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<br>500 burn cases reported in Delhi this Diwali</br> <br>Around 500 cases of burn injuries, mostly due to firecrackers, were reported from the capital this Diwali. The five government hospitals — Safdarjung, Ram Manohar Lohia (RML), Guru Teg Bahadur (GTB), Deen Dayal Upadhyay (DDU), and Lok Nayak (LN) hospitals, designated by Delhi government to deal with cases related to burn injuries and fire cracker accidents, reported majority of the burn cases. The Safdarjung hospital, with the largest burns unit in the country, received around 192 cases this Diwali, mostly cracker burns, with 25 cases being reported on November 10-11 and 167 cases on November 11-12. "Out of the 167 cases, 132 were cracker burns, 10 were diya related burns and 25 were non-firecracker related burn injuries. While 157 were treated as out patients, 10 patients were admitted," said Dr A K Rai, medical superintendent of Safdarjung hospital.</br> (PTI)
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<br>Girish Karnad, BJP MP get death threats</br> <br>Amid the row over the birth anniversary celebrations of erstwhile Mysore ruler Tipu Sultan, Jnanpith awardee Girish Karnad and BJP MP Pratap Simha have received death threats, prompting BJP to attack Congress and demand resignation of Karnataka's Siddaramaiah government. Karnad, the outspoken Kannada playwright-actor, and BJP's Mysuru MP Prathap Simha haved allegedly received death threats on the social media for their comments on Tipu Sultan. Karnad, who came under severe attack for his remarks that Bengaluru international airport should have been named after Tipu Sultan rather than the city's founder, Kempe Gowda, received a threat on Twitter that he would meet with the same fate as rationalist MM Kalburgi.</br> (PTI)
"Pakistan is spreading unrest in Kashmir. It should give up such acts and start worrying about Gilgit and Balochistan where it has exceeded the extremes of injustice," Tiwari said. (PTI) -
<br>Press Modi on India's growing intolerance: authors to Cameron</br> <br>Over 200 prominent authors including Salman Rushdie have asked British Prime Minister David Cameron to raise the issue of "rising climate of fear" and "growing intolerance" in India with counterpart Narendra Modi, in second letter from the PEN International in less than a month. Booker Prize winner Rushdie, recent Booker prize shortlisted British-Indian author Neel Mukherjee and other well-known names like Ian McEwan and Hari Kunzru are among the signatories of the open letter to Cameron that seeks to ensure "freedom of speech is safeguarded" in India.</br> (Reuters)
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<br>Pakistan hands over 2000 acres to China in Gwadar port city</br> <br>Pakistan and China today kicked off their ambitious USD 46 billion economic corridor project with Beijing acquiring over 2,000 acres of land in restive Balochistan to develop the strategic Gwadar port, providing the Communist-giant an opening to the Arabian Sea. The two countries have signed a deal to acquire the usage rights to more than 2,000 acres of land for a Chinese company, Chinese official media reported. Asked about the deal between the two close allies at the Gwadar port city, which will get linked to China's Kashgar city in Xinjiang through a network of roads and oil pipelines, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said that the port development is a mutually beneficial project.</br> (Reuters)
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<br>Tipu Sultan wore ring with Ram engraved on it when he died: Azam</br> <br>Amid ongoing row over birth anniversary celebration of Tipu Sultan, Uttar Pradesh minister Azam Khan today asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to bring back a ring of the 18th century Mysore ruler from London, which he claimed bore the name of Lord Rama. The SP leader asked the prime minister to bring the ring, which he claimed is "preserved in Britain's museum", and show it to "those BJP activists who have been launching anti-Tipu Sultan stir." Modi is on a three-day tour to Britain. Azam said the ring is of "utmost historic value".</br> (Express Photo)
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<br>NASA finds giant ice cloud on Titan</br> <br>NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected a monstrous new cloud of frozen compounds in the low- to mid-stratosphere of Titan, the largest moon of Saturn. Cassini's camera had already imaged an impressive cloud hovering over Titan's south pole at an altitude of about 300 kilometres. However, that cloud, first seen in 2012, turned out to be just the tip of the iceberg. A much more massive ice cloud system has now been found lower in the stratosphere, peaking at an altitude of about 200 kilometres, NASA said. The new cloud was detected by Cassini's infrared instrument u2013 the Composite Infrared Spectrometer, or CIRS u2013 which obtains profiles of the atmosphere at invisible thermal wavelengths. The cloud has a low density, similar to Earth's fog but likely flat on top.</br> (Photo: NASA)
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<br>Yuvraj Singh engaged to Bollywood actress Hazel Keech: Reports <br>India's 2011 World Cup hero Yuvraj Singh has reportedly got engaged to model-actress Hazel Keech in Bali. The private life of the 33-year-old all-rounder, who is currently not in the national team, has been a subject of speculation after Hazel accompanied him to the wedding of his teammate Harbhajan Singh recently. The 28-year-old Hazel, a British-born, has acted in a few hindi movies besides doing TV commercials. Despite the media speculation, Yuvraj has denied talk of marriage, which is reportedly set for February next year. As per reports, the couple will tie the knot in a traditional ceremony at the Hansaliwale Gurdwara in District Fatehgarh Sahib near Chandigarh. (Express Photo)
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<br>Arianespace to launch ISRO's GSAT-17, GSAT-18 in 2016, 2017 <br>Indian space agency ISRO's telecommunication satellites GSAT-17 and GSAT-18 have been planned to be launched from French Guiana in 2016-17. "ISRO has chosen Arianespace to launch telecommunication satellites GSAT-17 and GSAT-18. The two satellites will be launched by Ariane 5 launch vehicles at the Guiana Space Centre, Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana in 2016-2017", Arianespace said in a statement. The two satellites weighing each 3,400 kgs, at the time of launch were designed, assembled and integrated by ISRO. Both these satellites would be replacement for operational satellites providing services in multiple frequency bands including C, Extended-C and Ku Bands. (Photo: NASA)
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<br>Tipu Sultan row: Shiv Sena decries comparison with Shivaji <br>Joining the row over Tipu Sultan's birth anniversary celebrations, the Shiv Sena today termed the 18th century ruler of the erstwhile Mysore kingdom as "ruthless" and accused the Congress government in Karnataka of following a "divisive policy". Shiv Sena MP Arvind Sawant also objected to parallels being drawn between Tipu Sultan and Maratha king Chhatrapati Shivaji. "Tipu Sultan was a ruthless ruler who massacred Hindus and did not believe in the existence of any other religion except Islam. He had demolished temples and churches. And they say he was a good ruler?" Sawant said. (Express Photo)
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