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Will Rahul throw away JPC report as well in dustbin: BJP

Allahabad, Sep 28 (ANI): After Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi called the Ordinance protecting convicted politicians a 'nonsense' and as something which should be torn and thrown into the dustbin, BJP leader Siddharth Nath Singh asked whether Gandhi is ready to throw away the JPC report on 2G scam as well. The draft report of the JPC on 2G spectrum allocation exonerated Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram of any wrongdoing and blamed the then Communications Minister and DMK MP A Raja.

Sep 28, 2013

Artificial heart pump gives man in Chennai new lease of life

Chennai, Sept 28 (ANI): In a first for India, an artificial heart pump was installed in the chest cavity of a 42-year-old man after he was diagnosed with rare heart disease. The procedure was successfully conducted at the Fortis Malar hospital in Chennai by Dr K R Balakrishnan, who is the director of the Cardiac Sciences Division. The Heartware Ventricular Assist Device (HVAD) gave the patient, Satish Kumar, the ability to carry on with his life and revive his heart, which was once functioning at only 15 percent. Speaking to a journalist in Chennai, Balakrishnan said that considering Kumar’s heart condition the only two options were either install the pump or undergo a transplant. As the transplant could take atleast three months, depending on the availability of a healthy heart, installing the pump was the only option. Kumar was diagnosed with end-stage heart failure, medically referred to as dilated Cardiomyopathy, a condition due to which the heart’s main chambers fail to pump blood.

Sep 28, 2013

Did BJP or any other opposition party bring the ordinance, asks Naqvi

Raipur, Sep 28 (ANI): After Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi dubbed the government's Ordinance as 'nonsense' and worth being torn away, BJP Vice-President Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi asked did BJP or any other opposition party bring the ordinance.

Sep 28, 2013

PM woos business leaders, aims to boost foreign investment

New York, Sept 28 (ANI): Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met the business leaders in the US with an aim to woo them to invest in India and attract foreign investment, as he arrived in New York for his address in the UN General Assembly. Singh addressed business leaders and prominent personalities at a meet where he was accompanied by foreign minister Salman Khurshid and planning body deputy chief Montek Singh Ahluwalia. Earlier Singh met U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington who praised improving ties between the United States and India.

Sep 28, 2013

PM is definitely honest: JD (U) after JPC report on 2G scam

New Delhi, Sep 28 (ANI): A day after JPC meet gave clean chit to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram and charged the then Communications Minister and DMK MP A Raja responsible for the 2G scam, JD (U) leader Shabir Ali on Saturday supported the report and said that the PM is definitely honest and there is no doubt about the same. Further, talking about differences in Congress regarding the ordinance on convicted politicians, Ali said that such discussions should be taken up in the Parliament and not directly by the courts.

Sep 28, 2013

Tourism sector of country to capitalise on Rupee fall

New Delhi/ Mumbai/ Goa/Kerala/ Agra, Sep 28 (ANI): The fall in rupee has made it cheaper to travel across India and the country's tourism is reaping the benefits with a surge in the number of foreign tourist arrivals as well as an increase in the number of Indians who are opting for the beaches of Goa over cruises on the Nile. The number of foreign tourists arriving in India between January and June witnessed a rise, but the big push is expected during the holiday season that gets underway from September-October, the tourism ministry says.

Sep 28, 2013

Pakistan quake survivors face long wait for aid

Tens of thousands of survivors of Pakistan's earthquake wait for help in soaring temperatures, as the death toll rises and anger grows at the slow pace of government aid.Duration: 00:42

Sep 28, 2013

Gulf dreams turn to dust for Nepal migrant workers

A Nepali migrant worker describes the reality of working conditions after he was lured to the Gulf by the prospect of earning the kind of money he could only dream of in his impoverished homeland.Duration: 00:54

Sep 28, 2013

UN Council orders Syria chemical arms destroyed

The UN Security Council unanimously passed a landmark resolution Friday ordering the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons and condemning a murderous poison gas attack in Damascus.Duration: 00:54

Sep 28, 2013

Indonesia delays search for boat accident survivors

Strong waves prevent Indonesian rescuers from continuing the search for survivors earlier, in a boat sinking that left at least 22 Australia-bound asylum-seekers, mostly children, dead and scores missing.Duration: 00:41

Sep 28, 2013

Guinea elections turn page on years of 'chaos'

Guineans went to the polls Saturday in the first parliamentary elections for more than a decade in the troubled west African nation, after months of delays and a campaign plagued by deadly unrest.Duration:00:32

Sep 28, 2013

Greece arrests neo-Nazi party leader

The deputy leader of Greece's neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, said his party would fight till the end despite the arrest of its leadership on Saturday.Duration:00:35

Sep 28, 2013

There are constructive debates within party, not conflict: Khurshid on Rahul Gandhi's ordinance comm

Washington DC, Sept 27 (ANI): Reacting to Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi___s statement that the controversial ordinance to negate the Supreme Court verdict on convicted lawmakers should be torn up and thrown away, Union External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Friday said that there are constructive debates within the party which should be welcomed and it does not mean that there are conflicts within the party. Talking to mediapersons in Washington, DC, he also said that the opposition only wants to destabilize the Government so that they can hide their own internal conflicts.

Sep 27, 2013

21 killed in bus accident in Himachal Pradesh

Sirmaur, Sept 27 (ANI): A private mini-bus skidded off the road and rolled down more than a 500-foot deep gorge in Himachal Pradesh's Sirmaur district on Friday killing 21 people travelling in it. According to police all bodies have been recovered, most of them badly mutilated, from the wreckage of the bus. The bus was on its way from Ucha Tikkar to Renuka-ji, a place famous for a Hindu shrine.

Sep 27, 2013

Jodhpur AIIMS will prove beneficial for people of all states: Gehlot

Jodhpur, Sept 27 (ANI): Rajasthan Chief minister Ashok Gehlot along with Union health and family welfare minister Gulam Nabi Azad and Union culture minister Chandresh Kumari Katoch inaugurated the medical college and OPD services at AIIMS, Jodhpur. Terming the occasion as memorable and a landmark one in the medical and health history of the state, Ashok Gehlot said that not only patients from Rajasthan but those from surrounding states will also be benefited by AIIMS. He also added that Jodhpur AIIMS will be better equipped than AIIMS, New Delhi.

Sep 27, 2013