Texas sextuplets' parents: 1 sick baby a 'fighter'

HOUSTON -- The parents of Houston-area sextuplets born last month said Wednesday one of their daughters continues to battle some health problems but is a "fighter," and they are looking forward to the day she and her siblings can go home, possibly in a couple of months.

Lauren and David Perkins said their three boys -- Andrew, Benjamin and Levi -- and two of their girls -- Allison and Caroline -- are doing well. One daughter, Leah, still is catching up to her siblings. She had surgery Monday to repair a portion of her bowel.

Lauren Perkins, 28, said it has been upsetting to watch Leah struggle.

"Leah is just a roller coaster for sure," she said. "We get excited for all of her gains and then it's heartbreaking when she has a big setback. She's been able to recover from everything so far. We are just confident she will be able to pull through."

David Perkins, 29, said dealing with Leah's health issues has helped the couple be more patient and "appreciate the small victories."

"We are just thanking God every day for our babies and we are looking forward to bringing them home," said Lauren Perkins, who worked as a school psychologist. She and her husband live in the Houston suburb of Pearland.

Health problems Leah was experiencing in utero prompted doctors to deliver the babies April 23, about 10 weeks premature, said Dr. Charles Hankins, a neonatologist at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston.

"In a way, Leah is the boss. She continues to drive a lot of the decisions," Hankins said. "All of the babies for their age are doing pretty much as expected. Five of 6 are following a very rapid path. Leah is catching up, slowly but surely."

Leah is the only baby who remains on a ventilator. The others are using a tube in their nose and mouth that partially inflates their lungs so their bodies don't have to work as hard, he said. Some of them could stop using this tube later this week.

Four of the babies will have their central lines, which are used to support their nutrition, removed Wednesday. Levi will have it removed Thursday. Leah will continue being fed through an IV line.

"Every time we withdraw something and it gets to stay off, that's a good thing," Hankins said.

When the children were born, the heaviest of them weighed 2 pounds, 15 ounces. Hankins said the babies should weigh 4 to 5 pounds by the time they can go home. Doctors are hopeful that will be in about two months.

Lauren Perkins conceived the sextuplets after undergoing fertility treatment. She said when she and her husband first talked about starting a family, they thought about having two children. But they are ready to raise six children and grateful for the support received from family, friends, even strangers, she said.

Sunny Deol's Interview After Esha Deol's Marriage

Doosra: Congratulations Sunny. It must have been an emotional moment. A true Bade Bhaiyya's responsibility.

Sunny: Oh yes! But Papaji and Bobby also worked hard. And of course Hema ji.

Doosra: Hope everything went well?

Sunny: Well, almost. Pandal was good, food was great. Just don't know how some stray dogs, well, strayed into the pandal.

Doosra: Stray dogs!

Sunny: Balwant Rai ke kutteyyyyy.....

Doosra: Please, calm down, please!

Sunny: I'm sorry, got emotional. What were we discussing?

Doosra: That some dogs had strayed into Esha's wedding.

Sunny: Yes. Strange, despite having Papaji there. He even screamed that line from Sholay - "Kuttey, kaminey mai tera khoon pee jaunga" and most dogs ran for their life.

Doosra: Hope it was not a serious problem.

Sunny: Two dogs refused to leave. Hema ji was supposed to dance late in the evening which had to be cancelled.

Doosra: Why?

Sunny: Papaji got emotional and screamed again "Basanti, in kutto ke samne mat nachna!". You know how he is. Waise I'm no less emotional. I saw the tubewell and suddenly became Gadar's Tara Singh. I screamed "Humara Hindustan zindabad tha, zindabad hai aur zindabad rahega" and uprooted the tubewell.

Doosra: Good lord! What happened then?

Sunny: Half the baaratis fled from the scene and we had to apologise to bring them back. And when they returned, it could have been another crisis because I had uprooted the tubewell, which was the only source of drinking water!

Doosra: Oh boy! So how you managed that?

Sunny: Hema ji intervened. She immediately got 25 Kent water purifiers there, 23 of which she sold to the baraatis.

Doosra: Well, sounds quite eventful. But these are minor glitches, happen in every marriage.

Sunny: I guess so. We also ran out of paneer and rushed to nearest shop to buy more. Guess what? They had a balance but no stone. Fortunately I was there and solved the problem.

Doosra: How?

Sunny: You silly. Everyone knows I have dhaai-kilo-wala haat. We needed 5 kg paneer. So I put both arms on one side and they weighed paneer on the other. Dimple! I mean simple!

Doosra: Got the point, got the point. Must say it was an extraordinary marriage. Thanks for your time, it was pleasure talking to you.

P.S. Those interested in facts (god knows what they get out of it) Sunny & Bobby Deol were reportedly unsighted within 100km of Esha's marriage)

Euro 2012 : Fernando Torres wins Euro 2012 Golden Boot,winning campaign

Kiev: Fernando Torres has collected the Euro 2012 Golden Boot, scoring three goals during Spain`s title-winning campaign.

In a dramatic turn of events the 28-year-old ensured it would be who won the accolade with a superb 15-minute cameo in the 4-0 final win over Italy to put another torrid season behind him. Despite being level with Mario Gomez on three goals and one assist, he takes home the prize having played fewer minutes than his German counterpart.

Torres scored Spain`s third in the final with a calm finish before assisting his Chelsea team-mate Juan Mata for their fourth moments later, which together with his brace against Republic of Ireland in the second group game saw him top the scorer`s charts. The Spaniard also became the first ever player to score in two separate European Championship finals.

Second-placed Gomez scored the only goal as Germany defeated Portugal in their Group B opener before netting a classy brace against Netherlands in the next game.

He then supplied an assist with a skewed shot in the 2-1 win over Denmark that fell to Lukas Podolski who then slotted home.

Alan Dzagoev came in third position having played the least amount of minutes of all other players who were level on three strikes but his goals were not enough to stop Russia from being eliminated at the group stage.

Mario Mandzukic suffered a similar fate to Dzagoev as his trio of goals ensured that Croatia put up a staunch fight for progression from Group C.

There was a silver lining for the striker however as his impressive displays against Republic of Ireland and Italy earned him a permanent move to Bayern Munich.

Mario Balotelli and Cristiano Ronaldo complete the table despite both coming in for criticism early in the competition for their slow starts.

Balotelli`s double against Italy booked his nation a spot in the final but they were powerless to resist Spain who won their third consecutive major international trophy.

After ensuring Portugal advanced to the semi-final with a double against Netherlands and the winner in the quarter-final versus Greece, Ronaldo failed to put in a decisive display against Iberian rivals Spain in the semi-final.

Andhra Pradesh : 36 Naxals are arrested,

Hyderabad: In a major operation, thirty-six Naxals were on Sunday apprehended by the CRPF and state police from Vishakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh.

Among those nabbed is top Naxal commander Lambayya who carries a reward of Rs 30,000 on his head.

The security forces also seized a number of weapons and ammunition besides Rs one lakh in cash after the operation.

The arrested Naxals have been identified as Pangni Mangu (female 18 years) of Palem village,

Thambelu Devudu alias Lambayya Pedapadu, Thambelu Venkat Rao (22),

Kotta Babu Rao alias Chanti (25),
Pangi Bheema Raju alias Bheema (22)
and Vanthala Ramu alias Ramu (25) of

Cheeparu Gonda village.

Another 30 cadres have also been arrested in the operation, security officials said.

The joint forces also recovered three .303 rifles, three 12-bore rifles and one each of grenade, bulletproof jacket, nine kitbags and Rs one lakh in cash.

A senior security official said that the forces apprehended these Naxals after a day long operation.

flood in Assam : PM to visit flood-affected areas of Assam tomorrow,77 dead in Assam floods,havvy rain

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, accompanied by high level officials, will visit the flood affected areas of Assam on Monday to take stock of the situation and the relief efforts being made there.

PMO sources said Singh will leave for norteastern Indian state Assam on Monday and return by evening. He will be accompanied by officials who will assess damage and relief work.

Singh has already announced an ex-gratia of Rs.one lakh from the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund to the kin of each of those killed in the floods and directed the Defence Ministry to provide Army assistance in rescue and relief.

Singh had called up the state's Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on June 28 to enquire about the condition in the state.

The Prime Minister has assured the Assam government of all help to deal with the flood situation there.

He had also spoken to Defence Minister A K Antony "urging full Army assistance for the rescue and relief operations in the affected areas".

Though the water level is said to be receding in some areas, 23 of the 27 districts of the state have come in the grip of floods and more than 30 people have died, while several are reported missing.

24 sorties have been carried out by the Indian Air Force helicopters and 4,000 kg of food packets dropped in the flood affected regions.

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Wimbledon 2012 : Paes enters 3rd round while Sania-Bhupathi out,Paes wins, Sania-Bhupathi crash out of Wimbledon,today on tennis cort

Indian tennis stalwarts Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi, who were locked in a selection row for the London Olympics recently, saw their fortunes take different turns today with the former reaching the third round of the men's doubles event while the latter crashed out of mixed doubles
competition of the Wimbledon in London.

The French Open champion pair of Bhupathi and Sania Mirza, who later joined the selection row by lashing out at the AITA for using her as a "bait" to pacify Paes, suffered a crushing 3-6 1-6 defeat to Australian P Hanley and A Kudryavtseva in a 50-minute mixed-doubles match at the All England Club in London.

However, Paes -- who confirmed his participation in the Olympics just on Friday -- and his Czech partner Radek Stepanek notched up a 6-2 6-4 7-6 (5) victory over Isreali combination of Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram in a gruelling two hour and 20 minutes battle.

Seeded fourth in the tournament, Paes and Stepanek rode on their batter serves and broke their rivals twice in the first set.

The Israeli pair started to get their bearings right in the second set but they failed to create opportunities even as Paes and Stepanek broke them once out of the five chances that came their way.

In the third set, both the pairs broke each other once but in the end it was the Indo-Czech combination who had the last laugh.

In contrast in mixed doubles event, the fifth seeded Indian duo of Bhupathi and Sania failed to match the game of their unseeded rivals and made an early exit.

The Australian-Russian duo sent down six aces and also broke the Indian pair four times out of the seven chances that came their way.

In comparison, Sania and Bhupathi failed to create any break opportunity and also had three double faults and four unforced errors.

The Indians, who would not be playing together in next month's London Olympics after the All India Tennis Association (AITA) paired Sania with Leander Paes in mixed doubles, were better than their rivals in their first serve but they failed miserably in the second serve in the opening set.

In the second set, Sania and Bhupathi looked lacklustre as Hanley and Kudryavtseva sent down four aces and pushed the Indians to commit unforced errors and sealed the match comfortably.

Assam MLA attack: Police arrest five people,reports is now on hand,bad news for goverment

Five people were arrested for allegedly beating up Congress MLA Rumi Nath and her second husband.

"Five persons suspected to have been involved in the attack on the woman MLA have been arrested from here," superintendent of police Pradip Pujari said.

Nath and her second husband were beaten up and injured when they were attacked on Friday night in a hotel by a group of people who were angry over her second marriage without divorcing her first husband.

The MLA and her second husband who were escorted to Guwahati have received medical treatment and were reported to be out of danger.

Nath has filed an FIR with the police alleging that a mob had attacked her on "political motivation".

Further investigation are continuing, Pujari said.

Calcutta National Medical College blast : City hospital blast, chemical matter declare,research on hand...

Calcutta, June 30: A “tin can” exploded at the Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital as a sweeper’s broom hit it this morning, smashing windowpanes 10ft away in a portion of the facility that would have been teeming with outpatients in two hours.

The sweeper has been admitted to the hospital with injuries in the eye and all over his body.

The hospital authorities tried to downplay the 7am explosion, suggesting a chemical reaction involving waste may have triggered it.

“Police are yet to tell us what caused the blast.

We have formed a five-member inquiry committee of doctors,” said Partha Pradhan, medical superintendent of the hospital.

Health department spokesperson Asit Biswas said: “We are reviewing how to upgrade security at the hospital.”

Amit Raut, the injured sweeper, said he saw a tin can among the garbage in a corner of the outpatient department.

He said the explosion occurred the moment it hit the wall after being brushed aside.

“I was clearing garbage piled in front of an electric room when the blast happened,” he said.

Doctors said Raut suffered minor abrasions all over his body. “His eye injury was caused by smoke and dust,” Pradhan said.

He skirted the question whether Raut had suffered splinter injuries. “The police have not found any splinters.”

A forensic expert corroborated that a team that visited the hospital had “not found any splinter activity in the place of occurrence”. He said the blast “appeared” to be caused by a chemical reaction.

Hospital sources dismissed suggestions that the can was a crude bomb.

“No signs of explosives have been found. Some chemical must have been dumped in the corridor and it reacted with some other chemical, resulting in the explosion,” a hospital official said.

“Chances are that some sulphurous compound had reacted with some other chemical resulting in the low-intensity explosion. The presence of some other substance like a carbide compound cannot be ruled out, either.”

Doctors, however, said sulphurous and carbide compounds were not used in hospitals.

“These are used in chemical laboratories. So, it should be probed why these were brought into the hospital OPD,” a doctor said.

The police said no evidence of a tin can had been found. “There are no burn marks on the victim’s body, which happens in case of splinter injuries. No splinter marks were found on the wall, either,” a police officer said.

“The vapour detector has ruled out the presence of any explosive material used in bombs,” he added.

The police have found a green plastic bottle near the blast site. “We have sent the bottle for tests,” an officer said.

Had the explosion taken place a little later, hospital sources said, more people could have been injured.

“The OPDs start at 9.30am but the tickets are issued from 9am. The corridor remains overcrowded till around 4pm,” an official said. On an average, 3,500 patients come to the OPD every day. During OPD hours, at least 8,000 more are present.

Hospital sources said the building has three gates.

“All three are kept open during the OPD hours. For the rest of the day, two gates are kept closed,” a hospital source said.

He said open gates are supposed to be manned by private security personnel and the police. The offices of the ward master and a private security agency are near the blast site.

“It’s difficult for an outsider to hide explosives in that section. It seems to be the job of an insider,” an official said.

Hospital sources said the lack of CCTV surveillance was a cause for concern, especially in the dark corridors.

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BCCI bans five players targeted for corruption,BCCI declare corrupted cricketer,bad news for cricket future

(Reuters) - The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) banned one uncapped cricketer for life on Saturday and handed out lesser punishments to four others for involvement in corruption in domestic cricket.

The five uncapped Indian cricketers were provisionally suspended last month following allegations of corruption, made by a local television channel.

Footage from India TV appeared to show one cricketer negotiating a fee for bowling a no-ball, while another said he received under-the-table payments above his contracted fee.

A three-member disciplinary committee decided to ban fast bowler TP Sudhindra from all cricketing activities for life after reading a report and hearing the cricketers' defence.

"The committee held Sudhindra guilty of actually receiving a consideration to spot-fix in a domestic cricket match, and hence imposed exemplary penalty on him," a BCCI statement said.

Paceman Shalabh Srivastava, who played in the IPL for the Punjab franchise, was banned for five years.

"Shalabh Srivastava was held guilty of agreeing to fix a match and negotiate terms for the same, even though no actual match-fixing or spot fixing took place," the statement said.

Mohnish Mishra, Amit Yadav and Abhinav Bali were each handed one-year bans.

"The three players, through loose talk and unsubstantiated bragging, brought the game into disrepute, and hence, have been held guilty of the lesser offence," the BCCI added.

Last year, Pakistan players Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir were jailed in Britain for their role in a spot-fixing scandal relating to a test match against England at Lord's in August 2010.

The International Cricket Council subsequently banned the three players for a minimum of five years.

Euro 2012 final: 5 key things you need to know,point of winners

The title clash between Spain and Italy surely seems to be a mouth-watering affair. Here are the five key things you need to know about the Euro 2012 final.

Spain’s date with history
This is the opportunity for Spain to go down as the best international side in history. A win on Sunday in Kiev would give them titles in three consecutive major tournaments, a feat achieved by no other nation. A victory would also give them a record-equalling third European title, which will bring them level with Germany.


Italy’s obstacles
Speaking of 2006, it’s a case of deja vu for the Azzurri. Back then, the effects of the Calciopoli match-fixing scandal were supposed to shatter Italy’s dreams of winning another World Cup. Instead, the team rallied and claimed its fourth world title. Six years later, Italy is reeling from another spasm of match-fixing allegations, and on this occasion, it even forced the removal of defender Domenico Criscito from the squad. But again, the Azzurri have managed to pull together and reach the final.

Peerless Pirlo
He has only one goal in Euro 2012 — a gorgeous free kick against Croatia — but Pirlo’s contribution goes way beyond mere numbers, and he has been the player of the tournament so far. The Juventus man has been unflappable on the ball in midfield, and his ability to control the game’s tempo has been invaluable to a side that isn’t exactly teaming with creative players. Pirlo will no doubt have his hands full when he goes up against Spain’s potent midfield, but he’ll be a joy to watch no matter which side comes out on top.

Striking concerns
The performance level of the respective front lines could not be more different. In Spain’s case, there hasn’t been a ‘front line’ as such, with manager Vicente Del Bosque at times using a false nine in Cesc Fabregas, with some calling it a 4-6-0 formation. To be fair, the Spain manager also has dabbled with using Torres or Negredo. Neither approach has seen Spain reach its peak. Italy, by contrast, have two forwards peaking at the right time.

Boring or brilliant?
Spain’s tiki-taka style of football which has won so many plaudits over the last five years is now being labelled by many as ‘boring’. That’s primarily because the team has shown little ambition while in possession. They have looked reluctant to shoot at times. But keeping the ball is an art and Spain have mastered it. Whether it wins them another trophy will be known tonight.

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Satyamev Jayate: Once an ‘alcoholic’, Javed Akhtar speaks to Aamir Khan,todays full episode,todays point in Satyamev Jayate alcoholic

Mumbai: The ninth episode of ‘Satyamev Jayate’ illuminated the dark realities of the Indian lifestyle and the growing trend to associate glamour with alcohol.

Aamir Khan spoke about alcohol abuse and how a person could ruin his life and the lives of the people related to him.

The episode began with Vijay Simha, a famous journalist working with a reputed publication, sharing his journey as an alcoholic- how he started off as a social drinker and how he ended up turning into an addict.

Life took a drastic turn and landed him on the streets of Delhi where he spent nine months without food.

His parents disowned him because of his brash behaviour and till date, he repents not being forgiven by his mother.

The next to share his story was Lakshman, a 64 year old man who had spent 40 years of his life doing no constructive work but succumbing to alchohol.

After having found solace with the Alcoholics Anonymous group, he realised what he ended up doing to his own life and to his family.

And since then, he has been living a life free of alcohol.

Eminent lyricist Javed Akhtar’s presence on the show was a surprise.

He unfolded the story of his long past and how he ruined 27 years of his life because of drinking.

Terming people who drink as “gadha” (donkey) and “ghinona” (filthy), Javed said that drinkers often tend to associate glamour with drinking. While in real life, there is no fun behind coming under the influence of alcohol.

He confessed that he was a fool to not have realised that he was doing no good by drinking and advised youngsters not to consume alcohol.

The episode also threw light on accidents that happened because of hazardous drinking and how innocent people lost their lives.

Aamir urged the government to pass stringent laws against drunken driving.

The episode was of great importance for the youth of the nation, who think getting drunk is a fad and to follow the trend is a modern day protocol.

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