58 Indian nurses ON WAY BACK HOME: GOVT
New Delhi: 58 Indian nurses from libya are on their way back home, the Government said on Friday while making a fresh appeal to all the Indians in the strife-torn nation to leave in view of deterioration in situation with a promise to make all arrangements for evacuation. External Affairs Ministry said the Government has made arrangements for a special flight as well as a ferry besides taking other measures to evacuate those wanting to return home from libya.
DEATH BY SNAKE BITES IN WB DEClINES
New Delhi: West Bengal has highest number of deaths due to snake bites, but the figure is declining in the State as well as in the country. Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, in a written reply in lok Sabha, said that in 2011, the state reported 388 deaths due to snake bite, followed by 383 deaths in 2012. Although the 2013 figure is provisional, the number went down to 201 whereas in 2014, only 30 people have died from the bite by reptile until June this year.
katju for PERMANENT VISA to taslima
New Delhi: Holding that Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen has been hounded for her novel ‘lajja’, Press Council of India chairperson Justice Markandey Katju on Friday demanded that she be given a permanent visa to reside in India. In a statement released here, Katju said he had read in the newspapers that Nasreen’s visa has been extended by the Indian Government by only 2 months.