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KULLU: Sheer luck and a few bars of metal saved two children in the landslide that hit a passenger bus in Bilaspur on Tuesday evening.Siblings Aarushi, 10 and Shaurya, 8, escaped because they had moved to the rear seat of the half-empty bus to play just minutes before the hillside came crashing down.The landslide struck…
BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh deputy CM and health minister Rajendra Shukla on Wednesday visited the homes of two-year-old Nihal Dhurvey and four-year-old Kabir Yadav in Betul district, whose families said they died of renal failure after taking Coldrif cough syrup.TOI had reported how the boys’ fathers had been pleading with officials to acknowledge that their sons’…
BHOPAL: The first cases of children’s deaths in Madhya Pradesh after consuming cough syrup were reported on September 3, but it was only on September 16 that the administration recognised the severity of the situation and began a survey to check children’s health in Parasia block of Chhindwara district.The exercise gained pace two days later,…
NEW DELHI: Punjabi singer and actor Rajvir Jawanda, 35, died on Tuesday after battling for nearly 11 days following a serious road accident in Himachal Pradesh.The accident occurred on September 27 in the Baddi area while he was traveling to Shimla in Solan district, when he reportedly lost control of his motorcycle. He was immediately…
BHOPAL: Hundreds of genuine voter ID cards were found floating in Raja Talab in Bijawar town of Madhya Pradesh’s Chhatarpur district on Saturday. Officials said the cards, all belonging to Ward No. 15, were discovered inside a bag during a cleaning drive. According to local media reports, sanitation workers noticed the bag floating in the…
BHOPAL: Decomposed carcass of a tiger was found in the Panpatha buffer zone of the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve (BTR) in Madhya Pradesh recently in a suspected case of poaching, forest officials said, adding that a deputy ranger and a forest guard have been suspended.The carcass, estimated to be around 10 days old, was found on…
BHOPAL/NAGPUR: Madhya Pradesh government on Monday transferred the state drugs controller and suspended three of his subordinates, holding them accountable for the deaths of children, allegedly after consuming Coldrif cough syrup, in Chhindwara district, as the toll mounted to 15, with one more girl undergoing treatment in Nagpur succumbing on Monday.Following CM Mohan Yadav’s instructions,…
LUCKNOW/BAHRAICH: Uttar Pradesh’s forest department issued Sunday “shoot on sight” orders for wolves following a spate of attacks in Bahraich district that have left six people, including four children, dead in the past two months. The order coincided with fresh attacks that left three villagers injured.“Given the repeated attacks by wolves on villagers, state government…
An official looks at bottles of the cough syrup after a raid by the Drug and Pharmaceuticals Department officials in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh. (Picture credit: PTI) BHOPAL/NEW DELHI: As the number of children dying of renal failure in MP’s Chhindwara district after consumption of cough syrup rose to 11, with two more fatalities reported on…
BHOPAL: The deaths of seven out of nine children in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhindwara district were traced to a poisonous cough syrup, Coldrif, which was found to contain a highly toxic industrial chemical, diethylene glycol (DEG). Laboratory tests conducted in Tamil Nadu confirmed the presence of the substance in the syrup, prompting the Madhya Pradesh govt…
