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APHO teams are directly contacting travellers arriving from affected countries and isolating even mildly symptomatic individuals (image enhanced with AI) NEW DELHI/AHMEDABAD: Health authorities have intensified airport surveillance, traveller monitoring and quarantine measures after suspected Ebola cases surfaced in Bengaluru and Gujarat, though no Ebola infection has been confirmed in India so far.A 28-year-old Ugandan…

An Air India flight to San Francisco returned to Delhi after nearly nine hours in the air. NEW DELHI: An Air India flight bound for San Francisco was forced to return to Delhi on Wednesday after flying for nearly nine hours because of a snag in a critical airborne safety system that helps aircraft avoid…

New Delhi: A 25-year-old woman allegedly died by suicide in west Delhi’s Nihal Vihar after claiming in a note that her morphed photographs had been leaked by a friend.Police received a call regarding the incident around 2.15 pm. The woman was found hanging inside a friend’s room and was rushed to Balaji Hospital, where doctors…

New Delhi: Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital has become the country’s first 2,000-bedded govt hospital to receive the National Quality Assurance Standards (NQAS) certification from Union health ministry, officials informed on Monday.The certification recognises Delhi govt-run tertiary care hospital’s performance across critical healthcare quality indicators, including patient safety, infection control, clinical services and hospital…

Head constable Amar Singh saved lives with his prompt action New Delhi: With eight shops engulfed in flames and 11 visually impaired students trapped at a Burari market in the early hours of May 17, it was a race against time for head constable Amar Singh, who had to act with swift thinking and decisive…

New Delhi: Delhi Police has attached assets worth around Rs 40 lakh in connection with a dacoity case registered in northwest Delhi’s Keshav Puram.Police said the incident was reported on July 17 last year, when a man was allegedly robbed of Rs 40 lakh at gunpoint near Kanhaiya Nagar metro station.During the investigation, four boys…

New Delhi: A day after Delhi High Court granted relief to minority and other students of the law faculty, allowing them the option to skip exams scheduled on Bakrid, Delhi University on Wednesday said examinations for all other students will be held as scheduled on the public holiday.Around 1.5 lakh students are slated to appear…

New Delhi: A Delhi court, in an interim order, has dismissed a medical insurance company’s attempt to challenge a charge of criminal conspiracy brought by a petitioner whose kin died following an interruption in cancer treatment.The court, taking an empathetic view, said that for families watching a loved one battle a terminal illness, a medical…

New Delhi: After securing a conviction in a case within 18 days, Delhi Police has set a new benchmark by securing conviction in a snatching case within just 12 days.Sources said the push is part of a broader directive from the MHA and the police chief to fast-track cases registered under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita…

New Delhi: Renovation of Khadi store in Connaught Place, which was stalled, is likely to start again.Nearly a year after closing for a revamp, the flagship store of Khadi India in Regal Building is trying to come around the restrictions due to the heritage tag of the building, which has resulted in the stalling of…