Aamir names son after Maulana Azad

New Delhi, Dec 10 (IANS) Bollywood couple Aamir Khan and his second wife Kiran Rao have named their newborn baby son Azad Rao Khan after Aamir's 'great grand uncle, scholar and freedom fighter Maulana Abul Kalam Azad,.
'Hey guys, most excited to share with y'all that we have finally chosen a name for our baby boy...Azad. Azad Rao Khan. I left the final choice to Kiran, and she has named him after my great grand uncle Maulana Azad, the great freedom fighter, whom the family is most proud of,' Aamir disclosed on social networking site Facebook.
'Azad means free or liberated. We want to thank everyone for their warm wishes and blessings, and needless to say we are absolutely overjoyed and feel most blessed. Much love,' added the actor-producer.
Aamir-Kiran's son was born Dec 1 through IVF to a surrogate mother at a private clinic in Mumbai. The couple resorted to IVF due to medical complications.
This is Kiran's first baby, but Aamir has a son, Junaid, and a daughter, Ira, from his first wife Reena.
Aamir ended his 15-year-old marriage with Reena in 2002, and during the shooting of Ashutosh Gowariker's 'Lagaan', he and the film's assistant director Kiran ended up together.

88 killed in Kolkata hospital fire

Kolkata:
The worst fire tragedy in any hospital in India, 88 patients and staffers were killed in Kolkata's well-known AMRI hospital early on Friday, so many helpless patients were trapped while doctors and others ran for safety.
The fire broke out at 3.30 a.m. The nurses, doctors and other people in the building succeeded to escape, a large number of ill patients suffocated to death in their hospital beds.


The tragedy unfolded over many hours. Some were suffocated, some were too infirm to escape the toxic fumes. The lucky few were brought down the side of the four-storey glass facade building using ropes and ladders, even as thousands watched in horror.

The fire brigade, many alleged, came over two hours late. The fire brigade blamed it on narrow roads leading to the hospital.

By late evening the death toll was raised to 88. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee ordered the arrest of six hospital directors.

'The hospital staff initially prevented the fire fighters from entering the building,' said Banerjee, a shocking admission that only added fuel to the helpless anger of the families of the dead and injured.

The injured were rushed to several hospitals in the city. The bodies, most of them bearing signs of suffocation, piled up at the SSKM Hospital.

Anna Hazare ready to hold token fast

Veteran social activist Anna Hazare on Saturday morning left for New Delhi for his daylong token fast on Sunday to protest the government's version of the Lokpal Bill.
Team Anna has invited all political parties including the Congress and the BJP for Hazare's day long fast to be held at Jantar Mantar.