Sixteen newborns admitted to the Jawaharlal Nehru hospital in Ajmer have died in the last two weeks, causing consternation in the State. While five newborns admitted to the hospital’s neonatal unit died on the intervening night of May 15 and May 16, 11 deaths were reported in subsequent days, Chief Medical and Health Officer, Ajmer, Dr. K.K. Soni said. A […]
» Read moreFive persons, including one juvenile, were arrested on Sunday in connection with the attack on Africans in South Delhi’s Mehrauli area. They were identified as Babu, Om Prakash, Ajay and Rahul. The victims include a Nigerian couple and their young son, a Cameroonian brother-sister duo returning from a hospital, a Ugandan hairstylist standing outside her shop and another Nigerian young […]
» Read moreV Narayanansamy has been named the Congress’s pick to be the new Chief Minister of Puducherry. A heated contest had broken out within the party’s local unit over who will occupy the Chief Minister’s seat and this has delayed the government formation in the Union Territory. Narayanasamy had served as the Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office in […]
» Read moreGujarat BJP leader Purushottam Rupala is set to be nominated to the Rajya Sabha from the State to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Congress member Pravin Rashtrapal. Mr. Rupala will go to the Rajya Sabha for the remaining tenure of Rashtrapal’s term. “The State BJP has recommended Rupala’s name for the seat. The central parliamentary board will […]
» Read moreISRO today said it will launch a record 22 satellites in a single mission next month. “After the current reusable launch vehicle, the next experiment what we have to do we have to worry about that. Other than that, next month we have a launch where we will be launching about 22 satellites. Also one of a cartographic series satellite […]
» Read moreWith less than two months to go before the world’s top athletes and hundreds of thousands of sport lovers head to Rio de Janeiro for Olympics 2016, the city’s image has taken a severe beating with a gang-rape of a 16-year-old girl by more than 30 men in an impoverished favela (slum) of the city. The girl’s nightmare began last […]
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