Month: June 2025

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: How well-equipped are India's sub-centres (SCs) - the state's support system that people facing health issues first reach out to - especially those in rural India, to manage basic medical conditions such as hypertension, or high blood pressure, and diabetes?A survey carried out for the purpose in 19 districts of seven states by a team of researchers from Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and World Health Organisation (WHO), among others, did not paint a very flattering picture. According to the survey results published in the latest issue of Indian Journal of Medical Research (IJMR), only about 4 in 10 sub-centres are in a position to treat hypertension and diabetes, with several of the rest not even having basic medicines to manage the conditions.Out of 105 SCs assessed, nearly one-third had stock-outs of tablet metformin (anti-diabetes medication), […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: A railway engineer credited with restoring the world's oldest working steam locomotive for running the Fairy Queen between Delhi and Alwar now has the task of transforming Prime Ministers Museum and Library (PMML, earlier known as Teen Murti) in Delhi. PM Modi-led appointments committee of the Cabinet has appointed Ashwani Lohani, 67, as the PMML director.Lohani, who has headed Railway Board, Air India and Madhya Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation in his long career, has been appointed "on contract basis for three years from the date of assumption of charge, or until further orders," the order issued on Wednesday states. He has been appointed "in the rank and pay of secretary to govt of India by keeping recruitment rules of the post in abeyance."Known as a "turnaround specialist," Lohani's name figures in the Limca Book of Records' 2007 […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: While underscoring India's zero-tolerance policy against terrorism, external affairs minister S Jaishankar in bilateral meetings with his visiting Central Asian counterparts called for firmly countering terrorism in the region. Jaishankar had bilateral meetings with the foreign ministers of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan ahead of the 4th India-Central Asia Dialogue that will take place on Friday.The minister thanked his counterparts for expressing solidarity with India on the issue of terrorism and for condemning the menace in all its forms and manifestations. Jaishankar also discussed ways to ramp up trade, investment and connectivity between India and Central Asia."Appreciated his reaffirmation of zero tolerance for terrorism. Discussed various facets of our Strategic Partnership focusing on political, trade, investment and energy cooperation. Also spoke about widening connectivity with the Central Asia region," said the minister after a meeting […]

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Urging the world to support "victim of terror" India against Pakistan which "is the perpetrator of terror", Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday said that IMF, ADB and World Bank loans to the neighbour will only increase Pakistan's military expenditure and will be used by its 'rogue army' to target India.He further added that the world should realise that there can be no hyphenation between India and Pakistan, adding that Osama Bin Laden was found in Pakistan as was 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed."Naming of Pakistan as vice-chair of the 15-member United Nations Security Council's counter terrorism committee and chair of the Taliban Sanctions Committee for 2025 is most unfortunate, ill-informed and unacceptable. The international community must see merit in India's case that Pakistan should be included back in FATF grey list for monitoring of its terror […]

[ad_1] LUCKNOW: Neetu Sapra has bittersweet memories of the 14 years she spent in J&K since 1997."No quarters, peak insurgency, Kargil War - it was a roller coaster," she says of life in a CRPF camp in Srinagar with a two-year-old son and a railway officer husband handling a project as fraught with danger as it was technically daunting. "On a shopping trip to Lal Chowk in 1998, we narrowly escaped a bomb blast. The USBRL shaped us as much as we shaped it."Neetu's story is intertwined with the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link (USBRL) that PM Narendra Modi is set to inaugurate Friday, marking the physical bridging of what was once considered a geographical implausibility: seamless rail connectivity from Kashmir to Kanyakumari."Wives of all railway personnel associated with USBRL would have similar stories to tell," says Neetu, whose husband Suresh Kumar […]