No NaMo effect in Uttar Pradesh: Mulayam
Hardoi (UP): Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav on Sunday said that there was no effect of BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi in Uttar Pradesh. “There is no effect of Modi in UP,” Yadav, who was here to attend a private function, said. On Union Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma’s claim of Congress winning maximum seats in the state, the SP supremo said that first Verma should win his own Lok Sabha seat and after that claim about his party’s victory. Yadav left for Etawah after attending the programme. (PTI)
AIIMS felicitates families for donating organs of loved ones
New Delhi: It was hard for 41-year-old Seema Bindal to see her daughter die in front of her eyes, but she decided to keep her 16-year-old girl “alive” by donating her organs to those in need of them. Seema and her family were among many such families who were felicitated by AIIMS and Indian Society for Trauma and Acute Care (ISTAC) today on the concluding day of the sixth International Congress — TRAUMA 2013 — for deciding to donate the organs of their loved ones after their death. Surbhi (16) was declared brought dead at the AIIMS Trauma Centre on September 13 after the wall of an under-construction building collapsed and fell on her. Putting her grief beside, Seema decided that she will donate her daughter’s organs to the needy in order to give them the “gift of life”. “I wanted my daughter to remain alive and that is why I donated her organs. Today she is alive among other people to whom she has given life,” said the Krishanagar resident. Jamboo Kumar Das, a resident of Janakpuri, too decided to donate the organs of his 22-years-old daughter Bhavna who died after she allegedly attempted suicide by jumping from the second floor of her house. “After knowing that our daughter cannot survive, we decided on the suggestion of AIIMS doctors to donate her organs,” Das said. At the event, parents of Anmol Juneja, who had died in a motorbike accident near the Patparganj flyover while returning from a party in December last year, were also present. Dr M C Mishra, Director of AIIMS and also the chief of the trauma centre, felicitated the families and spoke about the importance of organ donation. The event included a session on cadaver organ donation. (PTI)
Odisha mine accident kills two
Bhubaneswar: At least two people were killed and one was critically injured in an accident inside an iron ore mine in Odisha, police said Sunday. A machine used to pile up materials broke down Saturday at the Bolani mine of the Rourkela steel plant in Keonjhar district when labourers were operating it, police officer P.K. Samal told IANS. The dead were identified as Meenajuddin Ansari, 40, and Suresh Munda, 25. Ignesh Khedia, who survived, was undergoing treatment at a hospital in Rourkela city. His condition was stated to be serious. Keonjhar district is around 300 km from Bhubaneswar. The Rourkela steel plant is a unit of the state-run Steel Authority of India
