Over 120 doctors and health experts from Delhi and neighbouring regions were on Monday imparted training at AIIMS in “clinical management” of dengue to equip them to ably handle the rush of patients suffering from the vector-borne disease. The programme assumes significance with Delhi reporting two more deaths from dengue and the total number of cases of the vector-borne disease in the Read More

Debutant director Rajeev Chaudhari, who is gearing up for the release of the upcoming film Beiimaan Love, says the movie will establish actress Sunny Leone as a mainstream heroine. There were reports that the One Night Stand actress will not be promoting Beiimaan Love, which also stars Rajneesh Duggal and Daniel Weber. Asked if the reports are true, Chaudhari told Read More

The West Bengal government has decided to absorb employees of three closed state public sector undertakings and develop the land as industrial parks. According to a senior minister, the decision was cleared at a Cabinet meeting at the state secretariat on Wednesday to absorb employees of Neo Pipes and Tubes Ltd, National Iron and Steel Ltd and the Lily Products Ltd and use the lands for industrial Read More

New entrant Reliance Jio Infocomm has accused existing operators of releasing lesser number of interconnection ports for the ongoing test run of its 4G services. “Based on industry practice, 12,500 E1 ports are required for 22 million subscribers, which details have been provided to the COAI member operators. As against this, the top 3 operators have released only 1,400 ports so far,” a Reliance Jio Spokesperson said Read More

Global economic crisis will continue to drive the demand for gold and silver worldwide, with appetite for the yellow metal likely to pick up in India in the second half of 2016 on the back of festive season and Pay Commission award, industry experts said. The demand for gold in the domestic market is expected to pick up in the second Read More

The Delhi High Court on Friday upheld the trial court order summoning liquor baron Vijay Mallya as an accused in several cheque-bouncing cases filed against him by Delhi airport operator DIAL, saying being incharge of the company he was “equally liable to be prosecuted”. Justice P S Teji refused to quash the summons issued to Mallya and said “the trial court Read More

Coverage of Hepatitis B vaccine at birth in India should be doubled by 2020 from the current 45 per cent by addressing the administrative and logistic issues to safeguard the young against the deadly disease, according to the World Health Organisation. WHO representative to India, Henk Bekedam, described “the administration of Hepatitis B dose within 24 hours of birth as Read More

Hathighisa in Naxalbari is about 560 km from the south Kolkata nursing home where author and activist Mahasweta Devi spent her last few months. Yet, the Magsaysay award winner and Padma Vibhushan, who died on Thursday, is almost a local deity in the seat of the Naxalbari movement of the 1960s. “I was an unlettered woman when I picked up Read More

Pakistan on Thursday said it is unaware if there will be any talks on the table between Islamabad and New Delhi on the sidelines of seventh SAARC meeting on August 4, in wake of Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh visit to the country. Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a statement, pointed that on such occasions, there are expectation of Read More

Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar today said though ruling BJP is “ideologically” opposed to casinos, his government has to follow the law in granting permission to these entities. Conceding that he has legal constraints as head of government, Parsekar told the Legislative Assembly that law can be amended to restrict these “onshore gambling dens” within two km from coast. “The Read More