New Delhi: Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh has done it again. On Sunday, the senior politician compared India Against Corruption (IAC) activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal to Bollywood actor Rakhi Sawant saying that they both tried to expose "but with no substance". "Arvind Kejriwal is like Rakhi Sawant. They both try and expose, but with no substance," Digvijaya tweeted.
In the next line, Digvijaya added, "Apologies to Rakhi Sawant. I am an old fan of hers!" Congress leaders have been leaving no stones unturned in taking potshots at the anti-corruption activist who has made a string of exposes against politicians and top business groups of the country.
On Saturday, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid had likened Kejriwal's allegations against him to a mosquito bite which "causes minor irritation". Responding, the IIT alumnus called himself a dengue mosquito whose bite causes serious hurt. "I am a dengue mosquito. I will bite the Congress and BJP and then they will be in trouble," Kejriwal counter-attacked.
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05:23 PM, Nov 11, 2012
New Delhi: A former Swiss bank employee has claimed that several politicians, cricketers and internationally well-known people have black money in the Swiss banks. Rudolf Elmer, who gave WikiLeaks the black money list told CNN-IBN that he did not sell any data to the Indian government. Speaking via Skype, Elmer said, "There are politicians, cricket players, international well-known people who are part of that sort of information." Meanwhile, the government...
07:28 AM, Nov 11, 2012
New Delhi: A former Swiss bank employee has claimed that several politicians, cricketers and internationally well-known people have black money in the Swiss banks. Rudolf Elmer, who gave WikiLeaks the black money list told CNN-IBN that he did not sell any data to the Indian government. Speaking via Skype, Elmer said, "There are politicians, cricket players, international well-known people who are part of that sort of information." Meanwhile, the government...
07:28 AM, Nov 11, 2012
New Delhi: India Against Corruption activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said he was a dengue mosquito and would bite the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Kejriwal said this while responding to External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid's statement that Kejriwal's attack was just a mosquito bite that causes minor irritation. Kejriwal said, "I am a dengue mosquito. I will bite the Congress and BJP and then they will be...
03:17 PM, Nov 10, 2012
There have been 17,000 cases of dengue this year alone. At the moment dengue is spreading unchecked in Kolkata, Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore. ...
11:59 PM, Nov 01, 2012
Dengue has been spreading across cities claiming lives. Tonight at 10, CNN-IBN Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose discusses with a panel of experts whether dengue is becoming an epidemic. You can send your viewpoint and questions on the issue here or tweet them to us
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01:52 PM, Nov 01, 2012
Pune: With a surge in Swine flu deaths in recent months, the health scenario in Pune is further compounded with the spread of dengue cases leading to a face-off between city fathers and civic administration. Concerns are being expressed over about 300 dengue cases reported in the city during the last two and a half months out of which three proved to be fatal. The health authorities, already hard pressed...
11:16 AM, Oct 27, 2012
After filmmaker Yash Chopra's death put the focus on dengue in Mumbai, the BMC has asked Lilavati Hospital for a report on Chopra's death. The BMC says this would help in identifying measures to counter outbreak of dengue. The BMC also says they had found mosquitoes breeding at the offices of Yash Raj films which could have been where the filmmaker caught the virus. So far 650 cases of dengue ...
11:12 AM, Oct 23, 2012
Gorakhpur: Over 400 children died in 2012 due to the encephalitis epidemic in eastern Uttar Pradesh. Finally, the government is waking up to the crisis. The Cabinet will meet on Thursday morning and the agenda will be implementation of prevention and control of the disease. There are major challenges for the government ahead. With children on ventilator support, desperate parents running out of hope and doctors fighting against all odds,...
10:45 AM, Oct 11, 2012
Sydney: Scientists have cracked the code of how mosquitoes develop immunity to virus, potentially opening the way to better vaccines for diseases such as dengue. A team from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Lab, in Geelong, has shown Vago, a protein previously identified in fruit flies, is released by infected mosquito cells, warning other cells to defend against the invading virus. Mosquito-transmitted emerging viruses, such as dengue,...
04:04 PM, Oct 05, 2012
Copenhagen: Chloroquine, an efficacious old drug, is once again beginning to work against malaria, one of the most widespread scourges in the world. Scientists and doctors fear that the malaria parasite will develop resistance to the current frontline treatment against malaria: Artemisinin-based Combination Therapies (ACTs). Resistance (to drugs) monitoring at the University of Copenhagen shows that in several African countries, malaria parasites are succumbing to chloroquine, the American Journal of...
05:18 PM, Oct 03, 2012
Chennai: With the rainy season around the corner, the Chennai Corporation is gearing up to deal with its annual mosquito challenge. The civic body is taking steps to ensure the winged menace is kept under check, to prevent an outbreak of malaria and dengue during the rains. Apart from regular fogging operations, the Corporation is also taking up special fogging drives every week, say officials. The fogging drives are to...
04:30 PM, Sep 11, 2012
Kolkata: Kolkata is reeling under its worst bout of dengue this monsoon season. Two patients have succumbed in the past fortnight and government and private hospitals are flooded with dengue patients. However, despite recurrence of dengue outbreak in the recent past, the state Health Department is ill-equipped to contain the disease. Twenty-four-year-old Abhay Pratap Yadav, a migrant skilled worker from Uttar Pradesh, was admitted to a nursing home in Kolkata...
03:48 PM, Sep 03, 2012
Kolkata: Dengue has afflicted 269 more persons in the metropolis in the past 24 hours, official reports said on Saturday. Apart from Kolkata, other districts hit by the vector-borne disease are North and South 24 Parganas, Howrah and Nadia districts, the reports said. The website of the health department said that dengue has so far claimed three lives in the metropolis where 1,160 persons have been afflicted. Health department sources...
09:48 PM, Sep 01, 2012
Brasilia: Brazilian authorities have inaugurated a breeder for a genetically modified type of aedes aegypti mosquito in hopes of finding a more effective way to combat dengue, of which over 430,000 cases have been registered this year nationwide. The so-called "mosquito factory" was built at a cost of 1.7 million reais ($850,000) and financed by the government of Bahia state with the help of the health ministry. According to health...
11:01 AM, Jul 09, 2012
Bangalore: As Bangalore gears up for monsoons, hospitals in the city have recorded three deaths due to dengue. A BBMP health officer confirmed to Express that as many as 15 cases have been reported so far and as the rainfall increases, the number of cases will shoot up. The BBMP will soon hold a meeting to tackle the situation, the officer said. BBMP Standing Committee chairperson Venkatesh Babu assured to...
05:02 PM, Jun 13, 2012
CHENNAI : The city was brought under the blanket cover of an intensified anti-dengue fogging drive on Thursday, following a dengue outbreak in the southern districts of the State. Mayor Saidai S Duraisamy launched the drive by the Chennai Corporation at Varadharajapettai in Egmore.According to a health officer with Chennai Corporation, fogging will be done in the 200 wards of the city on two selected days every week.Fogging is planned...
08:27 AM, May 25, 2012
TIRUNELVELI: Deputy Director of Health Services Meera Mohideen said eight persons have died of dengue in the district so far. He said the deaths occurred at Kadayanallur, Vadakarai, Tenkasi, Sundarapandiapuram, Surandai, Pavoorchatram, V K Puthur and Muthaliarpatti. The health department had initiated measures like anti-larva activities, adult mosquito control and fogging in affected areas to control the spread of the fever. Besides, surveillance activities were also undertaken, he added. Meanwhile,...
10:35 AM, May 09, 2012
CHENNAI: While the City Corporation has been hailed by the city residents for its swift action in removing heavy water-logging from different areas after the recent rains, it has been at the receiving end for miserably failing to check the mosquito menace that has been affecting the city during the last few days. Though the civic bodys Health Department is in denial mode over the spurt in mosquitoes due to...
08:11 AM, Nov 10, 2011
New Delhi: It is that time of the year when dengue and malaria cases are at its peak. The worst hit this time have been Gujarat and Hyderabad. Mosquito maladies malaria and dengue have hit Ahmedabad with 9,392 cases of malaria reported, against more than 5,900 cases from last year. There have been more than 450 cases of dengue as well. So far this year, 63 people in Ahmedabad have...
04:24 PM, Oct 19, 2011
