GUWAHATI: Assam home and political secretary Shiladitya Chetia, a 44-year-old IPS officer with a President’s gallantry medal to his name, fatally shot himself in the head with his service weapon in the ICU of a private hospital in Guwahati Tuesday, minutes after his wife died there of cancer.Chetia’s wife Agamoni Borbaruah, 40, died at Nemcare…
CHENNAI/PUDUCHERRY: A 26-year-old man, weighing 150 kg, died from complications during a weight-loss surgery at a private hospital in Chennai, prompting Tamil Nadu govt to order an enquiry, health minister Ma Subramanian informed his parents on Thursday. Hemachandran, from Puducherry, was carted into Pammal’s BP Jain Hospital operation theatre for metabolic and bariatric surgery at…
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…
COIMBATORE: Erode MP A Ganeshamoorthy who attempted suicide by consuming pesticide, died without responding to the treatment at a private hospital in Coimbatore city on Thursday. He took the extreme step after the MDMK party denied him a ticket to contest in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.The doctors at Kovai Medical Center and Hospital (KMCH…
