Key findings are expected to be presented at the Westminster Coroner's court for the first time in the Indian nurse suicide case. Jacintha Saldanha killed herself in December 2012, days after transferring a prank call to a hospital where the Duchess of Cambridge was being treated. ...
12:18 PM, Mar 26, 2013
Mangalore: The body of Indian-origin nurse Jacintha Saldanha will be laid to rest in her native town Shirva on Monday evening. Her body was brought to India on Sunday. Jacintha's husband Benedict, her son Junal and daughter Lisha then accompanied the coffin to Mangalore. On Monday morning, the body was brought to Shirva. Jacintha will be laid to rest this evening at 5 pm, after a funeral service at the...
12:45 PM, Dec 17, 2012
London: In one of the suicide notes left behind by nurse Jacintha Saldanha, who was found dead days after a hoax call to a UK hospital treating Prince William's pregnant wife Kate, she criticised "aspects of the hospital staff", and singled out two individuals for blame, the Daily Mail reported on Sunday. Although the hospital has insisted that no senior member of staff blamed Jacintha for falling victim to the...
09:01 AM, Dec 17, 2012
Mangalore: The body of Indian-origin nurse Jacintha Saldanha, who was found hanging at her apartment in London on December 7, has reached Mangalore - near her hometown Shirva in coastal Karnataka. Family sources said the nurse would be buried at her hometown on Monday. "The coffin carrying Jacintha's body will be taken to Shirva on Monday for last rites and funeral at the local cemetery around 4 pm," Udupi Superintendent...
04:50 PM, Dec 16, 2012
Mangalore: The body of the Indian-origin nurse Jacintha Saldanha, who committed suicide following a prank call by two Australian radio presenters who impersonated the Queen and Prince Charles to seek details about the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton, arrived in Mangalore on Sunday afternoon. The body will be kept at the KMC hospital in Manipal and the funeral will take place on Monday in Shirva, her hometown. Jacintha's family...
03:13 PM, Dec 16, 2012
Mangalore: The body of Indian-origin nurse Jacintha Saldanha, who was found dead December 7 in London, will be buried at Shirva town in coastal Karnataka, family sources said on Saturday. "The coffin carrying Jacintha's body is expected to arrive here from London via Mumbai on Sunday afternoon and will be taken to Shirva on Monday for last rites and funeral at the local cemetery around 4 pm," Udupi Superintendent of...
12:03 AM, Dec 16, 2012
Emotional scenes were witnessed at Westminster Cathedral, which held a mass service for Indian-origin nurse Jacintha Saldanha. Her children remembered as a kind-hearted woman and said the void is "unfulfillable". ...
08:32 PM, Dec 15, 2012
London: "We are shattered and there's an unfillable void in our lives," said the children of Indian-origin nurse Jacintha Saldanha, who was found dead after she was duped by a prank call to the hospital treating the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge. Jacintha, 46, a mother of two from Bristol, was found hanging on December 7. Her children have described the "unfillable void" she has left, reported BBC on Saturday. Her...
06:12 PM, Dec 15, 2012
The Guardian on Friday revealed the content of the three suicide notes left behind by Indian-origin nurse Jacintha Saldanha, who was found dead a day after receiving a prank call by two Australian radio presenters who impersonated Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles seeking to know the details of "their granddaughter" Kate Middleton, who is pregnant and was at the hospital at the time. According to The Guardian, the first note ...
10:44 PM, Dec 14, 2012
London: The Guardian on Friday revealed the content of the three suicide notes left behind by Indian-origin nurse Jacintha Saldanha, who was found dead a day after receiving a prank call by two Australian radio presenters who impersonated Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles seeking to know the details of "their granddaughter" Kate Middleton, who is pregnant and was at the hospital at the time. According to The Guardian, the first...
01:41 PM, Dec 14, 2012
Melbourne: The staff of an Australian radio station, whose DJs made a prank call to a UK hospital that led to the death of an Indian-origin nurse, have received death threats, prompting some of them to move to safehouses. About a dozen staff of Sydney-based 2DayFM radio station have been moved into safehouses and up to 10 executives have been assigned bodyguards following death threats against them, the Daily Telegraph...
01:00 PM, Dec 14, 2012
Melbourne: The Australian radio station, whose presenters last week made a prank call to a British hospital that was treating a pregnant Kate Middleton and led to the death of an Indian-origin nurse, has now offered to contribute at least 500,000 dollars to a memorial fund to help the grieving family of the woman. Southern Cross Austereo had aired the controversial prank call conducted by 2Day FM DJs with two...
05:02 PM, Dec 11, 2012
London: The autopsy report of the Indian-origin nurse, who got caught up in a prank call made to a hospital treating Prince William's wife Kate, is expected on Tuesday which will conform the cause of the death. However, the distraught family of Jacintha Saldanha believe she died of shame after falling for the hoax. Jacintha was found dead at nurses' quarters next to the private King Edward VII hospital in...
07:55 AM, Dec 11, 2012
London: The distraught family of an Indian-origin nurse, who got caught up in a prank call made to a hospital treating Prince William's wife Kate, believe she died of shame after falling for the hoax. 46-year-old Jacintha Saldanha was found dead at nurses' quarters next to the private King Edward VII hospital in Marylebone, central London on Friday. Saldanha's brother Naveen has said that his sister has died of shame...
01:16 AM, Dec 11, 2012
Mangalore: The Mangalore diocese on Monday urged the Centre to prevail on authorities in London to thoroughly investigate the mysterious death of Indian origin nurse Jacintha Saldhana in that country. Monsignor Denis Moras Prabhu, Vicar general of the diocese, told reporters here they have urged External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid, Petroleum minister Veerappa Moily and former minister Oscar Fernandez to intervene to pressurise authorities in London to investigate the case...
11:07 PM, Dec 10, 2012
London: The London hospital, where a prank call was made that apparently led to an Indian-origin nurse's death, today denied being contacted by the Australian radio station before they broadcast the hoax. 46-year-old Jacintha Saldanha was found dead at nurses' quarters next to the private King Edward VII hospital in Marylebone, central London on Friday, after falling for the hoax. The King Edward VII Hospital said the radio station that...
10:56 PM, Dec 10, 2012
In major embarrassment for the Akhilesh Yadav government, a district magistrate banned women from wearing black clothes. While in Haryana, a college banned girls from wearing jeans. ...
09:55 PM, Dec 10, 2012
New Delhi: An apologetic Michael Christian and Mel Greig faced the camera for the first time since King Edward VII Hospital nurse Jacintha Saldanha died last week. It all began when Kate Middleton was admitted to hospital and the two RJs made a hoax call pretending to be the Queen and the Prince of Wales. Thinking that she was speaking to the Queen, Jacintha transferred the call to the nurse...
06:26 PM, Dec 10, 2012
The Australian radio station at the centre of the hoax call death controversy has defended its act saying that it did try to get in touch with the hospital before airing the prank call. ...
06:03 PM, Dec 10, 2012
London/Melbourne: The two Australian radio presenters, who made a prank call to a London hospital for details on Kate Middleton's pregnancy, that apparently led to an Indian-origin nurse's alleged suicide, are said to be in hiding amid global outrage. Mel Greig and Michael Christian, behind the prank call that has been linked to the nurse's death are said to be in a "fragile" state, undergoing intensive psychological counselling. The Scotland...
06:09 PM, Dec 09, 2012
