New Delhi: Highlighting the rise in crime against women in the national capital, five cases of dowry related violence were reported in a span pf 24 hours on Sunday. Three women were found dead in the capital over the past 24 hours in three separate cases of suspected dowry harassment and two others are battling for their lives. In the first instance a 27-year-old woman plunged to death in Vivek...
09:45 PM, Sep 16, 2012
New Delhi: Three women were found dead in the capital over the past 24 hours in three separate cases of suspected dowry harassment. In a fourth incident, a woman in Najafgarh suffered 90 per cent burns after her husband allegedly set her on fire, again for dowry. The victim is currently recuperating in hospital. The first death was reported from Vivek Vihar after a 27-year-old fell to her death from...
03:41 PM, Sep 16, 2012
Jaipur: Ajmer in Rajasthan is submerged after heavy, incessant rains over the past 24 hours. A house collapsed early on Friday morning, killing three people. Meanwhile, the Anasagar lake has breached the highest water level in 15 years. The low lying areas of the city are water-logged and traffic is hit. People are vacating the city in hoards as the rains refuse to let up. ...
10:34 AM, Sep 07, 2012
Jaipur: Jaipur was inundated on Wednesday after the state capital of Rajasthan received 160 mm rainfall in a short span of two-and-a-half hours. The heavy rainfall was the worst in nearly 30 years. Four people were reportedly dead. The dead included two children who lost their lives in a house collapse and a couple, whose car was washed away after it got stuck in a ditch. The rest of the...
09:04 AM, Aug 22, 2012
Gorakhpur: Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh is battling a sudden rise in diarrhoea cases. Doctors say the disease has already claimed five lives in the city and 10 new cases are being reported everyday. Locals have blamed the outbreak on contaminated water and uncleared garbage. ...
01:39 PM, Aug 19, 2012
Hyderabad: Heavy rains since Friday have claimed the lives of eleven people in Andhra Pradesh, with some of them dying in wall collapses and others drowning to death. The Met department has said that the situation could persist till Tuesday evening. Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy has put all district collectors on alert and asked evacuation teams to be on standby. Rain caused waterlogging in state capital Hyderabad as well...
10:46 AM, Jul 23, 2012
New Delhi: Five days after the death of a 3-year-old due to an open drain in Ghaziabad, the authorities have learnt no lessons. Several such death traps in different parts of the National Capital Region still exist. Days after 3-year-old Sunny died after falling into an open drain outside his school, the Ghaziabad municipal ordered a closure of all drains near schools. But it's easier said than done. That wasn't...
09:00 AM, Jul 17, 2012
Srinagar: The death of 67 Amarnath pilgrims, mostly due to cardiac arrest, in just 17 days of the yatra to the holy cave in south Kashmir Himalayas has left the Board managing the pilgrimage worried and it has asked authorities to address all health-related issues. Although 105 persons died during the 45-day yatra last year, which was highest due to natural causes, the high number of deaths in the first...
11:48 AM, Jul 12, 2012
A mysterious illness has killed 60 out of the 62 children that were infected with it. WHO says it is trying to get the diagnosis as soon as possible so that it is easier to asses how dangerous it would be, if at all, for neighbouring countries. ...
08:36 AM, Jul 09, 2012
Srinagar: Srinagar's only pediatric hospital, the GB Pant, lacked proper sanitation which was one of the primary reasons behind the 400 infant deaths reported from the hospital earlier this year, an inquiry report has said. CNN-IBN had first highlighted the issue, after which an inquiry was ordered into the case. The inquiry found incidents of gross negligence at the hospital. Its report stated that one of the primary reasons for...
07:12 PM, Jun 12, 2012
New Delhi: A sentence lesser than life term cannot be awarded to convicts for heinous offences like dowry death where the victim is killed in a brutal manner, the Supreme Court has ruled. A bench of justices Swatanter Kumar and Ranjan Gogoi rejected the plea of a victim's husband and brother-in-law for leniency on the ground that they are young, their mother was of advancing age and the incident occurred...
12:07 PM, Jun 10, 2012
New Delhi: Over 5,000 children, including newborns, died in the past three years while undergoing treatment at the government-run multi-speciality Safdarjung Hospital, an RTI reply has revealed. While 2,545 children died within 48 hours of admission, of which 914 were neonates (newborn), 1,833 died after that. In reply to an RTI query by Mumbai resident Ajay Marathe, the hospital revealed that in the past three years, starting from 2009, a...
11:49 AM, Jun 03, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Three months after being jailed for allegedly killing two Indian fishermen, the Kerala High Court granted bail to two Italian marines on Wednesday. The court asked the marines to deposit Rs 1 crore as personal bond. But the Italians cannot leave Kochi as their passports are with the police. The court also asked two Indians to stand as surety for the Italian marines. The Italian marines' lawyer Rajender Nair...
02:32 PM, May 30, 2012
Chicago: Couch potatoes everywhere can pause and thank Eugene Polley for hours of feet-up channel surfing. His invention, the first wireless TV remote, began as a luxury, but with the introduction of hundreds of channels and viewing technologies it has become a necessity. Just ask anyone who's lost a remote. Polley died of natural causes Sunday at a suburban Chicago hospital, said Zenith Electronics spokesman John Taylor. The former Zenith...
01:47 PM, May 23, 2012
Every year several domestic workers fall to their deaths from Singapore's apartment windows. This year alone, eight women have died while trying to clean apartment windows. ...
01:57 PM, May 22, 2012
Srinagar: The Omar Abdullah government in Jammu and Kashmir is under pressure from the Centre over the infant deaths. Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad visited the GB Pant Hospital in Srinagar, which is the city's only paediatric facility. This is where around 360 newborns have died since January due to shortage of medical staff and equipment. Azad slammed the Omar Abdullah government claiming it had not spent funds from...
09:03 AM, May 21, 2012
Srinagar: After CNN-IBN's sustained reporting on the issue, the medical superintendent of the GB Pant hospital in Srinagar has been removed. Now the Opposition to Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's government has demanded the Prime Minister's intervention. The PDP and an independent MLA have also demanded a CBI probe. As many as 359 infants have died in Srinagar's only paediatric hospital since January. CNN-IBN had reported how the...
09:30 AM, May 18, 2012
New Delhi: A Kerala court is likely to frame charges against the two Italian marines in the fishermen deaths case in Kochi. The SIT is likely to file a chargesheet against the guards, Salvatore Girone and Massimiliano Latorre, before the Kollam chief judicial magistrate court. The two had shot dead two fishermen in February this year, allegedly taking them to be pirates. ...
07:49 AM, May 18, 2012
Srinagar: Another infant has died at the GB Pant Hospital, Srinagar's only paediatric facility, taking the death toll to 359 in five months. The infant died when the state's Medical Education Minister RS Chib was visiting the hospital on Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's orders. The government acted after CNN-IBN reported on the shortage of the medical staff and facilities and has released funds for an upgrade. Speaking...
09:47 AM, May 17, 2012
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday asked the state's Medical & Education Minister to quickly upgrade facilities at Srinagar's only children's hospital GB Pant. Omar said that the hospital's budget would be raised and more ventilators would be provided to the hospital. This after CNN-IBN reported how lack of medical care has led to the death of as many as 62 infants in 3 months. The...
01:31 PM, May 16, 2012
