NEW DELHI: The Army will roll out a new combined physical test (CPT) from April next year, under which even senior officers like Brigadiers, Major Generals and Lt Generals will have to prove fitness twice a year. CPT merges the existing battle physical efficiency test (BPET), for officers and soldiers up to the age of…
NEW DELHI: The World Health Organization (WHO) has asked India’s central drug regulatory authority, CDSCO, if the cough syrups allegedly responsible for the deaths had been exported. “Based on the response, WHO may decide on whether to issue a medical product alert or not,” said a source. Source link
NAVI MUMBAI: PM Modi said here on Wednesday that Congress should tell the nation who had caved in to foreign pressure and prevented India from mounting a military response to the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. Referring to a recent interview of P Chidambaram, PM Modi said, without naming him, “A Congress neta, who has been…
Chief minister Pramod Sawant held discussions with officials from Barca Academy Panaji: Chief minister Pramod Sawant held discussions with officials from Barca Academy on the support required from the state govt for setting up an academy in Goa.The Barca Academy is operative in over 50 different countries, taking the famous FC Barcelona values to more…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed the central government’s plea seeking victim- and society-centric guidelines for award of sentences, particularly death sentences, in place of the present system which is accused-centric and takes into consideration various mitigating factors relating to convicts.The central government also sought a directive for the introduction of a timeframe…
BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh deputy CM and health minister Rajendra Shukla on Wednesday visited the homes of two-year-old Nihal Dhurvey and four-year-old Kabir Yadav in Betul district, whose families said they died of renal failure after taking Coldrif cough syrup.TOI had reported how the boys’ fathers had been pleading with officials to acknowledge that their sons’…
BHOPAL/NAGPUR: The cough syrup tragedy spread beyond MP’s Chhindwara on Wednesday, with the state confirming three deaths from neighbouring Betul and Pandhurna districts. The toll rose to 21, with another death in Chhindwara, even as CM Mohan Yadav admitted to lapses, saying, “Chook se dukh hota hai”. Chhindwara has reported 18 deaths, while five kids…
Villagers taking an oath to save the Ambarappar hills from the neutrino project In the Western Ghats of Tamil Nadu, an ambitious plan to build a neutrino observatory (INO) once promised to place the country at the forefront of particle physics. After more than two decades of scientific preparation, political pushback, environmental concerns, and institutional…
File photo (Picture credit: ANI) SRINAGAR: J&K Police’s State Investigation Agency (SIA) conducted extensive searches at eight locations across seven districts in the Union Territory on Wednesday. The agency stated that the raids were related to a “sleeper cell module operating in the valley at the behest of terrorist commanders of proscribed outfits Lashkar-e-Taiba and…
BHOPAL: The first cases of children’s deaths in Madhya Pradesh after consuming cough syrup were reported on September 3, but it was only on September 16 that the administration recognised the severity of the situation and began a survey to check children’s health in Parasia block of Chhindwara district.The exercise gained pace two days later,…
