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Chennai: A 40-second video of a Govt Stanley Hospital worker dropping boiled eggs near patients — one beside a plastered arm, the other near a patient’s leg — went viral Wednesday. A day later, Tamil Nadu’s health department was not investigating a lapse in patient care. Instead, it was defending an employee, discrediting a whistleblower and warning the public against believing what it had watched.Health minister K G Arunraj told reporters on Thursday that the employee was a sincere worker and that the egg’s shell had been unbroken when it was placed near the patient’s bed. “During the inquiry, the…

Cuttack: Orissa high court has sought a ground-level report from senior police and local representatives on allegations of police excesses against tribal villagers during protests linked to a proposed road project in Rayagada district.A division bench of Chief Justice Harish Tandon and Justice Chittaranjan Dash passed the direction while hearing a PIL filed by Purushottam Hikaka and seven others, who were represented by advocate Anup Kumar Mohapatra. The April 7 order was made available online on Thursday.The petitioners alleged that police personnel raided homes in the early hours of March 10, arrested 21 villagers, including 10 women, and ransacked houses.…

COIMBATORE: A 58-year-old woman was found murdered at her home near Pappanaickenpalayam in the city on Wednesday night.The murdered woman has been identified as K Shanthi of Karuppukkal Thottam in Pappanaickenpalayam. After her husband’s death, she lived with her son, K Raja, who is working in a lathe workshop. Shanthi worked as a cook at the residence of a doctor in the area. Her daughter, Amudha, is married and living in Palakkad.On Wednesday morning, Raja went to work. Later, Shanthi too went to work and returned in the afternoon. As she did not step outside after that, neighbours went to…

The pilot began in Kamrup in 2023, initially reaching about 7,000 children at 293 Anganwadi centres Guwahati: Assam’s fish-powder initiative is set to benefit more students after an encouraging Kamrup pilot.The Matsya Paripusti initiative, led by Kamrup school inspector and district elementary education officer Tapan Kumar Kalita and his team, turns small indigenous fish such as ‘mua’ (Indian carplet) and ‘dorikona’ (slender rasbora) into powder. The fish are machine-dried, processed whole and added to cooked meals at Anganwadi centres and lower primary schools.“The initiative also offers potential economic benefits. Increased demand for small indigenous fish could create opportunities for fish…

Mangaluru: Uppinangady police have detained five persons for questioning in connection with the alleged assault of a man who was travelling in a car with a minor girl near Kapinabagilu in Kokkada on Aug 11. A counter-complaint has been filed by the girl’s mother, accusing the man of forcibly taking her daughter away in his car.According to a complaint filed by Sheikh Mukhtar,50, he was travelling towards Hassan for work with the minor daughter of an acquaintance on the night of Aug 11. When they reached Kapinabagilu in Kokkada, within Uppinangady police station limits, a group allegedly intercepted the car…

Chandigarh: The Election Commission has removed nearly 20.66 lakh voters of Punjab from the draft electoral roll published on Thursday, marking the start of the second phase of special intensive revision (SIR).The removals account for 9.63% of the state’s 2.14 crore registered voters, as of June 9, 2026. Over 1.93 crore electors or 90.37% of registered voters submitted forms during the 40-day house-to-house enumeration exercise conducted across all 117 assembly constituencies between June 25 and Aug 3.Of those deleted, the exercise listed 9,44,131 (4.40%) voters as permanently shifted, 5,74,568 (2.68%) as deceased, 4,12,715 (1.92%) as untraceable and 119,145 (.56%) were…

Patna: The RJD and NDA on Thursday traded barbs over the proposed Lok Bhavan march of Lalu Prasad’s party on Aug 19 with the opposition accusing the govt of failing to act against officials involved in alleged police brutality against students and the ruling alliance dismissing the move as political posturing.RJD national working president Tejashwi Prasad Yadav had announced on Wednesday that the party would take out a march from its Patna office to Lok Bhavan on Aug 19 against the lathicharge on students and alleged failure to act against officials who fired AK-47s at protesters in Siwan. He demanded…

Maharashtra minister Uday Samant’s helicopter experienced a technical snag during takeoff NAGPUR: Maharashtra industries minister Uday Samant on Thursday said the helicopter carrying him from Nagpur to Gadchiroli developed a technical snag during take-off, forcing the pilot to abort the flight.Samant said he boarded the helicopter at Nagpur between 8.30am and 8.45am to travel to Gadchiroli, news agency PTI reported.The Shiv Sena minister, who later safely disembarked, said the pilot had informed him that all maintenance work on the chopper had just been completed and that the weather conditions were suitable for flying to the eastern Maharashtra district.”However, after the…

BJP workers clash during Tiranga Yatra in Dhanbad Dhanbad: A Tiranga Yatra organised by the BJP in Dhanbad on Thursday was briefly disrupted when two party workers allegedly came to blows at the Zila Parishad ground just as the rally was about to begin.The altercation broke out between BJP workers Amarjeet Kumar and Rita Yadav following an argument. A purported video of the incident, showing the two engaged in a scuffle, later surfaced.Amarjeet alleged that Rita claimed the rally had been organised at her direction and used abusive language during the argument. He said he asked her to mind her…

General education minister N Samsudheen Thiruvananthapuram: Following complaints about delays in correcting SSLC certificates and issuing duplicates, general education minister N Samsudheen carried out a surprise inspection at Pareeksha Bhavan.The minister directly heard grievances from applicants who were at the office and ordered immediate action.During the visit, he found that there were delays of two to three months in making corrections to SSLC certificates and issuing duplicate copies. Based on this, he instructed officials to urgently implement measures to eliminate the backlog.The staff informed the minister that the delay was caused by duplicate certificates being sent back to schools for…