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Amid severe rush at hospitals, IMA's Secretary General, K K Aggarwal said that only suspected severe dengue cases need medical attention and admission. Most can be managed as OPD care. "There is no need of platelets transfusion unless a patient has active bleed and count of less than 10,000. Platelets counts by machine readings are not reliable and can have an error of upto 40,000. The reliable test is haematocrit and not platelet count," he claimed.
The Association also released dengue guidelines and appealed to people not to panic or force doctors to admit patients unless it is important. Aggrawal also claimed that the present serotype of dengue virus is "less fatal", and advised people not to get alarmed.
"Do not fill beds with patients not requiring admission. Make beds available for severe dengue cases," Aggarwal said. The IMA further said that unnecessary platelet transfusion can "cause more harm than good".
Till now, 46-year-old Vadra, the businessman husband of Priyanka Gandhi, an Special Protection Group protectee, was exempted from frisking at airports when he travelled with an SPG protectee.
Minister of State for Civil Aviation Mahesh Sharma said,"The previous government gave Vadra the facility only when he was travelling with an SPG protectee. Now, he has himself asked to be removed from the list."
"The government has revised the list of no-frisking passengers at the domestic airports, and Vadra's name is not on it," a civil aviation ministry spokesperson said.
"Fantastic. I am happy with what they have done," Vadra reacted after the aviation ministry's orders. He later went on Facebook to comment, "I appreciate that my name will not appear in the VVIP list anymore. I hope thisis a dead issue now and will not be used against me. My best wishes."
The court observed that Amitabh Thakur has primary facie evidence showing Mulayam threatening the former bureaucrat.
On July 10, Mulayam allegedly contacted Thakur on his residential number and threatened him of undesirable consequences if the former IPS did not mend his ways. According to Thakurs wife Nutan, Mulayam was referring to an incident back in 2006, when Thakur was serving as Firozabad SP and was cornered by then Samajwadi Party MLA Ramveer and few of his party goons.
The Uttar Pradesh government had suspended Thakur on July 13, 2015, and slapped with a 16 point charge-sheet, where the first charge is of filing PILs. In his reply to the UP government, he had said the Supreme Court has made it clear in case of UP cadre IAS officer Vijay Shanker Pandey that filing PILs by citizen, including government servants, is a constitutional right.
Thakurs complaint against Mulayam was rejected by Hazratganj police station, allegedly under pressure from the ruling SP government. A week later, on July 23, his wife Nutan Thakurs complaint was also refused to be registered by Lucknow SSP Rajesh Pandey.
Gaikwad and his family have links with right-wing group Sanatan Sanstha, says police.
Gaikwad was earlier detained by the Special Investigation Team in Sangli region of Kohlapur district in connection with this case.
Pansare was gunned down outside his home in Sagar Mala locality of Kolhapur city on February 16 and succumbed to his injuries five days later in Mumbai's Breach Candy Hospital.
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Vaishali Lok Sabha member Ramakishore Singh tendered his resignation as national general secretary of LJP as well chief whip of its parliamentary party, Singh said in a press statement. He also quit as party in-charge of Rajasthan, the statement said.
The LJP MP, who has been a long time associate of LJP chief and Union Minister Ramvilas Paswan, quit allegedly on being sidelined from decision making process of the party in the seat-sharing in the NDA.
The LJP got 40 seats in the coalition and this has left even senior party leaders miffed. Recently, Chirag Paswan, son of party chief and its Parliamentary Board head, had commented that Singh would be mollified. But, things did not improve and he quit party posts.
Singh had defeated RJD leader and former union minister Raghubansh Prasad Singh at Vaishali in the last general election. Meanwhile, peeved over denial of ticket, two BJP MLAs -- Aman Kumar and Ajay Mandal -- met Chief Minister Nitish Kumar this afternoon amid indication that they would join the grand secular alliance in the elections.
The ban comes soon after the National Investigation Agency last week declared rewards of Rs 10 lakh and Rs 7 lakh, respectively, on NSCN-K military commander Niki Sumi and chief SS Khaplang for their involvement in planning the ambush on the 6 Dogra Army convoy on June 4 in Manipur that left 18 army personnel dead.
The outfit had unilaterally abrogated the ceasefire with the Centre and conducted the attack on army on June 4. The Centre also blamed the NSCN-K for an ambush on the Assam Rifles in May that left eight security personnel dead.
The NIA would be able to freeze the assets and properties of NSCN-K leaders in India under the ongoing investigation in Manipur ambush case once the organisation is banned, The Economic Times reports.
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Pansare was gunned down outside his home in Sagar Mala locality of Kolhapur city on February 16 and succumbed to his injuries five days later in Mumbai's Breach Candy Hospital.
The arrest comes days after Pansare's family filed a petition demanding a special investigation team to probe the death as the Maharashtra police failed to make any progress in the case.
On September 9, the Bombay high court asked Maharashtra government to file its response within a week to the petition.
Setting down strict guidelines, Aam Aadmi Party Satyendra Jain said, "No hospital can turn away patients affected with dengue and tests can't cost more than Rs. 600."'
He promised that 4,000 new beds to be added in 11 hospitals across the city. "If there is no bed, private hospitals are expected to stabalise patients before transferring them."
Jain said that action will be taken against chemists who sell medicines without a prescription. "Persons who have already been infected with dengue earlier need to be careful," he warned.
Turning to the Centre for help, he said, "I hope that Union Health Minister J P Nadda will take action on lack of beds at Safdarjung hospital."
Former Delhi law minister Somnath Bharti has reportedly surrendered to the Delhi police today to join the investigation in a case of domestic violence registered against him by his wife.
Bharti, an Aam Aadmi Party legislator from Malviya Nagar, had
approached the Delhi high court for anticipatory bail on Tuesday, and
surrendered hours after he was given protection against arrest till
September 17.
Bharti, who had approached the High Court for
anticipatory bail on Tuesday, surrendered just hours after being
provided reprieve till September 17.
Following a late night brainstorming session on the issue with party members, he is understood to have been asked to join the investigation, reports The Hindu.
The Jammu and Kashmir government yesterday shifted its additional advocate general Vishal Sharma from the state home department for his alleged failure to defend government on beef ban case in the high court. Last week, the court had ordered that a little-known law passed in 1932 banning cow slaughter and the sale of beef in the state be strictly enforced.
The order led to massive protests and the opposition National Conference said it would introduce a bill to bring changes in the 1932 law.
The court ruling came in response to a petition filed by Parimkosh Seth, lawyer and member of BJPs national executive wing -- who has since been appointed the states deputy advocate general -- seeking the implementation of an existing ban on beef that dates back to 1932. The division bench consisting of Justice Dhiraj Singh Thakur and Justice Janak Raj Kotwal said in its order that The government should strictly implement the existing order banning sale of beef in the state strict action shall be taken in accordance with law against those who indulge in this activity.
The ruling People's Democratic Party has said it was not in favour of a ban that impinges on people's personal choices. But sources in the government said it is also trying strike a balance with ally BJP.
The death toll due to the fever has mounted to 11. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had said yesterday that his government was mulling bringing a law to enable temporary takeover of private hospitals during emergencies.
A senior EC official said they can take "cognizance" of any such demand only after finding that the programme's contents violate the model code. A regular radio broadcast in which Modi shares his thoughts on issues, Mann ki baat's next episode will be aired on Sunday.
"No blanket ban can be enforced on things like the cabinet meeting and Mann ki baat but the EC can take cognizance if the cabinet decision or the content of programme is in violation of the model code of conduct," the official said. He, however, made it clear that he was making a "matter off act" statement and was not aware of any such demand by the Congress or any other party. If such a complaint is made, the election watchdog goes through the recording as well as transcript of the episode and takes a decision, he said.
A similar complaint was made by Congress against the programme during the Haryana assembly polls, but the EC had not found anything "objectionable", he noted.
Ansari held talks with Hun Sen at the the Peace Palace which was followed by delegation-level parleys and signing of two MoU -- one on tourism and the other on "quick impact projects".
Under the MoU on "quick impact projects", there were four projects two in healthcare, one on women's empowerment through information and communication technology and one on agriculture.
At the Peace Palace, Ansari was accorded ceremonial welcome and guard of honour. Earlier in the morning, the vice president visited the Independence Monument that was built in 1958 to symbolise Cambodian Independence from being a French protectorate.
He also visited the Royal Memorial, a 27-metre tall shrine that has a bronze statue of Late King Norodom Sihanouk. He also laid a wreath at the two places. School children had lined up along the rood to greet Ansari with flags and flowers.
After the talks, Ansari also delivered an address on Cambodia-India ties at the Office of the Council of Ministers. He then paid floral tributes at Mahatma Gandhi's statue in Phnom Penh . In his meeting with Hun Sen, Ansari conveyed the decision of the Indian government to support several projects under Mekong-Ganga Cooperation programme targeting the health sector, agriculture and women's empowerment.
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A case was registered against Kasawa for keeping gelatine sticks in his godown, which ultimately resulted in the explosion. Kasawa has been absconding after the mishap.
The party believes that Modi's show is a violation of the code of conduct ahead of the Bihar polls to be held between October 12 to November 8.
The PM has used the radio programme to speak on various issues related to the country. His latest edition is on Sunday, for which he has invited citizens to join in by posting voice messages on his government's interactive website.
In a Q&A session held at Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, founder Mark Zuckerberg said that the button would be a way for people to express empathy. He said Facebook was "very close" to having it ready for user testing. However he went on to say he did not want it to be a mechanism with which people could "down vote" others' posts, reports BBC.
A "dislike" button has been constantly requested by some users since the introduction of the now-iconic "like" button in 2009.
The BEST will be operating additional buses on S V Road and the Western Express Highway to facilitate commuters in peak hour traffic.
"At present fast trains are being diverted on slow tracks and running about 15 min late," the Western Railway informed in a tweet.
"The last derailed coach has been removed from the tracks and services will be started on fast tracks in an hour," the WR said about 30 minutes ago. It has requested the BEST to ply extra buses in the city.
According to officials, restoration work is still going on and is expected to complete till 9 am.
Image: A derailed coach is being removed from tracks. Photograph: @WesternRly/Twitter
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