Kolkata: Even as Ayushman Bharat patient count has started rising across private hospitals in Kolkata, the first high-end procedure under the scheme was performed on Saturday. A 34-year-old Kolkata resident, admitted on Friday, underwent an aortic valve replacement — an expensive, life-saving and high-end cardiac procedure — at Charnock Hospital.Patient Dipankar Singh, admitted under cardiothoracic…
The Mumbai–Ahmedabad Bullet Train project has successfully completed the launching of viaduct over the Kalupur railway overbridge (ROB) over the Sabarmati-Mumbai main line (Western Railways) in Ahmedabad city Ahmedabad: The Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project completed the launching of a viaduct span over the Kalupur flyover in Ahmedabad, a key railway overbridge on the Western Railway’s…
Patiala: The ‘Satluj’ row has jolted Punjab Police into launching a discreet search for one of the characters portrayed in the movie — former DSP Jaspal Singh, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in the 1995 abduction and murder of human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra.Jaspal, who was in Nabha Open Jail, was granted bail…
Lucknow: A 42-year-old sanitation worker at Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee (Civil) Hospital regained her speech and movement in her right arm and leg after receiving timely treatment for an acute ischaemic stroke at the hospital’s newly launched stroke unit.The woman suddenly lost consciousness towards the end of her shift and was taken to the ICU…
Former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar died on Thursday Jalandhar: Congress leaders paying tributes to late MP Sajjan Kumar, a convict in the Nov 1984 Sikh massacre cases in Delhi, has attracted sharp reaction from members of the Sikh community . The BJP and the Shiromani Akali Dal, too, launched scathing attacks on the Congress over…
Ahmedabad: The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) is set to prepare a 30-year master plan (up to 2057) for the city’s drainage and stormwater network. It proposed appointing IIT Gandhinagar for the exercise at a cost of Rs 8 crore. The proposal will be placed before the standing committee for approval at its meeting on Wednesday.According…
Fatehpur, situated between two major cities Kanpur and Prayagraj, is historically counted among Uttar Pradesh’s most underdeveloped regions, Fatehpur district stood for decades as a case study in rural distress. Hindered by severe deficits in basic infrastructure, inadequate healthcare, stagnant agricultural growth, and high rates of unemployment, the region struggled to break free from economic…
Hyderabad: With hundreds of schools forced to shut down book stalls on the campus every year, the school managements on Friday asked the director of school education to ensure that officials do not seize books or seal book counters at least this year.‘No-profit, no-loss basis’In a representation to the education department, managements claim that they…
PC: Kay Behrensmeyer, Smithsonian Long before stone tools or bones tell their part of the story, footprints can preserve something far more immediate. They capture movement rather than anatomy, recording where an individual walked, how they placed their feet, and sometimes who was travelling beside them. A newly described set of fossil footprints from northern…
IMA president Dr Santosh Kulkarni said that if the government continues to remain indifferent and fails to provide legal protection through an ordinance, the fraternity will be compelled to undertake a 24-hour withdrawal of services next week as a token protest Mumbai: The state unit of Indian Medical Association (IMA) said it was calling off…
