7 students test positive for swine flu, total up to 30
16 Jun 2009, 0053 hrs IST, I P Singh, TNN
JALANDHAR: Seven more students of a local school, who have returned from a trip to Nasa in US on Saturday, have tested positive for swine flu, taking the number of confirmed cases in Jalandhar district to eight. District health authorities quarantined two more students and sent their throat swabs to New Delhi on Monday. ( Watch )
``Out of the eight samples sent, seven have tested positive,'' deputy commissioner Ajit Singh Pannu and civil surgeon S S Walia said on Monday.
The health authorities pressed the panic button after a student-member of the 34-member contingent, which included three teachers, tested positive on his return on Saturday. He was quarantined after he reported symptoms of the flu. The health department then put all the other students and teachers who went on the Nasa trip on tests and found eight kids with flu-like symptoms.
A team of four doctors from the National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD), Delhi, reached Jalandhar on Monday to examine the students lodged in an isolation ward of the civil hospital.
As many as seven teams of doctors have been constituted to examine all those who came in contact with these students while on their return trip. Out of the eight people who have been identified, six are from Punjab and residents of Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala, Ropar and Bathinda. ``We have asked our civil surgeons to track them and keep them under observation,'' said Punjab government's principal A S Talwar, who is leading a rapid response team set up by the administration.
The doctors, he added, had examined all 196 people who came in contact with this group and found them to be normal and healthy.
A special Helpline with toll free number 1075 has been installed in Jalandhar for information and also reporting suspected cases.
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Man seeks wild elephants’ blessings, trampled to death
Raipur: A 70-year-old man in Chhattisgarh was trampled to death by a rampaging wild elephant after he ignored the appeals of villagers and tried to touch the animal's feet to seek its blessings, forest officials said Thursday.
The incident took place late Wednesday in the forested village of Balpur, about 150 km from here.
"The wild elephant probably sneaked into the village from neighboring Orissa and created terror in the Sarsiwa forested area, which includes Balpur. People ran into their houses to avoid the rampaging jumbo but Bhakla Satnami went near it," Anil Soni, divisional forest officer, Raipur, told IANS.
"Satnami tried to touch the animal's feet to seek its blessings and was trampled to death."
The forest department sent a team to Sarsiwa Thursday to chase away the jumbo from residential pockets.
This is perhaps the first casualty in a jumbo attack in Raipur district though vast areas in the state's north, comprising Surguja, Jashpur, Koria, Raigarh and Korba districts, have seen many dozens of people fall victim to the man-animal conflict over the last decade. (IANS)
Anil Ambani wins battle over gas price with Mukesh Ambani
In Round 3 of the five-year-old Ambani-versus-Ambani battle that has enthralled India and shaken its stock markets, it’s Advantage Anil. 
The Bombay High Court on Monday directed Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), controlled by Mukesh Ambani, 52, to supply gas from its Krishna-Godavari Basin fields to Reliance Natural Resources Ltd (RNRL), controlled by Anil Ambani, 50, at a rate that could derail its revenue projections and wreck the future profitability of India’s largest private company.
Following the order, RIL, which stands to lose Rs 3,800-4,000 crore a year, fell 7 per cent on the Bombay Stock Exchange while RNRL shares surged 23 per cent.
The court stipulated a price of $2.34 (Rs 112.32) per unit, which is 44 per cent lower than the government-mandated price of $4.2 (Rs 201.60) per unit and just about a third of the international price of about $6 (Rs 288) per unit.
The government fixes the price of gas, which is used mainly by fertiliser and power companies.
The order bars RNRL from trading in gas. The Anil Ambani firm needs the gas for its proposed 7,000 MW power plant at Dadri in UP.
RIL executives declined to comment, and it was not clear if the company would file an appeal against this order before the Supreme Court.
The court also ordered the two companies to come to an agreement over gas supplies within one month, failing which either of them can approach Ambani matriarch Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani — mother of Mukesh and Anil — or the court.
Under the memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between the two brothers when they partitioned the then undivided Reliance empire between themselves in 2005, Kokilaben has the right to mediate any dispute arising from the MoU. That was Round 1 of the battle.
At the time of the Reliance partition, Mukesh and Anil had signed several agreements between themselves.
One of them, the Gas Supply Master Agreement, signed in January 2006, said RIL was to supply gas to RNRL for its Dadri plant at $2.34 per unit.
Round 2, won by the elder Ambani, was when Mukesh scuttled Anil’s plans of merging Reliance Communications with South Africa’s MTN. He had then claimed that the 2005 MoU gave him the first right to buy R-Com shares if his younger brother decided to sell them.
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