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Two
die of swine flu in Delhi
New Delhi:
Health authorities in Delhi have confirmed two swine
flu deaths on Thursday. A 35-year-old female patient died
at the Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) Hospital on Wednesday night
becoming the first victim of the virus in the national capital.
Thirty one year old Samrat Pandeya, a resident of Gurgaon,
who was initially treated at various private hospitals and
later brought to the RML Hospital, succumbed to the virus
on Thursday morning. According to hospital sources, Pandeya
was admitted to the hospital on August 14 with symptoms
of fever, breathlessness and signs of pneumonia. He tested
positive for H1N1 flu. Pandeya had been on ventilator since
August 15, sources said. Delhi State health authorities
have said there is no need to panic, since both patients
had contact history and a history of travel to affected
countries. Health authorities said the demise of the victims
was due to failure to follow established treatment procedure.
With these two deaths the overall H1N1 toll in the country
has risen to 32. Maharashtra is the worst affected state
with 15 deaths.
20
children sustain burn injuries as school bus catches fire
in Mumbai Top
Panvel (Maharashtra):
At least 20 school children sustained burn injuries,
seven of them severe burns, when a school bus caught fire
in Panvel in Raigad district of Maharashtra on Thursday,
police said. "Seven school children sustained severe burn
injuries after a school bus they were traveling in caught
fire. Of the seven, five were admitted to National Burns
Hospital and two at Masina Hospital. The children with over
50 per cent burns are in critical condition," said Ahmed
Pathan, Police Inspector of Panvel. According to reports,
the private mini-bus was on its way to CKT High School in
Navi Mumbai, situated about 30 kilometres from Panvel, when
it caught fire around 7 a. m. The injured were being treated
at the National Burn Centre, Life Line Hospital, MGM Hospital
and the Masina Hospital in Mumbai. "The two children admitted
at Masina Hospital are in the ICU and are in critical, but
stable condition. The 11-year-old girl got 60 per cent burn
injuries on her back, upper arms and legs. While the 10-year-old
boy suffered 40 per cent burns on his lower legs," said
Dr Veena Sangare, in-charge at the Masina Hospital. Meanwhile,
driver and cleaner of the bus have been arrested and will
be produced before a local court on Friday.
Nepal,
India review bilateral ties Top
New Delhi:
Visiting Nepal Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal met Prime
Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh at Hyderabad House last evening.
Both leaders discussed and reviewed progress in bilateral
relations between the two countries. According to official
sources, the intensification of economic partnership between
the two countries remained the focus of the discussions.
Investment in the hydro power sector was also considered.
The issue of using Nepal's territory for anti-India activities
is also believed to have come up duirng the talks. The meeting,
lasted for about an hour, and was attended by External Affairs
Minister S. M. Krishna, Home Minister P. Chidambaram, Finance
Minister Pranab Mukherjee and National Security Advisor
MK Narayanan. Later, Prime Minister Singh hosted a banquet
in honour of Nepal Prime Minister. Earlier, the Nepalese
Prime Minister invited Indian industry to invest in his
country, saying his government would give due priority to
such moves. He assured them of providing a conducive atmosphere
for industrial growth. Candidly admitting to the state of
political flux in his country earlier this year, he said
he would make sure that the investment from India is given
due priority. He identified hydropower, roads, bridges,
and infrastructure, construction, and tourism, agro-processing
and financial services as potential areas for investment.
Nepal arrived in New Delhi on Tuesday at the head of a 64-member
delegation, including the Finance, Tourism, Commerce, Industry
and Energy Ministers. He will leave for Kathmandu on Saturday.
Bookies
menace is rife in India: Report Top
London/Brisbane:
Even as the International Cricket Council (ICC) is investigating
a report made by the Australian team that one of its players
was approached by a suspected bookmaker at their London
hotel after the Lord's Test, a source has said the problem
of illegal bookies approaching cricketers is rife in India.
''This (match fixing and bookies approaching) is a massive
problem that has its tentacles at all the high levels of
the game,'' he added. Therefore, the targeting of one of
the best-paid international cricketers in the world to influence
the most prestigious series in the game only shows the growing
audacity of illegal bookmakers, whose criminal operations
include murder, death threats and entrapment. However, according
to a report in the Sydney Morning Herald, any scrutiny is
unlikely to discourage illegal bookmakers, who will continue
to feed off cricket so long as there is such disparity in
pay among the game's international elite. Australian players
earn up to 10 times more than peers from other Test-playing
nations. If the Ashes can be targeted, what chance the new
Twenty20 leagues? Already there is widespread innuendo,
all unsubstantiated, that matches in the Indian Cricket
League were fixed. Some Australian players also have concerns
that bookmakers influenced a high-profile international
star during the first Indian Premier League season. ''People
also need to understand that this is not about match-fixing
directly influencing a result, it's about spread betting.
It could be about bowling a wide with the fourth ball of
the 16th over, losing a wicket at a certain time in the
match. We're talking hundreds of millions of dollars here.
This is heavy stuff, like the mafia," said one highly placed
source. Officials are remaining tight lipped about the Australian
player episode, which is said to have taken place in the
lobby of the Royal Kensington Garden Hotel. ''We did everything
to the letter of the law,'' Australian captain Ricky Ponting
said. England captain Andrew Strauss said there had been
no approaches made to his team.
Nooyi,
Sonia Gandhi in Forbes top 15 most powerful women's list
Top
New York:
Indra Nooyi, CEO of PepsiCo, Congress party president
Sonia Gandhi, Chanda Kochhar, CEO of ICICI Bank India, and
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Chairman, Biocon India, are the only
Indians in Forbes annual list of the 100 most powerful women.
The list, which was released last night, includes fiery
chief executives, brilliant politicians and beloved queens,
but the model for all women who seek influence, is the cautious
and uncharismatic German Chancellor, Angela Merkel. Nooyi
is listed as the third most powerful woman in the world,
while Sonia Gandhi, Kochhar and Shaw are ranked 13, 20 and
91, respectively. Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
Wajed is the only other South Asian in the list and is ranked
78. Americans make up 63 of the 100, while only four women
from Britain make the grade. In assembling the list, Forbes
looked for women who run countries, big companies or influential
nonprofits. Their rankings are a combination of two scores:
visibility--by press mentions--and the size of the organization
or country these women lead.
The list is
as follows: 1 Angela Merkel Chancellor Germany 2 Sheila
Bair Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. U.S. 3 Indra
Nooyi Chief executive, PepsiCo U.S. 4 Cynthia Carroll Chief
executive, Anglo American U.K. 5 Ho Ching Chief executive,
Temasek Singapore 6 Irene Rosenfeld Chief executive, Kraft
Foods U.S. 7 Ellen Kullman Chief executive, DuPont U.S.
8 Angela Braly Chief executive, WellPoint U.S. 9 Anne Lauvergeon
Chief executive, Areva France 10 Lynn Elsenhans Chief executive,
Sunoco U.S. 11 Cristina Fernandez President Argentina 12
Carol Bartz Chief executive, Yahoo U.S. 13 Sonia Gandhi
President, Indian National Congress Party India 14 Ursula
Burns Chief executive, Xerox Corp. U.S. 15 Anne Mulcahy
Chairman, Xerox Corp. U.S. 16 Safra Catz President, Oracle
U.S. 17 Christine Lagarde Minister of Economy, Finance and
Employment France 18 Gail Kelly Chief executive, Westpac
Australia 19 Marjorie Scardino Chief executive, Pearson
Plc. U.K. 20 Chanda Kochhar Chief executive, ICICI Bank
India 21 Mary Sammons Chief executive, Rite Aid Corp. U.S.
22 Michelle Bachelet President Chile 23 Paula Reynolds Chief
restructuring officer, AIG U.S. 24 Carol Meyrowitz Chief
executive, TJX Companies U.S. 25 Andrea Jung Chief executive,
Avon U.S. 26 Patricia Woertz Chief executive, Archer Daniels
Midland U.S. 27 Guler Sabanci Chairman, Sabanci Holding
Turkey 28 Barbara Desoer President, Bank of America Mortgage,
Home Equity and Insurance U.S. 29 Brenda Barnes Chief executive,
Sara Lee Corp. U.S. 30 Risa Lavizzo-Mourey Chief executive,
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation U.S. 31 Ann Livermore
Executive vice president, Hewlett-Packard U.S. 32 Cathie
Lesjak Executive vice president, Hewlett-Packard U.S. 33
Marina Berlusconi Chairman, Fininvest Group Italy 34 Melinda
Gates Co-chairman, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation U.S.
35 Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the House, House of Representatives
U.S. 36 Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State U.S. 37
Jane Mendillo Chief executive, Harvard Management Co. U.S.
38 Margaret Chan Director-general, World Health Org. Switzerland
39 Susan Chambers Executive vice president, Global People
Division, Wal-Mart Stores U.S. 40 Michelle Obama First Lady
U.S. 41 Oprah Winfrey Chairman, Harpo U.S. 42 Queen Elizabeth
II Queen U.K. 43 Nancy McKinstry Chief executive, Wolters
Kluwer Netherlands 44 Gloria Arroyo President Philippines
45 Ana Patricia Botin Executive Chairman, Banesto Spain
46 Ann Veneman Executive Director, UNICEF U.S. 47 Yulia
Tymoshenko Prime minister Ukraine 48 Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Supreme Court Justice U.S. 49 Janet Robinson Chief executive,
The New York Times Co. U.S. 50 Dominique Senequier Chief
executive, AXA Private Equity France 51 Janet Napolitano
Secretary of Homeland Security U.S. 52 Neelie Kroes Commissioner
for Competition, European Union Belgium 53 Gail Boudreaux
President, UnitedHealthcare U.S. 54 Sonia Sotomayor Supreme
Court Justice U.S. 55 Mary Schapiro Chairman Securities
and Exchange Commission U.S. 56 Kathleen Sebelius Secretary
of Health and Human Services U.S. 57 Ellen Alemany Chief
executive, RBS Americas and Citizens Financial Group U.S.
58 Susan Ivey Chief executive, Reynolds American U.S. 59
Amy Pascal Cochairman, Sony Pictures Entertainment U.S.
60 Helen Clark Chairman, United Nations Development Group
New Zealand 61 Judy McGrath Chief executive, MTV Networks
U.S. 62 Stacey Snider Chief executive, DreamWorks SKG U.S.
63 Navanethem Pillay High Commissioner for Human Rights,
United Nations South Africa 64 Janet Clark Chief financial
officer, Marathon Oil U.S. 65 Sherilyn McCoy Worldwide chairman,
Pharmaceuticals Group, Johnson and Johnson U.S. 66 Ellen
Johnson-Sirleaf President Liberia 67 Tarja Halonen President
Finland 68 Mary McAleese President Ireland 69 Virginia Rometty
Senior vice president, IBM U.S. 70 Angela Ahrendts Chief
executive, Burberry Group Plc. U.K. 71 Sri Indrawati Coordinating
Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance Indonesia
72 Terri Dial Chief executive, U.S. Consumer Bank, Citigroup
U.S. 73 Deirdre Connelly President, North American Pharmaceuticals,
GlaxoSmithkline U.S. 74 Johanna Sigurdardottir Prime minister
Iceland 75 Queen Rania Queen Jordan 76 Christina Gold Chief
executive, Western Union U.S. 77 Colleen Goggins Worldwide
chairman, Johnson and Johnson U.S. 78 Hasina Wajed Prime
minister Bangladesh 79 Hyun Jeong-eun Chairman, Hyundai
Group South Korea 80 Amy Schulman Senior vice president,
Pfizer U.S. 81 Penny Pritzker Chairman, Classic Residence
by Hyatt U.S. 82 Drew Faust President, Harvard University
U.S. 83 Melanie Healey Group president, Feminine and Health
Care, Procter and Gamble U.S. 84 Elizabeth Smith President,
Avon U.S. 85 Deb Henretta Group president, Asia, Procter
and Gamble Singapore 86 Ann Moore Chief executive, Time
Inc. U.S. 87 Sallie Krawcheck Chief executive global wealth
management, Bank of America U.S. 88 Pamela Nicholson President,
Enterprise Rent-A-Car U.S. 89 Janice Fields Chief operating
officer, McDonald's USA U.S. 90 Stephanie Burns Chief executive,
Dow Corning U.S. 91 Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Chairman, Biocon
India 92 Eva Cheng Executive vice president, Amway Greater
China and Southeast Asia Hong Kong 93 Efrat Peled Chief
executive, Arison Investments Israel 94 Sheikha Lubna Al
Qasimi Minister of the Economy United Arab Emirates 95 Charlene
Begley Chief executive, GE Enterprise Solutions U.S. 96
Mindy Grossman Chief executive, HSN, Inc. U.S. 97 Sharon
Allen Chairman, Deloitte and Touche U.S. 98 Anne Sweeney
Co-chairman, Disney Media Networks U.S. 99 Heidi Miller
Chief executive Treasury and Securities Services, JPMorgan
Chase U.S. 100 Mary Erdoes Chairman, JPMorgan Global Wealth
Management U.S.
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100 most dangerous websites for PCs enlisted Top
Melbourne:
Internet security company Norton Symantec has come up
with a list of Top 100 Dirtiest sites, which could infect
your computer with malware. Malware is a software that can
damage or compromise a computer system without the owner's
consent. Natalie Connor, spokeswoman of the anti-virus company,
said that even visiting any of the named websites could
expose a computer to infection and put the personal information
into the hands of unwanted people. "What people don't realise
is when you type in a website, you're bringing down information
on a page and with it could be malware," News.com.au quoted
her as saying. The list was compiled with the help of global
data collected on Norton Safe Web, a site that analysed
websites' security risks. The infected sites had on average
18,000 threats and 40 per cent of the sites had more than
20,000 threats, while 75 per cent of websites on the list
were found to be spreading malware for over six months.
According to Connor, most websites in the list had adult
content with unprintable names, suggesting they contained
hardcore pornography. Some others sites include those on
ice skating, deer hunting, catering and legal services.
Hackers can apparently obtain personal information using
keystroke-logging software from both PCs and Mac computers.
The reps said that hackers are a force to reckon with as
cyber crime is increasing rapidly. She added: "The last
thing we want to do is scare people, we want to educate
them so they know how to protect themselves. "It's not about
the fame any more of creating viruses and getting in the
media. They're making money."
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