Patna, Jan 4 (ANI): With the temperature dipping below normal, the authorities of Patna’s Sanjay Gandhi Jaivic Udyan (Sanjay Gandhi Biological Park) have taken the initiative and made special arrangements for the animals to beat the biting cold wave.
Animals corrals have been covered with straw mats and electric heaters switched on to keep them warm.his [...]
New Delhi, Dec 27 (IANS) Two bike-borne assailants Sunday evening shot dead a jeweller in southwest Delhi before fleeing with his car and a bag reportedly containing Rs.5 lakh, police said.
The assailants waylaid Roshan Lal, 36, in Baprola village on the Najafgarh-Nangloi road.
Roshan Lal, who owned a jewellery shop in Karol Bagh, was reportedly [...]
New Delhi, Dec 24 (IANS) Sixteen deaths, including four from the national capital, were reported Thursday, taking the toll in India to 831, health authorities said here.
Also, 268 new cases were reported in the country, taking the total number of people affected with the contagious flu to over 24,707.
Apart from the four deaths reported from [...]
New Delhi, Dec 24 (IANS) At least four people died of swine flu Thursday taking the total number of casualties in the capital to 64, health authorities said.
While two died in the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, one died in Sanjay Gandhi Hospital and the fourth fatality was at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital.
‘The total toll in [...]
Munshiganj/ Jayas/ Jagdishpur (UP), Dec 24 (ANI): Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi had a busy schedule on the second and last day of his visit to his parliamentary constituency Amethi on Wednesday.
He attended a camp at an eye hospital in Munshiganj area of his constituency.
Gandhi also interacted with women groups of the Rajiv Gandhi [...]
Lucknow, Dec 18 (ANI): Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has said that he is a son of India.
Addressing the two-day 58th conference of the Neurological Society of India at Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences here on Thursday, he said: “I’m student of Nalanda masters of thinking therefore I also describe [...]
Lucknow, Dec 3 (IANS) A major fire broke out Thursday in the emergency ward of the well known Sanjay Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS) here destroying drugs worth over Rs.10 lakh, medical equipment and other documents. No casualty was reported, officials said.
As many as 11 fire tenders were pressed into service. It took nearly [...]
New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) Asian-American filmmaker Krishna Shah is set to make a biopic on Indira Gandhi and has roped in Bollywood diva Madhuri Dixit to play the role of India’s first and only woman prime minister.
Titled ‘Mother: The Indira Gandhi Story’, the film was announced on the late prime minister’s 92nd birth anniversary [...]
New Delhi, Nov 12 (IANS) Jaiprakash, a resident of west Delhi, was seriously injured when he was stabbed by his girlfriend’s father, police said Thursday.
Jaiprakash had a relation with a girl in his neighbourhood in Nangloi area. He went to her house to meet her late Wednesday when the attack occurred.
When the girl’s father saw [...]
Lucknow, Oct 29 (IANS) A criminal case was lodged against a woman doctor here Wednesday for allegedly assaulting an 11-year-old girl, who was employed in the medico’s house as a domestic help, police said.
The accused, Aruna Bharti, is a faculty member at the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS) here.
The girl was [...]
New Delhi, Oct 27 (IANS) Milestones in Indira Gandhi’s life: Nov 19, 1917: Indira is born
1938: Joins Indian National Congress
1942: Marries Feroze Gandhi
Sep 11, 1942: Couple is imprisoned at Naini Central jail, Allahabad, on charges of subversion
1947-1964: Remains with her father Jawaharlal Nehru as hostess and close supporter
1947: Under Mahatma Gandhi’s instructions, Indira Gandhi works [...]
New Delhi, Oct 16 (IANS) A 25-year-old woman died while her one-and-half-year-old son suffered injuries Friday when the stove on which she was cooking burst in Rohini area of northwest Delhi.
‘The incident took place at around 10 a.m. when Geeta was cooking food. Her husband was sleeping and her three children were playing when the [...]
Patna, Oct 8 (ANI): A fawn belonging to the rare species of antlers known as Manipuri deer was born at the Sanjay Gandhi Zoological Park in Patna.
This fawn belongs to the rare species of Cervus Eldi, the zoological name given to the Manipuri deer.
Indeed, the zoo authorities are quite excited with this new arrival.
“We are [...]
New Delhi, Oct 5 (IANS) More than half a dozen children suffered breathing problems after a fire broke out in a primary school in southwest Delhi Monday, police said.
‘The incident took place at around 11:15 a.m. when a fire broke out in a primary school in Bapraula village. Two fire tenders were rushed to the [...]
New Delhi, Oct 1 (IANS) Two men have been arrested in the national capital with fine quality heroin valued at Rs.7 million in the international market, police said Thursday.
The Crime Branch took into custody Nurul Sheikh and Mohammad Hussain from Sanjay Gandhi Transport Nagar and recovered 400 grams of heroin from Sheikh and 350 grams [...]
Lucknow, Sep 20 (IANS) R.K. Sharma was Sunday appointed director of the Sanjay Gandhi Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS) here, replacing controversial incumbent A.K. Mahapatra.
Sharma has been the head of the nephrology department at the SGPGI for over a decade and had also been in-charge of hospital administration for several years. He will [...]
Patna, Sep 5 (ANI): Wildlife officials of Bihar rescued a rare pangolin from Patna on Friday.
A team of forest officials was rushed to the spot on hearing that a pangolin was spotted by villagers near the Bakhtiyarpur police station.
The pangolin was caged and brought to the Sanjay Gandhi Wildlife Centre where it was examined [...]
Amritsar, Aug. 16 (ANI): Dressed in white, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Varun Gandhi paid obeisance at the Golden Temple here on Sunday.
Recalling his childhood, Varun reminiscenced how he once visited the Golden Temple along with his mother (Maneka Gandhi) [...]
