NEW DELHI: Nearly 3 out of 10 people in India, aged between 18 and 54 years, have never got their blood pressure measured.This has been revealed by the ICMR – National Centre for Disease Informatics and Research (ICMR-NCDIR) in a study published recently in the International Journal of Public Health (IJPH).According to the ICMR-NCDIR study,…
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission is unlikely to intervene in the row over National Investigation Agency’s (NIA) action in Purba Medinipur district of West Bengal, as part of the latter’s probe into the December 2022 Bhupatinagar blast. Sources in EC told TOI that EC is of the view that the raids and arrests by the…
NEW DELHI: PM Modi has brushed aside China’s territorial claims on Arunachal Pradesh and asserted that the state “is an integral part of India and will always remain so”. He also said that timely intervention of the Centre and efforts of the Manipur govt led to marked improvement in the situation in the state.“Arunachal Pradesh…
SRINAGAR: A tourist taxi driver from New Delhi was shot and wounded by terrorists in J&K’s Shopian district Monday evening, marking the latest attack on non-Kashmiri workers in the Union territory amidst heavy security presence for the first phase of voting in the Lok Sabha elections on April 19.Paramjit Singh suffered two gunshot wounds in…
NEW DELHI: Robert Vadra, husband of Congress general secretary, on Monday hit out at the BJP-led Centre for targeting opposition leaders and destabilising their governments in the states.“Wherever we have our governments, they try to destablise them. People are watching this and they know why this is happening. People do not appreciate that elected governments…
NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress leaders, who brought the battle with BJP over central agencies “harassing” opposition leaders during elections, were detained by the Delhi Police on Monday, from outside the office of the Election Commission of India here, where they were holding a dharna demanding the chiefs of the ED, CBI, IT and NIA be…
NEW DELHI: On a day, the Aam Aadmi Party launched its campaign from the national capital making Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest the core of its Lok Sabha polls outreach with the slogan “jail ka jawab vote sey“, the leadership of the party also affirmed that its workers across states including where AAP is not…
NEW DELHI: With just over a fortnight remaining for the first phase of polling in Karnataka, Bangalore Rural, which has elected the same candidate thrice, is hotting up with NDA pushing a renowned cardiologist from a leading political family into the fray. TOI caught up with Congress’ DK Suresh, the three-time MP vying to retain…
LUDHIANA: A doctor at a private hospital in Jagraon played famous singer Sidhu Moosewala‘s song while operating on a three-and-a-half-year-old boy injured in a road accident. During the operation, the doctor played a Punjabi song “Jatt Di Mashook Biba Russia Toon” in the operation theatre prompting the child to groove on the beats while being…
NEW DELHI: He argued that this discrepancy would lead to Indian soldiers, termed as “Agniveers,” facing significant challenges in combat situations.Gandhi attributed the conceptualisation of the “Agniveer Yojana” to the Prime Minister, stating that the Army opposes the scheme. He pledged that if the Congress comes to power, they would abolish the recruitment initiative, asserting…
