Stephen DaCosta New Delhi YMCA President

Monday, May 1, 2006, 23:07 [IST]

New Delhi, Apr 29 (UNI) Mr Stephen DaCosta, Principal, Frank Anthony School, has been re-elected as the President of the New Delhi YMCA.

Mr Dilip Williams, Dr James Thomas and Mr Clement Rajkumar have been elected as Vice Presidents and Dr George Varghese as Treasurer.

Mr Stephen DaCosta, Dr George Varghese, Mr R Sunny Joshua, Mr Vernon D'Souza, and Mr Noel Vaghela have been elected as members of the Board of Directors for three years.

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Cong fires another salvo against BJP on poll code violation

Monday, May 1, 2006,23:08 [IST]

Bhopal, Apr 29 (UNI) Firing another salvo against the ruling BJP, the Madhya Pradesh Congress today alleged that Sehore district panchayat Chief Executive Officer K C Jain has violated the model of conduct by initiating work of Rs one crore in the election-bound Budhni Assembly Constituency. In his complaint to the Chief Electoral Officer, Congress General Secretary Manak Agrawal sought action against the officer, saying the construction work were carried out to influence the.....

Mahajan undergoes another surgery

Monday, May 1, 2006,23:08 [IST]

Mumbai, Apr 29 (UNI) Senior BJP leader Pramod Mahajan, who is on dialysis and life support, underwent another surgical procedure today. A team of surgeons conducted 'tracheotomy' at Hinduja hospital to make Mr Mahajan's breathing easier. State BJP spokesman Vinod Tavde said, ''Doctors also replaced cilastic sheet for keeping his intestine in. An hour-and-half long operation was completed a short while ago and Mr Mahajan is back in the Intensive Care Unit.'' This is.....

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Krishna Iyer, Cardinal Vithayathil among early voters

Monday, May 1, 2006,23:08 [IST]

Kochi, Apr 29 (UNI) Kerala Industries Minister V K Ibrahim Kunju, Justice V R Krishna Iyer and Major Archbishop Cardinal Varki Vithayathil were among those who made it to the polling booths early in Ernakulam district today. Voting for the second phase of the assembly elections in 14 constituencies of the district began on a slow note this morning but picked up pace as the day progressed. There were no reports of any untoward incidents.....

Test shows no bird flu, 5000 birds died of starvation

Monday, May 1, 2006,23:08 [IST]

Chandigarh, Apr 29 (UNI) A diagnostic test has indicated that there was no bird flu or contagious disease behind the death of 5000 chickens in Panchkula district of Haryana. Panic gripped the district after the news spread about the death of over 5,000 birds in a poultry farm in Kami village of the Barwala area yesterday. Panchkula Deputy Commissioner Brijendra Singh said the diagnostic examination of samples in the Regional Disease Diagnostic Laboratoty in Jalandhar.....

Narayan Sewa Sansthan opens branch ashram in Chandigarh

Monday, May 1, 2006,23:08 [IST]

Chandigarh, Apr 29 (UNI) In order make disabled people self-reliant, the Narayan Sewa Sansthan, Udaipur, pioneer in polio operations, has opened a branch. The Sansthan founded by Sadhu Kailash 'Manav' in 1985, has perfomed 51,000 successful operations on polio patients at its own hospital in Udaipur. Prashant Agarwal, organising secretary, informed that nealy 9,000 patients to be operated are in the waiting list of 10 to 11 months. Mr Agarwal said that a team.....