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
London: The body of an Indian-origin nurse, who died after being duped by a prank call to a UK hospital treating a pregnant Princess Kate, was on Friday flown to India, official sources said, amid reports that the mum-of-two had criticised her senior colleagues in one of the three emotional suicide notes she left behind. The body of 46-year-old Jacintha Saldanha was transported by a Jet Airways flight to Mumbai,...
09:30 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
Jacintha Saldanha, a 46-year-old nurse of Indian origin in the UK, reportedly committed suicide after falling victim to a prank by Australian radio jockeys Mel Greig and Michael Christian of 2Day FM. Greig and Christian impersonated the Queen and the Prince of Wales to extract information about the health of the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton. Should the media shut out such hoax calls or is it a stray case...
03:08 PM, Dec 13, 2012
London police say the result of an autopsy on the nurse involved in a prank call for information about the former Kate Middleton's hospital stay will be revealed on Thursday. Nurse Jacintha Saldanha was found dead on last Friday, three days after taking the call from an Australian radio station. Meanwhile, the Guardian Newspaper reports that she was found hanging at her flat but the Scotland Yard is yet to ...
08:56 AM, Dec 13, 2012
New Delhi: Husband of Jacintha Saldanha, who allegedly committed suicide after becoming a victim of a hoax from Australian radio presenters, has informed Indian mission in London that he would like the body to be sent to India. "Husband of Jacintha has informed that he would like the body to be sent to India. Our Mission is in touch with the husband of Saldanha and is assisting in smooth completion...
03:57 AM, Dec 13, 2012
London: The Indian-origin nurse, who was found hanging after being duped by a prank call from two Australian DJs, was still alive when she was discovered in her flat and attempts were made to revive her, British media reported on Wednesday, ahead of the release of her autopsy report. Jacintha Saldanha, 46, was discovered on Friday morning in her room at staff accommodation near the London's King Edward VII Hospital,...
05:57 PM, Dec 12, 2012
New Delhi: Husband of Jacintha Saldanha, who allegedly committed suicide after becoming a victim of a hoax from Australian radio presenters, has informed Indian mission in London that he would like the body to be sent to India. "Husband of Jacintha has informed that he would like the body to be sent to India. Our Mission is in touch with the husband of Saldanha and is assisting in smooth completion...
05:24 PM, Dec 12, 2012
Gujarat set to vote, Rahul targets Modi as BJP faces tough test in Saurashtra. Top Delhi schools flout norms, sell nursery seats for several lakhs. ...
11:57 PM, Dec 11, 2012
IBN Network expose nails two of Delhi's top school chains for selling nursery seats even before admissions begin. ...
11:44 PM, Dec 11, 2012
New Delhi: Nursery seats are on sale well before the admission session in the national capital. An investigation by IBN7 has exposed that as much as Rs 2-3 lakh are being charged for each nursery seat, and some of the top school chains in Delhi are involved in this. What is even more shocking is the fact that seats for poor kids are being sold for lakhs of rupees and...
07:02 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
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
Sydney: The Australian radio station, which is at the centre of the probe in the suicide case of an Indian-origin nurse who received a prank call from the station's radio hosts seeking details of condition of Prince William's wife Kate Middleton, has claimed that it tried to contact the hospital five times before airing the interview. "It is absolutely true to say that we did attempt to contact those people...
12:53 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
The death of a nurse, who fell victim to a prank call from an Australian radio station seeking details of Britain's Prince William's wife Kate Middleton's condition while she was in hospital for morning sickness, has shocked many. Britain's newspapers also carried the story with the Duke and Duchess expressing shock over the incident. ...
09:13 AM, Dec 09, 2012
