KOLKATA: Bengal recorded the first kala-azar death of the year on Wednesday when a 47-year-old man succumbed to the infection at a Kolkata hospital. Avadesh Paswan, the victim, was a resident of Bihar who fell ill during a visit to his in-laws' place in Howrah's Bally. With this, the state has recorded 10 kala-azar cases this year till August. In Bengal, Habibpur in Malda is known to be endemic for...
THE TIMES OF INDIA | Oct 05, 2023, 10:27:43 ISTFourteen people have died and 102 others, including 22 army personnel, were missing after the cloudburst over Lhonak Lake in North Sikkim triggered a flash flood in the Teesta river basin, officials said on Thursday. So far, 2,011 people have been rescued, while the calamity that happened on Wednesday affected 22,034 people, the Sikkim State Disaster...
How is Vande bharat express changing landscape of Indian Railways? | Upcoming routes & models In 2019, PM Modi flagged off the first Vande Bharat Express. Since, then, the trains have been functional across 34 routes in the country. With the emergence of Vande Bharat, the landscape of the Indian railways...
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NEW DELHI: BJP on Wednesday claimed that chief minister Arvind Kejriwal was the "kingpin" of the alleged liquor scam, adding that the CM was coming closer to "handcuffs".Party spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia claimed that Dinesh Arora, one of the accused in the case, had told the probe agency that he had paid a bribe to Kejriwal. "Arora has admitted that he paid Rs 32 lakh as a bribe to Kejriwal by a cheque...
MUMBAI: A steady deterioration in Mumbai's air quality has been observed between 2019 and 2023. In contrast, Delhi's and Lucknow's air quality improved, although both cities initially had worse air quality levels than Mumbai. Carcinogenic PM2.5 concentrations during the peak pollution months (October-March) were studied in six major state capitals -- Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Lucknow, and Patna...
NEW DELHI: Google on Thursday launched its official doodle for the opening day of ICC Men's World Cup 2023 in India.Open Google on your smartphones, laptops, tablets, etc., and the first thing that pops up will be the Google doodle where two ducks are seen running across the stumps and playing cricket. It is the 13th edition of the World Cup since its start in 1975. Ten national squads are set to...
BHIWANDI: A container truck loaded with iron angle overturned on the Mumbai-Nashik highway late on Tuesday night, injuring two persons and damaging six vehicles. The accident resulted in a 20-km-long traffic and affected vehicular movement for over 12 hours. The Bhiwandi rural police said the container truck carrying angles was coming from Nashik when it suddenly overturned on the highway at Yevai...
MUMBAI: Roughly 40 children under the age of one die in Maharashtra every day. About two-thirds of those who die are less than a month old.Consider Nanded, where 24 deaths occurred in a 24-hour period in Shankarrao Chavan Hospital. Of them, 12 were newborns between one and three days old. Six of the newborns had respiratory distress. "It needs to be assessed if manual ambu bags (manual resuscitators)...
MUMBAI: A day after deputy CM Ajit Pawar skipped the state Cabinet meeting, apparently making his displeasure known on delay in appointment of guardian ministers for various districts, and CM Eknath Shinde and deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis left for New Delhi to hold talks with the BJP leadership, Ajit was appointed the guardian minister for Pune, replacing BJP leader Chandrakant Patil.While the CM...
BHUBANESWAR: Odisha erupted in joy as local boy Kishore Jena clinched silver medal with his personal best performance (87.54m) in men’s javelin at the ongoing Asian Games in China’s Hangzhou. Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday announced Rs 1.5 crore for the javelin star.Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Kishore for this achievement. “Our accomplishments in Men's Javelin at...
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