Even before the peak season of encephalitis, Acute Encephalitis Syndrome has already claimed 80 lives in Uttar Pradesh. In spite of infrastructural support, including new ventilators and wards for encephalitis patients in BRD Medical College, Gorakhpur, as well as awareness campaigns in the area, the number of cases and deaths are constantly increasing in the eastern part of the state. Read article
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Patna: Suspected encephalitis has killed 15 children in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur and Gaya districts in the last week, officials said Saturday. The mosquito-borne disease, which claimed nearly 150 lives last year, has returned with a vengeance. Eleven children have died in Muzaffarpur and four in Gaya. Over two dozen children have been admitted to hospitals in […]
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Goa remained completely shut except for few buses of state-owned Kadamba Transport Corporation plying on roads along with emergency services, in response to NDA’s bandh call against the petrol price hike, sources said. Several tourists were seen stranded in the coastal belt as tourist taxis, private buses and even autorickshaws were off roads fearing attack […]
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The body of one of the two British nationals who have been missing after they set out on river rafting in Cauvery last week was found today, police said. The body of Ian Turton was recovered in the river between Sangam-Mekedatu stretch, around 100 km from Bangalore, Ramangara District Superintendent of Police Anupam Agarwal said. […]
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US citizen Jeffrey Jinnin Worn was arrested at Indira Gandhi International Airport on Saturday (May 26) on charges of possessing of live handgun ammunition as he prepared to board an outbound Turkish Airlines flight. The ammunition in his bag was identified during a scan of his carry-on luggage. Worn reportedly told airport police that he […]
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UDHAGAMANDALAM: Two women died and 11 others were injured when their SUV plunged into a gorge at the 31st hairpin-bend on Ooty-Kalhatty Ghat Road section near here on Sunday. Ooty special branch police inspector H Manoharan said all the 13 were members of a family and were on their home to Kerala after visiting Ooty. […]
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New Delhi, May 23 — Grappling with a contempt of court notice, the agitating Air India pilots Wednesday extended an olive branch to the government saying they would end the 16-day strike if their sacked colleagues are taken back and the management starts negotiations on the issues raised by them. “This (stir) can be over […]
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Dehradun: At least 22 pilgrims from Madhya Pradesh were on Tuesday killed and 8 others injured when a bus in which they were travelling fell into Ganga river at Kodiyala in Tehri district, police said. The mishap occurred near Byasi this afternoon when the private tourist bus, carrying 45 passengers including 20 women, was going […]
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Air India on Wednesday filed a contempt petition against striking pilots in the Delhi High Court on grounds that the agitators have failed to comply with its previous order restraining them from undertaking the stir. Filing the petition through Counsel Lalit Bhasin, Air India management said despite the court’s restraint order, several opportunities were given […]
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There are now enough grounds to order reinvestigation of 1995 abduction & killing of six foreign tourists following startling revelations by a new book that they were killed by pro-government counter-insurgents fully aided & abetted by the security forces . The book – “The Meadow, Kashmir 1995 – Where the Terror Began”, by Adrian Levy […]
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