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Weight loss tip 2: Time management - This is quite often overlooked. Decide which part of your day will be dedicated to

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home life routine. If you don't do this now, your days will be rushed and unplanned, and you won't be able to sustain your

weight loss efforts.

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India Against Corruption (IAC) members Prashant Bhushan and Arvind Kejriwal on Friday accused Congress president

Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra of large-scale corruption in real estate dealings. In a highly speculated press

conference, the IAC members alleged that real estate giant DLF had sold him prime land at throw-away prices and given him

interest-free loans. They said, Robert Vadra’s wealth grew from Rs 50 lakh to over Rs 300 crore in three years, according to

Times Now.

Robert Vadra, who comes from a brass and wood handicraft merchant’s family, is married to Sonia Gandhi and Rajiv

Gandhi’s daughter Priyanka Gandhi.

Speculation was rife among political observers in the national capital about activist Arvind Kejriwal’s announcement to

‘expose’ the corruption of a “powerful political leader” on Friday. Kejriwal had said on October 2 that his group would reveal

sensational information against two political leaders on Saturday. However, the IAC changed its plans and held its press

conference on Friday.

Sachin Tendulkar has for the first time admitted that at 39 he may not have much cricket left in him and will reassess his

cricketing future next month.

Tendulkar's retirement has been a topic of debate for quite some time now and the batting great said though he does not

have any immediate plans, the thought of retirement has been on his mind.

He said that taking a decision on retirement after playing the game for close to 23 years will be a "hard one" and he will go by

what his heart says.

"The moment of retirement is going to be hard because I haven't experienced anything close to what I might go through

when I retire. It depends on what my heart tells me then. I need not take a call right now. When I play in November, I will

reassess things," he said.

"I am 39 and I don't think I have plenty of cricket left in me. But it depends on my frame of mind and my physical ability to

deliver. When I feel that I am not delivering what is needed, and then I will re-look at the scheme of things. I am already 39

and no one expects me to go on playing forever," Tendulkar told 'Times NOW'.

India play a four-match home Test series against England starting on November 15 in Ahmedabad.

Tendulkar, who holds almost all the records in world cricket after playing 190 Tests and 463 ODIs, said that it would be a

tough call for him to hang his bat and he will go by what his heart says.

"I don't know. It is going to be hard because I haven't experienced anything close to what I might go through when I retire. I

cannot relate this moment with any other moment in my life. It will be a tough call. I will go with what my heart says," said

Tendulkar, who has scored 15,533 in Tests and 18,426 runs in ODIs.

Cooking gas (LPG) price was on Saturday hiked by Rs 11.42 per cylinder following government decision to raise

commission paid to the dealers.

Petrol and diesel prices too may go up marginally as the Oil Ministry considers raising dealers commission by at least 23

paisa and 10 paisa a litre respectively.

The Ministry yesterday issued orders raising commission paid to LPG dealers from Rs 25.83 per 14.2-kg cylinder to Rs

37.25, government officials said.

The 44 percent or Rs 11.42 per cylinder increase in the commission on the subsidised cooking fuel is being passed on to

consumers, they said.

For the consumer, subsidised LPG in Delhi will now cost Rs 410.42 per cylinder, up from Rs 399.

The hike comes within weeks of the government deciding to restrict supply of subsidised cooking gas to 6 cylinders of 14.2

-kg size per household in a year. The remaining supplies would have to be sourced at market rates.

Officials said the commission paid on market price or non-subsidised LPG too has been raised by Rs 12.17 to Rs 38 per

cylinder. Accordingly, a non-subsidised LPG cylinder price will go up from Rs 883.5 to Rs 921.5.

A similar exercise is on to raise commission paid to petrol pump dealers on sale of petrol and diesel. The Ministry is

proposing to raise commission paid on petrol by 23 paisa to 1.72 and that on diesel by 10 paisa to Rs 1.01 a litre.

The hike being considered for petrol and diesel is less than 67 paisa and 42 paisa respectively being demanded by petrol

pump dealers in view of their working capital cost going up substantially due to frequent price changes and sharp rise in

overheads like electricity charges.

The government has also raised commission paid on 5-kg cylinders by Rs 5.33 to Rs 18.63. Currently, petrol pump dealers

get Rs 1.49 a litre commission on sale of petrol and Rs 0.91 a litre on diesel.

Pump operators have demanded that this be raised to Rs 2.10 a litre on petrol and Rs 1.33 per litre on diesel reasoning that

unlike LPG agencies, petrol pumps open 365 days a year on 24 hours basis thereby incurring higher operating cost.

LPG agencies are closed on national holidays as well as once a week.

Besides, petrol pumps provide free facilities such as toilets, water and air-pressure for tyres, while LPG dealers do not

provide any such service, Federation of All India Petroleum Traders (FAIPT) general secretary Ajay Bansal said.

Also, LPG rates haven't increased in over a year but petrol and diesel prices have seen frequent changes.

"Increase in prices mean our working capital (money used to buy fuel from oil companies) goes up. Also, our losses

increase because of evaporation of fuel," he said questioning the Oil Ministry's rationale of hiking LPG dealers commission

by almost 50 percent and offering only 10 percent to petrol pumps.

Officials said the hike in LPG rates comes within days of oil firms raising price of non-subsidised cooking gas (LPG) by Rs

127 per cylinder to Rs 883.5 on account of increase in international oil prices.

The government has granted exemption from customs and excise duty on non-subsidised LPG cylinders only for domestic

consumption to reduce the price burden on the common man.

The price of commercial 14.2-kg LPG cylinder in Delhi will be Rs 1,062, while that of a 19-kg bottle would be Rs 1,536.5.

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The doctors at the Sahakarana Hrudayalaya, the cardiac wing of Pariyaram Medical College, have alleged that there was huge corruption in the day-to-day functioning of the hospital.

The cardiac surgeons, who are on strike in protest against the slashing of their basic salary, alleged on Friday that the equipment in the hospital were pretty old and that the hospital was selling medicines to patients at more than double the purchasing price.

The doctors, led by senior cardiac surgeon Kuldeep Kumar, said the surgical equipment were purchased from a Bangalore-based firm in which the Hrudayala's CEO K V Surendranath had shares. They said this purchase, violating all norms of tender, was done without the knowledge or consent of the doctors at Hrudayalaya.

According to them, the CEO was involved in huge corruption to the tune Rs 25 lakh a month while the hospital was said to be running on a monthly loss of nearly Rs 25 lakh. They also said, according to the audit by the accounts wing, the actual loss was around Rs 6 lakh only, which means that every month there was a financial misappropriation of Rs 19 lakh at the hospital, apart from the corruption in purchase.

They also pointed out that Surendranath had been removed from the post of CEO during the previous governing body under M V Raghavan on charges of corruption, and the present governing body had brought him back.

Meanwhile, Pariyaram Medical College principal Dr B Radhakrishnan said the admission to the MBBS course, including NRI quota, was on merit basis and the entire admission process was transparent.

The principal issued this statement following reports that one seat in the NRI quota was given to the daughter of a CPM leader from Thiruvananthapuram, violating norms.

At the same time, the hospital governing body, which met here on Friday, decided to seek explanation from the doctors for trying to tarnish the image of the hospital by raising allegations.