The recent incident in Mumbai highlighted the miserable plight of people suffering with AIDS. In Mumbai, parents infected with HIV killed their three children before committing suicide. This incident has once again highlighted the narrow thinking of Indians regarding people infected with HIV. Most Indians are not even ready to touch people infected with HIV.

Despite various awareness programs started by the government to educate people about AIDS, there has been no major change in thinking of people. Various incidences related to abandonment of HIV patients by their families and spouses have been reported from time to time.

The narrow mentality of people towards HIV people forced a couple to kill their children and commit suicide.

Mumbai, Aug 8 : With the annual inflation crossing the 12 per cent mark for the first time in 13 years for the week ended July 26, the 30-share Sensex, benchmark of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) fell by 117 points at 14,999.92 in early trade today after heavy selling by funds.

National Stock Exchange (NSE)''s Nifty fell 31 points to 4492.95. The index touched a high of 4540.75 and low of 4480.80 so far.

Inflation has more than doubled since late February mainly on soaring oil prices, prompting the Reserve Bank India to tighten the annual monetary policy aggressively.

Mumbai-based Petron Engineering, has informed that it has received an Order for Heater Works for CDU/ VDU Units for Guru Gobind Singh Refinery Project of M/s.HPCL- Mittal Energy Limited at Bathinda(Punjab).

The contract is valued at a lump sum value of Rs 123 crore.

Last month, the company has bagged four letter of intent totalling Rs 14.07 crore from Utility Energytech Engineers Pvt Ltd,

Petron Engineering Construction, a subsidiary of KazStroyServices Plc. operates in the projects construction sector primarily in India.

According to the Indian Parliament, a woman can’t undergo an abortion if she has passed 20 weeks of her pregnancy, unless her life is at risk.

Keeping it in mind, Mumbai High Court on Monday rejected 31 year old Niketa Mehta’s plea to abort her 25-week-old fetus, which has been detected with a congenital heart disease. Last month, Niketa Mehta along with her husband Haresh and gynecologist Dr. Nikhil Dattar had knocked the door of the high court to allow the abortion.

An aspiring actor-writer Akshay Shivam Shukla (28) came to Mumbai or the ‘city of dreams’ to make it big but finished up in a hospital with burn injuries.

Shukla, a native of Allahabad, set himself on fire outside the gate of country’s most flourishing soap opera factory Balaji Telefilms office in Oshiwara on Tuesday, as he was not permitted to enter the studio by the security guards.

Shukla suffered 45% severe burn injuries and was admitted to Cooper Hospital

Mumbai, Aug. 4 : Rupert Murdoch''s News Corporation plans to invest 100 million American dollars to launch six regional TV channels in India.