Malaysian plane crashes over Ukraine, 298 killed

Malaysian plane crashes over Ukraine, 298 killed 

A Malaysia Airlines plane was shot down on Thursday by terrorists over the Ukraine-Russia border. The plane crash killed all 298 people on board the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.

The jet was reportedly shot down by terrorists and crashed over war-torn eastern Ukraine, bordering Russia. This is the second such plane mishap involving Malaysia Airlines within four months after the mysterious disappearance of flight MH370 over the Indian Ocean.



 
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Bill Clinton impressed by Narendra Modi's economic policies

Bill Clinton impressed by Narendra Modi's economic policies.



Former United States President Bill Clinton is impressed with Narendra Modi's economic policies.

Narendra Modi's economic policies has won him the post of India's Prime Minister. So it's not unnatural that world leaders are impressed with Modi's economic policies and his firm belief in inclusive society.

Bill Clinton has been following Modi since his Gujarat chief minister days. The former US President, while speaking to a leading news channel in India, said "Leave Gujarat sectarian violence in the past."

The Ex-President says that he was personally impressed with Modi's economic policies. He even pointed out that everybody has a firm belied that Modi has the potential and can bring changes in the political and economic scenario.

During the interview Clinton also spoke over the visa controversy. The Ex-President said that Modi was denied US visa over the international outrage surrounding the Gujarat riots of 2002. Now that he has been voted to power with a massive mandate those incidents belong to the past.

Clinton also praised India for being able to preserve an inclusive democracy even in its poor pockets.

Bill Clinton was also appreciative of Narendra Modi's decision to take initiative to strengthen ties between India and Pakistan by invite the Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif for his swearing-in ceremony.

Political experts feel that an invitation to Nawaz Sharif was a political master stroke of Modi. It had the dual purpose of rolling the communication between the two countries and also a signal to Muslims in India that Modi was their PM as well.

(AW: Pratima Tigga)

Delhi to get its chief minister?

Delhi to get its chief minister? 

Delhi is without a chief minister since February 14, when AAP chief Delhi to get its chief ministerresigned after 49 days at the helm. Since then Delhi is under President's Rule.

Delhi BJP is in the process of wooing six out of eight Congress MLAs into its side. If the BJP succeeds then they can approach Delhi's Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung to form a government in the city-state.

If Delhi BJP can manage to pull over six Congress MLAs and two Independents to their fold then they can stake claim before the LG. At present BJP is short of only four MLAs. However, the final call will be taken by BJP only after the Budget session in Parliament, a source in BJP revealed.

BJP's Delhi chief Satish Upadhyay said the matter of government formation will be considered only when Lt Governor Najeeb Jung calls them. In the last month, BJP has been trying to win over Congress and AAP MLAs. It seems their efforts are finally working.

Meanwhile, the chief spokesperson of Delhi Congress Mukesh Sharma has rubbished BJP's claims that their MLAs are deserting them. Sharma says the Congress MLAs remain united and will not leave the party.

According to reports, state BJP chief Satish Upadhyay is leading a BJP team to meet Union minister Nitin Gadhkari, who is in charge of Delhi affairs. After meeting Gadhkari, the BJP leaders will conclude the deal with Congress defectors. Reports suggest that two cabinet posts and chairmanship of two government committees have been promised to the Congress defectors. Delhi Congress president AK Lovely and Haroon Yusuf, who were former cabinet ministers of Sheila Dikshit, are staying back with the party.

Congress MLAs, who are likely to switch sides, say they do not want to go through another election. Also they have practically little chance of winning if an election takes place in Delhi.

In the general elections, the BJP captured all seven parliamentary seats in Delhi.

Delhi BJP feels it would be easier to pull over Congress MLAs than to bring AAP MLAs on board to form government in the capital. BJP has 32 seats in the Delhi assembly, while the AAP has 28 seats.

(AW: Pratima Tigga)

Did aliens visit India 10,000 years ago?

Did aliens visit India 10,000 years ago? 

Archaeologists in India have been stumped by the discovery of 10,000 year-old cave paintings depicting aliens and UFOs in Bastar region of the country. Now the question in everyone's mind is whether the paintings are indeed of aliens.

If the paintings are of aliens and UFOs, then the next questions is did the pre-historic people in this region actually see the extra-terrestrial beings or it was a fiction of their imagination. There are lots of possibilities and varied answers to these paintings.

 

The Archaeology Department of Chhattisgarh has got in touch with NASA and ISRO for further research on the 10,000-year-old rock paintings at Charama, in Kanker.

Archaeologist JR Bhagat, reportedly said the paintings have depicted beings that look like aliens.

Bhagat opines that the paintings suggest that pre-historic people could have either seen or imagined the extra-terrestrial beings. The rock paintings have generated immense curiosity among researchers and people. Before any conclusions are drawn the findings have to be further researched. At present Chhattisgarh doesn't have any such expert to give a clear opinion on the subject, added Bhagat.

The local villagers have several beliefs about these paintings, according to reports. There are some people who worship the paintings. While there are others who tell about stories they have heard from ancestors about "rohela people"( the small sized ones ). The stories suggest that the rohela people landed from the sky in a round shaped flying object. Every time they visited they would take away one or two villagers who were never seen again.

The cave paintings in Bastar are done in natural colours and have not faded inspite of the years. The depicted paintings have strange carved figures, who are holding weapon-like objects and with no clear features. The figures have no mouth or nose. Some of the pictures even show them wearing space suits.

The pictures also have fan-like antenna and three legs of vehicle's stand, bearing close resemblance to UFO-like aircraft, according to the archaeologist (quoted in Times of India).


(AW: Pratima Tigga)

Narendra Modi shines at BRICS summit

Narendra Modi shines at BRICS summit 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi proved himself to be a great leader at the BRICS summit in Brazil. He was full of smiles all through the summit and he had reasons to be happy.

India would hold the post of first president of the BRICS bank that would be located at Shanghai, in China. The 6th BRICS summit was attended by Indian PM Narendra Modi, Chinese President, Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin, South African President Jacob Zuma and Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff.

Mr Modi's first international multilateral engagement with BRICS block – including Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – was a success in every sense. The BRICS bank which was on the agenda of the five-countries block for quite some time was finalised.

Mr Modi had wanted BRICS bank to be based in New Delhi but it was decided that the headquarter would be in Shanghai. However, India gets the first shot at presidency of the New Development Bank.

On the backdrop of the BRICS summit, Mr Modi got to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in Fortaleza, Brazil. The meeting went on for 80 minutes, although it had been scheduled for 40 minutes. The two leaders talked on several issues including the vexed boundary issue between India and China.

During the meeting the Chinese Premier also invited Modi to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting, which would be hosted by China in November. APEC has 21 member countries from the Asia-Pacific region.

During the BRICS summit, Mr. Modi said that the five BRICS nation should act tough towards terrorism, and follow zero tolerance.

The Indian prime minister stated that the choices they make now would shape the future of these (BRICS) countries and rest of the world. Mr Modi also suggested initiatives for the BRICS nations. The measures suggested by Mr. Modi includes an affordable BRICS healthcare platform, a mechanism to promote cooperation between small and medium enterprises and to form a common framework that would promote tourism in these countries.

(Picture Source: rediff.com)

(AW: Pratima Tigga)

Brand Mahatma Gandhi selling like hotcakes and for a price tag

Brand Mahatma Gandhi selling like hotcakes and for a price tag

 

Whether you are a Mahatma Gandhi ardent or adhere to his ideals of Swadeshi, Satyagraha and Self-sufficiency, now you can channel the Spirit of Gandhi by remodeling your home after the “man”.

That's right! A home-designing website called RedModelista is endorsing Gandhi-inspired interiors and homes for those wanting to experience the life of the ascetic.

Featuring a guesthouse called “The Kraal” in South Africa, where Gandhi lodged up more than hundred years ago, today the property has become the resort of a wealthy class wanting to recoil away from the frantic pace of life. Famously called as the “Satyagraha House”, this place was originally build by the German architect Hermann Kallenbach and overhauled by French company Voyageurs du Monde years later. The guest house in Johannesburg, SA, today stands as a homage to the Mahatma and tries to encapsulate his real spirit and you will be shocked to find how?

 

Divided into Comfort, Superior Room, Suite and Family Cottage, a night-stay at the guesthouse comes at a hefty price tag that stretches from Euros 175 to Euros 510. Yes, that's how much the guests shell out to lodge up at this no-Wifi, no smoking or alcohol and pure vegetarian house that is all about minimalistic living and Gandhian principles. Really?

Gandhi, as we know, was obsessed with living a modest life, so much so that he wouldn't board a train unless it was the third class coach. Renouncing all material possessions or Aparigraha was a key part of Gandhi’s Satyagraha philosophy. Gandhi always believed that humans should not attach importance to hoard goods or materials things.

While the motives behind preserving the Satyagraha House might be good, one glance at the interiors and you would bet that it's good enough to give a modern day spa a run for money. The pricey stay itself is an assertion of the fact that living the life of Gandhi in today's world don't come cheap.

 

And, these aren’t the first Gandhi-inspired products to come for that big a price. Mont Blanc launched a limited edition pen inspired by Gandi in 2009, priced at a whopping Rs 14 lakh only.

Dilip R. Doshi, chairman of Entrack, Montblanc’s distributor in India had said during the launch, “We are creating a thing of simplicity and beauty that will last for centuries.” And Gandhi’s own descendants justified that.

Speaking on the launch, Bapu's great-grandson Tushar Gandhi had said, “I know there is a contradiction between the man they are commemorating and the product they are commemorating him with, but you can’t expect a company like Montblanc to come out with a cheap thing.”

 

The world's obsession with the Gandhi brand is so strong that now we frequently read reports of his original possessions are going under the hammer.

From his glasses to his letters to his drop of blood, everything involving Gandhi has fetched a grand price at the auction table.

In April 2012, a drop of his blood was auctioned for more than £100,000 at Ludlow Racecourse in Shropshire.

A pair of Gandhi's glasses was sold for £34,000, his prayer went for £10,500, and his wooden charka was sold for £26,500.

This year, a letter penned by Gandhi in June 1935, accusing his own son of raping his daughter went under the hammer for 60,000 pounds.

Ironically in 2009, Tushar Gandhi had vehemently protested against the auctioning of some of his great-grandfather’s possessions. “It’s not just about Bapu’s (as Mahatma Gandhi was affectionately called) personal items, but I think it’s time that the government formulated a comprehensive law to protect our national heritage,” he told.

 

66 years post his death, much has changed. India no longer identifies or associates itself with Gandhi’s ideals — nonviolence is no more the best policy, the middle and upper middle-class have ditched Swadeshi for cars and gourmet foods, and Indian don’t believe in self-sufficiency anymore. It's only the idea of Gandhi that now lives.

Thanks to Globalisation, the ideals of Gandhi has now become a commodity, Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the Nation, has graduated from being a man of philosophy to a brand name that sells like hot cakes.

In the West, Gandhi's name serves as an antidote to its rapacious capitalism. Ironically, for those in quest for serenity, the journey ends in high-end Gandhi inspired bedroom or guesthouse, that’s only meant for those for whom the thread count on their sheets matter.

Gandhi would have shunned those comforts, but some rich Indian just might just feel virtuous by doing exactly the opposite — spending thousands to live a life of Gandhi.

AW: Suchorita Choudhury

Did Delhi Police kill Nido Taniem

Did Delhi Police kill Nido Taniem
 

 It's more than 72 hours now since the young student from Arunachal Pradesh, Nido Taniem was assaulted to death by an alleged group of local goons at a marketplace in Lajpat Area of New Delhi, but there is yet to be any significant achievement in bringing justice to the deceased boy.

Even as Delhi police have identified several suspects on the case and even detained five of them so far including two shopkeepers, protestors across the country are demanding for a fast track trial of the accused, claiming their act of blatant intolerance and racial discrimination as barbaric and ignominious.
But, amidst all the furore, vigil marches and outcry for justice for Nido, the big question remains if the death of the 19-year-old BSc first year student from Lovely Professional University (Jalandhar) could have been averted had the staff at the Lajpat Nagar police station seriously dealt with the incident of hate crime on the student immediately?

#Taniam lost his life on Thursday evening after he succumbed to the injuries sustained during a clash with a group of men at a sweet shop, Rajasthan Paneer Bhandar, in Lajpat Nagar Part-I. The men apparently hit him when he protested the taunts made on his hairstyle on Wednesday afternoon.



According to Taniam's family, Nido and his three friends alongwith the goons were taken to the police station following a PCR call, where the policemen insisted on an amicable compromise. What more, they apparently forced Taniam to shell out Rs10,000 to the two shopkeepers as compensation for allegedly damaging a glass at their sweet shop.

"After resolving the matter and making Taniam pay Rs10,000 to the shopkeepers, the police asked both the groups to leave. But when Taniam and his friends were going back to his sister’s house in Green Park, the other group stopped them in a lane in Lajpat Nagar and again thrashed him," said Taniam’s friend who wished not to be named.



Taniam and his friends again went to the police station and the other group was also called there. The police asked Taniam to make a compromise again.

Police, however, said Taniam himself refused to file any complaint against the suspects. "We have detained two shopkeepers, Farhan and Akram. A case of murder has already been registered," a senior officer said.

Meanwhile, the final autopsy report of Nido Taniem's postmortem report is awaited. Initial observation however reveals finds abrasion on head, face and neck, minor internal bleeding in neck and swelling of brain, which is usually a result of violent shaking of brain ( in this case punching & stick beating in head) which automatically leads to edema (water) in lungs, which caused blockage of respiratory system and imminent death thereof. This confirms death caused by violent beating.



In a separate case, the Delhi police has detained one person Prem, allegedly involved in harassing, abusing and molestation of two Manipuri women in Kotla Mubarakpur area.

The incident took place on January 25 when some men allegedly passed racist comments at - Tharmila Jajo and Chonmila. They weren't just beaten up, but also humiliated, when the men allegedly tied a dog’s chain to Chonmila’s boots.

AW: Suchorita Choudhury

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Will North-East Students Ever Be Treated Like Indians

Will North-East Students Ever Be Treated Like Indians?

Even as the national capital is trying to grapple with bigger issues of politics and power, the death of the 20-year old student from Arunachal Pradesh, Nido Taniam, turns the arclights on a question that rarely raises its head in our country - racial profiling and discrimination of people from North-East India.
Nido Taniam, who was brutally thrashed by locals in Delhi's Lajpat Nagar on 29 January died in a Delhi hospital on 31 January, following an altercation with a shopkeeper and a gang of goons over something as trivial as color of his hair, shows how rampant the discrimination is in the state.

Taniam was cruelly hit with sticks and rods following the spat. After the altercation took place, the police arrived at the spot and lifted the victim up. Strangely enough, the victim was dropped back at the same spot where he was then beaten up by locals. He was taken to the hospital by his friends and family and died there a day later.

Taniam was the son of Arunachal Pradesh Nido Pavitra, parliamentary secretary for health and family welfare, food and civil supplies.



Expressing deep anger over the incident, Arunachal Pradesh MP Takam Sanjoy said, "Taniam was a very cool, nice and calm guy. There was an altercation but it soon turned racial. This is a completely racial attack on the student because of his Mongoloid features. This is a serious phenomenon in mainstream India."

"How can a country accommodate so much intolerance because of how someone looks? This amounts to alienating people from your country. There are already so many problems in the North East already because of these differences. Why are these elements given room in the society?,” he fumed.
Also, expressing his annoyance over unwillingness of the Delhi Police to register an FIR against the case, the MP said, "My colleague in Parliament, Union Minister of State for Minority Affairs, Ninong Ering had to go the Lajpat Nagar police station regarding the FIR. The death of the student occurred a day after. There were not much external injuries but there have to be internal injuries as he was hit with rods and sticks. He passed away a day after he was brutally beaten up."

The case of death of Taniam, a resident of Green Park area of Delhi, was registered in Lajpat Nagar police station, but they are now trying to push the case to Green Park. "Why is either of the police stations having a problem in registering an FIR. This is murder and they will have to apply the same laws that they would have in case of anyone else. If the government, police and administration thinks that the Indian Constitution is for a section of India, we will have to go out like Arvind Kejriwal to the streets for our rights," Sanjoy said.

"This is the manifestation of the flawed policies that the policy makers has come up with for the 45 million Indians who live in the North East. There is still a huge policy challenge in this regard. The entire conscious of the North East is absent form the larger conscious of India," secretary general of Control Arms Foundation of India, Binalakshmi Nepram told CNN-IBN during a panel discussion.
Although there are sharp reactions and massive condemnation of the incident, a section of the country still refuses to accept it as a racial one. "This was a freak incident. This was not racial as such. People often tend to look differently at us because of our looks, habits and lifestyles. There are legal provisions to stop slurs against people from North East but the mindset of the people have to change first. We have to educate our people," Minister of State for Minority Affairs, Ninong Ering told CNN-IBN during the discussion.

Concluding whether Taniam's death was a result of a racist attack or just a freak accident isn't going to be an easy one. Nevertheless, his death only heightens apprehensions of people from the north east about the acceptance in the country.



Meanwhile, the Arvind Kejriwal government has condemned the act and issued a statement chastising the Delhi police saying it will not support any form of discrimination. In a statement issued to the press, the Delhi government says, "The government contemplating a magisterial inquiry into this death, which is not only tragic but raises serious questions on the alleged beating reportedly in public view."
It adds that Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has directed education minister Manish Sisodia to look into the matter and report back to him. "Delhi government makes it clear that it will adopt a zero tolerance policy towards such unacceptable incidents and appeals to people to maintain calm at all costs," the release says.

AW: Suchorita Choudhury

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After Rahul, it's time for Modi to face Arnab Goswami - will he?

After Rahul, it's time for Modi to face Arnab Goswami - will he?

Rahul Gandhi, the young Congress vice-president not only shushed some of his detractors by giving his first television interview in 10 years of his active political career, batting some straight questions from Times Now's Arnab Goswami (pouting answers that contained little substance whatsoever), but also marked a beginning of a media blitz that has brought him under the arclights like never before.

And now, the Congress party is left with the tough job of vindicating their future PM's guile, unintelligibility, and plain lack of confidence (read the repetitive, pre-meditated, unconvincing, evasive answers that Rahul gave even when questions were specific). The hour-plus interview saw the anchor hurl a volley of crucial questions at Rahul that not only made him fib and fidget with discomfiture, but also revealed how this well-intentioned politician is torn between sharp divergence of his troubled inheritance, dynastic expectations and underlying beliefs.

The big interview has now become the butt of all national jokes and  is likely to botch up Rahul Gandhi's chances or make people queue up in large numbers at the polling stations to vote for the Congress in the upcoming elections.

At a time when Mr Gandhi  is finding himself sandwiched between two political behemoths — Narendra Modi and Arvind Kejriwal — who have the grabbed the initiative and left the Congress looking leaden-footed and resigned to woeful election returns, his chances of catapulting the party by the bootstraps and making it believe it can win, or at least get to a position where it can exert some influence in the 16th Lok Sabha seems bleak.

Now only another cogent and powerful interview by Rahul Gandhi can possibly salvage some of the damages, we believe.

One takeaway for the BJP: Whatever the verdict on Rahul Gandhi, at least, he agreed to be grilled in full public view. Now it's left to be seen if Narendra Modi — a consummate performer when addressing mass rallies —  will allow media interviewers to put him on the hot seat? If so, where his frank talk with Arnab Goswami would lead him? The nation speculates.

AW: Suchorita Choudhury

How Rahul Gandhi made a fool of himself on national television

How Rahul Gandhi made a fool of himself on national television

Call him Pappu, shehzada, or the reluctant prince, the young Gandhi scion - Rahul Gandhi - over his low key political career spanning roughly over a decade now, has bagged more petnames than newspaper headlines. And going by the limited public appearances he had made hitherto (where he fared no better than stand-up comedians and made a total mockery of himself and his party), it's not hard to see why. One would have deemed it as a clever move for Rahul to debut on a television interview and dispel the air of hopelessness around him. Nevertheless, his maiden TV interview, dubbed as the biggest political interview, only seems to have firmed the nation's belief that Rahul Gandhi is no leader for the country.

Here’s what could be gleaned about him from the said interview:



1. We are sure that Rahul Gandhi doesn't have any clue on what being 'specific’ is all about. The Gandhi heir seemed far from prepared to grapple Arnab Goswami's tirade of difficult questions. And no, they weren’t questions that struck him out of the blue — all thanks to the BJP, these are the questions that are metaphorically lobbed at Gandhi religiously every other day. So when Goswami declared at the onset of the interview that he wants ‘specific’ answers to his questions, Gandhi should have known that the nation doesn’t want to know about the “Gandhis” from him. However, Gandhi refused to answer a single question in a way that didn’t sound like a particularly unimpressive voiceover for a Gandhi biopic.

2. The interview, that turned out to be nothing more than a laughriot, revealed Rahul’s most favorite word — “system” and his least favorite — “Modi”. Rahul Gandhi clearly loves the word ‘system’ way more than the sound of his own name. While his limited vocabulary is not greatly a concern, what is, is his correspondence to the word, as it applies to India currently, which is completely botched up. Here is the Vice President of the incumbent government, talking about how the ‘system’ needs to be revamped. If ‘system’ is the political establishment that runs the country, Congress while not being wholly responsible for it, is indeed responsible for a large part of things. So did Rahul Gandhi declare he is going to shake the entrenched political malpractices up? No he didn’t. Did he strongly demand all political parties be brought under his trophy policy – RTI? No. Did he clearly enumerate the steps he is taking to make the ‘system’ more accessible to the country. No.

3. Rahul, the hailed captain of Congress' sinking ship, seemed greatly unwilling to shoulder the burden of the wrongdoings of his party, though he doesn’t quite mind lapping up the glorious history of political hegemony in India. Understandably, it would have been wrong to ask Rahul to ‘apologize’ for the anti-Sikh riots as the anchor framed it. But how can one overlook his lack of acknowledgment of this phase of Congress’ history as he was not a ‘functional’ member then. His vile attempt to dissociate a political narrative from selected phases of its own development only runs the risk of being read as disregard for the past, lack of penitence and an evident absence of humility.

AW: Suchorita Choudhury

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Did police indifference kill Esther Anuhya

Did police indifference kill Esther Anuhya

The brutal death of Esther Anuhya has once again shamed the nation that another woman became a victim of the police indifference. The 23-year-old techie's highly decomposed body was discovered at a secluded spot in in Bhandup, on Mumbai’s outskirts.

Esther Anuhya, hailing from Hyderabad and working in Mumbai, went missing on January 5 after reaching Lokmanya Tilak Terminus at around 5.30 am. She was supposed to reach her hostel at Andheri, but never reached there. After trying to reach her the entire day, her father filed a missing person's complaint with the Vijayawada railway police. The missing persons complaint was forwarded to the Kurla railway police and thereafter all the police stations in Mumbai were alerted.

The missing techie's body was discovered on January 16 that too due to the strong stench emanating out of it. The body had decomposed very badly, making it impossible to detect the manner in which she was murdered. Her private parts bore marks of injuries suggesting sexual assault. Also from the pelvis down the body was burnt. The evidence of the burning at the spot is visible with the ground having turned black.

Police explored all theories as to what could have happened to Esther Anuhya. The call data records of the victim was scanned and police talked to all her relatives, colleagues and friends who ruled out a love angle to the mystery. The angle of a jilted lover was also explored but there were no links. Could it have been a case of robbery and murder by a smooth-talking criminal? Police was ruled out on this suggesting that she was too smart for that.

The only theory that seems feasible is that the victim took a taxi or an autorickshaw from the station to her hostel. On the way the driver took her to Bhandup instead of Andheri, where Anuhya was robbed and killed, even raped possibly.

Anuhya was an employee of Tata Consultancy Services in Mumbai's Goregaon, working there since September 2012. For christmas, she had gone to her hometown in Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh. On her return to Mumbai on January 5 she disappeared from Kurla’s LTT.

(AW: Pratima Tigga)

Did police indifference kill Esther Anuhya?

Did police indifference kill Esther Anuhya?

Shashi Tharoor suffers cardiac arrest

Shashi Tharoor suffers cardiac arrest

Hours after Sunanda Pushkar was found dead in room number 345 of Hotel Leela in Chanakyapuri in New Delhi, her husband and Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor was admitted to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) after he complained of  what seems to be a minor cardiac attack last night.

According to a Times Now report, Tharoor is out of danger and has been shifted out of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the AIIMS hospital.

Sunanda's death came 48 hours after she went public about her husband's alleged affair with a Pakistani journalist, Mehr Tarar.

The police have initially suggested it was suicide. But late at night, the officers were more guarded. Police sources said it could be a "natural or unnatural death". They said all angles were being probed: suicide, poisoning and death due to a sudden heart attack.

AW: Suchorita Choudhury

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