India’s quiet overtesting crisis (AI-generated image) Walk into any diagnostics lab in a major Indian city and you will likely be handed a laminated menu, not of food, but of the body. Silver package, gold package, platinum package. Forty tests, sixty tests, ninety. Fasting blood sugar, thyroid panels, vitamin D, cardiac markers, tumour markers, all…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s call for compassion towards students accused of abusing him at the Jantar Mantar protest has triggered a fresh response, with Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke questioning whether the message of forgiveness would extend beyond words.Reacting to the Prime Minister’s selfie-style Instagram video, Dipke wrote, “Fraand, sirf reel…
The court stressed that maintaining cleanliness is a fundamental duty and called for strict action against offenders. (Generative image) NEW DELHI: The Bombay high court on Friday came down heavily on Indians who litter public places at home but follow cleanliness rules abroad, saying the same people who “throw garbage on the road without batting…
NEW DELHI: The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has launched a fresh enforcement drive against food business operators, issuing a product recall, suspending a manufacturing licence and prohibiting the sale of a health supplement over serious violations of food safety regulations.In one action, FSSAI ordered M/s Sun Organic Industries Pvt Ltd to…
Lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha condemned the latest attac. NEW DELHI: The death toll in Friday night’s terror attack on migrant labourers in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam rose to two on Saturday after a Chhattisgarh worker succumbed to injuries in hospital, officials told news agency PTI.The attack took place late Friday night in the Kelam area…
NEW DELHI: India has screened 10,974 international travellers arriving from Ebola-affected countries since May 23 after the World Health Organization declared the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), with no case detected in the country so far, the Centre informed Parliament on Friday.The government said surveillance and preparedness were intensified…
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi said on Friday he will forgive young protesters accused of abusing him and his late mother, saying they are misguided children and it is “our job to show them the right way”.In a video message, Modi said punishing these youth and making them run around courts will not change circumstances,…
NEW DELHI: Average rainfall in India during the second half of monsoon season (Aug-Sept) is most likely to be ‘below normal’, IMD said Friday, flagging the continuing risk of El Niño, which is associated with a weak monsoon.Last month, IMD had cited El Niño’s impact to forecast below normal rains in July. The month’s rainfall…
Nearly 16.4% of the electorate in Haryana and 10.8% in Andhra Pradesh were excluded in draft voter rolls published for the two states Friday as part of phase 3 of special intensive revision (SIR).In Haryana, the total strength of electors in the draft roll was 83.6% of 2.1 crore at the start of SIR on…
NEW DELHI: Petrol would have cost around Rs 125 a litre in the national capital when global crude prices touched $135 a barrel had oil companies not blended ethanol into the auto fuel, the petroleum ministry said on Friday, defending the programme against what it described as “misleading” claims about its costs, impact on food…
