10:29 Denied ambulance, woman forced to give birth in moving bus in MP:
In yet another case of alleged medical negligence, a pregnant woman was forced to give birth to baby after she was denied ambulance in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhatarpur area.
The medical practitioners of the community hospital in Chhatarpur allegedly turned away a pregnant woman and referred her to a district hospital.
The hospital didn’t even provide transportation to the woman in pain.
She later gave birth in an unsanitary condition inside a moving bus.
Narrating his wife’s ordeal, the husband said, “I had taken her to a community hospital, from where she was referred to a district hospital. No vehicle was provided by the community hospital, so I took a bus to the district hospital. She delivered the baby on the way.” — ANI
10:22 Sacha Baron Cohen is back, and funnier!: British comedian and actor Sacha Baron Cohen returns, devastatingly funny as always, with a 10-minute clip that takes the Mickey out of the US’s pro-gun activists and right-wing Congressmen.
He totally dupes them pretending to be a fearsome ex-Mossad-type Israeli, who is selling a programme named Kindeguardians to America that arms toddlers with guns for their self protection.
And he gets extraordinary results.
In the bargain he proves how deranged and dangerous the American pro-gun bunch is.
Why can’t we let Baron loose on Delhi Durbar?
10:18 Actor Rita Bhaduri passes away:
Veteran actress Rita Bhaduri passed away on Monday night.
The actor, who was last seen as Imarti Devi in Star Bharat’s TV show Nimki Mukhiya, was 62.
Actor Shishir Sharma took to his Facebook account to share the news of her demise.
“We deeply regret to inform you that Reeta Bhaduri has departed for her journey beyond. The funeral rites will be held on 17th July, Tuesday at 12 noon at the Cremation Ground, Parsi Wada Road, Parshiwada, Chakala, Andheri East. Extremely sad.. lost a wonderful human being .. a mother to many of us.. will miss u Ma,” he wrote.
Rita Bhaduri has worked in 70 movies like Raja, Julie, Beta, Dil Vil Pyar Vyar and over 20 television shows, which includes Sarabhai Vs Sarabhai, Amanat and Kumkum.
10:08 Should I have asked army to take along Rahul for surgical strikes: Parrikar:
Former defence minister Manohar Parrikar ridiculed the Congress for questioning the veracity of the surgical strike conducted by the army in the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in 2016.
Taking a jibe at Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, the Goa chief minister said, “When we did the surgical strike, the opposition parties said that they never happened. I would have taken the opposition party on the surgical strike. I would have told the army to take Rahul Gandhi and do the surgical strike”.
“If you want to do a surgical strike, then the most important thing is secrecy. Only four people were knowing about the strike including the prime minister, me, the army chief and the director general of military operations besides Army’s Zone Commander and the Commander in Srinagar,” he said.
The army had reported on September 29, 2016, eleven days after the Uri attack that claimed 18 jawans, that it had conducted surgical strikes against suspected militant launch pads in the Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir.
09:30 All Mother Teresa care homes to be inspected after baby selling scandal:
Minister of Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi has instructed the state governments to inspect all child care homes run by Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity across the country.
The decision was taken after the Jharkhand child trafficking case came to light, wherein three children were rescued after being trafficked by three nuns of the Missionaries of Charity.
Gandhi has asked the state governments to ensure registration of all child care institutions and linking them to the Central Adoption Resource Authority within next month.
According to an official release, the mandatory registration of CCIs and linking to Central Adoption Resource Authority has been provided in Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 which came into force more than two years ago but some orphanages had challenged the validity of this clause.
However, the Supreme Court has since dismissed the petitions and has upheld the validity; vide their order of December 2017. Since then, approximately 2300 child care institutions have been linked to CARA and about 4000 are still pending for linkage. — ANI
09:16 Russian woman arrested in the US, accused of being a spy:
29-year-old Russian woman Mariia Butina has been arrested on the charges of conspiring to act as an agent of the Russian government, the US Department of Justice said on Monday.
Butina, a Russian gun rights advocate living in Washington, was developing ties with US citizens and infiltrating political groups including the National Rifle Association.
The announcement of her arrest comes hours after US President Donald Trump met with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland and barely days after special counsel Robert Mueller indicted 12 Russian intelligence officers in the 2016 hacking of the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton presidential campaign.
“Butina worked at the direction of a high-level official in the Russian government who was previously a member of the legislature of the Russian Federation and later became a top official at the Russian Central Bank. This Russian official was sanctioned by the US Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control in April 2018,” Sputnik reported, citing the statement issued by the DOJ on Monday, as saying.
However, the report does not identify the Kremlin official.
It is pertinent to mention that charges do not stem out of the Mueller’s investigation.
The report also quoted FBI Special Agent Kevin Helson, as saying in a sworn statement that one of the goals which the Russian national was endeavouring to achieve was to “exploit personal connections with US person having influence in American politics in an effort to advance the interests of the Russian Federation.”
Butina’s lawyer Robert Driscoll has denied allegations and maintained her innocence.
The next hearing is scheduled to take place on July 18. — ANI
08:41 Putin dismisses Mueller probe as ‘political games’:
Russian President Vladimir Putin has described the probe by Special Counsel Robert Mueller into Russian meddling in the 2016 campaign is politically motivated, calling it part of the United States’ “internal political games”.
“It’s quite clear to me that (the investigation) is (being) used in the internal political struggle — and it’s nothing to be proud of for American democracy, to use such dirty methods in the political rivalry,” he told Fox News in an interview.
Putin again denied meddling in the 2016 presidential election
“I mentioned this in 2016 and I want to say it now again, Russia, as a state, has never interfered with the internal affairs of the United States, let alone an election,” Putin said.
Earlier, United States President Donald Trump also mentioned that Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 campaign was ‘a disaster for our country’, while also saying that it had negatively impacted US-Russia relations.
00:26 Sharif kept in ‘abysmal conditions’ in Rawalpindi jail:
Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif has been kept in ‘abysmal conditions’ and deprived of a newspaper and bed and uses a ‘dirty’ washroom in the high-security Adiala prison in Rawalpindi, according to a letter written by his brother Shahbaz Sharif.
The letter was written by Shahbaz to caretaker chief minister of Punjab Hasan Askari Rizvi.
It came after Shahbaz, Sharif’s younger brother and former chief minister of the province, visited Sharif with his family on Saturday.
‘I want to draw your attention to the abysmal conditions under which Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, former Prime Minister of Pakistan, is languishing in the high-security Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi,’ he wrote.
Sharif, 68, and his daughter Maryam, 44, were arrested in Lahore on July 13 on their arrival from London after an accountability court found them guilty over his family’s ownership of four luxury flats in London.
They were later taken to Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi.
Shahbaz, who is also president of Pakistan Muslims League-Nawaz, went on to highlight the conditions faced by the former prime minister in jail.
‘It was noted during my visit that Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif was not even given a newspaper to read, his mattress was on the floor and the washroom at his disposal was in a dirty despicable condition, with no air conditioner in his room,’ the letter said.
Shahbaz complained that no attendant was provided and medical facility also was not up to the mark to take care of Sharif who is a heart and diabetic patient.
He said Sharif needed medicine on time and frequent visits of a doctor and requested that his personal doctor, who knows his medical condition, be allowed to visit him twice a day to administer medicine and examine a clean diet.
‘It is very unfortunate that Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, three time Prime Minister of Pakistan, is being treated in such a shabby manner. This situation is unacceptable given the minimum facilities he is entitled to as former Prime Minister,’ he wrote. — PTI
Source: Rediff