Alina Sarag died of tuberculosis after doctors accused her of simply being ‘lovesick’ and ignored 50 phone calls from her worried family, an inquest heard. Sarag was also told her health problems were ‘all in her mind’, despite having a history of ...

In a setback to Congress in Goa, its candidate Raymond D'Sa withdrew from the Cortalim by-poll fray, letting BJP contestant Alina Saldanha win the poll. Saldanha was pitted against two contestants D'Sa (Congress) and Ramakant Borkar (Independent).

Every now and then there emerge cases of medical negligence, which lead to a fatality. Alina Sarag who died in 2011 at Birmingham Children's Hospital is one of them. The 15-year-old girl died despite visiting her doctor and four different hospitals.

Panaji, May 21 : Ms Alina Saldanha, widow of former Tourism Minister late Matanhy Saldanha. will be inducted in the Cabinet within a fortnight, Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar said today. Ms Alina was elected unopposed in a by-election from the ...

A 15-year-old schoolgirl who died of tuberculosis was told her physical deterioration was due to mental health problems, despite having previously been treated for the disease. Alina Sarag passed away in January, after visiting a string of ...

Alina Sarag, from Birmingham, became ill in August 2010 after returning from a holiday in Pakistan. She had been treated for tuberculosis in 2009, after an outbreak at her school and it was found to be "latent" in her. But over nearly five months ...

PANAJI: Alina Saldanha, who has won the Cortalim byelection unopposed and who became the BJP's first woman MLA in Goa, attributed her victory to God, to her late husband, former tourism minister Matanhy Saldanha, and to the BJP workers who ...

PANAJI: In a major setback and embarrassment to the Congress in Goa, its candidate Raymond D'Sa withdrew from the Cortalim byelection, as did independent Ramakant Borkar, handing over victory to BJP's Alina Saldanha. As Saldanha remained the ...

Alina and Voichita are lifelong friends, having grown up in the same orphanage. Alina, the stronger, more stubbornly independent of the two, has returned home after a stint working in Germany and thinking that she and Voichita will go off together.

Alina, wife of former Goa tourism minister Matanhy Saldanha, today filed her nomination papers as a BJP candidate for the Cortalim assembly by poll to be held on June two next. Alina, accompanied by BJP workers and her supporters, filed the ...