Maharashtra: Over 70 govt school girls complain of food poisoning

Maharashtra: 100 students of a government school complain of food-poisoning.

The girls, aged between 12 and 15 years, complained of severe pain, vomiting and were rushed to Shegaon governmental hospital, health authorities at the hospital said.

Poll tracker: NDA to win 172- 180 seats, UPA 149-157, others 147-155

With the next Lok Sabha election scheduled to be held in early 2014, the parties have started to fine tune their strategies for the same.

CNN-IBN Election Tracker: How big states will vote in 2014

A CNN-IBN-CSDS-The Hindu election tracker finds how the big states will vote if the Lok Sabha elections are held today.

Mumbaikars' answer to Raj Babbar: A meal cost Rs 12, twenty years back

Mumbai: A day after Congress spokesperson Raj Babbar claimed that he can get a complete meal in Mumbai for Rs 12, CNN-IBN did a ground check which shows that it's just another bogus comment by a politician.

Mumbaikars have slammed Babbar for his comment and said that the claim is not correct. "I pay Rs 50 for my meal every day," said a taxi driver. "We sell a complete meal for Rs 30. A vada pav costs Rs 12 these days. A meal used to cost Rs 12 twenty years back," said a food stall vendor.

Raj Babbar had on Thursday said, "even today, I can have a proper meal in Mumbai for Rs 12." The Congress leader's remarks came in the backdrop of the BJP slamming the UPA government for its statement that the poverty figures have gone down in 2012-13 as opposed to figures in 2002-03.

Delhi BJP President had even sent a money order of Rs 33 to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Wednesday. He had challenged the trio to buy a meal for Rs 33 and said that the Congress has changed the definition of poverty ahead of polls.

He had said this was the BJP's way of protesting against Planning Commission's criteria that anybody whose consumption of goods and services exceed Rs 33 in cities per day was not poor.

As per the Planning Commission, the number of people living below the poverty line has shrunk to 21.9 per cent in 2011-12 from 37.2 per cent in 2004-05 on account of increase in per capita consumption.

Ghaziabad: Man throws acid on a woman's face

Ghaziabad: A woman suffered injuries in an acid attack in Friday early morning in Ghaziabad. The incident happened in Vijay Nagar area after a man threw acid on her face.

The man is reportedly known to the woman.

  The woman has been taken to a hospital where initial treatment is being given to her. More details are awaited.

I wouldn't vote for Modi, have no particular affection for him or Rahul: Bhagwati

Well-known economist Jagdish Bhagwati has criticised Amartya Sen saying he's the only economist to have hurt India's poor. Speaking to CNN-IBN Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose, Bhagwati said, "He's the one economist who hurt the poor twice. Whether he deserves the Bharat Ratna or not, that's not for me to decide."

It was my duty to stand up for minority community, says Amartya Sen

Nobel laureate Amartya Sen on Thursday said that he did not regret for his comments on Narendra Modi, claiming that it was his duty to stand up for the minority community. "It was my duty to stand up for minority community," Sen said. He added that it would be very sad if Bharat Ratna would be taken away from him but more than 'Ratna', it is Bharat for which he is more worried.