New Delhi: A first-year MBBS student at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling fan of his hostel room on Saturday, after, claim his friends, facing severe discrimination at the institute. Anil Kumar Meena hailed from a village in Rajasthan. His friends are boycotting classes on Monday as a mark of protest. They claim he was struggling to cope with English...
11:27 AM, Mar 05, 2012
New Delhi: A medical student, who was disturbed over his academic performance, committed suicide by hanging himself from a ceiling fan in his hostel room in All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in south Delhi. According to the police, Anil Kumar Meena, 22, from Baran district in Rajasthan, was found hanging from a ceiling fan in his hostel room on Sunday. No suicide note was recovered. "Meena had been...
09:49 PM, Mar 04, 2012
New Delhi: Two-year-old girl child Falak, who was brought to hospital in a battered state two months back, was on Friday shifted from an ICU to the children's ward after doctors at AIIMS found her medical condition stable. Doctors at the AIIMS Trauma Centre, attending on her since the past 45 days, also said Falak will be discharged soon if she continues to show improvement in her medical condition. "We...
09:40 PM, Mar 02, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued notice to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) for failing to comply with its earlier order to provide artificial limbs within one month to victims of the September 7, 2011, blast outside the court. A bench of Acting Chief Justice AK Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw slotted the next hearing for Thursday. The court had earlier, while hearing a...
11:20 PM, Feb 29, 2012
New Delhi: Two-year-old Falak on Friday showed some signs of improvement with doctors saying the infection in her brain has started subsiding. Doctors are waiting for the infection to come down further to conduct another life saving surgery on her. "Finally the infection in her brain is receding. The sample culture of the brain on Friday showed no infection. If similar results come forth in the next couple of days...
08:31 PM, Feb 17, 2012
New Delhi: Baby Falak's five-year-old brother was found in Uttam Nagar in Delhi on Wednesday. He will be handed over to Munni, who has claimed to be the two-year-old's mother. The boy had been missing for months and a search was launched in Delhi and Bihar after Munni's story came to light. Munni has undergone a DNA test and the results are awaited. Earlier, in a major breakthrough in the...
10:10 AM, Feb 15, 2012
New Delhi: In a major breakthrough in the baby Falak case, the Delhi Police on Friday arrested the key accused, Rajkumar. The police managed to arrest the man while he was trying to flee the capital. Meanwhile, a woman named Pratima was also arrested. She was a part of the human trafficking racket that allegedly exploited the 14-year-old teenager who brought baby Falak to AIIMS in a battered and badly...
07:41 AM, Feb 11, 2012
Cuttack: The crime branch of Odisha Police probing the sensational Pipili Dalit rape case on Friday submitted a medical examination report prepared by experts from AIIMS to the Orissa High Court. Submitting the report in a sealed cover, the government advocate prayed that since the case is under investigation, the contents of the AIIMS report may not be made public now lest it hamper further probe. The police also submitted...
11:42 PM, Feb 10, 2012
New Delhi: Two-year-old Falak was taken off the ventilator on Friday and the doctors at AIIMS say the baby girl has shown marginal improvement in last 24 hours. But the survival chances are dimming for Falak. The two year old's chest infection has been cured. Dr Deepak Agarwal said "If the situation worsens again, we will put her back on it." It has been three weeks since she was abandoned...
04:57 PM, Feb 10, 2012
New Delhi: Three weeks since she was abandoned in a battered state at Delhi's AIIMS hospital, Baby Falak may be taken off ventilator on Friday. The two-year-old child is responding well to medication and her lung and blood infection has receded. Doctors are now waiting for the brain infection to subside, after which they will conduct another surgery. The police have made four arrests in connection with the case till...
10:18 AM, Feb 10, 2012
New Delhi: Doctors at AIIMS on Thursday said two-year-old Falak continues to remain in a critical state but was responding well to treatment. Admitted in a battered state at the AIIMS Trauma Centre here 23 days ago, her infection levels have receded, neurosurgeon Deepak Agarwal said. "The culture test of the blood and the chest sample showed no infection but the same was not in case of the brain. This...
10:02 PM, Feb 09, 2012
New Delhi: While the nation prays for 2-year-old Falak, who is receiving treatment for severe injuries at AIIMS, it is the story of the 14-year-old teenage girl who brought the baby to the hospital that exposes the dismal state of a girl child in India. It is not just the baby, but the teenager too, who is a victim of abuse. Police have arrested 4 people, including her father Vijender,...
08:01 AM, Feb 08, 2012
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11:20 PM, Feb 07, 2012
New Delhi: Taking serious note of plight of two-year-old baby Falak, the Union Home Ministry on Tuesday sought a report from the Delhi Police and termed it as a case of human trafficking. "It is a case of human trafficking. We are seeking report from the Delhi Police," Additional Secretary in the Home Ministry B Bhamathi said. Bhamathi said the Delhi Police was probing the case to find out the...
06:38 PM, Feb 07, 2012
New Delhi: In the latest development concerning Baby Falak, the two-year-old child who has been in coma ever since she was abandoned in a battered state in Delhi in January, finally seems to recovering. According to her doctors, Falak has started moving her limbs, but the infection in her brain remains a concern. During her medical bulletin, the doctors said that neurologically there had been no change in her condition...
03:19 PM, Feb 07, 2012
New Delhi: Battered baby Falak continues to be critical at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) where she has been battling for survival for over two weeks. However, according to the police, Munni, who claims to be her mother, will not be able to meet the two-year-old till DNA tests prove she is the biological parent. The 22-year-old woman, Munni, who is also being treated as a victim...
12:31 PM, Feb 07, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Tuesday picked up two more people for allegedly assaulting the 14-year-old teenager who brought baby Falak to AIIMS for treatment. Police sources say the two are being questioned at the moment. Meanwhile, earlier in the morning, the police claimed to have traced Munni's second child in Muzaffarpur in Bihar. Munni has claimed she is Falak's mother. However, she is yet to undergo DNA tests...
11:16 AM, Feb 07, 2012
New Delhi: In the latest development in the baby Falak case, the police have traced the second child of the mother, Munni, in Muzaffarpur in Bihar. The three-year-old child has been identified by the police as Sanobar. Meanwhile, Munni is likely to visit Falak at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Tuesday. Munni, however, is yet to undergo a DNA test to verify is she is the...
10:44 AM, Feb 07, 2012
New Delhi: Abandoned baby Falak's mother seems to have been identified and she is slated to visit the two-year-old at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Tuesday. Police sources say the woman who admitted to being Falak's mother will now have to undergo a DNA test for identification. She has also reportedly confessed to having a baby boy, whose whereabouts are unknown as of now. Police tracked down...
08:26 AM, Feb 07, 2012
New Delhi: While two-year-old baby Falak continued to battle for her life at the AIIMS trauma centre on Monday, a woman claiming to be Falak's mother has come forward. Two more women, Kanta and Lakshmi, have been arrested in the case. Nearly three weeks after Falak was brought to AIIMS in a battered state, the Delhi Police has traced Munni, the woman who claims to be Falak's biological mother and...
07:16 PM, Feb 06, 2012
