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NEW DELHI: Alarmed by the possibility of patients contracting HIV and viral hepatitis through unsafe medical procedures, the National Medical Commission (NMC) has directed medical colleges across the country to tighten injection safety practices, warning that such infections are entirely preventable but can occur when basic safeguards are ignored.In a nationwide advisory, the medical education…

The United States does not change its foreign policy because of agitations, protests, or hard campaigning direced at its embassy in New Delhi. Time and again, Washington has shown that as far as India is concerned, its vital economic and strategic interests always outweigh whatever humane elements may exist in the policy-making machines on Capitol…

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NEW DELHI: India has formally begun the process of acquiring 114 Rafale fighter jets from France in a deal estimated to be worth around Rs 3.25 lakh crore, marking a major step in one of the country’s largest-ever military procurement programmes.According to defence ministry sources cited by ANI, the Acquisition Wing of the Ministry of…

NEW DELHI: Between NFHS-5 (2019-21) and NFHS-6 (2023-24), the share of Indian women who have ever used the internet almost doubled from 33.3% to 64.3%, preschool attendance among children aged two to four years rose from 40.1% to 47% and proportion of women with 10 or more years of schooling climbed from 41% to 46.4%.The…

NEW DELHI: India and US have finalised most elements of the legal text of the first tranche of the bilateral trade agreement, with negotiations now focused on “commas and full stops”, commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal said Monday, but the treaty, in the works for 15 months, will only be sealed after there is…

What a day in India’s hottest district reveals about life on the frontline of extreme heat. Source link

England opener Danni Wyatt-Hodge is expecting “fireworks” from her struggling opening partner Sophia Dunkley when England play India in their T20 series decider on Wednesday night. Dunkley has averaged 16.40 in England’s five T20 internationals thus far this summer and has only scored a combined 26 runs in the two games against India, increasing the…

Production reached 154 million tonnes, fueling an agricultural boom with record wheat and maize yields. According to initial estimates from the ministry, reported by News9, rice production hit a record 154.02 million tonnes in the 2025-26 agricultural year, up from 150.18 million tonnes in the previous period. The minister credits this success to farmers’ hard…