Dasmunsi being mobilised on wheelchair: hospital

October 5th, 2009 Man dies when wheelchair falls down elevator shaftDETROIT — Detroit police say a 58-year-old man died when his motorized wheelchair fell eight floors down an elevator shaft in a downtown building. Police spokesman John Roach says it appears the wheelchair had been moving erratically and bumping into the elevator door on the eighth floor of the residential building Monday afternoon.

September 9th, 2009 African MPs visit Lockerbie bomber in hospitalTRIPOLI, Libya — Libya has displayed the convicted Lockerbie bomber, looking weak and seated in a wheelchair, to a group of 150 visiting African parliamentarians. Abdel Baset al-Megrahi appeared before the lawmakers for only five minutes on Wednesday.

June 12th, 2009 Prison for Chicago cop who beat man in wheelchairCHICAGO — A Chicago police officer caught on hospital security footage repeatedly striking a man who was handcuffed and shackled to a wheelchair has been sentenced to more than three years in federal prison. William Cozzi stood expressionless as U.S.

May 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - As the new government gets ready for work, Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi, one of the stalwarts of the last Congress-led UPA government, continues to grapple with poor health. He has been in hospital for the past seven months after a heart attack and though his condition is not critical anymore, his recovery is slow, doctors said.

May 17th, 2009 KOLKATA - Amid the euphoria over the Trinamool Congress-Congress alliance mauling West Bengal's ruling Left Front in the general elections, one victorious Congress candidate has struck a discordant note. A day after her victory from Raiganj in North Dinajpur district, Deepa Dasmunsi Sunday alleged a section of Trinamool workers in her constituency had campaigned for an independent candidate.

April 21st, 2009 LONDON - British physicist Stephen Hawking is expected to make a 'full recovery' after undergoing a series of tests in a hospital in Cambridge, a spokesman for Cambridge University said Tuesday. The 67-year-old scientist, who is wheelchair-bound and speaks with the help of a voice synthesizer as a result of a motor neuron disease, was rushed to hospital Monday and described as being 'very ill'.

April 20th, 2009 LONDON - British physicist Stephen Hawking, the world-renowned author of 'A Brief History of Time', was admitted to hospital in the university city of Cambridge Monday where he was described as being 'very ill'. The 67-year-old scientist, who is wheelchair-bound and speaks with the help of a voice synthesiser as a result of motor neurone disease, was taken to hospital for tests.

April 10th, 2009 MUMBAI - Asha Parekh, who did some of her most memorable roles under the direction of Shakti Samanta, says that with his death she's 'lost a friend and a filmmaker who was a pleasure to work with.' Samanta passed away here Thursday at the age of 83. 'I feel miserable because all my directors are going one after the other.

March 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress party is pitting External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee from Jangirpur constituency, and ailing minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi's wife Deepa from Raiganj, the party announced Sunday, releasing the list of its candidates for 11 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal. Mukherjee represents Jangirpur in the outgoing Lok Sabha.

March 10th, 2009 KOLKATA - West Bengal Congress MLA Deepa Dasmunsi, the wife of union Minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi, Monday claimed that grassroot party workers were unhappy with the seat-sharing deal with the Trinamool Congress. 'From what we've heard so far about the seat-sharing deal with the Trinamool Congress in the state, it seems it will be really tough for us to win in those constituencies.

March 2nd, 2009 KOLKATA - The road to a possible alliance between the Congress and the Trinamool Congress for the Lok Sabha polls looked beset with thorns Sunday, with some West Bengal Congress leaders demanding that the Trinamool bigwigs either withdraw their disparaging comments about the state Congress president or apologise. Emerging from a meeting between Congress general secretary K.

February 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Ailing Information and Broadcasting minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi has been taken off the life support system but his brain has become dysfunctional after the second cardiac attack he suffered in October last year, say doctors. 'He was taken off the life support system in January and shifted to a private room from Intensive Care Unit.

January 28th, 2009 KOLKATA - A mentally challenged girl was injured Thursday after she was allegedly pushed off her wheelchair by a police officer near the Raj Bhavan when her 72-year-old father insisted on meeting Governor Gopal Krishna Gandhi to seek medical assistance, Raj Bhavan sources said. The girl, Tapati Dutta, fell from the wheelchair and sustained injuries on one of her arms, the girl's father was quoted as saying.

December 31st, 2008 NEW DELHI - Veteran Congress leader and union minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi, who suffered a second heart attack two-and-half month ago, has been taken off the life support system, hospital officials said Thursday. 'The minister is now off the life support system.

December 22nd, 2008 NEW DELHI - An ailing Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi was Tuesday unanimously re- elected as the president of the All India Football Federation (AIFF) while paid secretary-general Alberto Colaco will stay in office for some more time, though his contract ends Dec 31. Announcing the list of new office-bearers after the Annual General Meeting (AGM) here at Football House Tuesday, acting president Praful Patel said the decision to re-elect Dasmunsi was unanimous and as for Colaco, he said he would take a call on his continuance in due course.