Friday, July 14, 2006

RDA members threaten to quit if Venugopal resigns 



New Delhi, Jun 17: Rallying behind its Director P Venugopal embroiled in a war of attrition with union Health Minister Ambumani Ramadoss, members of AIIMS Resident Doctors' Association (RDA) today threatened to resign in case he quits and some senior Faculty Association office-bearers of the institute expressed their solidarity with the Director.
Source: www.newkerala.com

Scores head to US for summer jobs 
SEVENTY STUDENTS from 15 tertiary institutions left the island yesterday for the United States to participate in the Ministry of Labour's first overseas summer job programme. They were the first batch of 155 who have been selected to work at hotels...
Source: www.jamaica-gleaner.com

Top-notch summer hoops 
A number of collegiate basketball teams from the United States are expected to be in Nassau this summer to play exhibition games against members of the men's natio-nal teams and local ball clubs.
Source: www.thenassauguardian.com

Tunnel tragedy: Survivor tried to swerve car, save wife 
With fresh wounds still on his forehead, the stunned husband of a Jamaica Plain mother crushed to death in Monday nights Big Dig tunnel collapse said yesterday he swerved his car and sped up in vain to save his doting bride.
Source: www.dailynewstribune.com

Area commuters express fear, anger after tunnel collapse 
As Carline Mathe prepared to board the commuter train from Brockton to Boston today, her thoughts were 'what if?' What if the cement ceiling slab that fell inside a tunnel, crushing a car and killing a Jamaica Plain woman, let loose days earlier?
Source: www.enterprisenews.com