Roona Begum was rushed to hospital last year with an extreme form of hydrocephalus – water on the brain The condition caused her head to swell to three times its normal size Surgeons carried out a series of operations reducing the circumference from 37 to 23 inches but warned her parents she was unlikely to survive A year on and doctors are amazed the three-year-old is alive and smiling Mother […]

Police say crash happened after bus pulled on to unmanned railway crossing without checking for a train Twelve children were killed instantly, while another six died in hospital. All were aged between seven and 14 Twenty are thought to still be in hospital, with 15 of them still in critical condition following crash this morning A father died when he had a heart attack after being told both his children […]

Doctors in India have extracted 232 teeth from the mouth of a 17-year-old boy in a seven-hour operation. Ashik Gavai was brought in with a swelling in his right jaw, Dr Sunanda Dhiware, head of Mumbai’s JJ Hospital’s dental department, told the BBC. The teenager had been suffering for 18 months and travelled to the city from his village after local doctors failed to identify the cause of the problem. […]

The savoury chicken tandoori drumstick may soon become inexpensive in India as the ministry of external affairs (MEA) has suggested allowing free import of American chicken legs to start a dialogue on a bilateral investment treaty with the US. Chicken legs have no viable market in the US, where consumers prefer white meat like chicken breast and consider legs as ‘harmful’ red meat. So the unwanted frozen chicken legs are […]

 Early into his tenure, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has listed a 17-point plan to take India forward.  As per a report in a leading English daily, the 17-point agenda is people-oriented and envisages among other things coastal expressways, labour reforms and health knowledge institutes.  The agenda was finalised on July 10 and forwarded to all the ministries. The ministries had time till July 20 to reply back with a detailed […]

In an ambitious plan to upgrade urban India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi says he will build 100 “smart cities” — cities outfitted with high-tech communication capabilities — across the country. “Cities in the past were built on riverbanks,” Modi said in a June speech. “They are now built along highways. But in the future, they will be built based on availability of optical fiber networks and next-generation infrastructure.” For Modi, […]

Al-Qaeda is at the  gates, and there are enough jihadis within already. Intelligence  agencies say the terror network is making inroads into India, sowing the seeds  of a “final war” across the country. Information  gathered on al-Qaeda’s India plans points to a mobilisation of its resources for  jihad. The ideological  goal of the group, as detailed in the report, is chilling: Ghazwa-e-Hind, or the  final battle in India. Ghazwa-e-Hind refers […]

About 2.1 million Indian people are infected with the HIV disease, the third highest number in the world, according to a UN report released on Thursday. The report by the United Nations program on HIV/AIDS said that around 19 million out of the 35 million people infected with HIV across the world are unaware of their HIV+ status. The report said that the plan to end the AIDS epidemic by […]

One third of the extreme poor global population reside in India which has also recorded the highest number of under-five deaths in the world, the latest UN Millennium Development Goals report has said. Minority Affairs Minister Najma Heptulla, who released the report here, said its findings present a challenge to the government under Narendra Modi and that they would be able to surmount it. “Good days will come,” she said. […]

Fortaleza, Brazil:  The new development bank of the group of BRICS countries will be headquartered in Shanghai, China, with the presidency held by India for the first five years.  In hard negotiations, India won on some key points HERE ARE TEN THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT THE NEW BRICS BANK: The $100 billion development bank launched at the sixth  BRICS – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – summit in Brazil […]