Washington: The New York Police Department has stepped up security around landmarks in Manhattan, including near prominent hotels, in response to at least one explosion near the finish line of the Boston marathon on Monday, said Paul Browne, deputy commissioner of the NYPD. Browne told Reuters that New York police were re-deploying counter-terrorism vehicles around the city. Meanwhile, Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis said on Monday that officials did not...
03:59 AM, Apr 16, 2013
Boston: Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis said on Monday that officials did not know of any specific threats before three devices exploded in Boston on Monday that killed at least two people. He said that local police is getting aid from every agency in the state and the federal government after the explosions which occurred close to the finish of the Boston Marathon. "Every asset of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...
03:30 AM, Apr 16, 2013
Washington: The Secret Service says it has expanded its security perimeter at the White House following the explosions at the Boston Marathon. Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan says the measure was taken "out of an abundance of caution." He says it is not unusual to expand or contract the security perimeters. Shortly after the explosions on Monday, Secret Service shut down Pennsylvania Avenue outside the White House, cordoning off the...
03:05 AM, Apr 16, 2013
Boston: Boston police said on Monday that an explosion occurred at the John F Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston after other blasts in the city near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Police spokeswoman Neva Coakley said "there has been another explosion at JFK." Rachel Day, a spokeswoman for the John F Kennedy Library, located about three miles from the marathon's finish line, said that there was...
02:51 AM, Apr 16, 2013
Washington: The White House says President Barack Obama has called Boston's mayor and the Massachusetts governor to express his concern for those injured in the Boston Marathon explosions. Obama also told Mayor Tom Menino and Gov Deval Patrick that his administration would provide whatever support was needed in responding to the incident, the White House said. The president was briefed on the explosions by Homeland Security adviser Lisa Monaco shortly...
02:24 AM, Apr 16, 2013
Boston: In a major terror strike on the United States of America, three explosions rocked Boston on Monday, killing three people and injuring at least 140 others. Major US cities including New York, Washington, Los Angeles and San Fransisco have been put on high alert following the multiple terror attacks. Two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon where all the casualties took place in a terrifying...
01:30 AM, Apr 16, 2013
New Delhi: It's a rebirth for 16-year-old Pakistani girl Madiha Tariq Sheikh, who feels India is her "own country" where she underwent a successful liver transplant surgery. Madiha, who hails from Lahore, was flown to India on February 3 after she slipped into coma due to acute liver failure and underwent a liver transplant surgery at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital here. "This is my own country (India). It has been four...
08:34 AM, Apr 13, 2013
New Delhi: Muzaffarnagar acid attack victim Isha, whose left eye was severely damaged, has regained her vision after a successful surgery. The 23-year-old teacher was discharged from Sir Ganga Ram Hospital on Friday and she wants to go back to her job as soon as possible. Isha and her three sisters, all teachers, were attacked by two motorcycle-borne men who threw acid on them on April 2, 2013 while they...
11:38 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Barmer: A shocking case of medical negligence has come to light in Rajasthan. In the absence of doctors and nurses, a sweeper attended to an infant and chopped off the child's finger in a hospital in Barmer. The sweeper was trying to remove the stitches on the child's finger. After failing to do so, he chopped it off and tossed it in the trash. The finger still can't be found....
07:47 AM, Apr 09, 2013
Thane: Nine bodies, recovered from the debris of the unauthorised building in Shil Phata area in the district, which crashed on Thursday killing 74 people, are yet to be identified. Officials said four bodies were at the Civil Hospital here, while five were at CSM Civic Hospital in Kalwa. All other bodies have been identified. Meanwhile, bodies of 11 labourers hailing from Malda in West Bengal, who were among the...
08:49 PM, Apr 07, 2013
Johannesburg: Former South African president Nelson Mandela left hospital on Saturday after more than a week of treatment of pneumonia that raised global concern about the health of the 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader. "(He) has been discharged from hospital today ... following a sustained and gradual improvement in his general condition," the South African presidency said in a statement. A military ambulance pulled into Mandela's spacious Johannesburg home before the statement...
08:28 PM, Apr 06, 2013
Meerut: A poor man and his two-year-old girl allegedly died after they were denied admission by two hospitals in Meerut. The family members of the dead man Mangeram allege that Meerut district hospital and Meerut Medical College Hospital refused to admit him and his daughter Sweety as they were poor. When Meerut district hospital chief medical superintendent Doctor AS Rathore was asked about the deaths, he replied that he had...
12:07 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Johannesburg: Former South African President and anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela is making "continuous improvement" in a hospital where he was admitted last week for pneumonia, President Jacob Zuma said after visiting the revered statesman on Thursday. "President Jacob Zuma visited former President Nelson Mandela in hospital on Thursday, 4 April 2013, and received a briefing from doctors which indicate continuous improvement in his condition," Zuma's office said in a statement....
08:48 PM, Apr 04, 2013
New Delhi: A 23-year-old teacher may lose her eyesight after an acid attack in Shamli in Uttar Pradesh. Doctors at Delhi's Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, where the teacher has been brought for treatment, said that the maximum injury has been caused to her eyes as the acid was not washed properly and immediately. The woman's s left eye cornea has been severely damaged even as the doctors performed one surgery....
01:58 PM, Apr 04, 2013
Jesse Ryder was assaulted outside a bar that initially left him with critical injuries and in an induced coma. ...
02:53 PM, Apr 03, 2013
Days after the Karnataka Health Minister ordered the Mallige hospital to compensate Shailaja, they are yet to take responsibility. ...
08:36 PM, Apr 02, 2013
A young woman and mother of two, Shailaja has been reduced to a completely vegetative state reportedly because of an anaesthesia overdose she underwent while in for a surgery. Today, she cannot eat, speak or move. She is completely immobile, all because her family say an overdose of anaesthesia. What should happen in such cases of medical negligence? Dr R Ramnarayan, a top neurosurgeon who has offered his help to...
06:39 PM, Apr 02, 2013
Shailaja, a mother of two was left in a near vegetative state three years ago after her doctors botched up her surgery and then refused to take responsibility for it. Shailaja's husband had turned citizen journalist to get help for his wife. ...
11:37 PM, Apr 01, 2013
After CNN-IBN highlighted the plight of 38-year-old Shailaja incapacitated after a surgery in Bangalore's Mallige Medical Centre, help is pouring in for the family. A neurosurgeon from Chennai has come forward and offered treatment that might help Shailaja regain partial movement. ...
07:56 PM, Apr 01, 2013
The condition of South Africa's former President Nelson Mandela has improved further, the government said on Sunday, as the 94-year-old anti-apartheid hero spent a fourth day in hospital receiving treatment for pneumonia. ...
10:50 AM, Apr 01, 2013
