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13 of 20 Indians reported killed in Yemen are alive, 7 missing: MEA

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New Delhi: At least seven out of 20 Indian crew members are missing after their boats came under aerial bombardment while plying between Somalia and Yemen, External Affairs Ministry said today.

Disputing reports that 20 Indian nationals were killed in air strikes by Saudi-led coalition forces at Yemen’s Hodeidah port, the MEA said 13 Indians crew members “are alive and 7 are reported missing”.

“We have seen media reports about the death of Indian nationals in Yemen. Indian Embassy officials in Djbouti are in touch with local contacts and we have ascertained that there were two boats one of which was plying between Berbera (Somalia) and Mokha (Yemen),” the External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson said.

The boats came under aerial bombardment in the afternoon of 8 September. The boats were carrying a total of 20 Indian crew members of which 13 are alive and 7 are reported missing, he said, adding, no other information is currently available regarding the identities of the Indian nationals.

“Embassy officials are in constant touch with local authorities and are also due to meet with the boat owner today at which point of time more information would be available,” he said.

Some media reports, quoting residents and fishermen, yesterday claimed that at least 20 Indian nationals were killed in air strikes by Saudi-led coalition forces on fuel smugglers at Yemen’s Hodeidah port.

They claimed two boats were hit in the attack on an area near the port. India does not have Embassy in Yemen, which was shut down in April after evacuation of its nationals.

(PTI)

Dr. Sunita Dube announces 4th Medscape India Awards at Sofitel Hotel Mumbai

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Medscape India Awards spreads its wings internationally in 2015 with Srilanka & Dubai Docs’ joining the pivotal cause.

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Mumbai: Dr. Sunita Dube is a Radiologist by profession; however she is very passionate about spreading awareness about the importance of the Medical professional too on par with the sincere & hard work that they have to put in. In order to ignite more interest amongst the Doctor’s belonging from varied specializing health care department this intuitive visionary philanthropist, social worker none other than, Dr.Sunita Dube conceptualized an Award Function in the year 2012. With a clear intent that this award will bring loads of recognition for the Doctors’ effortless services towards the man – kind. Medscape India Awards 2015 goes a step further, spreading its wings internationally.

This award especially creates awareness about the hard work that all these Health practitioners have to put in, at the cost of forgoing the enjoyment with their family life as they have to attend their patients even during the wee hours of the day. The awards are organised by Medscape India – Aryan Medical & Educational Trust a non – profit organisation formed, which connects leading professionals from the medical & paramedical community. It is a non -profit charitable trust working relentlessly towards community welfare since 2006 and focused on bringing the entire healthcare community together for a social cause.

“Just recently in January , 2015 the spirit of ‘Save The Girl Child Movement’ had taken a wide spread momentum which not only demonstrated varied projects undertaken by Medscape India & Aryan medical & Educational Trust but also felicitated & honoured varied girls & women for showcasing their brilliance of performances in their varied projects. This indeed gave women empowerment to rejoice their way.” Updates, Chairperson – Medscape – Dr. Sunita Dube.

She further adds,”Different medical camps are also set in the interiors wherein, the Doctors’ also explain the importance of a, ‘Girl Child’ who needs to be treated equally in every rights compared to a.’Male Child’ as well. Professing the importance of gender equality is also held at the highest esteem. Projects are organized by Doctors who explain, ‘Gender Biased’ attitude that prevails in India from ages, is nothing but a worthless bauble. Girls in today’s jet century are ably supporting their family like any other boy belonging to a family.”

Medscape is all set to promote their important project, ‘Anokhi Phel’. ”This will tap all the remote areas & educate girl child specifically also bring about awareness in these areas explaining the importance of education. Every girl child needs to be educated so that she can independently earn her own living during crisis times and normally as well.” informs Chairperson- Medscape

Bringing all the celebrities’ from the Political arena, Sports as well the Bollywood arena Dr Sunita feels those who have pertinently cared for their timely Health issues and come out with flying colours from sufferings of any kind of diseases that they may have undergone, will also be part & parcel of our Awardees’ and guests in special.

Last but not the least, soon the Medscape India National Awards 2015, is all set to rock. The process of selection which has just begun. Undeniably, the selection which was restricted nationally has taken a step forward this year as Doctors’ from Srilanka & Dubai have also initiated to participate in the selection of Medscape India National Awards 2015.

Lets one & all of us join our hands & come forward to honour the Doctors’ as a whole who dedicate their services to the mankind.

Four-day meat ban in Mumbai during Jain fasting period imposed by city’s civic body

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Mumbai: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has banned sale of meat for four days during the Jain festival of Paryushan. As per an order issued from Deonar abattoir, sale of meat in civic markets will be discontinued and the slaughterhouse will be shut on September 10, 13, 17 and 18.

While the Jain festival is scheduled to be held from September 10 to 17, Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations will begin in the city on September 17. Last year too, the sale of meat was banned in the city for four days.

The demand to ban meat sale, as per the order, was made by Ahimsa Sangh, Vishwamaitri Trust. “Jainism is based on the principle of non-violence. There are not only a lot of Jains in Mumbai but a lot of Jain monks will also be visiting the city during the period…we request you to cooperate during the rituals,” the letter said.

(Agencies)

Congress sends corporators to Madikeri

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Bengaluru: It has been more than three weeks since the BBMP election results were declared but there is still no clarity on the political alliances. With the mayoral elections not very far away, parties are trying protect their flock lest they go astray.

The New Indian Express reports that the Congress has herded its legislators to a resort in Madikeri in Kodagu district to protect them from being “approached” by the BJP ahead of the mayoral elections.

The fourteen JD(S) and seven independent corporators who have joined hands with the Congress to grab power at the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) are already in different resorts in Kerala, said the newspaper report.

According to the report, all the corporators and H D Kumaraswamy would return to the city on the day that the mayoral election is scheduled to be held.

Before they left for Madikeri in three buses, all corporators were given a list of dos and don’ts for the next four days by Parameshwara and other leaders.

The corporators were reportedly warned by the KPCC President to not take calls from strangers or BJP leaders.

​However, the leaders of the Congress have not had a one-on-one meeting with Kumaraswamy.

The newspaper reported that the BJP was still trying to prevent non-BBMP members from voting in the mayoral election. They want the State Election Commission to delete names of the Congress MLCs who were registered voters in their constituencies.

(Agencies)

Thai blast probe: 2 Indians picked up by police released

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Bangkok: The two Indians picked up by Thai police were released today after authorities found everything in order following their interrogation in connection with the country’s deadliest blast at a temple that killed 20 people.

The two men, whose names were withheld, had valid work permits and were legal, sources told PTI.

“Everything was found in order by the authorities,” they said. The two men were taken into custody on Sunday night after they were seen on CCTV talking to a foreign suspect wanted in Thailand’s deadliest bombing at the Brahma shrine here which killed 20 people and injured more than 100 others.

The sources said that no charges were made against the two men who were picked up by police as part of due diligence for questioning as they lived in the room next to one where police had found bomb-making materials.

Indian security agencies had also checked the background of two men who belong to Jammu and Kashmir and Karnataka.

So far Bangkok police has issued arrest warrants have been issued for 12 suspects. Two have been arrested, both foreigners, one carrying a Chinese passport.

A combined force of police and army officers on Sunday raided several apartment buildings and rental houses in the Nimit Mai area of Min Buri district.

Col Wattana Yichin, deputy commander of the Metropolitan Police overseeing Minburi police station, said the raid was part of crime suppression measures as many foreigners rent apartments and houses in the area.

A suspect who was arrested near the Cambodia border identified as Yusufu Meralli told military interrogators he had assembled the bomb for the actual bomber, who is yet to be nabbed.

The first man arrested, Adem Karadak, also known as Bilal Mohammed, has been remanded from military custody to prison.

Meralli, 25, identified the mastermind of the attack only as Izaan. He said Izaan commanded the operation by using WhatsApp chat application.

Meralli testified that Izaan left Thailand via Suvarnabhumi International Airport on August 16, a day before the bombing, for China and then headed to Bangladesh.

(PTI)

JD (S) withdraws conditions for alliance with the Congress in BBMP

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Bengaluru: HD Kumaraswamy, JD (S) leader made a u-turn on Monday September 7 by saying that the conditions he had set for having an alliance with the Congress in the BBMP council would be withdrawn.

He said that the part would not try for bargaining with regard to power-sharing in the Council anymore.

He added that he had put certain conditions for the Congress which was an independent decision. “I wanted the Congress to drop the Bengaluru restructuring bill, but the party’s stand was different. Now we have decided not to impose any conditions. The CM has to take the responsibility to see that things had to be set right,” he said.

He later said that if the Congress offered, the party would accept the post of the Deputy Mayor. A call on power-sharing module would be taken if the Congress felt benevolent enough to offer the post of Deputy Mayor and the party would not demand anything with regard to the standing committee posts, he added.

This was the first time that the JD(S) clarified its stand on the alliance with the Congress. Previously, as soon as the results were announced, the party used to assume contradictory stances which gave room to conspiracy theories.

However, national president HD Deve Gowda has said that they had not laid down any conditions. But Kumaraswamy has noted that he would not meet the Congress leaders until they issued a public statement that the proposed BBMP restructuring bill would be dropped.

Kumaraswamy informed that he had conveyed the party’s stand over the phone to state Congress president G Parameshwara and CM Siddaramaiah on Sunday September 6 and said that he might meet Parameshwara in a day or two.

He further said that the alliance with the Congress would be only in the BBMP, however, the JD(S) would not mind ruling the Council along for the next 5 years only on grounds that the Congress was willing to do the same.

He criticized the Congress and the BJP for branding the JD(S) an opportunist. He said that the national parties had misused his party to suit their convenience.

At present there are 3 candidates for the post of the Deputy Mayor in the JD (S) – MLA Gopalaiah’s wife S P Hemalatha from Vrushabhavathinagar, MLA B Z Zameer Ahmed Khan’s candidates Umme Salma (Kushalnagar ward) and Nazima Khanam (KR Pet ward).

(Agencies)

Fire in Air India flight, seven passengers injured

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New Delhi: A minor fire broke out in an Air India flight while landing at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International airport on Monday evening, in which seven passengers were injured, police said.

“Varanasi-Delhi flight AI 405 caught fire while landing at runway No.27 at the IGI airport around 8.30 p.m. today (Monday),” said a police official.

After the plane touched down at the Indira Gandhi International Airport here, smoke was seen from under carriage and pilot opted for evacuation, sources said.

The fire started after the hydraulic system of the flight reportedly failed.

“A total of 146 passengers onboard were evacuated safely and taken to the terminal building but seven of them received minor injuries,” said the official.

The flight had originated from Khajuraho for Varanasi, from where it took off for Delhi.

(Agencies)

Rakesh Maria promoted as DGP, Javed Ahmed is new Mumbai police chief

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Mumbai: Mumbai Police Commissioner Rakesh Maria was on Tuesday promoted as the new Director General of Police (Home Guards), and Javed Ahmed appointed in his place.

A top home department official said Ahmed will take charge from Maria with immediate effect on Tuesday itself in view of the ensuing festive season of Ganeshotsav, Eid and Navratri.

Maria – who recently hogged limelight for his investigations into the Sheena Bora murder case – was due to be promoted on September 30, but the process was advanced to enable the police officers to settle down before the festive season.

The Mumbai police commissioner’s post is equivalent to that of director general.

Ahmed has been lauded as “a very good officer” by former top cop and diplomat J.F. Ribeiro.

(Agencies)

Three Bengaluru siblings murdered by their uncle

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Bengaluru: The three children, who had gone missing from their Banaswadi school in August, had indeed met with a gory end.

The police managed to trace the accused, who confessed to having murdered the children and dumping their bodies into a manhole.

The accused is their uncle — their father’s cousin — who was allegedly having an affair with the children’s mother.

Fayum Baig (24), an electrician, was arrested by the Banaswadi police on Monday. The police said Fayum was having an affair with Nazima Begum, a garment factory employee and resident of Pilllanna Garden.

Nazima was separated from her husband, Ilyas Baig, six months ago. He left for Hyderabad, leaving Nazima with the three children.

Fayum wanted to marry Nazima, but was enraged when he found her with another man. In a fit of revenge, he went to the school and called out to the three siblings Ali Abbas Baig (8), Raheem Baig (4) and Husna Begum (6).

Since the children knew Fayum, they ran towards him, calling out ‘ chacha chacha’ . That was the last time the children were seen. The accused took them to an isolated spot and strangulated them one by one. He then dumped their bodies into a manhole near a mini-forest in HBR Layout, K.G. Halli.

Nazima had filed a police complaint after the children went missing, suspecting that her husband had taken them. The police even went to Hyderabad to question Ilyas Baig. It was when they found out about Nazima having had multiple affairs that they zeroed in on Fayum.

The police have so far recovered the body of Husna. The search was suspended on Monday after the heavy water flow due to excessive rain.

(Agencies)

Sheena murder: Mumbai police bring Khanna to Kolkata

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Indrani Mukerjea’s former husband Sanjeev Khanna (in mask) in police custody. Photo: IE

Indrani Mukerjea’s former husband Sanjeev Khanna (in mask) in police custody. Photo: IE

Kolkata: A Mumbai police team on Monday escorted Sanjeev Khanna, a co-accused in the sensational Sheena Bora murder case, to Kolkata to unearth more evidence.

Sources said Khanna — the former husband of prime accused Indrani Mukherjea — was brought to the eastern metropolis, where he used to reside prior to his arrest, in the early hours of Monday and taken to various spots where police conducted raids.

Mumbai police officers searched Khannna’s residence in south Kolkata’s posh Hastings area as also his office and the flat of one of his friends.

Businessman Khanna was arrested by Mumbai police here on August 26, a day after Indrani was nabbed in Mumbai for the murder of her daughter Sheena. On August 27, he was taken on transit visa to Mumbai, where he was interrogated.

On September 2, Mumbai police confiscated Khanna’s laptop and finance related papers, in a purported bid to retrace the chats and e-mails between him and Indrani ahead of Sheena’s murder in 2012.

In a bid to ascertain if Khanna’s alleged involvement in the conspiracy was for financial gain, police have studied Khanna’s bank accounts and investment details and took away the papers to Mumbai last week.

Indrani, the wife of former media honcho Peter Mukherjea, and her former driver Shyam Rai, are the other people charged with killing Sheena in 2012 and disposing of her body.

(IANS)

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