Hyderabad: The indiscriminate use of steroid-based creams for fungal infections, itching and skin rashes is contributing to a growing burden of antifungal resistance (AFR), skin specialists in Hyderabad have warned.Experts said the trend is a part of the antimicrobial resistance (AMR), where microorganisms become less responsive to treatment for itching and rashes, but in this…
TNNColva: Colva police arrested Isidoreo Souza of Betalbatim on Friday evening under various provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007, for allegedly brutally assaulting his 83-year-old father.Isidoreo’s wife, Irene Gonsalves, has also been booked for the same offence but was not arrested at…
Gandhinagar: The state govt has a launched large-scale relief and restoration drive in Surat after the floods, officials said on Friday. Deputy chief minister Harsh Sanghavi chaired an emergency high-level review meeting late on Thursday night at the Surat collector’s office. The meeting was attended by all district coordination officers, senior officials of the Surat…
Vehicles crawl through a waterlogged stretch in Mohali on Friday as heavy rain inundated several roads, triggering traffic snarls and disrupting the morning commute Mohali: Heavy rain Friday disrupted normal life across Mohali district, with waterlogged roads causing traffic chaos and leaving thousands of commuters stranded during peak office hours. Critical stretches in Derabassi, Zirakpur,…
Pune: The Lonavla City police are searching for a man from Satara district who allegedly duped at least 10 job aspirants of Rs 25 lakh by posing as an Indian Navy officer and promising them jobs in the force.The accused allegedly issued fake appointment letters to the victims. A 56-year-old employee of a defence establishment…
Lucknow: The UP govt has launched an exercise to expand foodgrain and farm produce storage capacity by at least two lakh metric tonnes (MT). District magistrates have been directed to identify and secure suitable govt land for constructing new warehouses and cooperative godowns.The move comes amid concerns raised by the Food Corporation of India (FCI)…
JAIPUR: The family of nine-year-old Amaira Meena, who died after allegedly jumping from the fourth floor of Neerja Modi School last year, has alleged that the police chargesheet filed in the case is incomplete and demanded the arrest of all those they hold responsible, including the school’s principal and founder.Addressing a press conference along with…
India and New Zealand on Saturday officially elevated their ties to strategic partnership as Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on an official visit to Auckland at the invitation of Prime Minister Christopher Luxon.PM Modi and his counterpart Luxon inked 18 agreements, setting out an ambitious framework to deepen cooperation across trade, agriculture, security, innovation and…
Passed Info To US Officials This Week, Details Not Given Israel has shared fresh intelligence with the US alleging that Iran recently developed a new plan to assassinate US President Donald Trump, according to multiple media reports.The Wall Street Journal reported that Israel passed the intelligence to US officials this week. Concurrently, CNN, citing two…
CHENNAI: Indian govt is set to establish its first dedicated marine export zones (MEZs) as special economic zones (SEZs) to strengthen the country’s seafood exports ecosystem, with investments of around $1 billion in integrated export infrastructure.The five MEZs, to be developed across coastal Tamil Nadu as a pilot initiative, will serve as integrated clusters comprising…
