Seven die in Patna hospital as junior doctors strike work
Patna, May 24 (IANS): At least seven patients at the Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH) died on Wednesday due to lack of treatment following a flash strike by junior doctors that started after midnight, officials said. Over 500 striking doctors left hundreds of patients unattended from early Wednesday morning despite a large number of them being referral cases by local doctors from across the state requiring urgent attention. Junior doctors were adamant not to resume work unless action was taken against the police officials involved in the lathicharge during a counselling session. The striking doctors have also demanded withdrawal of FIRs filed against innocent medical students. Meanwhile, hundreds of patients, mostly the poor, who arrived at the hospital from across the state, were worried over no medical facilities being provided to them.
NC woman legislator, activists protest award to army major
Srinagar, May 24 (IANS): Women workers of the opposition National Conference (NC) on Wednesday protested against the award of the Army Chief’s commendation card to an officer who had tied a local to the front of a jeep in Jammu and Kashmir. Led by NC legislator Shameema Firdous, the NC women activists started a protest march from the party headquarters in Srinagar. The women were soon stopped by the police. They sought punishment for the army major who had tied Javed Dar, a shawl weaver, to the front of a jeep on April 9 in Budgam district to avoid stone pelting.
Three martyred soldiers of Nepalese origin cremated in Himachal
Shimla, May 24 (IANS): Three Indian Army soldiers of Nepalese origin, who were killed in a gunbattle with militants in Jammu and Kashmir, were cremated in an army cantonment in Himachal Pradesh on Wednesday, officials said. The soldiers, who belonged to 14 Gorkha Training Centre, were martyred while fighting with militants on May 21. Four militants were also killed in the army operation that lasted over two days along the Line of Control.
Pak court allows Indian woman to return home
Islamabad, May 24 (PTI): The Islamabad High Court today allowed an Indian woman, who has sought refuge at the Indian mission here after accusing a Pakistani man of forcibly marrying her, to return to India, a media report said. Uzma, in her early 20s, had travelled to Pakistan earlier this month. She has said that Pakistani national Tahir Ali “forced” her to marry him at gun point. Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kiyani was hearing pleas filed by Uzma and Ali. While Uzma had requested to be repatriated to India, Ali had asked to be allowed to meet his wife. During the hearing, the judge asked Uzma if she wished to speak to her husband but she refused. Uzma and Ali reportedly met in Malaysia and fell in love, after which she travelled to Pakistan on May 1 via the Wagah Border. The two contracted nikkah (marriage) on May 3.
China Light & Power has offered to join hands with the Haryana government in setting up a Rs 500-crore renewable energy project in the state’s Jhajjar district. The offer was made during Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar’s meeting with the senior management of the company in Hong Kong on Wednesday. Khattar and his delegation arrived in Hong Kong after having similar meetings in Singapore. China Light & Power officials who met Khattar included CEO Richard Lancaster, Chief Financial Officer Geert Peters and Managing Director India Rajiv Mishra. The key sectors for which the investment scope is being explored include skill development, healthcare, infrastructure, transport, smart cities and renewable energy.
The Indian Navy has rescued six crew of a Maldivian ship which was adrift in the high seas for five days after propulsion failure, official sources said on Wednesday. The rescued ‘MV Maria 3’ crew included nationals of Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Maldives and also a woman. The ship has since been towed back to Male. The Indian Navy statement said the ship left Male on May 15 but lost contact on May 16, following which the Maldivian Coast Guard requested the Indian Navy’s assistance in search and rescue operations.
Seven persons were killed when a speeding Bolero crashed into a divider and rammed into an oncoming truck near Dhangarwadi here early on Wednesday morning, police said. Around 4 a.m., the vehicle, headed towards Aurangabad, lost control and hit the truck bound towards Ahmednagar after crashing through the divider, Vilas Kanawade of the MIDC Police Station here said. As per preliminary investigations, Kanawade said the jeep driver had apparently dozed off at the wheel as the speeding vehicle climbed onto the road divider. It then collided head-on with the truck coming in from the opposite direction. The police have started searching for the absconding truck driver, he said.
The death toll due to diarrhoea outbreak in six villages here has mounted to 14 after a four- year-old girl died of the disease today, an official said. Following the outbreak on Sunday, the district administration has ordered the installation of five new hand- pumps in the affected villages and sealed ice-cream factories operating without permission. Action was taken after a team of doctors from Lucknow attributed the deaths in Mat Tehsil to the consumption ‘chuski’ (ice candy) along with polluted water, Bangari said. Meanwhile, there has been heavy exodus of labourers (over 250 ) from brick-kilns in Surir village after the outbreak, district brick-kiln association chief Sanjeev Kumar Singh said.
The Bihar government today assured Prime Minister Narendra Modi of making arrangement for online registration of FIRs in all police stations by next July. The assurance was given to the PM by state Chief Secretary Anjani Kumar Singh at an interaction through video-conference. The chief secretary said that infrastructure was being built in all the police stations of the state for the purpose.
A court here on Wednesday ordered the release of 350 Indian fishermen, who were jailed for illegal fishing. Judicial Magistrate Malir Salman Amjid Siddiqui in his order told the Interior Ministry to release the fishermen who at the earliest. The judge in his order said the eight months spent in a Pakistani jail by the fishermen has been considered their punishment. The fishermen from both the countries routinely find themselves arrested for illegal fishing as there is no clear boundary between India and Pakistan in the Arabian sea.
