Sikkim recorded the highest incidence among Northeast states, with 374 dengue cases in 2024. Using the state’s revised population estimate, the dengue incidence was 57.9 per lakh. NEW DELHI: Climate change, deforestation, unplanned urbanisation and poor drainage are creating conditions for mosquitoes and other disease-carrying vectors to spread into new areas of the Northeast, a…
Soumitra Nandi and Roshan GuptaKolkata/ DarjeelingKolkataIn the wake of the recent tragedy in Nepal, Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday said the centre and the state would jointly undertake an early scientific assessment of the vulnerabilities of the Himalayan region. Adhikari from a programme at Nabanna Sabhaghar formally launched a new 200-member state level region…
MUMBAI: A govt college is under scrutiny for allegedly outsourcing its courses to private entities to run high-fee courses from its campus even as aided programmes were cut back to make room for them.The state has ordered an inquiry into Sydenham College after a complaint alleged that two self-financed programmes, together potentially generating around Rs…
A 15-year-old girl died at AIIMS Delhi after a long wait for corrective heart surgery NEW DELHI: A 15-year-old girl from Kota, who had been visiting AIIMS Delhi from the age of two for a complex congenital heart defect, died in the hospital early Tuesday, 14 days after TOI reported her family’s long wait for…
Chennai: Hundred days after the TVK govt took office, the municipal administration and water supply (MAWS) department floated more than 1,000 tenders for several low and high-value civic works across the 25 corporations and municipalities. The tenders are seeing competitive bidding, saving upto 30% of project costs to the exchequer.TOI analysed about 10 random tenders…
Patna: Justice Harish Kumar of Patna high court will head the Bihar govt’s recently constituted Expert Committee on Examination Reforms.The general administration department on Tuesday issued a notification appointing Justice Harish Kumar, a serving judge of the Patna high court, as the chairperson of the committee.The notification follows chief minister Samrat Choudhary’s recent announcement of…
কাঠমাণ্ডু : প্রতিবেশী দেশের দিকে সাহায্যের হাত বাড়িয়ে দিয়েছে ভারত। নেপালের সঙ্কট জনক পরিস্থিতিতে দু’দফায় সাড়ে ৪৭ টন ত্রাণ নিয়ে পৌঁছেছে ভারত। বায়ুসেনার বিমানে দফায় দফায় পৌঁছেছে ত্রাণ। কিন্তু এবার ভারত সহ আরও কয়েকটি দেশের থেকে ক্ষতিপূরণ দাবি করার কথা শোনা গেল নেপালের বিদেশমন্ত্রীর মুখে। তাঁর মতে, এই ঘটনা একটি আকস্মিক বিপর্যয় নয়, বরং সুদীর্ঘ…
चेहरे की खूबसूरती बढ़ाने से लेकर बालों को चमकदार और मजबूत बनाने तक, एलोवेरा जेल हर ब्यूटी रूटीन का एक बेहद अहम हिस्सा है. अक्सर लोग बाजार में मिलने वाले डिब्बा बंद एलोवेरा जेल का इस्तेमाल करते हैं, जिसमें कई तरह के केमिकल्स, प्रिजर्वेटिव्स और आर्टिफिशियल रंग मिले होते हैं. अगर आपके घर में एलोवेरा का…
NEW DELHI: The English vocabulary sometimes feels the loss for words while describing what Viswanathan Anand is to India and its chess legacy. There is a particular kind of stillness that follows the Chennai-born Grandmaster into a room, the stillness of a man who solved most of what chess could throw at him decades ago…
The procedure, however, clearly reduces AF. Seven-day heart monitoring detected AF in 21% of patients after ablation, compared with 41% after the dummy procedure. NEW DELHI: A procedure widely used to treat atrial fibrillation (AF), an irregular heartbeat, cuts abnormal heart-rhythm episodes but may not itself be responsible for the improvement in patients’ quality of…
