: WikiLeaks

New Delhi: The US Embassy cables accessed by WikiLeaks have claimed that there were three assassination attempts on late former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's second son Sanjay Gandhi. A 1976 dispatch says Sanjay was the target of an unknown assailant in a "well planned assassination attempt" during the Emergency. It quotes Indian intelligence sources as saying that he was shot at three times on August 30 or 31, but escaped...  

WikiLeaks takes on Bollywood

New Delhi: As Julian Assange's WikiLeaks continues to cause embarrassment to governments across the globe, its latest target is the world's largest maker of movies Bollywood, the reference of which appears in several of the leaked embassy cables made public by the whistleblowing website. Many of the cables are surprisingly succinct and contain detailed analysis of the Indian film industry that churns out almost 1000 films a year and generates...  

Wiki on Jaitley: 'Hindutva an opportunistic issue'

New Delhi: Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley became the latest target as more details emerged from candid cables sent by diplomats at the US embassy in New Delhi to Washington, which have been released by WikiLeaks and accessed by The Hindu newspaper. One such cable dated May 2005 claims that senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley told an embassy official that Hindu nationalism was just an opportunistic issue for the party,...