A case of sexual assault was registered against unidentified persons after a six-month-old girl was brought in a profusely bleeding state at a civic-run hospital in Mumbai, police said on Thursday. ...
06:04 PM, Feb 07, 2013
Mumbai: The mother of three-month-old baby girl, who died of suspected battering while undergoing treatment in KEM Hospital, was arrested on Thursday on the charge of murdering her daughter. Earlier on Thursday, the police had registered a murder case in connection with the death of the girl Ahuti Joshi. "Ahuti's mother Dharmishtha Joshi confessed to have beaten up her baby girl very badly as she was continuously crying. She also...
11:49 PM, Oct 04, 2012
Mumbai: Almost six months after a brutally battered baby, Falak, lost her life in a Delhi hospital, a similar shocker has come up in the KEM Hospital of Mumbai where an infant died of multiple head injuries on Monday. According to the doctors attending on her, there were clear indications that the baby was battered. "This is a classical case of child battering. She had severe injuries on both sides...
08:02 PM, Oct 03, 2012
Mumbai: A three-month-old girl, who was hospitalised at a civic-run hospital with multiple injuries a week ago, has succumbed to injuries, raising suspicion that her parents might have battered her, police said on Tuesday. The baby Ahuti Joshi, was admitted to central Mumbai's KEM hospital with a skull fracture last week by the parents, who reside in suburban Gorai. The paediatric department, however, found that she had multiple fractures on...
09:30 PM, Oct 02, 2012
New Delhi: In a path-breaking judgement, the Supreme Court on Monday allowed "passive euthanasia" of withdrawing life support to patients in permanently vegetative state(PVS) but rejected outright active euthanasia of ending life through administration of lethal substances. Refusing mercy killing of Aruna Shanbaug, lying in a vegetative state for 37 years in a Mumbai hospital, a two-judge bench of justices Markandeya Katju and Gyan Sudha Mishra, laid a set of...
07:00 AM, Mar 08, 2011
Sagarika Ghose discusses with a panel of experts, should Indian citizens have the right to die. ...
11:21 PM, Mar 07, 2011
Aruna Shanbaug is in a vegetative state for last 37 year after a brutal assault. ...
09:27 PM, Mar 07, 2011
New Delhi: "Aruna (Ramchandra Shanbaug) is the bond that unites us" and "she means a lot to KEM Hospital" whose staff are "determined to take care of her till her last breath by natural process." These statements made by the Mumbai's KEM Hospital Dean Sanjay Oak weighed heavily on the Supreme Court which rejected the plea made on behalf of Aruna, who has been lying in a vegetative state for...
07:25 PM, Mar 07, 2011
Pinki Virani's lawyer Shubhangi Tulli said the Supreme Court praised Pinki for putting Aruna Shanbaug's case rightly. ...
12:15 PM, Mar 07, 2011
A retired employee of KEM Hospital's ward number four, Tidi Makwana has served Aruna Shanbaug for 25 years. ...
11:56 AM, Mar 07, 2011
The Supreme Court, while rejecting Aruna Shanbaug's euthanasia plea praised KEM hospital for taking care of her. ...
11:38 AM, Mar 07, 2011
Mumbai: The Supreme Court is expected to deliver its verdict in Nurse Aruna Shanbaug's mercy killing petition on Monday. She has been living in a vegetative state for the last 30 years after a brutal sexual assault. Tidi Makhwana, a former employee of KEM Hospital, said, "I stayed with her for many years. She should not die as she is not creating any problems for anyone." For 25 years, 58-year-old...
07:27 AM, Mar 07, 2011
New Delhi: The petition of Mumbai nurse Aruna Shanbaug, who is in a coma for the past 36 years in a Mumbai hospital, seeking permission to die, will come up for hearing in the Supreme Court on Wednesday. The petition, filed by activist-journalist Pinki Virani, seeks the apex court's intervention to direct the King's Edward Memorial Hospital to stop feeding Aruna and allow her to die. The court had issued...
01:37 PM, Mar 02, 2011
Doctors at Mumbai's KEM Hospital are scrubbing down hospital walls to set an example to inconsiderate visitors. ...
09:39 AM, Jul 28, 2010
The state education minister has come out with a shocker. ...
12:44 AM, Jan 05, 2010
All students belong to Mumbai's Seth GS Medical College. ...
01:39 PM, Jan 04, 2010
Aruna Shanbaug case - should Indians have the right to die? ...
08:16 AM, Dec 18, 2009
Aruna Shanbaug was gagged and raped in 1973 at her workplace. ...
09:42 PM, Dec 17, 2009
Rachna Mitra's son Parth has met with an accident. ...
01:13 AM, Feb 11, 2009
India's Euthanasia Debate: No right to die? ... 
