Star shuttler Saina Nehwal will be missing at the Hong Kong Open with an injury and in her absence P.S.V.Indian shuttlers have been handed tough draws as Sindhu will be up against top seed and world champion Carolina Marin of Spain in the opening round.Sixth seed Srikanth, who had reached the semi-finals of the event last year, has been pitted against world no.V. Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth will lead the Indian charge at the $350,000 Super Series event starting in Kowloon on Wednesday. Prannoy, 2014 Indonesia Masters GP Gold winner, who made headlines after beating two-time Olympic and five-time world champion Lin Dan of China, will open his campaign against a qualifier.Ajay Jayaram, who reached the final of the Korea Open Super Series and won the Dutch Open Grand Prix twice, will square off against top seed and two-time world champion and London Olympics bronze-medallist Chen Long in the first round at the Hong Kong Coliseum. 10 Chinese Tian Houwei, who has beaten the Indian four times in as many meetings — all defeats coming this year.Saina finished runners-up at the China Open Super Series Premier last week but during her final clash against China’s Li Xuerui, she felt severe pain in her leg and was forced to withdraw from the year-ending Hong Kong Open, a tournament she won in 2010. 22 PCS RATCHET SPANNER SET PV Sindhu and Saina Nehwal Star shuttler Saina Nehwal will be missing at the Hong Kong Open with an injury and in her absence P..H. Sindhu defeated the All England champion at the Denmark Open last month but has a 2-3 overall record against the Spaniard.

The doctors at Fortis’ S L Raheja Hospital removed the coin last week after conducting an endoscopy. The coin was stuck in the upper food pipe and it was removed successfully with endoscopic instruments, it said.Mehul Choksi, Consultant Gastroenterologist and Endoscopist, with support from Ganesh Lahane, Consultant Paediatrician, on December 7 removed the coin by performing upper gastrointestinal endoscopy on the child, a hospital release said.. She was examined by a local physician and an X-ray done showed the impacted coin in the upper food pipe. 1 coin got stuck in the 5-year-old's food pipe last month while in Osmanabad Mumbai: A Rs 1 coin was removed from the food pipe of Flexible Socket Wrench  a five-year-old girl at a private hospital here, doctors said on Wednesday.Interestingly, the patient did not complain of pain or difficulty while swallowing food or water and was ingesting all types of food. The patient was gradually started on oral feeds and discharged on the third day without any complications, the release added.The 5-year-old had swallowed the coin while on holiday in Osmanabad The Rs.The procedure was performed under full general anaesthesia.After the endoscopy, a CT scan of neck and chest did not reveal pressure effects of the coin on other neighbouring organs. The local physician said the coin would eventually pass in the stool, but there was no change in its position even after 15 days of the incident. The child had swallowed the coin last month while playing at her hometown Osmanabad, Central Maharashtra.

The delay is due to the stay imposed on the open offer by the Supreme Court of India in the contempt case filed by Daiichi Sankyo. The case and the resultant delay in the open offer are taking up Fortis' management bandwidth. New Delhi: Malaysian firm IHH Healthcare Friday said it "understands the concerns" of the Fortis Healthcare&Flexible Ratchet Combination Spanner 39;s minority shareholders over the delay in the open offer but stressed that it would proceed with the offer only when the stay is # lifted by the Supreme Court.Pointing to the reason for the delay in the open offer, IHH Healthcare said it was on account of the stay imposed on it by the Supreme Court in the contempt case filed by Daiichi Sankyo."IHH understands the concerns of the Fortis Healthcare minority shareholders regarding the delay in the open offer," an IHH spokesperson said in a statement.The delay is due to the stay imposed on the open offer by the Supreme Court of India in the contempt case filed by Daiichi Sankyo, even though neither Fortis nor IHH were parties to the original proceedings, it added.However, Fortis has since joined the proceedings to persuade the Supreme Court to lift the stay so that, amongst other things, the open offer can proceed, the statement said."IHH would like to reiterate that we are committed to proceeding with the open offer once the stay is lifted by the Supreme Court. Our commitment is demonstrated through us depositing Rs 3,400 crore in a non-interest bearing escrow account for the open offer," it added.The case and the resultant delay in the open offer are taking up Fortis' management bandwidth. At the same time, the minority shareholders are unable to exercise their exit opportunity, the statement said.IHH continues to work with Fortis on the matter and is in full support of Fortis' representations to the Supreme Court, pleading it to lift the stay. The case is now at the judgment delivery stage, it added."IHH has full faith and confidence in the Indian judicial system and hopes for a speedy resolution to the matter," the statement said.As per a media report on Thursday, some minority shareholders of Fortis Healthcare have moved the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) to issue directions to IHH Healthcare to pay interest to shareholders for the delay in the open offer to buy an additional 26 per cent stake in Fortis Healthcare.

SDM Kartar Singh said that people in rural areas do not want to build toilets for no valid reason.  5-in-1 Reversible Ratchet Combination Spanner  According to the SDM, open defecation is a crime and these six people were arrested under relevant sections of the IPC for defecating in open. (Photo: AP/Representational image) Jaipur: In a first, six people in Rajasthan’s Bhilwara district were arrested for relieving themselves in open on Friday.Taking a strong action against open defecation sub-divisional magistrate of Jahazpur, Kartar Singh caught these people while defecating in open. He arrested and sent them to police lock up.Later, they were produced in the court where they were granted bail on indemnity of Rs 10,000 each and a condition of constructing toilets within 15 days.Speaking to this newspaper, SDM Kartar Singh said that the administration has been creating public awareness about sanitation and hygiene under Swachchta Abhiyan but action is taken when they do not listen.“We have been telling people not to defecate in open for quite some time. Now, we have started taking strict action against it,” he said.According to the SDM, open defecation is a crime and these six people were arrested under relevant sections of the IPC for defecating in open. “Sometimes we also have to arrest people under section 107 and 151, when they get agitated when stopped from defecating in open,” he said.Though, he made it clear that these people were arrested for defecating in open.The SDM also boasts about other harsh actions like asking ration dealers to stop supply to those families who have not constructed toilets in their homes and disconnecting power supply to such households.However, Congress MLA from Jahazpur Dheeraj Gurjar condemned the extreme steps taken by the local administration while accusing the SDM of using such methods for sake of publicity.“No one is against Swachchta Abhiyan. Everyone wants clean surroundings but no one defecates in open by choice,” he said.However, SDM Kartar Singh said that people in rural areas do not want to build toilets for no valid reason.But, the MLA alleged that the government has not paid people money for construction of toilets besides there is water shortage.“How can people build toilets when they were not given the money and what is the use of toilets without water,” he asked while warning the government against using coercive actions against people who can’t afford to build toilets.

Court asks if it will consider taking action against those relieving themselves in open. Actor Amitabh Bacchan during Swacch Bharat campaign. Mumbai: A few weeks after the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) declared Mumbai an ‘open defecation free’ city, the Bombay high court on Friday called BMC’s bluff and said the problem of open defecation will not be solved till the public cultivates a sense of civic awareness. The court directed BMC to consider a Public Interest Litigation (PIL), which the court was hearing, as a representation and consider if implementing suggestions given in the PIL is possible or not.The petition said the government should amend the law and take action against people found relieving themselves in the open. The PIL was filed in connection with open defecation, saying the government does not need to pay a huge amount to Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan or spend on advertisements to create awareness.The BMC had recently written to the Union urban development ministry and the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan campaign, claiming that Mumbai is now open defecation free. The civic body claims that the 118 spots across in the 24 wards of the city identified as places where open defecation was practiced now have toilet blocks within a radius   6 PCS RATCHET SPANNER SET of 500 metres from the place.A division bench of Chief Justice Manjula Chellur and Justice Girish Kulkarni was hearing a petition filed by Vishwas Rao Devkar, who stated that the state government had amended the Bombay Village Panchayat Act and Maharashtra Zila Parsihad and Panchayat Samiti Act in 2010 and made it compulsory that every candidate who contests election has to construct a toilet in his house. Mr Devkar alleged that despite the said amendment, people did not use toilets on a regular basis. People construct toilets only to get certificate to contest elections and getting jobs in the government sector, he said. The petition sought that the high court direct the state government that non-users of toilets will not get the benefit of government schemes.Work in progress?The BMC has written to the CR and WR seeking their cooperation in constructing toilets along railway tracks where open defecation is still practiced.The civic body has admitted that places such as Bandra and Kurla still see open defecation, but only along railway tracks.The BMC has deployed clean-up marshals in the 118 spots where open defecation was being practiced to usher people who defecate in the open to nearby toilets.Activists have refuted the civic body’s claims.