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: A 12-year-old boy died in New Delhi when he reportedly tried to imitate a suicide scene he had seen in a movie, police said on Thursday. The Class 5 student of a Sarvodaya school, Suhail, was found hanging from a ceiling fan at his Jafrabad home in east Delhi on Tuesday. His mother made the shocking discovery. The incident took place when the boy's parents Mohammad Salim and...
01:03 AM, Feb 10, 2012
New Delhi: Mercury plunged five degrees below normal on Thursday morning bringing back cold conditions in the city which was experiencing a spell of relatively pleasant weather over the last few days. The low was recorded at 4 degree Celsius, down by 4.5 degrees from Wednesday's minimum temperature of 8.5 degrees, the MeT office said. Cold winds added to the chill in the air early in the morning but a...
05:21 PM, Feb 09, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Wednesday met Home Minister P Chidambaram and is understood to have briefed him about the ongoing process of trifurcating the municipal corporation. Sources said Dikshit told Chidambaram about the administrative steps being taken by the city government to complete the process of splitting the civic agency. Municipal polls slated for March will be held for three new municipalties by splitting MCD. The...
04:02 AM, 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
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: 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: 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
New Delhi: A 22-year-old woman who may be the mother of Falak, the battered baby who is fighting for survival at AIIMS, has claimed that her husband was forcing her into prostitution and she had run away from her home, police say. Delhi Police claim to have traced the woman, Munni, who could be the biological mother of Falak. A police officer said she was found about a week ago...
05:21 PM, Feb 06, 2012
New Delhi: Two-year-old baby Falak, who has been battling for life at the AIIMS, has been put on ventilator support intermittently since Saturday night. Doctors at the AIIMS hospital are monitoring her brain fluid levels. Doctors have said that her vitals signs are stable as of now but she may undergo her fourth surgery if her condition worsens. A woman named Aarti was arrested last week for pushing the 15-year-old,...
11:31 AM, Feb 05, 2012
New Delhi: Two-year-old Falak has been fighting for life at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). Doctors at AIIMS have said that Falak was stable but still critical. However, they will try and take her off the ventilator to see how she responds. Concerns remained on the spread of infection in her brain fluids. Doctors have claimed this could be the biggest factor in saving her life. Meanwhile,...
07:50 AM, Feb 03, 2012
New Delhi: The police has made a fourth arrested in the baby Falak case. A woman named Aarti has been arrested for pushing the 15-year-old, who got Falak to AIIMS, into prostitution. The 15-year-old girl was in news after she brought baby Falak, who was allegedly beaten up by her, to AIIMS for treatment claiming that she was her mother. Alleging that her father used to physically torture her, the...
01:40 PM, Feb 02, 2012
New Delhi: Doctors at AIIMS are expecting a new culture report on Thursday to see how 2-year-old baby Falak has been responding to new antibiotics. Doctors said on Wednesday that her survival chances are less than 50 per cent and the next 3 days will be critical. Meanwhile, the father of a teenaged girl, who got a battered Falak admitted in AIIMS, and two others were arrested on charges of...
10:31 AM, Feb 02, 2012
New Delhi: Two-year-old baby Falak's condition was very critical, but stable on Wednesday. Doctors attending to her said that it was getting difficult to control her infection. "We are giving anti biotics but dont think we can control the infection," Dr Deepak Agarwal said. He also said that the chances of Falak's survival were now less than 50 per cent. Falak's neurological condition remained the same and she was in...
12:52 PM, Feb 01, 2012
New Delhi: Two-year-old baby Falak continued to remain critical on Wednesday with meningitis and brain fluid infection. Doctors have now inserted a pipe into Falak's spinal cord to drain out the water from her brain. Though her vitals are still strong, she remains on a ventilator. Doctors have said that the next 48 hours will be critical for her. Doctors will decide on Wednesday on a new set of antibiotic...
10:20 AM, Feb 01, 2012
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