Pinarayi says killing is not CPM style

Thiruvananthapuram: CPM state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan said on Wednesday that CPM's job is not to kill political rivals. By killing someone does not wipe out their ideologies. The party is only trying to pinpoint wrong ideologies. Pinarayi alleged that the UDF is attempting to impose murder charges on the CPM.

The UDF is presently in a insane mode at Neyattinkara and is taking its last breath there. They are doing things which are forbidden during polls, Pinarayi said.

 Pinarayi says killing is not CPM style

Thiruvananthapuram: CPM state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan said on Wednesday that CPM's job is not to kill political rivals. By killing someone does not wipe out their ideologies. The party is only trying to pinpoint wrong ideologies. Pinarayi alleged that the UDF is attempting to impose murder charges on the CPM.

The UDF is presently in a insane mode at Neyattinkara and is taking its last breath there. They are doing things which are forbidden during polls, Pinarayi said.

HC grants bail to two Italian marines
Kochi: In a respite for the two Italian marines charged with shooting down of two Indian fishermen,
the Kerala High Court today granted them bail with stringent conditions.

The court order comes a day after it turned down Italy's plea for quashing an FIR against the marines, Latore
Massimilliano and Salvatore Girone, holding that they were liable to penal jurisdiction of Indian courts.

Granting them bail, Justice N K Balakrishnan said the two accused should execute a bond for Rs one crore each besides two Indian sureties for the like amount.
After release from jail, they shall stay in a building within a distance of 10 km from the office of the Kochi city Police Commissioner, appear before the Commissioner on all days between 10am and 11am and as and when required.
The marines should also furnish their mobile numbers if any, the court said, adding, they should not leave the territorial limits of the Commissioner's office.
The two sureties should also not leave the state. The magistrate shall ensure the identity of the sureties by insisting on production of photo identity card, the Court said.
The marines were also asked to surrender their passport before the Kollam Magistrate Court.

Justice Balakrishnan made it clear that the accused should be released on bail on production of valid travel document,visa having been endorsed by a foreign registration officer.
The government has been directed to ensure abundant caution and inform the seaport or other authorities to preventthe accused from leaving the country.
The marines, who were arrested from the merchant vessel 'Enrica Lexie' on February 19 last from which they fired atthe fishermen off Kerala coast on February 15, are at present lodged at the Borstal prison here. PTI

HC grants bail to two Italian marines
Kochi: In a respite for the two Italian marines charged with shooting down of two Indian fishermen,
the Kerala High Court today granted them bail with stringent conditions.

The court order comes a day after it turned down Italy's plea for quashing an FIR against the marines, Latore
Massimilliano and Salvatore Girone, holding that they were liable to penal jurisdiction of Indian courts.

Granting them bail, Justice N K Balakrishnan said the two accused should execute a bond for Rs one crore each besides two Indian sureties for the like amount.
After release from jail, they shall stay in a building within a distance of 10 km from the office of the Kochi city Police Commissioner, appear before the Commissioner on all days between 10am and 11am and as and when required.
The marines should also furnish their mobile numbers if any, the court said, adding, they should not leave the territorial limits of the Commissioner's office.
The two sureties should also not leave the state. The magistrate shall ensure the identity of the sureties by insisting on production of photo identity card, the Court said.
The marines were also asked to surrender their passport before the Kollam Magistrate Court.

Justice Balakrishnan made it clear that the accused should be released on bail on production of valid travel document,visa having been endorsed by a foreign registration officer.
The government has been directed to ensure abundant caution and inform the seaport or other authorities to preventthe accused from leaving the country.
The marines, who were arrested from the merchant vessel 'Enrica Lexie' on February 19 last from which they fired atthe fishermen off Kerala coast on February 15, are at present lodged at the Borstal prison here. PTI

 Americans flocking to India for stem cell therapy

Washington: A growing number of Americans are travelling to India to seek treatment for rare diseases through India's experimental embryonic stem cell therapy, according to an investigative report.
Among them Cash Burnaman, a 6-year-old South Carolina boy, who travelled with his parents to India seeking treatment for a rare genetic condition that has left him developmentally disabled, CNN reported.
'Cash is mute. He walks with the aid of braces. To battle his incurable condition, which is so rare it doesn't have a name, Cash has had to take an artificial growth hormone for most of his life,' it said.
His divorced parents, Josh Burnaman and Stephanie Krolick, have paid tens of thousands of dollars to have Cash undergo experimental injections of human embryonic stem cells at New Delhi's NuTech Mediworld run by Dr. Geeta Shroff, a retired obstetrician and self-taught embryonic stem cell practitioner.

Shroff first treated Cash -- who presents symptoms similar to Down Syndrome -- in 2010. 'I am helping improve their quality of life,' she told CNN.
After five weeks of treatment, Cash and his parents returned home to the US. That's when Cash began walking with the aid of braces for the first time.

For four or five weeks of treatment, Shroff says she has charged her 87 American patients an average of $25,000.
But doctors cited by CNN said all that work and hope and money Cash's supporters have funnelled into his experimental therapy likely will have no medical benefits.

'There is zero evidence for what she (Shroff ) is doing being effective,' Rutgers University's Dr. Wise Young, a leading US neuroscientist, was quoted as saying.
'It's concerning no matter how you look at it,' said CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta. 'Frankly it's the complete wrong way of going about this sort of science.'

A leading Indian neurosurgeon, Dr. P.N. Tandon, cited by CNN agreed there was zero medical evidence of the effectiveness of embryonic stem cell therapy like that provided at NuTech Mediworld
But inside her clinic, surrounded by patients, Shroff disagreed. 'Success,' she told CNN, 'is defined differently by various groups of people within that therapy mode. So as of right now, almost everyone -- greater than 90 percent -- have had success.'

 Americans flocking to India for stem cell therapy

Washington: A growing number of Americans are travelling to India to seek treatment for rare diseases through India's experimental embryonic stem cell therapy, according to an investigative report.
Among them Cash Burnaman, a 6-year-old South Carolina boy, who travelled with his parents to India seeking treatment for a rare genetic condition that has left him developmentally disabled, CNN reported.
'Cash is mute. He walks with the aid of braces. To battle his incurable condition, which is so rare it doesn't have a name, Cash has had to take an artificial growth hormone for most of his life,' it said.
His divorced parents, Josh Burnaman and Stephanie Krolick, have paid tens of thousands of dollars to have Cash undergo experimental injections of human embryonic stem cells at New Delhi's NuTech Mediworld run by Dr. Geeta Shroff, a retired obstetrician and self-taught embryonic stem cell practitioner.

Shroff first treated Cash -- who presents symptoms similar to Down Syndrome -- in 2010. 'I am helping improve their quality of life,' she told CNN.
After five weeks of treatment, Cash and his parents returned home to the US. That's when Cash began walking with the aid of braces for the first time.

For four or five weeks of treatment, Shroff says she has charged her 87 American patients an average of $25,000.
But doctors cited by CNN said all that work and hope and money Cash's supporters have funnelled into his experimental therapy likely will have no medical benefits.

'There is zero evidence for what she (Shroff ) is doing being effective,' Rutgers University's Dr. Wise Young, a leading US neuroscientist, was quoted as saying.
'It's concerning no matter how you look at it,' said CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta. 'Frankly it's the complete wrong way of going about this sort of science.'

A leading Indian neurosurgeon, Dr. P.N. Tandon, cited by CNN agreed there was zero medical evidence of the effectiveness of embryonic stem cell therapy like that provided at NuTech Mediworld
But inside her clinic, surrounded by patients, Shroff disagreed. 'Success,' she told CNN, 'is defined differently by various groups of people within that therapy mode. So as of right now, almost everyone -- greater than 90 percent -- have had success.'

PSC exams to be made online: Trial exam in September

Thiruvananthapuram: PSC examinations will be conducted online and steps are on at a warfooting to fulfill this. In September, PSC will conduct exams on a trial basis. In the first phase, examinations for higher posts for fewer candidates will be held online. The decision was taken at the PSC board meeting on Monday.
In the first phase examination, 1000 to 2000 candidates will take the test online. PSC observed that apart from the initial cost of setting up computers in examination halls, in future the costs will come down. PSC chairman Dr KS Radhakrishnan said exams could be conducted in a timely manner if it is online and ranks lists prepared soon. It will minimize the burden on workers too.
Prior to conducting the exam in September, mock examinations will be conducted to avoid any errors. PSC has agreed to the recommendation submitted by PSC sub-committee. Rajasthan PSC tried the same and was a success and this encouraged the Kerala PSC too. 

PSC exams to be made online: Trial exam in September

Thiruvananthapuram: PSC examinations will be conducted online and steps are on at a warfooting to fulfill this. In September, PSC will conduct exams on a trial basis. In the first phase, examinations for higher posts for fewer candidates will be held online. The decision was taken at the PSC board meeting on Monday.
In the first phase examination, 1000 to 2000 candidates will take the test online. PSC observed that apart from the initial cost of setting up computers in examination halls, in future the costs will come down. PSC chairman Dr KS Radhakrishnan said exams could be conducted in a timely manner if it is online and ranks lists prepared soon. It will minimize the burden on workers too.
Prior to conducting the exam in September, mock examinations will be conducted to avoid any errors. PSC has agreed to the recommendation submitted by PSC sub-committee. Rajasthan PSC tried the same and was a success and this encouraged the Kerala PSC too. 

Kerala CPI-M leader charged with murder

Idukki : Two days after a CPI-M leader in Kerala claimed his party had killed its foes, police Monday slapped three murder and conspiracy cases against him. 
The cases were registered at Thodupuzha, 220 km from the state capital Thiruvananthapuram, against M.M. Moni, the Idukki district secretary of the Communist Part of India-Marxist.
Moni sent shock waves Friday night when he told a public rally that the CPI-M had resorted to killing political foes and listed four such murders.
These murders reportedly took place in Idukki in the 1980s.
Police said three of the four murders were dismissed for want of evidence and those arrested were let off.
'Since the cases have been registered under non-bailable sections, Moni could be arrested anytime,' a legal expert told IANS.
Director General of Police T. Asif Ali had said the cases could be reopened in view of what Moni said.
The Oommen Chandy government said Moni's revelation was 'a very serious issue'.
Moni had Friday that his party activists had shot dead one a political adversary, stabbed another death and beaten to death a third, after which others fled the area.
He said the CPI-M always owned up the crimes it commits.
Several CPI-M cadres have been arrested for the May 4 murder of T.P. Chandrasekharan, a former CPI-M stalwart who quit to form his own party. (IANS) 

Kerala CPI-M leader charged with murder

Idukki : Two days after a CPI-M leader in Kerala claimed his party had killed its foes, police Monday slapped three murder and conspiracy cases against him. 
The cases were registered at Thodupuzha, 220 km from the state capital Thiruvananthapuram, against M.M. Moni, the Idukki district secretary of the Communist Part of India-Marxist.
Moni sent shock waves Friday night when he told a public rally that the CPI-M had resorted to killing political foes and listed four such murders.
These murders reportedly took place in Idukki in the 1980s.
Police said three of the four murders were dismissed for want of evidence and those arrested were let off.
'Since the cases have been registered under non-bailable sections, Moni could be arrested anytime,' a legal expert told IANS.
Director General of Police T. Asif Ali had said the cases could be reopened in view of what Moni said.
The Oommen Chandy government said Moni's revelation was 'a very serious issue'.
Moni had Friday that his party activists had shot dead one a political adversary, stabbed another death and beaten to death a third, after which others fled the area.
He said the CPI-M always owned up the crimes it commits.
Several CPI-M cadres have been arrested for the May 4 murder of T.P. Chandrasekharan, a former CPI-M stalwart who quit to form his own party. (IANS)