India’s quiet overtesting crisis (AI-generated image) Walk into any diagnostics lab in a major Indian city and you will likely be handed a laminated menu, not of food, but of the body. Silver package, gold package, platinum package. Forty tests, sixty tests, ninety. Fasting blood sugar, thyroid panels, vitamin D, cardiac markers, tumour markers, all…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday inaugurated the Alluri Sitarama Raju International Airport at Bhogapuram in Andhra Pradesh‘s Vizianagaram district, a nearly Rs 5,000 crore project that the state government says will transform North Andhra into a major economic and industrial hub.The PM was accorded a grand ceremonial welcome, with around 13,500 tribal…
The attack took place late on Friday evening in the Kelam area of south Kashmir, where unidentified gunmen opened fire on the workers NEW DELHI: Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday announced an ex gratia payment of Rs 10 lakh each for the families of two migrant labourers from Chhattisgarh who were…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s call for compassion towards students accused of abusing him at the Jantar Mantar protest has triggered a fresh response, with Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke questioning whether the message of forgiveness would extend beyond words.Reacting to the Prime Minister’s selfie-style Instagram video, Dipke wrote, “Fraand, sirf reel…
Jairam Ramesh accuses PM Modi of playing ‘victim card’ NEW DELHI: Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Saturday criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his remarks about “forgiving” the country’s youth.He said the Prime Minister should instead apologise over a range of issues, including alleged exam paper leaks, the treatment of student protesters, demonetisation and the…
NEW DELHI: The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has launched a fresh enforcement drive against food business operators, issuing a product recall, suspending a manufacturing licence and prohibiting the sale of a health supplement over serious violations of food safety regulations.In one action, FSSAI ordered M/s Sun Organic Industries Pvt Ltd to…
The court stressed that maintaining cleanliness is a fundamental duty and called for strict action against offenders. (Generative image) NEW DELHI: The Bombay high court on Friday came down heavily on Indians who litter public places at home but follow cleanliness rules abroad, saying the same people who “throw garbage on the road without batting…
Lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha condemned the latest attac. NEW DELHI: The death toll in Friday night’s terror attack on migrant labourers in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam rose to two on Saturday after a Chhattisgarh worker succumbed to injuries in hospital, officials told news agency PTI.The attack took place late Friday night in the Kelam area…
As thousands gathered near the border, Moroccan security forces used batons and tear gas to push back crowds Spain said on Friday that it had regained control of a massive migrant surge into its North African enclave of Ceuta, with most of the more than 50,000 people who crossed the border by land and sea…
NEW DELHI: A 52-year-old BSF constable who recently returned from the Democratic Republic of Congo as part of an Indian UN peacekeeping contingent has been admitted to the isolation ward at the Ebola Nursing Home of Dr Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) Hospital after developing fever during mandatory quarantine, triggering Ebola surveillance protocols.The constable, who arrived…