Day: December 16, 2020

Emergency mock exercise at Guwahati Airport

6:44 pm December 16, 2020

Guwahati: An emergency mock exercise was conducted at the Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport here to check the preparedness of all stakeholders to handle all eventualities, a release said. The drill was carried out during day time on Tuesday and continued till evening, the release said. The exercise went off smoothly wherein an aircraft crash […]

Woman, daughter killed in UP road crash

6:38 pm December 16, 2020

Bhadohi: A woman and her daughter died while three others were injured on Wednesday when the car they were travelling in rammed into a truck parked on the roadside in Uttar Pradesh’s Bhadohi district, police said. The incident took place in Aurai area. The car was travelling from Kolkata to Delhi and the driver probably […]

Team co-led by Indian scientists solve 100-year-old mystery of how malaria affects brain

6:29 pm December 16, 2020

New Delhi: Using brain imaging techniques, scientists, including those from The Center for the Study of Complex Malaria in Odisha, have unravelled the century old mystery of how malaria affects the brain, an advance which reveals how the deadly disease causes different outcomes in adults and children. According to the researchers, cerebral malaria is a […]

Villager shot at in J-K’s Rajouri

3:09 pm December 16, 2020

Jammu: A 38-year-old man was shot at and injured by an unidentified assailant outside his house in Rajouri district of Jammu Kashmir, a police official said on Wednesday. Preliminary investigations suggested personal rivalry as the reason behind the incident, the official said. The man identified as Ranjeet Singh, a resident of Draaj village, was evacuated […]

16-year-old girl raped in UP’s Shamli

3:06 pm December 16, 2020

Muzaffarnagar: A 16-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a middle-aged man in a village in Shamli district of Uttar Pradesh, police said on Wednesday. The incident took place in the Jhinjhana police station area on Tuesday, they said. The accused lured the victim, who is mentally challenged, to his house and raped her, the minor’s […]