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J-K Students Association writes to PM Modi, seeking safety of Indian medical students amid protests in Bangladesh Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], December 23 (ANI): The Jammu and Kashmir Students Association (JKSA) on Monday wrote to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking urgent intervention to ensure the safety and well-being of Indian medical students currently…

CHENNAI: A tiny needle system that sends cancer drugs directly into breast cancer cells, while protecting healthy ones, has been developed by researchers from IIT Madras and two Australian universities – Monash University and Deakin University. The nanotechnology injection delivery system packs the anticancer drug, doxorubicin, into special protective bubbles, then pushes it inside cells…

Representative photo (ANI) LUCKNOW: Visibility loss caused by dense fog triggered three fatal accidents in UP, killing three people in Sultanpur district, two in Kanpur district and four in Bijnor.In Sultanpur, a speeding MUV ferrying 11 people from Lucknow to Azamgarh rammed into a cattle-loaded truck broke down on Purvanchal Expressway Monday. While Sikander Khan…

NEW DELHI: The disclosures made by political parties to Election Commission, after assembly elections in Delhi earlier this year, revealed BJP at Centre, and also in the state now, has a bank balance of over Rs 6,900 crore.Its rival and the grand old party, Congress, at the same time, has merely Rs 53 crore, both…

New Delhi: Delhi high court Monday sought responses from Congress MPs Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and other accused on an ED plea challenging a trial court order that refused to take cognisance of the agency’s charge-sheet in the National Herald money laundering case, while declining to grant any immediate stay.Justice Ravinder Dudeja issued notice on…

NEW DELHI: BJP on Monday dismissed Sonia Gandhi’s criticism of MGNREGA’s rollback as a flight of her “political fancy”, asserting that the VB-G RAM G law is not a demolition of the UPA-era Act but a repair job aimed at renewal and expansion of social protection in an India in the throes of change.BJP’s IT…

KOLKATA: A day after a group of minority community members in Bangladesh met the family of Dipu Chandra Das – a Hindu man who was lynched by a mob at Mymensingh – and posted about their plight on social media, donations from India and other countries, including US and Singapore, poured in for his impoverished…

KULLU: A doctor at Shimla’s Indira Gandhi Medical College and Hospital (IGMC) was suspended on Monday after he brutally assaulted a patient, who protested at being called ‘tu’ and asked for some politeness. A video of the incident, shot by an attendant, shows a doctor in surgical mask repeatedly punching the patient, Arjun Panwar, 36,…

SRINAGAR: Two days after J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah said the name of the new rural employment guarantee scheme, G RAM G, reminded him of Bollywood film ‘Ji Mummy Ji’, BJP on Monday accused him of ridiculing people’s faith.At a press briefing, BJP spokesperson Abhijeet Jasrotia said the CM should have refrained from commenting on…

Gurugram: Members of ‘Aravalli Bachao Sanstha’ stage a demonstration as part of the Save Aravalli movement, near the residence of Haryana minister Rao Narbir Singh, in Gurugram. (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: A day after clarifying how only 0.19% of the total 1.44 lakh sq km area of Aravalli can be eligible for mining, Union environment…