Mumbai,-Actress Raveena Tandon is taking
Marathi lessons for her forthcoming film 'Gin Liya Aasman'.
The movie, produced by Mudassar Aziz, Vishwajit Gaikwad
and Anil Bohra, is a story of a boy whose father, a naval
officer, goes missing after a plane crash.
In this bilingual film, Raveena essays the role of a
mother to a six-year-old boy and wife of the naval officer.
Considering she is not an alien to the language as she is
a complete Mumbai girl, still Raveena is trying to get the
nuances of the language right.
The 37-year-old mother of two, who was last seen in
Amitabh Bachchan starrer 'Bbuddah Hoga Tera Baap', is busy
learning the Marathi dialect spoken in the interiors of the
state.
"I am familiar with Marathi. But I realised that it is
tough to learn Marathi spoken in the interior villages of
Maharashtra,"She said.
The film directed by Rishi Deshpande will release next
year.
Woman dies in acid attack in Punjab
Hoshiarpur , A married woman today
died after two unidentified youths threw acid on her here,
police said.
The two youths yesterday threw acid at 21-year-old Neetu
near her house in Salwara area. She was rushed to civil
hospital in Jalandhar where she succumbed to her burn injuries
today, Hoshiarpur SSP Balkar Singh said.
The reason behind the youths throwing acid on Neetu is
not yet known, he said, adding that search is on to nab the
assailants.
Legal aid to jailed Indians in Sharjah
New Delhi,-Government has sanctioned Rs 17
lakh to arrange for legal help to 17 Indians, whose death
sentence for killing a Pakistani was revoked in September by a
Sharjah court but are still languishing in a jail there.
The 17 Indians, mostly from Punjab, were pardoned after
over Rs 4 crore was paid as blood money to the victim's
family but they could not walk free as two men, who claimed to
have been injured in the same incident, petitioned a court in
Sharjah for compensation of 1.5 million Dirhams (Rs 2.1
crore).
"The government of India is defending these cases through
Consulate General of India, Dubai and an amount of Rs 1.20
lakh Dirhams have been sanctioned," Overseas Indian Affairs
Minister Vayalar Ravi told the Raj Sabha while
replying to a question.
Ravi said the judgement by the court did not address the
charges of attempt to murder of two individuals who claimed to
have injured during the incident.
"The prosecution citing these technical lapses referred
the case to the Supreme Court in Abu Dhabi thereby putting on
hold the deportation of the 17 Indians," he said.
Their death sentence was commuted after 3.4 million
dirhams was paid as blood money to the family of Misri Nazir
Khan, who died during a turf war of bootleggers in Sharjah in
January 2009.
Over 7 lakh Malaria cases in India
this year
New Delhi,-More than seven lakh Malaria cases
have been reported this year in the country exceeding all
other vector borne diseases while maximum deaths have been due
to Japanese Encephalitis, according to a report.
According to a data provided by the National Vector Borne
Disease Control Programme, the central nodal agency for the
prevention and control of vector borne diseases in India, a
total of 7,45,599 cases have been reported from different
hospitals across the country this year alone.
This is followed by 14,820 cases of Chikungunya, 14,047
dengue cases and 7,137 people have tested positive for
Japanese Encephalitis this year till now.
However, this year maximum deaths have been reported due
to Japanese Encephalitis
The data showed that 1,064 deaths due to JE virus have
been reported till now. This is followed by 233 deaths due to
malaria and 93 due to dengue till now. No deaths due to
chikungunya have bee reported yet.
Malaria, is caused by the infective bite of Anopheles
mosquito while dengue and chikungunya are transmitted by Aedes
Aegypti mosquito and Japanese Encephalitis is spread by
female mosquitoes mainly belonging to Culex tritaeniorhynchus,
Culex vishnui and Culex pseudovishnui group.
Railway Board has sought time to resume
night train services
Jamshedpur,-Jharkhand Vikas Morcha
(Prajatantrik) (JVM) claimed that senior railway board
officials has sought 10 days time to resume night running of
passenger trains, which remained suspended between Kharagpur -
Tata-Rourkela stations since the Jnaneswari express mishap
near Jhargram, West Bengal on May 28 last year.
JVM Member of Parliament, Ajay Kumar has discussed the
issue with senior railway board officials in Delhi and they
sought 10 days time to resume night movement of passenger
trains on main Howrah-Mumbai railway route, said Abhay Singh,
Secretary of JVM,
Kumar, who had also met the Railway Minister, Union Home
Secretary on the issue, has also taken up the issue with
senior railway board officials in Delhi, he said.
The railway board officials urged for some time in view
of the recent incident in West Bengal, Singh said referring
the killing Maoist leader Kishanji in an encounter with the
security personnel.
Addressing a press conference here, Singh said JVM had
postponed its proposed 48-hour Economic blockade agitation
scheduled for December 7-8 following the request by railway
board.
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