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As the city's air quality is in the «severe plus» category, doctors have warned of health risks for all.

Nitin Gadkari on Monday slammed the Congress for launching loss-making ventures, neglecting villages and depriving the country of real development during its tenure in power. The country had suffered due to the «wrong policies and corrupt government,» the senior BJP leader said targeting the previous Congress-led dispensations in power. Gadkari lauded former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee for strengthening the road infrastructure in the country. The Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways was addressing a public meeting at Sadak Arjuni in Gondia district while campaigning for NCP candidate Rajkumar Badole for the November 20 Maharashtra assembly polls.

In addition to child casualties, which include 659 children killed and 1,747 children injured — amounting to at least 16 children killed or injured every week — millions of children continue to have their lives upended due to ongoing attacks. UNICEF said that children are enduring relentless hostilities, prolonged displacement and severe shortages of essential resources including safe water, electricity, and other necessities. Escalating attacks on Ukrainian territory have sharply increased civilian casualties and infrastructure damage since July this year.

law and order situation in the state", officials said. The development comes amid the National People's Party (NPP), which has seven MLAs in the 60-member Manipur Assembly, withdrawing support from the BJP-led government, claiming that the N Biren Singh dispensation has «completely failed to resolve the crisis and restore normalcy» in the northeastern state. The withdrawal of support on Sunday, however, would not have any impact on the BJP government, as the saffron party enjoys a majority with its 32 MLAs. The saffron camp has also the support of five MLAs of the Naga People's Front (NPF) and six JD(U) legislators.

This troubling incident began when the doctor gave in to her daughter’s request to be involved in the procedure. The patient, a 39-year-old man, had suffered critical head injuries after a tree fell on him, fracturing his skull. Rushed to LKH Hospital in January, he required urgent surgery to save his life. During the operation, the girl drilled a hole in his skull under her mother’s supervision. While the surgery was ultimately successful, the truth of the daughter’s involvement came to light months later in April, triggering public outrage and immediate consequences.

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His body was left on an ICU bed overnight, as the post-mortem examination could not be carried out after dark. The autopsy was performed the following morning, on Saturday. «As the body was being brought from the morgue, we noticed that the left eye was missing and a surgical blade was lying on the stretcher beside the body,» a family member said.

«Today, we will have a meeting on how to proceed with the funeral. We have not received the post-mortem examination documents yet. Without those, we cannot touch the bodies because if we tamper with the bodies, there could be some legality issues,» ITLF spokesperson Ginza Vualzong told PTI. Accordingly, the bodies have been kept in the local hospital morgue for the time being after their arrival here on Saturday, he added.

Samajwadi Party MP Awadhesh Prasad alleged that the hospital fire in Jhansi that claimed the lives of 10 newborns was a result of the state government's incompetency. Speaking to ANI, Prasad offered his condolences and said the incident was «very sad and heart-rending.» «It is a very sad and heart-rending incident. This incident happened due to the result of incompetency of the government. Now we demand from the government to investigate the whole incident and take action,» he said.

Swiggy listed on the bourses earlier this week, two of its delivery partners—Jigar Khan and Namrata Vora—joined cofounders Sriharsha Majety and Nandan Reddy in ringing the ceremonial bell at the National Stock Exchange (NSE). The symbolic gesture was aimed at celebrating the hard work of its delivery partners, the Bengaluru-based food delivery firm said in a statement. Other companies, too, are recognising the contribution of delivery partners and are rolling out a slew of initiatives to help them with upskilling and further education, and achieving an overall better quality of life, according to industry executives. Zomato, Zepto, Delhivery, bigbasket and Blue Dart Express are among those that are offering reimbursement for education-related expenses, soft skills training in communication and other basic competencies, financial literacy programmes and career progression initiatives. Zomato has collaborated with the Hospitality Training Institute of India, and 5,200 delivery partners across 10 cities have been trained in hospitality and service excellence. “This training equips them with essential skills in customer interaction, professionalism and service, enhancing the experience for both customers and delivery partners,” said Rakesh Ranjan, CEO of food delivery at Zomato. This year, Swiggy launched Swiggy Skills in collaboration with the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.

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The centre has stated that security scenario in Manipur has remained fragile for the past few days. Curfew is clamped in Imphal East and West districts. Temporary suspension of Internet and mobile data service in Imphal West, Imphal East, Thoubal, Kakching, Bishnupur, Kangpokpi and Churachandpur for a period of two days.

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Uttar Pradesh government on Saturday formed a four-member committee to probe into the fire at the children's ward of a medical college in Jhansi that snuffed out the lives of 10 newborns as officials suspect electrical short circuit to be the cause of the tragic incident. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has already directed the Divisional Commissioner of Jhansi, the fire department and the deputy inspector general of police to submit a report on the incident within 12 hours. Amid claims that the medical college had expired fire extinguishers, Deputy Chief Minister Brijesh Pathak asserted all firefighting equipment in the college was completely fine and a fire safety audit was carried out in February and a mock drill in June. Principal of the medical college, Dr Narendra Singh Sengar, also termed the allegations «baseless».

Seema, a housewife who has been grieving for her twins lost in the blaze at the neonatal hospital, said that official apathy led to the incident. «I don't want to recall the incident in which I lost my two children. It was not the fault of just one person. It was the fault of the whole administration and there (Jhansi) also the same must have happened,» Seema said, adding such incidents will keep happening till it is rectified.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu's younger brother N Ramamurthy Naidu passed away at a private super-speciality hospital here on Saturday, while undergoing treatment for health complications, the hospital said. He was 72. Ramamurthy Naidu, who was admitted to the hospital on November 14 following a cardiac arrest, breathed his last at 12.45 PM, the hospital said in a bulletin. Ramamurthy Naidu was suffering from "non-communicating normal pressure hydrocephalus (buildup of fluid in brain), post VP shunt", it said. He was receiving intermittent ventilatory support in the past for respiratory distress.

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The fire started around 10:45 PM on Friday in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of Maharani Laxmi Bai Medical College, media reports said. Officials believe an electrical short circuit may have caused the fire. District Magistrate (DM) Avinash Kumar told media, «Prima facie there is information of the death of 10 children.”

Croatia’s health minister and several others were detained on Friday on suspicion of corruption as part of an investigation launched by the European prosecutor’s office