Hyderabad: The city-based National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) on Thursday signed an MOA(Memorandum of Agreement) with the Hospital Development Society, Osmania General Hospital under CSR to support procurement of Medical Equipment” for Osmania General Hospital. The initial installation and commissioning of the project will be six months while the annual monitoring of the project including…
Pune: The Bharatiya Janata Party will win more than 350 seats in next year’s Lok Sabha elections and it is people’s wish that Narendra Modi take oath as the prime minister for the third time, said Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Thursday. Speaking to PTI on the sidelines of a press conference…
Bengaluru: The Karnataka cabinet on Thursday decided to repeal the anti-conversion law brought in by the previous BJP government. The government will introduce a bill in this regard in the upcoming legislature session, which starts on July 3. “The Cabinet discussed the anti-conversion bill. We have approved the bill to repeal the changes that were brought…
Nagpur: Tlangana Chief Minister and Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) president K Chandrasekhar Rao on Thursday inaugurated his party’s office in Nagpur, its first in Maharashtra, as part of his ambitious plan to increase the organisation’s footprint outside his home state. Rao, popularly known as ‘KCR’, was accorded a warm welcome by the workers of his…
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday expressed concern over the fire incident at a coaching institute in northwest Delhi’s Mukherjee Nagar in which some students sustained minor injuries. Students of the coaching institute escaped though windows, and used ropes and ladders to climb down from the top floor. Kejriwal said there was…
Imphal: At least two houses were set on fire by a mob here on Thursday afternoon a day after an attack in the Khamenlok area left nine people dead and injured ten others, officials said. Security forces which tried to quell the mob were forced to use force and fired tear gas shells at the…
Gwalior: Two conservancy workers died reportedly of asphyxiation on Thursday after entering a manhole in Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh, an official said. The incident took place while two contract workers were engaged in cleaning a sewage line in Resham Mill area, Gwalior Municipal Corporation commissioner Harsh Singh said. “The person who entered the manhole first…
New Delhi: The Delhi University is planning to develop the Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute (VPCI) into a multispeciality hospital, Vice Chancellor Yogesh Singh said Thursday. Started in the 1950s, the Patel Chest Institute has sent a proposal to the Government of India to make it a full-fledged medical college. “We have Patel Chest Institute. We wish…
Medellin: Teenage archer Bhajan Kaur grabbed a top-10 finish in the recurve women’s qualification round to brighten an otherwise lacklustre show by the Indians in the World Cup Stage 3. On a day when Koreans led the show on expected lines, the 17-year-old in her debut World Cup season put up a spirited show to…
Bhubaneswar: Kartik Kumar of Uttar Pradesh breached the Asian Games qualifying mark by a fair distance as he won the gold medal in men’s 10000 race on the opening day of the National Inter-State Athletics Championship here on Thursday. Kumar clinched the yellow metal with a timing of 29:01.84 seconds. The 24-year-old Kumar bettered the…
