Hyderabad: Telangana has registered significant improvements in child nutrition over the past five years, but undernutrition continues to affect more than one in four children in the state, according to the recently released National Family Health Survey-6 (2023-24). The survey found that stunting among children under five years of age declined from 33.1% in NFHS-5…
General:A good day, but not a simple one. The Sun supports your public image, and Saturn gives you discipline, yet the Moon brings some confusion that makes you second guess yourself.You can get honor and respect in society today, maybe through a community event, a family function, or even a small recognition at work. People…
The ‘Desert Warriors’ are undergoing intense training sessions at they prepare for the Friday’s Indian Football League match in Shillong Jaipur: Rajasthan United Football Club are set to play their penultimate match of the season against Shillong Lajong at the SSA Stadium, Shillong, with kick-off scheduled for 6.30 IST. This will mark the club’s second…
Bengaluru: The space below Bellandur flyover, once full of silt, debris and encroachments, has been transformed into a clean and vibrant public area, with Bengaluru East city corporation additional commissioner (development) Lokhande Snehal Sudhakar inaugurating the beautified stretch recently.The project was implemented with CSR support from Intel. Speaking at the inauguration, Lokhande said, “The space…
CHENNAI: Empty roads, brisk biriyani sales, crowded juice stalls where youngsters boasted their inked fingers, cab drivers fleecing passengers – this was Chennai on April 23, when the city went to vote.As voting commenced, the characteristic hustle and bustle that defines the city disappeared. Public transport moved with lighter loads, cinema theatres opened only in…
Chandigarh’s Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32 Chandigarh: A 24-year-old junior resident was on Tuesday found dead next to some syringes inside a hospital’s trauma-centre bathroom in a suspected suicide that has devastated colleagues and sent police looking for his source of distress.Dr Yogesh Banga, a first-year postgraduate student in internal medicine at the…
Quote of the day by Queen Elizabeth II (Image source: Wikipedia) There are some quotes that become popular because they sound inspiring. Others stay in circulation because people keep finding situations where they seem relevant again. This remark from Queen Elizabeth II falls into the second category. It is not particularly dramatic. There is no…
Chandigarh: A multicentric study across Punjab and Chandigarh has flagged high levels of non-medical use and dependence on Pregabalin among patients undergoing treatment for substance-use disorders, prompting calls for urgent clinical and policy intervention.Pregabalin is a prescription medication commonly used to treat neuropathic pain, epilepsy, fibromyalgia and generalised anxiety disorder. The study, conducted by doctors…
Farmer’s donated park land becomes part of a data center deal (Representative AI image) A nearly three-decade-old land donation in Taylor, Texas, has become the subject of a legal dispute after property originally designated for future parkland was sold for a data centre project. The 87.97-acre tract was donated in 1999 for a nominal fee…
(Photo credit: X/@Greater Chennai Corporation) CHENNAI: Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) on Thursday doused a fire that broke out in plastic waste stockpiled at the old dump yard in Perungudi in two hours of the incident being reported.A total of nine water bowsers, three recyclors, three JCB excavators and 30 tanker loads of water were deployed…
