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Pak to set up new nuclear facilities
Former ISI chief calls for probe into Kargil crimes
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Pak rejects Indian demand on Siachen
Schiavo edges closer to death
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Doctor who created USA's
first test-tube baby is no more
Shah Rukh, Rani win Zee awards
Indians held for fixing drug prices
Indian worker’s suicide sparks protests
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Pak to set up new nuclear facilities
Islamabad, March 28 Informed sources told The Dawn that the commission had sought government's permission to upgrade and expand the Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology (Pinstech) at a cost of Rs2.5 billion during the current year in order to meet new challenges. The PAEC says that soon since the nuclear tests by Pakistan on May 28, 1998, and the attack on World Trade Centre in New York on Sept 11, 2001, Pinstech has been facing "very serious threats/problems of embargo by foreign companies towards the supply of high-precision scientific and technical equipment and material". "This situation calls for the need to take an urgent step forward for the extension of Pinstech laboratories, Phase-II, so that state-of-the-art scientific and technical facilities can be established at the developed site without any delay to face the challenges of the WTO, and to keep pace with the regional nuclear powers and other established nuclear capable states of Europe and North America," the PAEC has informed the authorities. It said the construction of high-tech laboratories were necessary to enhance capacity for research and development in the field of nuclear fuel cycle which was vital for the survival of Pakistan's nuclear and defence programmes in view of trade sanctions and embargo imposed by the developed countries on Muslim states. It maintained that for sustainable operation and maintenance of the already established nuclear research installations and facilities at Pinstech and other applied research institutes of the PAEC, and to meet the future requirements of nuclear research and defence-related research and development programmes, establishment of the high-tech facilities was imperative.
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Former ISI chief calls for probe into Kargil crimes
Islamabad, March 28 The Nation quoted him as saying that though the courage and bravery shown by the Pakistani forces was matchless, the people did commit some crimes. "The courage and bravery shown during Kargil war was matchless but our people committed mistakes as well," The Nation quoted him as saying, adding that incidents taking place in North Waziristan was evident before the people.
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Pak rejects Indian demand on Siachen Islamabad, March 28 “There was no question of Pakistan authenticating the positions as far as Siachen was concerned as was being demanded by India,” Foreign Office Spokesman Jalil Abbas Jilani told a weekly media briefing here. He was answering questions about the controversy generated by Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid M. Kasuri’s comments that it was ready to withdraw troops from Siachen, if India did so. Dubbing Kasuri’s statement on demilitarisation of Siachen as “nothing new”, India had said last week there could be no movement on the matter till Islamabad agreed to “authenticate the present positions” of the respective defence forces. Mr Jilani, said “Pakistan wants the implementation of the 1989 agreement to break the impasse but Islamabad would not agree to the Indian demand to authenticate the positions held by troops of both the countries”.
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Pinellas Park (Florida), March 28 Protesters knelt for Easter mass services on the lawn of the hospice where Schiavo is being cared for after lawyers for Bob and Mary Schindler ended the legal fight that made the case a cause for Christian conservatives and drew in the US Congress, President George W. Bush and Florida Governor Jeb Bush. ‘’I’m not saying we wouldn’t be open to any idea that comes up. But at this point, it appears that time has finally run out,’’ David Gibbs, an attorney for the Schindler’s, told a local newspaper yesterday. The tube feeding that sustained Schiavo for 15 years was removed on March 18 by a state court order, spurring a flurry of efforts by the Schindlers to restore their daughter’s feeding. But a string of judicial rebuffs, including from the US Supreme Court, ended the Schindlers’ legal dispute with Schiavo’s husband and guardian, Michael Schiavo. Schiavo (41) passed her ninth day without nourishment and Gibbs said she was declining rapidly. ‘’They’ve begun to give her morphine drip for the pain. And at this point, we would say Terri has passed the point of no return,’’ he told CBS’ ‘’Face the Nation.’’ Doctors have said Schiavo would live for up to two weeks without the feeding tube. They say patients in her condition appear to feel little or no discomfort when deprived of nutrition and water. — Reuters
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Doctor who created USA's
first test-tube baby
GEORGEANNA Seegar Jones, 92, part of the husband-and-wife team whose Norfolk, Va., clinic produced the first baby via in vitro fertilization in the United States, died March 26 of cardiac arrest at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital. She had Alzheimer's disease.
Two British doctors, Patrick C. Steptoe and Robert Edwards, created the world's first such baby, a girl named Louise Brown, on July 25, 1978. That same day, Georgeanna Jones and her husband, Howard Wilbur Jones Jr. who had consulted over the years with Steptoe and Edwards arrived at Eastern Virginia Medical School, a private college in Norfolk, where they would establish the first in vitro fertilization clinic in the United States. On December 28, 1981, their work resulted in the birth of 5-pound, 12-ounce Elizabeth Jordan Carr at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital. The baby and her mother, Judith Carr, a 28-year-old Massachusetts schoolteacher, were pronounced perfectly healthy. Elizabeth's mother had been unable to conceive normally because complications during earlier unsuccessful pregnancies had forced removal of her fallopian tubes. The team headed by the couple successfully joined her husband's sperm in a laboratory dish with a ripe egg cell the doctors had removed from her ovaries. They transplanted the growing clump of new cells into Carr's womb to letgestation take its normal course. The process also involved the use of fertility-inducing hormones by Georgeanna Jones, who was an expert on hyperstimulation of the ovaries. The hormones made the mother ovulate at a fixed time. ``All of this sounds so simple,'' a member of the Jones team told The Washington Post on the day of the baby's birth, ``but there's a lot of stress in it all. And it works because a lot of people have worked a lot of long hours to make it go.'' Georgeanna Jones had been working on problems of infertility and ovarian dysfunction since the earliest days of her medical training. Born in Baltimore, she went to Girls Latin High School and received her undergraduate degree from Goucher College. — By arrangement with the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post |
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Shah Rukh, Rani win Zee awards
London, March 28 Several Bollywood celebrities, including superstar Amitabh Bachchan and his son Abhishek, were present at the function staged at Excel in Docklands. 'Veer Zaara' was adjudged the Best Film of the Year and Shah Rukh won Best Actor Award for his role in the same film. Shah Rukh, who is the most sought after Bollywood actor in Britain, was also given a diamond ring along with his trophy. Director Yash Chopra, got the Producer of the Year and Best Director awards and Divya Dutta won the Best Supporting Actor for her role in the same film. Rani Mukherjee won the Best Actress Award for her performance in 'Hum Tum' and was also given a diamond necklace which was presented to her by Sridevi and Shatrughan Sinha. 'Swades' won awards for the Best Story, Best Lyrics (Javed Akhtar), Best Debut Performance (Gayatri Joshi) and Best Recording (Hitendra Ghosh). The film also won the Film Critics Award for Best Director Ashutosh Gowarikar. Abhishek Bachchan bagged the award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in 'Phir Milenge'. London fans enjoyed live performances by the likes of Shah Rukh, Aishwarya Rai, Akshay Kumar, Salman Khan and others. The anchors Juhi Chawla and director Karan Johar held the audience enthralled. Juhi brought many to their feet singing one of her songs from her new film 'My Brother Nikhil'. John Abraham won the award for his performance in a negative role in 'Dhoom'. The Film Critics Award went to Aishwarya Rai for her role in 'Raincoat'. She also enthralled the crowd with an electrifying performance over A. R. Rahman numbers. — UNI
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Indians held for fixing drug prices
London, March 28 Ajit Patel, the Chief Executive, and Kirti Patel, the Chief Operating Officer, were interviewed by the Metropolitan Police as part of the inquiry conducted by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO). A spokesman for the SFO confirmed that the two men had come in for a pre-arranged interview and had been arrested under the standard procedure. They were later released on bail. The move is part of the investigation, after the Department of Health had called in the SFO three years ago, alleging that six companies had colluded to limit the supply and inflate the prices of popular generic medicines, where patents no longer apply and hence be subject to competitive market forces. In April 2002, more than 200 police officers raided 11 homes and 16 business addresses, including Ajit Patel's house and Goldshield's south London offices, seizing files and computer equipment. The other business houses raided were Regent-GM Laboratories, Norton Healthcare, a subsidiary of the US-based Ivax Corporation, Generics UK, part of the German drugs group Merck, and a UK subsidiary of Ranbaxy Laboratories of India. All companies have denied the charges.
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Indian worker’s suicide sparks protests
Dubai, March 28 Madhu Babu, a resident of Tirupati district in Andhra Pradesh, was found hanging from a ceiling fan in an isolated room on Saturday in the premises of a fashion house, which produces clothes for a US company, a media report said. Babu (25) arrived in Bahrain eight months ago and was working as a line operator in the factory. Over 400 workers have called for a probe into the alleged suicide. They claimed Babu was driven into taking his own life because of the ill-treatment by the company.
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