[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Every year, nearly 6 lakh babies in India are born with congenital anomalies. Yet, the country has no national registry to track them.With congenital conditions now accounting for a growing share of child deaths as infectious mortality declines, experts say the gap in surveillance and coordinated care is becoming urgent. India contributes…
[ad_1] File photo: BJP MP Ravi Shankar Prasad NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has constituted the committee of privileges, a key panel of the House which is tasked with looking into complaints of breach of privilege against a member and can even recommend expulsion.BJP MP Ravi Shankar Prasad will head the 15-member committee,…
[ad_1] Nitish’s son Nishant set for political launch ahead of Rajya Sabha election NEW DELHI: Nishant Kumar, the son of Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, is set to enter politics, a development which marks a reversal of his father’s abiding aversion to dynastic politics but owes as much to growing clamour within JDU as the…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: BJP on Tuesday slammed Sonia Gandhi’s denunciation of the government’s silence over the assassination of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a US-Israeli attack as the party recalled the deceased Iranian’s support for the secessionist forces in Kashmir and said diplomacy cannot be reduced to appeasement or performative politics.BJP’s foreign department…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Data centres have emerged as new targets, with Iran launching attacks on three such facilities in what is being seen as an attempt to destabilise operations.Three Amazon data centres – two in the UAE and one in Bahrain – were targeted by drones, disrupting cloud services and computing facilities in areas like…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: A special NIA court hearing the Pahalgam terror attack case in Jammu has issued a letter rogatory to the authorities concerned in China, seeking assistance to trace the supply chain and end-user details of a GoPro Hero Black 12 camera seized as part of the NIA investigation. Its purpose is to establish…
[ad_1] Evacuation drive: AI brought back 143 cockpit and cabin crew members of its and Air India Express flights who had been stranded in Dubai NEW DELHI: India is working to repatriate thousands of travellers stranded in West Asian countries such as the UAE and Qatar since February 28, using a mix of charters and…
[ad_1] JAMMU: Fifteen months before Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists killed 25 tourists and a Kashmiri pony handler at Baisaran in J&K’s Pahalgam on April 22 last year, a GoPro action camera now in NIA custody as a “crucial” piece of reconnaissance evidence was first activated in China’s Dongguan, investigators told a Jammu court this week.The special court…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: The Congress party on Tuesday released its first list of 42 candidates for the upcoming Assam Assembly elections, even before the poll schedule was officially announced, signalling an early start to its campaign in the poll-bound northeastern state.Assam Congress president and Lok Sabha MP Gaurav Gogoi has been fielded by the party…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Indian carriers have begun progressively resuming long-haul and ultra-long-haul operations by rerouting flights to avoid restricted airspace. In addition, special arrangements are being made to assist stranded passengers abroad.The ministry of civil aviation announced that a total of 24 flights are being operated by Indian carriers today, while Emirates and Etihad have…