NEW DELHI: Some of the most common infections – urinary tract, pneumonia, sepsis and diarrhoeal illnesses – are becoming increasingly harder to treat in India as widely used antibiotics continue to fail at alarming rates.ICMR’s annual report 2024 ‘Antimicrobial Resistance Research & Surveillance Network (AMRSN)’, showed that routine drugs like fluoroquinolones, third-generation cephalosporins, carbapenems and…
Lucknow: The Yogi Adityanath govt is moving towards implementing a comprehensive strategy focused on infrastructure and industrial expansion, an official spokesperson said on Thursday.“The development of the vision document for ‘Viksit Uttar Pradesh 2047’ is ongoing, and the govt has received suggestions from over 98 lakh citizens and stakeholders so far. The majority of these…
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi with Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav during the ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’ (PTI) NEW DELHI: Disproportionate focus on SIR/vote chori at the cost of crucial local issues of cost of living, migration and corruption was cited by some senior functionaries as a reason for the decimation of Congress in…
Lucknow: World Junior Championships silver medallist Tanvi Sharma and Uganda International Challenge winner Manraj Singh pulled off major upsets at the Syed Modi International Super 300 at the UP Badminton Academy on Thursday.The 16-year-old Tanvi defeated former world champion Nozomi Okuhara 13-21, 21-16, 21-19, while Manraj got the better of third seed and 2023 World…
P K Mishra, principal secretary to PM Modi (File photo) NEW DELHI: To make civil services future ready and to achieve the goal of a developed India, the principal secretary to PM, P K Mishra, Thursday suggested three guiding principles — “reorienting the purpose of civil services to developmental state, re-imagining selection to identify deeply…
NEW DELHI: ED Thursday conducted searches at 15 locations across 10 states in an alleged bribery-related probe against officials of NMC and promoters of private medical colleges for manipulation of regulatory frameworks. Medical colleges and their promoters covered under the latest ED action are based in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra, MP, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Bihar,…
Lucknow: A colourful venue, adorned with fairy lights leading way to a stage where literature, culture and academia took centrestage.The event was inaugurated by academician Nishi Pandey, theatre personality Sandeep Yadav, entrepreneur and movie producer Ajay Jain and founder of the festival, Prashant Kumar Singh.Pandey said, “As an academician, I often observed that I taught…
NEW DELHI/CHANDIGARH: In a breakthrough for Panjab University’s long-stalled governance process, Vice-President C P Radhakrishnan – in his capacity as the university’s chancellor – has approved the schedule for the senate elections, setting the stage for a full restoration of the institution’s decades-old democratic structure. The communication, issued by the VP’s Secretariat to PU vice-chancellor…
Lucknow: Basic Education department has uncovered what appears to be a systematic and multi-year embezzlement of Mid-Day Meal (MDM) funds to the tune of Rs 11 crore in Balrampur district.The FIR was lodged against district MDM coordinator Firoz Ahmad Khan late Wednesday night in Kotwali Balrampur. Khan, posted since 2008, has been booked for allegedly…
NEW DELHI: Congress on Thursday lashed out at the governing BJP over Rajya Sabha Secretariat’s directive to MPs not to use slogans like ‘Vande Mataram‘ and ‘Jai Hind’ in Parliament in order to maintain decorum. In a veiled reference to RSS, the party alleged that the people who did not join the freedom movement and…
