There is a need to explore diabetes, especially type 2 diabetes, from every possible dimension. The reason: it is spreading like wildfire. In the past 3 decades the prevalence of type 2 diabetes has risen dramatically in countries of all income levels, the World Health Organisation(WHO) says. In India, more than 100 million people are diabetic, a recently published study by the Madras Diabetes Research...
NEW DELHI: The Consulate General of India in Vancouver has requested Canadian authorities to investigate the recent incident of assault on an Indian national in Kelowna. Prompt action against the perpetrators has also been sought in the case, which saw a 17-year-old Sikh high school student getting assaulted at a bus stop after an altercation with another teenager in Canada's British Columbia province,...
NEW DELHI: India all-rounder Washington Sundar is set to join the India squad ahead of the Asia Cup final against Sri Lanka on Sunday. The 23-year-old Sundar has been picked as a replacement for Axar Patel, who experienced niggles during the Super Four encounter against Bangladesh, a match that India narrowly lost by six runs.It raises the likelihood of Axar missing out on the final, which will be...
Thane: The Thane ACB has arrested a senior clerk of Maharashtra Jeevan Pradhikaran (MJP) for allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 5,000 from a man for registering him as a contractor with the government body.The accused has been identified as Sripat Khade (52) who is attached to the office of MJP in Thane, informed an ACB official.The complainant had approached the accused and had asked him...
KOLKATA: The surge in dengue cases in the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) areas of Salt Lake and Rajarhat-Gopalpur continued with 358 new infections reported in the last one week. From January, the 1,391 people have been affected in the BMC areas so far this year. According to civic officials, around eight to 10 cases are being reported from each ward everyday on an average. In the last one...
COIMBATORE: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) sleuths on Saturday morning started searches in 22 places in Coimbatore, three places in Chennai and four places in Hyderabad.The searches are being conducted in a case related to an ISIS module.Jamesha Mubeen, an ISIS follower who drove a car with an improvised explosive device, died in an explosion in front of the Kottai Sangameshwarar Temple in...
NOIDA: A construction lift taking nine workers to the upper floors of a residential tower on Friday morning crashed to the ground from the 14th floor, leaving four of them dead and five others on ventilator support.The lift collapse - among the worst construction site accidents in recent years - was reported at Amrapali Dream Valley Phase 2 in Techzone 4 around 8.30am when around 7,000 workers at the...
MUMBAI: At its first cabinet meeting in Marathwada to be held on Saturday, after a gap of seven years, the Maharashtra government is set to clear a package of over Rs 40,000 crore for the backward region. This will include an outlay for irrigation, public works, agriculture and medical education. The state faces both Lok Sabha and assembly polls next year.The cabinet meeting is being held at Chhatrapati...
KALYAN: A 70-year-old retired bank employee and a 58-yearold man died, while the latter’s wife suffered multiple injuries after a portion of a ground-plus three-storey ‘dilapidated and dangerous’ building collapsed in Dombivli on Friday evening even as civic officials were forcibly evicting the residents. Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) officials were evicting the 50-odd residents...
MUMBAI: Tata Sons, holding company of the $150-billion Tata Group, will have to be ready for a stock market listing by September 2025 with the RBI classifying it as an ‘upper-layer’ NBFC, which requires greater regulatory compliance.If Tata Sons gets listed, it will be a windfall for its shareholders, including Tata Trusts. At an estimated valuation of Rs 11 lakh crore for Tata Sons, a 5% offering...
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