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Officials found irregularities in the Republican Hindu Coalition-backed candidate Jhingan’s nominating petition ARUL LOUIS, NEW YORK
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candidate backed by the Hindu Republican Coalition (RHC), Vandana Jhingan, who wanted to challenge an Indian Democratic Congressman is off the primary ballot after officials said they found irregularities in her nominating petition. But her lawyer, Jeffrey Meyer, said this week she is appealing the ruling. The November general election from the constituency covering some Chicago suburbs could be a contest between the sitting Democratic Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi, who is unchallenged in
the March 20 primary, and Jitendra Diganvker, who is now the only one on the Republican ballot, if she is not reinstated. Officials of the Illinois State Board of Elections declared that Jhingan did not have enough valid signatures on her nominating petition to be on the ballot after they invalidated over 1,250 of them ruling they were not collected properly. “It was an absolutely absurd ruling,” Jon Zahm, her campaign consultant told IANS. “It was not based on facts and they came up with a crazy theory.” Under the election system in Illinois, candidates have to first run in the primary elections where registered members of their respective
parties vote for the candidate to represent their parties in the general election. In the constituency known as Illinois District, 8 whites make up 70 per cent of the population and only 12 per cent is Asian, a category that includes Indians. Krishnamoorthi is the first nonwhite person to be elected from the constituency that is traditionally a Democratic Party bastion. The terms of Representatives is only two years, requiring Krishnamoorthi, who was elected in 2016, to run for reelection in November. He is one of four Indian-Americans in the House of Representatives, all of them Democrats.
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Vandana Jhingan’s nomination was challenged by Steven Anderson represented by lawyer Anish Parikh. (Photo: IANS)
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Kamala Harris, the sole Senator of Indian descent, is also a Democrat. Krishnamoorthi is a lawyer and a former technology entrepreneur and Diganvker is a businessman
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with a credit card-processing business. Jhingan is the Midwest Bureau Chief for the India-oriented American TV channel TV Asia.
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other tourist couples heading for a desert safari trip when the fatal accident took place near Al Aweer area while they were driving towards Sharjah, police officials said earlier. Initial police investigation showed that the bus driver did not leave a safe distance between the vehicles, leading to the crash. Dinesh Kawad, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, and the Pakistani driver, 23, were killed on the spot. An Italian tourist’s pregnant wife reportedly succumbed to her injuries later. A Chinese couple and the Italian man survived with minor injuries.
TRUMP THREATENS Trump threatensA shutdown SHUTDOWN worth 10 million Dirhams ($2.7 million) in Abu Dhabi this week. Sunil Mappatta Krishnan Kutty Nair, who is currently travelling in India, takes home the second-largest reward given away this year, the Gulf News reported. Nair works as a sales executive in Abu Dhabi. He will be splitting the pot money with three of his friends, said a colleague who contributed to the ticket cost. —IANS
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n Indian woman tourist, who was fighting for her life after a crash in Dubai in which her husband died, did not survive her flight back home in an air ambulance for emergency treatment. Neetu Jain Kawad, 38, was being flown to Bengaluru this week in the air ambulance two weeks after she lost her husband, Dinesh Kawad, 40, in a collision between a minibus they were travelling in and a truck on Emirates Road on January 22. The woman had suffered serious injuries and had slipped into a
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coma. She was being treated at a hospital in Dubai, the Khaleej Times reported. The couple, who lived in Bellary, Karnataka, had a garments
business in India and had left behind their 11-year-old son and nine-year-old daughter with their grandparents when they came to Dubai on a leisure trip.
IS HEART A Indian-origin man jailed Saudi cultural festival honors India CASUALTY for ex-wife’s murder in UK AFTER or malaria patients CANCER He said he would force a partial shutdown if his immigration plan makes no headway SURVIVAL? Common breast cancer treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation may be increasing the risk of developing cardiovascular diseases, including heart failure.
testing in the form of echocardiogram or neubauer testing before, during and after the chemotherapy,” Ramesh Sarin, Senior Consultant, Surgical Oncology, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital in New Delhi, told IANS. Besides, the chemotherapy affects every area of the body — including
the reproductive organs. However, the treatment should not be compromised because of the fear of toxicity. It should not deter or scare patients from undergoing the cancer treatment, instead allow them to make informed decisions with their doctor on the best option available, the doctors said.
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University in the Netherlands. “There are also indications that methylene blue also works well in species that are resistant to certain medicines,” Bousema added. Malaria parasites are increasingly resistant to the artemisinin-based combination therapies that are used at present. Besides, these medicines do very little to stop the spread of malaria, as the parasites remain in the blood for a long time, with the chance that other mosquitoes are infected if they feed on the patient. However, adding the dye to the anti-malaria medicine ensured that patients no longer infected other mosquitoes, within as little as 48 hours.
LONDON: An Indian-origin man on trial in the UK for strangling his exwife to death and then disposing off her body in a suitcase has been given a life sentence with a minimum of 18 years behind bars. Ashwin Daudia, 51, strangled Kiran Daudia, 46, at their house in Leicester in January last year and stuffed her remains into the suitcase before dumping it in an alley behind bins. He was caught on CCTV dragging the suitcase on the street and disposing it, the BBC reported. Daudia was sentenced by Leices-
LONDON: People with diabetes are at double the risk of developing cataract as the general population and the relative risk is highest in those aged between 45 and 54, a study published in the journal Eye has said. Cataract is one of the main causes of global sight loss. “The report has shown that having diabetes doubles your risk of being diagnosed with a cataract, and that this risk is six times higher if a diabetic patient has significant diabetic retinal disease, called diabetic maculopathy,” said study coauthor Rupert Bourne, Professor of Ophthalmology at Anglia Ruskin University in England. — IANS
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S President Donald Trump has said that he “would love” to force a ne blue is very promisit can prevent the spread within such a short time partial government reatment,” said Teun searcher from Radboud shutdown due to lack of funding if congressional Democrats do not d preservative accept may treat schizophrenia the conditions he has set for with refractory schizophrenia,” Lane said, referringimmigrato patients reforming the country’s chers have found that a whose symptoms do not respond to mon food preservative available antipsychotics. tion system. But an estimated 40-70 per cent treat schizophrenia ose symptoms do not patients with refractory schizo“If we don’tofphrenia change the even legislaavailable antipsychotic fail to improve with results of the clinical clozapine, referred to as “clozapineed in the journal Biologresistant”, exhausting all potential tion, if we don’t get rid of these y, showed that the food options for treatment. , sodium benzoate, The new study demonstrated loopholes where killers are allowed mptoms in clozapinethat sodium benzoate — which has izophrenia. been shown to enhance other to come into our country and y, led by Hsien-Yuan antipsychotic drugs — worksconin ina Medical University see results with any other medica- clozapine-resistant patients. “If the , demonstrated that tions, providing a new option for ...finding can be confirmed, this tinue to kill if we don’t change odium benzoate to the the hardest-to-treat patients. approach may bring hope for treatc clozapine improved “Clozapine considered the last- a ing patients with the mostTrump refractoit, islet’s have shutdown,” n patients who did not line antipsychotic agent for patients ry schizophrenia,” said Lane. said during a meeting at the White House about gang violence, including the violent Mara Salvatrucha gang, Efe reported. “I’d love to see a shutdown if we don’t get this stuff taken care of,” the president added, going on to say “If we have to shut it down because the Democrats don’t want safety — and unrelated but still related, they within a short time.
ter Crown Court last week. However, Daudia denied the murder charge and said that he “lost his temper” during an argument with his former wife at their house but did not attack her deliberately. He said he killed her in “self-defense”.
Trump to establish National Vetting Centre for immigrants, visitors ald Trump is expected to sign a national security memorandum establishing a “National Vetting Centre” to improve the vetting process of individuals entering the country. The presidential memorandum will give the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other agencies six months to establish the centre, an administration official told CNN. According to the official, the cen-
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the festival. Organized every year IANS, RIYADH by the Saudi National Guard, a primary goal of this festival is to l Janadria, the national cultural festival of Saudi Arahighlight Saudi Arabia’s Islamic bia that has India as the identity, display its national her‘Guest of Honor’ country this year, itage and help preserve it for genis being inaugurated this week by erations to come. Indian External Affairs Minister However, Al Janadria is not only Sushma Swaraj. aiming to educate its own citizens The festival was begun in 1985 on its culture, it also aims to under the patronage of the ruling acquaint its people with the culmonarch. This year too King tures of other countries. For this Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud is purpose, every year the country the patron of the festival, the nominates a “Guest of Honor” at biggest cultural festival of the Gulf its festival. This year the chosen that brings to life the culture and country is India. The country that External Affairs Minister Sushma has been accorded this honor gets heritage of the oil-rich desert kingSwaraj. (Photo: IANS) to present facets of its culture, dom of 32 million people. From the rich tapestry of colors, lectual debates, the two-week long business opportunities and scienaroma of delicacies, reverberating festival has something for all. tific, technological, medical and is intended to streamline WASHINGTON: Don-the 32nd treedition progress. vetting sound of music to insightfulUS intel-President 2018 marks of military
and improve the flow of information between various federal agencies. However, the memorandum will not establish any new authorities or call for any new funding to establish the centre, which will be an effort between DHS, the State Department, Justice Department and intelligence agencies, a National Security Council official said. —IANS
White House said that Trump was not lobbying for a shutdown.
“We are not advocating for the do their jobs.” welcome a political fight involving HE SAID HE WOULD A PARTIAL shutdown,” she saidFORCE upon being However, she said that although SHUTDOWN a shutdown. asked about Trump’s remarks, “the president wants a long-term The federal government could going on to blame congressional deal and he wants to get a deal on HEADWAY virtually grind to a halt once again IF HIS IMMIGRATION PLAN MAKES NO Democrats for any such problem, immigration,” if Democratic law- at midnight on February 8 if
don’t want to take care of our military — then shut it down. We’ll go with another shutdown.” White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that Trump was not lobbying for a shutdown.
saying that it would be “the fault of the Democrats not being willing to
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Republican and Democratic lawmakers cannot agree on a budget.
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