Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh: With encephalitis claiming one more life, the death toll due to the viral disease in eastern Uttar Pradesh has mounted to 275, health officials said in Gorakhpur today. Additional Director (Health) Diwakar Prasad said a child from Deoria district died of the disease on Monday night at, Baba Raghav Das Medical College Hospital in Gorakhpur. Read article
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CUSTOMS authorities in India have arrested a man who was attempting to board a flight in New Delhi with an endangered monkey in his underwear. The suspect from the United Arab Emirates, who was detained along with two other travellers, had arrived from the Thai capital Bangkok and was about to take a connecting flight […]
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Following death of five children due to suspected outbreak of diphtheria here in the past one week, the Haryana health authorities have sounded an alert to control the bacterial disease. The deaths have been reported from the urban slum areas – Davar Colony and Ashok Vihar – located adjacent to Kutani road. Panipat chief medical […]
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Jaipur, Sep 4: A 30-year-old taxi driver was arrested Tuesday for allegedly molesting a French tourist in Rajasthan’s Jhunjhunu district, police said. “She came to Jaipur in the first week of August from France and came in contact with driver Zakir Ali Khan,” Mandawa police station in-charge B.S. Chahar said. Khan took her to Mandawa […]
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New Delhi: Encephalitis is back again to haunt the children of eastern Uttar Pradesh as 21 deaths have been reported in the past three days itself from four district hospitals in and around Gorakhpur. The maximum number of deaths are being reported from the BRD Medical College in Gorakhpur. So far, 241 encephalitis deaths have […]
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After arriving in Talpe last week, an Australian civil engineer and his wife, their two children and two friends booked a suite in Talpe to enjoy the sun and sand. Shortly after their arrival, they returned to their hotel one night after having dinner only to discover that Rs 350,000 (US$2,643), five passports and several […]
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A young Indian was attacked with acid by two men after they refused to have sex with them in the Indian region of Jharkhand, where a few days ago appeared threats of such attacks against the girls who dress in jeans. The woman, aged 24 and married, suffered burns on face and body as a […]
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KANPUR: Five pilgrims including a minor were killed and 18 other injured when a tourist bus rammed into a stationary truck under the Sikandara police station in Ramabainagar district on Tuesday. The injured have been admitted to district hospital, where the condition of few was stated to be critical. Read article
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Tragedy in India: An Israeli tourist was killed on Tuesday in a rockslide in the Dharamsala region in northern India. Her family has been notified. Israelis currently in the area said that she was travelling with her friends and was hit by a large rock which fell on her leg. She most likely suffered major […]
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AHMEDABAD: Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) has claimed seven lives in Gujarat. And according to the state government, about 18 people have been affected by CCHF. Replying to a question from Vadodara City MLA Bhupendra Lakhawala, the government said that after an incubation period of one to three days following a tick bite, flu-like symptoms appear, […]
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