Young Congress MP from Amethi Rahul Gandhi has become member of the parliamentary standing committee on human resource development, which is headed senior party leader Oscar Fernandes.

Asian Institute of Medical Sciences on Friday launched the Grameen Swasthya Pariyojana, a “Good Health” initiative to benefit the rural population.
Speaking on the occasion, Dr N.K. Pandey, chairman and MD, AIMS, said the programme has been conceptualised to “ensure that the best available healthcare services reach the rural and underprivileged sections.”

A youth was allegedly stabbed by a gardner in Rashtrapati Bhavan, the police said on Friday. The victim, Kishan, 19, was stabbed by Gopal, a gardener on contract in Rashtra-pati Bhavan, on September 1 when they were consuming liquor near Gate No. 17.

The body of a man was found in a check dam in the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus on Friday. A group of students, who had gone to the area at around 7.30 am, saw the body in the reservoir and informed the police.

The Yamuna continued flowing over the danger mark by over a metre as flood-hit Haryana released more water from a barrage upstream on Friday. The Yamuna level rose to 206 metres on Friday evening, confirmed Delhi government’s flood control department.

Coming as a goodwill gesture on the eve of Id-ul-Fitr, India on Friday announced the release of 85 Pakistani prisoners, most of them fishermen lodged in various jails across the country.

The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the Calcutta high court’s order to initiate fresh inquiry by the CBI into Rizwanur Rehman’s death. A division bench comprising Justices P. Sathasivam and Justices B.S. Chauhan also directed the CBI to establish the cause of Rizwanur Rehman’s death.

The IITs have contended that the presence of foreign faculty on their campuses would expose students to globally distinguished professors. The HRD minister stated that the meeting also agreed to admit up to 25 per cent foreign students at the post-graduate level. “Foreign student intake will be over and above the Indian student intake, on a supernumerary basis without affecting the present admission norms for Indian students,” he added.

Minister of state for health Dinesh Trivedi has suggested a high-level inquiry into the overuse of antibiotics in order to have an indepth understanding of the matter in the wake of the superbug controversy.

Veteran Tollywood filmmaker Daggubati Ramanaidu has been selected for the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke for 2009.
He is the fifth recipient from the Telugu film industry to win the award. Veteran director B. Narasimha Reddy won in 1974, filmmaker L.V. Prasad in 1982, producer B. Nagi Reddy in 1986 and actor Akkineni Nageswara Rao in 1990.