NRHM scam: UP engineer among three arrested

The arrests followed the questioning of two bureaucrats and a trader,who were held in connection with the alleged irregularities in utilisation of funds allocated under the National Rural Health Mission NRHM. The three were arrested after they were called for questioning in connection with the scam.

The agency had on January 2 registered five cases against government and private sector officials,including one against then UP minister Babu Singh Kushwaha,alleging loss of about Rs 28 crore in implementing the Centrally-sponsored scheme meant for 72 UP districts. Kushwaha was sacked by Chief Minister Mayawati over his alleged involvement in the scam.

NRHM funds to the tune of about Rs 10,000 crore were allocated to UP for the period 2005-06 till date by the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry.

UK: Pencil sketches of Gandhi under hammer

Three pencil-sketches of Mahatma Gandhi by Anglo-Jewish artist Clare Winsten will go under the hammer later this month in the UK and are likely to fetch over Rs 2.2 lakh. The rare portraits will be among 501 lots as part of Mullocks Auction Houses Historical Documents,Autographs and Ephemera sale.