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Parrikar suffering from advanced pancreatic cancer
Mumbai/Panaji, March 7 (IANS): Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, who left for treatment to a US hospital from Mumbai in the wee hours of Wednesday, is reportedly suffering from an advanced stage of pancreatic cancer. Sources in Mumbai’s Lilavati Hospital and outside, and Goa Medical College and Hospital — both health facilities in which the former Defence Minister was admitted since February 15 — have confirmed the cancer. Lilavati Hospital had said in a statement: “It has been brought to our notice, various malicious and misleading reports/rumours are floating around in the electronic/print media with regards to the health of the Chief Minister of Goa. We categorically deny all such rumours. We reiterate that Chief Minister of Goa is being treated and is responding well to the treatment.” Parrikar was discharged from Lilavati Hospital late on Tuesday and he is currently en route to the US for further treatment, details of which are not available.
ITBP gets first woman officer in combat role
New Delhi, March 7 (PTI): In another first for women, 25-year-old Prakriti has been inducted as the first direct-entry combat officer in the border guarding force, ITBP. The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) force is the last of the CAPFs to induct women officers in combat roles after the government first allowed it to enroll them in 2016. Prakriti, who goes by a single name, had cleared the UPSC exam for officers’ recruitment in CAPFs in the same year and in her first attempt.
K’taka Lokayukta stabbed in office
Bengaluru, March 7 (PTI): Karnataka Lokayukta P Vishwanatha Shetty was stabbed multiple times by a man who went to meet him in his office today and was admitted to hospital. Shetty is stated to be out of danger. “According to information I have, someone claiming to be an advocate had gone to the office and stabbed him,” Karnataka Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy said. Shetty, a former Karnataka High Court judge, is out of danger, Reddy said. “He is in Mallya Hospital... The information I have is he is out of danger... The reason (for the attack) is not known.”
Man posing as engineer steal INR 18 lakh from ATM
Muzaffarnagar, March 7 (PTI): A man masquerading as an engineer allegedly stole more than Rs 18 lakh from an ATM of the Indian Overseas Bank in Shamli district of Uttar Pradesh, police said today. He entered the bank’s “strong room”, managed to crack the secret password and removed Rs 18.37 lakh from the ATM, Avnish Gautam, SHO of Sadar police station said. The matter came to light when customers complained to bank official about shortage of cash in the ATM. The police is looking at the CCTV camera footage for clues and also questioning the bank’s staffers.
Continuing the probe into the Punjab National Bank fraud, sleuths of the Serious Frauds Investigation Office (SFIO) questioned the bank’s Managing Director and CEO Sunil Mehta here on Wednesday. Mehta was grilled by the investigators for around five hours. He is the third high-ranking banker to have been called by the SFIO for the probe into the Rs 12,600-crore PNB fraud involving absconding diamantaires Nirav Mehta and his uncle-cum-business associate Mehul Choksi. According to some reports, the SFIO may question top executives of more than 30 other banks in connection with the fraud.
A sub-inspector and a constable were arrested today by the Alwar district Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) team while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 1 lakh in Pahari area of Bharatpur district. The accused sub-inspector Basant Singh and constable Kartar Singh had allegedly demanded a bribe of Rs 1.5 lakh from the complainant Mohammad Rashid to file a final report (FR) in a police case lodged against his uncle, Alwar ACB deputy superintendent of police, Saleh Mohammad said. He said Singh had already taken Rs 18,000 from the complainant yesterday. Today, Singh accepted Rs 1 lakh and gave the money to the accused constable at Pahari police station from where they were arrested.
Four persons have been arrested for allegedly leaking question papers of the Std 12th examination from Bhoiwada in central Mumbai. On February 28 a student was caught by a teacher with an image of the chemistry question paper on his mobile phone an hour before the exam at a junior college in Parel. Arrests were made last week. It is suspected that the student who had accessed the chemistry paper tried to forward it to another student. All four accused were booked under the Maharashtra Prevention of Malpractices at University, Board and other Specified Examinations Act, 1982, as well as the Information Technology Act, the police official said, without disclosing their names.
Flaying a proposed ritual at a temple near here which planned to use human blood, Kerala Tourism and Devaswom Minister Kadakampally Surendran today directed authorities to prevent it. In a Facebook post, Surendran said the government would not allow the move to bathe the idol with human blood at a temple in nearby Vithura. The Minister also directed the police and district collector to take necessary steps to prevent the ritual. Referring to a notice issued by the Deviyod Sree Vidwayari Vaidyanandha temple committee, the Minister said it was planned to collect blood from several persons using syringes and then bathe the Kali idol. The notice said blood would be collected using disposable syringes in a small quantity from devotees, which would be used to bathe the idol. It was planned to be held between March 12 and 23.
