Bhopal Children’s Hospital Fire: 4 Infants Dead, CM Announces Rs. 4 Lakh Compensation For Each
At least four infants died in a fire that broke out in the special newborn care unit (SNCU) of Kamla Nehru Children’s Hospital in Bhopal on Monday night, prompting the government to order a high-level probe into the incident. Medical Education Minister Vishwas Sarang said a short circuit may have caused the fire and described […]
Taliban confirm reports of four women killed in northern Afghanistan
Four women have been found dead in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, a spokesman for Afghanistan’s Taliban government said on Saturday, following reports that activists had been killed. Two suspects have been arrested after the four bodies were found at a house in the city’s fifth police district, interior ministry spokesman Qari Saeed Khosti said […]
Delhi: Air Quality Improves As Higher Wind Speed Flushes Out Pollution
Weather experts on Saturday informed that owing to higher wind speed, the air quality in the national capital has improved slightly. The wind is expected to flush out pollutants further over the next two days. Central Pollution Control Board’s (CPCB) Sameer app,showed that the city’s air quality index (AQI) stood at 449 in the severe […]
Covid cases break records across Europe as winter takes hold
BUDAPEST: Coronavirus infections are hitting record levels in many countries across Europe as winter takes hold, prompting a call for action from the World Health Organisation which described the new wave as a “grave concern”. Soaring numbers of cases, especially in Eastern Europe, have prompted debate on whether to reintroduce curbs on movement before the […]
Aryan Khan appears before NCB to mark his weekly presence in cruise drugs case
Aryan Khan, son of film actor Shah Rukh Khan, on Friday appeared before the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) here to mark his weekly presence before the anti-drug agency in connection with the cruise ship drugs case, sources said. This was Aryan’s first appearance at the NCB office after his release from the Arthur Road prison […]
China’s Latest Delta Outbreak Its Most Widespread Since Wuhan
More provinces in China are fighting Covid-19 than at any time since the deadly pathogen first emerged in Wuhan in 2019. The highly-infectious delta variant is hurtling across the country despite the increasingly aggressive measures that local officials have enacted in a bid to thwart it. Local infections have been found in 19 of 31 […]
Dengue: Centre Sends Expert Teams To 9 States, UTs Reporting High Number Of Cases
The Union health ministry has sent expert teams to nine states and union territories, which are reporting a high number of dengue cases. The expert teams will support the states in public health measures for control and management of the dengue disease. Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya during a review meeting on the dengue situation […]
China’s push on multiple fronts rattles Pentagon
WASHINGTON: China’s growing military muscle and its drive to end American predominance in the Asia-Pacific is rattling the US defence establishment. American officials see trouble quickly accumulating on multiple fronts — Beijing’s expanding nuclear arsenal, its advances in space, cyber and missile technologies, and threats to Taiwan. The pace at which China is moving is […]
Bypolls 2021: TMC Winning Bengal, BJP Assam And MP; Good News For Congress In Himachal And Rajasthan
Counting trends in the by-elections in three Parliamentary and 30 assembly constituencies across the country suggest that All-India Trinamool Congress has solidified its hold in West Bengal, while the BJP remains the dominant force in Assam. The BJP, which won 38-percent votes in Bengal – compared to 47 percent of the TMC – in the […]
Man with knife injures 17 passengers on Tokyo train
TOKYO: A man dressed in Batman’s Joker costume and brandishing a knife on a Tokyo commuter train on Sunday stabbed several passengers before starting a fire, which sent people scrambling to escape and jumping from windows, police and witnesses said. The Tokyo Fire Department said 17 passengers were injured, including three seriously. Not all of […]