Acid attack victims with burn survivors at the seminar at PTS on Saturday. pic by Biplab Bhattacharjee Acid attack victims with burn survivors at the seminar at PTS on Saturday. pic by Biplab Bhattacharjee Acid attack victims with burn survivors at the seminar at PTS on Saturday. pic by Biplab Bhattacharjee Acid attack victims with…
Bhubaneswar: After battling years of physical and psychological trauma because of a rare hormonal disorder, three girls from Odisha and one from Jharkhand breathed a sigh of relief this year.Thanks to SCB Medical College and Hospital (SCBMCH), Cuttack, which has performed complex genital reconstructive surgeries on the four patients diagnosed with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH)…
Issues arising from hormonal changes before and after menopause were often neither understood nor adequately addressed Chennai: Tamil Nadu is considering a dedicated public health policy for menopausal women, health minister K G Arunraj said on Saturday, acknowledging that existing programmes provide inadequate attention to health concerns of women at this stage.“While there are dedicated…
The renaming of Chudel village was recently notified Surat: After years of embarrassment, broken marriage proposals and awkward introductions, residents of a small tribal village in Surat district are celebrating a long-awaited change in identity. The state govt has officially renamed the village from “Chudel” to “Chandanpur”, ending a decades-old stigma attached to its name.The…
Nagpur: The Nagpur bench of the Bombay high court recently reaffirmed that the constitutional right to privacy includes “right to be forgotten,” directing its registry to anonymise the identity of a man whose criminal case was quashed nearly eight years ago. The court also ordered removal of his name from publicly searchable court records.A division…
When Rizwan demanded the remaining money, they allegedly subjected him to frequent physical assaults and daily extortion Gurgaon: A shopkeeper in Palwal allegedly died by suicide after a group of men repeatedly blackmailed him and framed him in a molestation case after he asked them to pay back the money they owed him.Police found a…
Four kids still wait for adoption in the city Noida: She was barely hours old when she was left alone on the terrace of a house in Greater Noida in the winter of 2024, crying as ants swarmed over her body. By the time rescuers found her, the insects had already eaten into her fingers….
T’puram: Kundara police arrested a 26-year-old man accused of trespassing into houses and sexually assaulting women in various parts of the region.The accused, identified as Gokul Krishna of Umayanalloor, was nabbed from Kottiyam police station limits with the assistance of locals after he allegedly attempted to evade arrest.Police said the arrest was made in connection…
Actor Suhita Thatte rehearses for the Marathi version of play Ek Madhav Baug ahead of its screening today Pune: A 50-minute monologue explores themes of a divorced woman, a gay son and emotions of yearning and belonging in Ek Madhav Baug, originally written in Marathi in the 1980s by playwright the late Chetan Datar. It…
Mumbai: Bombay high court permitted medical termination by JJ Hospital of the 27-week pregnancy of an 18-year-old collegian, observing that she had made a choice.“We see no difficulty in the team of medical doctors proceeding with the process of termination of pregnancy as desired by her as she has made a choice,’’ said Justices Bharati…
