HAVERI: A nurse at Aduru primary health centre in Karnataka’s Haveri has been suspended for resorting to an unorthodox treatment-using FeviKwik glue instead of sutures to close a deep gash on a seven-year-old boy’s right cheek. Her reasoning? Stitches would leave an “ugly scar” on the child’s face.Gurukrishna Annappa Hosamani suffered facial and leg injuries…
NEW DELHI: Cracking the whip on domestic private sector companies that are using Chinese components in drones being supplied to the armed forces, the defence establishment has now scrapped three contracts for the induction of 400 logistics drones by the Army.The defence establishment is also putting a “stringent mechanism” in place to ensure the military…
NAGPUR: Harpreet Laliya, alias Roshan, was sold on the prospect of earning Rs 4 lakh a month driving a taxi in Canada. So, he bartered his family gold, two trucks and a debt-free life in his native Nagpur for a Rs 50 lakh gamble on reaching the US-Mexico border – supposedly the gateway to what…
NEW DELHI: Three more exit polls released on Thursday have all given BJP a decisive victory in the Delhi assembly polls with the lowest estimate by any of them for the saffron party being 45 seats in the 70-member House.Axis My India gave BJP 45 to 55 seats with AAP trailing well behind at 15…
NEW DELHI: After the United States deported 104 illegal Indian immigrants, information surfaced on online space from the stories of how exactly the agents threw them onto US soil without any chance to go back to camping in a Panama jungle. A video surfaced online reportedly showing Indians including women and children camping in a…
NEW DELHI: India on Thursday condemned the vandalism of founding father of Bangladesh Sheikh Mujibur Rehman‘s residence in Dhaka and said that it is regrettable. On Wednesday demonstrators gathered near Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s residence in Dhaka- now a memorial museum— responding to a social media call for a “Bulldozer Procession” coinciding with Hasina’s speech.“It is…
Haryana minister Anil Vij NEW DELHI: Haryana minister Anil Vij said on Thursday that US President Donald Trump is not wrong in his decision to deport illegal immigrants from the US, adding that every country has the right to expel those who enter it illegally.Vij’s remark came after 104 illegal Indian immigrants were deported in…
NEW DELHI: Bahraich in Uttar Pradesh has been witnessing an ugly consequence of human-wildlife conflict, with wild a leopard loitering unrestrained in the city, which only last year dealt with the menace of wolves.Five people were injured in Bahraich’s Bargadwa village on Thursday in recent incidents of leopard attacks, which have petrified the hamlet. “Leopard…
NEW DELHI: Two speeches of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Parliament in the space of two days … first a day before the Delhi assembly elections and the second a day after voting in Delhi was over. What was the difference? Well, the second speech had no references to “sheesh mahal” and “AAP-da” unlike the…
NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Thursday briefed Parliament on the recent deportation of 104 illegal Indian immigrants from the United States. Clarifying that the deportation process “was not a new one” and had been ongoing for several years, Jaishankar informed Rajya Sabha that a total of 15,668 illegal Indian immigrants have been…
