A six-year-old girl was sexually assaulted in a public toilet in Badarpur in Delhi on Saturday. "When the girl was brought to the hospital, we noticed that there were marks on her neck. It appears that someone tried to slash her throat with a blade. There were injuries on her private parts too," said a doctor.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is recuperating after a coronary by-pass surgery at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, would be discharged on Saturday 'if everything goes right', a senior doctor attending on him said on Friday.Though there were reports suggesting that the 76-year-old leader may be discharged even earlier, doctors felt he needed some more observation, hospital sources said.
Four heart specialists from the Asian Heart Institute, Mumbai, are leading a team of doctors operating upon Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences on Saturday.The 11-member team from AHI, led by Ramakant Panda, is heading the team of doctors who are performing the bypass graft surgery on 76-year-old Dr Singh.Helping them would be doctors and technical staff drawn from different departments of AIIMS.
The resident doctors will hold a meeting on Friday evening to decide the future course of action.
Dr Ramakanta Panda, who will perform heart bypass surgery on Dr Manmohan Singh at the All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, on Saturday, is an expert in revision (repeat) bypass surgeries. Dr Panda, who is attached to the Asian Heart, is credited with performing more than 700 repeat bypass surgeries in the past.
This is a one-year distance learning course.
A woman police official engaged in a vehicle checking drive near the Jharkhand capital Ranchi was mowed down on Thursday by a pickup van allegedly involved in cattle smuggling, an officer said.
Delhi gang rape accused Ram Singh died due to hanging, police sources said on Tuesday quoting the initial post-mortem report.
A few days ago, a girl was seriously injured in a stone-pelting incident in downtown city of Srinagar.
A series of hoax bomb threats and an email threatening to carry out attacks in New Delhi had triggered massive search operations at India Gate, Red Fort, Akshardham Temple and Gurdwara Sis Ganj over the weekend.
Veteran journalist Shesh Narayan Singh passed away on Friday while undergoing treatment for COVID-19 at a government hospital in Uttar Pradesh's Greater Noida, officials said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said India has become the fifth largest economy in the world and this is not an ordinary achievement. "Every Indian is feeling proud of it. We need to maintain this enthusiasm," Modi said. He was virtually addressing beneficiaries of various government schemes and those present at a mega medical camp organised in Olpad area of Surat city in Gujarat, where the Assembly polls are due later this year.
Some of his well-known disciples include internationally-acclaimed Sonal Mansingh, Madhavi Mudgal, Radha Reddy and Yamini Krishnamurty, besides his daughter Kabita Dwibedi.
The Scientific Advisory Council briefed the PM about the state of science in the country.
Justice Gita Mittal asked AIIMS director P Venugopal and Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss to file their replies by October 31 on the contempt petition of one Dr Manoj Kumar.
The Rajasthan government has given a letter of intent to Keshav Vidyapeeth, which runs a college at Jamdoli near Jaipur, to start a self-financing private university, a spokesman of the institute said.
The court has also made it clear that it will also consider the contentions of the petitioner whether the caste-based policy of reservation shall not divide this great country along caste lines.
The condition of Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu "deteriorated" further on Tuesday even as he continued with his indefinite hunger strike seeking justice for farmers for the fifth day.
Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan and his daughter Shweta Nanda on Sunday visited Rajya Sabha member of Parliament Amar Singh at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences where he is undergoing treatment for urinary tract infection and wished him speedy recovery.
Taking no chances, the Delhi police threw a massive security ring in almost all the major hospitals where the victims of Wednesday's high intensity blast outside the high court were rushed in.
Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday sent a bouquet with a message of good wishes to his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh, who underwent an angiography in New Delhi.In the message, Gilani sent good wishes for Singh's health, the state-run APP news agency reported.Singh underwent an angiography as part of a series of heart-related tests at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi.
Adivasi teacher and alleged Naxal sympathiser Soni Sori was admitted to Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences on Thursday afternoon. AIIMS had refused to admit Soni Sori on Tuesday, in spite of directions to do so by the Supreme Court.
Going is not easy for delivery boys, microfinance agents and cab drivers.
Raju Srivastav was cremated on September 22 in the presence of family and close friends in Delhi.
A bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan sought the reply as both AIIMS and Venugopal filed their appeals against the High Court order.
Delhi is witnessing a spurt in dengue cases, with 327 persons reported to be suffering from the disease till September 24 this year, nine of which have proved fatal.
The SLP filed by AIIMS assailed the judgement on the ground that the High Court had committed a grave error by declaring that there was no upper age limit for the director.
Over 4,500 Indians have been rescued from strife-torn Yemen in a week. The youngest one, however, came on the final day.
As Union Health Minister Gulam Nabi Azad is busy in solving the Telangana crisis, India's health service is deteriorating more and more. With Azad's ministry not initiating any new reforms for urban or rural health care in the last few years, the country's poor are facing hard times.
Adding another issue to his agenda, Anna Hazare on Monday rose in support of a movement to save the Ganga by visiting activist G D Aggarwal who was flown to New Delhi for treatment after his health deteriorated during a hunger strike in Varanasi to save the river.
"Anil Kumar (22) had failed in the first year exams as well as internal examinations. He had also low attendance and was not promoted to the senior classes. Also, he had problems in following lectures in English. He had kept himself locked inside his room throughout Sunday," Chhaya Sharma, Deputy Commissioner of Police (South), said.
The Uttaranchal chief minister is under observation at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences.
Not enough data has been generated locally to decide on the need for a booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine for those fully inoculated, say experts amid the possibility of a third wave of the viral disease hitting the country between September and October.
Two-year-old Falak, who has been battling for life at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi, has shown signs of improvement and taken off ventilator on Friday.
NRI docs have found that both regular and diet colas can increase the risk of heart disease.
With this, a total of four persons have been taken into custody in this case, which includes the teenager's father Jitender Gupta on charges of abandoning her
In layman's terms, "Think of a road. If you are going on a road and there is a big traffic jam, you take the car from a different route and you join back later on the main road. When you have a blockage in your artery, we take another artery from a different place and we connect it to the original artery, below the blockage. Hence, the blockage gets bypassed, says Dr Aashish Contractor, Head of Department, preventive cardiology & rehabilitation, Asian Heart Institute.
A two-year-old girl abandoned in a hospital with critical injuries is struggling for her life though doctors said her condition has "slightly improved" on a day when two women approached the hospital claiming the baby is their relative.
National level athlete Arunima Sinha, who lost her leg after allegedly being pushed off a train, has been cured of infection in her amputated leg, doctors at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, where she is undergoing treatment, said.
