Over 100 swine flu cases in Lucknow
Lucknow: Fourteen more persons have been tested positive for swine flu, taking the total figure of those infected by the disease to 102 in the state capital, a health department official said here Wednesday. “With this, a total of 102 swine flu patients have been found in Lucknow so far. They are being treated in different hospitals of the city”, Chief Medical Officer (CMO), SNS Yadav said. Altogether, three persons including Swatantra Saksena, working in Merchant Navy; a retired Army officer and the wife of a retired jawan succumbed to the virus in Lucknow. With sharp rise in cases of swine flu in the state capital, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has directed to provide free and prompt treatment to such patients in SGPGI, KGMU and other medical colleges of the state. Meanwhile, seven more persons have succumbed to swine flu in Rajasthan in the last 24 hours, raising the toll due to the H1N1 virus to 183 this year, an official of Medical and Health Directorate (MHD) said. (PTI)
Uber given 7-days to furnish details for licence
New Delhi: US-based radio taxi service Uber has been given a seven-day final ultimatum by Delhi government to remove deficiencies in its application for running cabs in national capital, failing which its plea will be rejected. Uber, which was banned two and half months ago after one of its drivers allegedly raped a woman, had applied for licence on January 22 to operate app-based taxi booking service through its subsidiary Resource Expert India Pvt Ltd. The government however had issued a ‘deficiency memo’ on January 24 asking it to furnish all details before it as mentioned in recently introduced ‘Modified Radio Taxi Scheme (2006),’ an official said. The scheme was finalised on January 1 following the outrage over rape of the woman on December 5 last allegedly inside the Uber cab. (PTI)
Five naxals surrender in Bijapur
Raipur: Five Naxals, three of them carrying cash reward, on Wednesday surrendered in insurgency-hit Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh citing disappointment over exploitation of lower rank cadres and women by senior leaders. The cadres, working at different capacities of the outlawed CPI (Maoist) in the jungles of Bijapur, turned themselves in before senior police officials this afternoon, Bijapur Superintendent of Police (SP) K L Dhruv told PTI. Of the surrendered outlaws, Somdu Ram Poyam (30), a divisional commander rank cadre, was a prominent Naxal leader handling the ‘communication wing’ in Western Bastar division of Maoists, the SP said. (PTI)