Mumbai: Vector-borne diseases surged across the city in July, with malaria and dengue cases more than doubling and a spike recorded in leptospirosis and gastrointestinal infections compared with the previous month.In June, cases stood at 655 for malaria, 266 for dengue, 7 for chikungunya, 33 for leptospirosis and 603 for gastro. In July, the reported…
Bengaluru: A 12-year-old boy on his way to tuition class was allegedly attacked by two scooter-borne miscreants armed with a knife on HAL Hospital Road. The Class 6 student of a private school suffered injuries to his hand before the assailants fled the scene, leaving police baffled over the motive.According to the complaint filed by…
CHENNAI: The Union govt has granted 10 projects totalling Rs 785.21 crore from the power system development fund (PSDF) for renovating and modernising substations, establishing technical and IT infrastructure, installing bus reactors, communication & data acquisition systems, and setting up battery storage system (BESS) in Tamil Nadu, said minister of state for power Shripad Naik.Responding…
Hyderabad: Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS), Hyderabad, has completed 1,000 robotic-assisted surgeries in less than three years, according to the institute. The procedures were carried out across the departments of Urology (590), Surgical Gastroenterology (248) and Surgical Oncology (162), covering complex urological, gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary, pancreatic, colorectal, gynaecological and cancer-related surgeries.Revanth, Damodar congratulate staffExpressing happiness,…
Author Taslima Nasrin visits the iconic Indian Coffee House amid heavy police protection. pic by Biplab Bhattacharjee Author Taslima Nasrin visits the iconic Indian Coffee House amid heavy police protection. pic by Biplab Bhattacharjee Author Taslima Nasrin visits the iconic Indian Coffee House amid heavy police protection. pic by Biplab Bhattacharjee Author Taslima Nasrin visits…
Amritsar: The counter-intelligence wing of the Amritsar police on Monday claimed to have busted a cross-border narcotics smuggling and organised criminal network with the arrest of one of the operatives and seizure of 20 kg of heroin.Gaurav Yadav, the director general of police, Punjab, in a post on X, informed that the arrested accused was…
Assam’s flood death toll has reached 87, with over one lakh people still affected GUWAHATI: Assam’s flood death toll rose to 87 after two more fatalities were reported, while around1.28 lakh people across seven districts remain affected, according to the latest official bulletin.Floodwaters have started receding in several areas, but thousands of residents remain displaced,…
Bikaner-ikaner cops seize Rs 50cr heroin, foreign arms haul dropped from drone; one held Jaipur: Bikaner police have linked inmates lodged in Punjab’s Faridkot and Bathinda jails to a ₹50-crore cross-border narco-arms racket after the seizure of 10 kg of Afghan heroin, 11 foreign-made pistols, 22 magazines and 100 live cartridges near Khajuwala along the…
Defence minister Rajnath Singh addresses the AFHQ Civilian Services Day celebrations at DRDO Bhawan in New Delhi on Monday NEW DELHI: Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Monday underlined the need to deepen integration between the military and civil components of the defence ministry to foster greater synergy within the defence ecosystem to tackle evolving security…
44-year-old man climbs Brooklyn Bridge, strips naked, plants flags and jumps into East River; survives, identified and charged by NYPD A 44-year-old man miraculously survived after jumping from the top of New York City’s Brooklyn Bridge on Sunday, authorities said. According to the latest update, the man has been identified as Galymzhan Abaildayev, a Brooklyn…
