New Delhi, Jan 31 – The Delhi Police Monday registered a complaint accusing a junior resident doctor at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences of molesting an eight-year-old boy who had come to the hospital for treatment, an official said. ‘We have only registered a complaint against the doctor and started investigations,’ a police official said, clarifying that the first information report has not yet been filed. According to AIIMS, a three-member fact-finding committee headed by head of department of endocrinology and metabolism, A.C.
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New Delhi, Jan 31 – Allaying apprehensions about reports of Pakistan doubling its nuclear arsenal, a veteran Indian scientist who played a key role in India’s second nuclear test has said India need not be alarmed as its credible minimum deterrence was robust and it can produce more than 100 weapons. ‘Our credible minimum deterrent is robust and strong. There is no cause for undue alarm,’ K.
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Melbourne, Jan 31 – Cricketers around the globe are owed $6 million in prize money by the Indian cricket board for the Champions League Twenty20 competition, the Federation of International Cricketers’ Associations (FICA) has claimed. Australia and South Africa are also minority shareholders in the annual tournament. ‘However, Cricket Australia (CA) made it clear yesterday (Sunday) that player payments were the responsibility of the Board of Control for Cricket in India,’ reported The Australian.
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New Delhi, Jan 31 – The Supreme Court has described as illegal all orders which have facilitated grabbing of common village lands and directed state governments to prepare plans to evict illegal occupants from these plots. ‘The time has now come to review all these orders by which the common village land has been grabbed by such fraudulent practices,’ said the apex court bench of Justice Markandey Katju and Justice Gyan Sudha Misra. The order given Friday directed all state governments and the union territories to prepare schemes for eviction of illegal occupants of Gram Sabha (common village) land.
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London, Jan 31 – Those who say they cannot quit smoking, no matter how hard they try, could now blame their genes. Scientists have discovered a brain pathway which, if not functioning correctly, can lead to an uncontrollable desire to smoke, reports dailymail.co.uk. The fault lies in a receptor protein that is normally activated by the nicotine in cigarettes and dampens the desire for yet more of the drug.
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New Delhi, Jan 31 – Welcoming the conditional clearance to its $12 billion steel project in Orissa, the Indian subsidiary of South Korean steel major Posco said Monday that it will resolve the concerns raised by the people living in the vicinity of the project. Industry bodies said the move will shore up India’s investment-friendly credentials. ‘We fully appreciate the concerns of different stakeholders on sustainability of environment as well as livelihood of affected people,’ Posco-India said in a statement issued here.
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Bhopal, Jan 31 – Bollywood diva Hema Malini, alongwith her daughters Esha and Ahana Deol, will present an Odissi dance recital on the inaugural day Tuesday of the famed Khajuraho festival of classical dances at Khajuraho in Madhya Pradesh. The dance programme will begin at 7 p.m. on the premises of the Khajuraho temple in Chhattarpur district.
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Melbourne, Jan 31 – Australian off-spinner Nathan Hauritz can be on the fast track to recovery to play in the World Cup in the sub-continent starting Feb 19. ‘A radical treatment involving controversial blood injections may get injured spinner Hauritz to the World Cup,’ Herald Sun reported Monday. The 29-year-old suffered the injury in the second one-day international against England in Hobart had arthroscopic surgery on his right shoulder last Sunday.
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Agartala, Jan 31 – A central government official from Andhra Pradesh was killed and his driver critically injured when separatist tribal guerrillas fired at their car from across the India-Bangladesh border in northern Tripura Monday, police said. ‘National Building Construction Corporation (NBCC) official G.N. Mani, 51, was gunned down and his car driver was injured when outlawed National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) militants fired on them at Chayapara village on the border,’ Tripura Police spokesman Tushar Kanti Das told reporters.
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