BIS SCIENTIST HElD FOR CORRUPTION
New Delhi: The CBI on Wednesday arrested a scientist of the Bureau of Indian Standards for allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs15,000 for not pursuing a case against an industrialist running a bottled water plant. The licence of the complainant's firm for processing and marketing of bottled water by BIS expired in April, 2014. BIS conducted a search at the processing plant of the firm and the firm was prosecuted at Wardha in Maharashtra. However, the court acquitted the accused firm after trial.
W-DAY CElEBRATIONS CONClUDE AT AMITY
New Delhi: The celebrations of International Women's Day concluded at Amity University on Wednesday with the conferment of "Amity Woman Achiever Awards 2015" on eminent women leaders from different fields like ASG Pinky Anand, first IAF Woman Officer to climb Everest Nivedita Chaudhary and Dr. Shubhra Sanyal, Criminal Psychologist.
COURSE TO CATER NEEDS OF DIFFERENTlY-ABlED
New Delhi: In a bid to meet the requirement of trained professionals who can cater to the specific needs of children with learning disabilities, three State open universities — Madhya Pradesh Bhoj Open University, Bhopal, Vardhmaan Mahaveer Open University, Kota, and Uttarakhand Open University, Haldwani — will be offering a special BEd course from the academic year 2015-16.
55 MORE FAll TO SWINE FlU; TOll REACHES 1,537
New Delhi: Fifty-five more people have died of swine flu, raising the toll across the country to 1,537 as Manipur reported its first casualty due to the H1N1 virus, which has affected 27,234 people. Manipur recorded its first swine flu death as a 35-year-old woman died.
PVT HEAlTH FIRM MAKES MEDICAl RATES ONlINE
New Delhi: To ensure hassle-free medical facilities to patients, Oxxy, a healthcare network in the private sector has made available online the medical rates of all the hospitals, diagnostic centers and services of pathology labs. It has setup a dedicated 24x7 Call centre wherein health volunteers enable the users to generate an instant code on their mobile phone which they have to show at the billing section of medical Centers.
MAHA BYPOll: RANE TO CONTEST BANDRA (E) SEATIJ
Mumbai: The April 11 bypoll to the Bandra (East) Assembly seat may turn out to be an interesting political battle with the ruling Shiv Sena and the Opposition Congress, with senior former minister Narayan Rane expressing his desire to contest the seat against the Sena nominee. The bypolls to Bandra (East) has been necessitated by the passing away of sitting Shiv Sena MlA Prakash Bala Sawant, who died after prolonged illness, on January 10.
GOA CONG EXPElS REBEl MONSERRATE
Panaji: The Goa Congress has sacked a known rebel Atanasio Monserrate aka Babush, after Congress president Sonia Gandhi conveyed her approval for a decision already taken by the State executive. Monserrate has been expelled and banned from re-entering the party for six years, a spokesperson said. “The Congress president has endorsed the State executive committee's decision to expel Monserrate from the party for six years,” Sunil Kawthankar said.