India

Kanpur: It was certainly a case of medical negligence. A nurse assigned the job of caring for the patients has shown her utter carelessness while administering expired glucose to a child in the  emergency ward of Kanpur Dehat District hospital.

However, the child's father timely stepped in and spotted the expiry date on the bottle. He first stopped the drip.

Later, a ruckus took place at the hospital over the pertinent issue.

Taking cognisance of the situation, District Magistrate JP Singh formed a team with Additional CMO and ADM to investigate into the matter.

Imphal, Sep 10 (PTI) Letminthang Haokip, the self-styled commander-in-chief of militant organisation Socialist Democratic Front of Kukiland (SDFK), was gunned down in an operation conducted by security forces in Manipur's Churachandpur district on Friday, police said.

Acting on a tip-off, a joint team of Assam Rifles and Manipur Police shot the militant leader dead during an exchange of fire in Khominthang village early on Friday, a release said.

Seraikela (Jharkhand), Sep 10 (PTI) As many as 50 Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) suspectedly planted by members of the banned CPI (Maoist) outfit were defused in Jharkhand's Seraikela-Kharswan district on Friday, police said.

Twenty-five IEDs were detected on a road between Nimdih-Panduburu and Kudahatu villages on Thursday evening, and 25 explosives were found on a road between Rugudih and Dodarda villages during the day, Superintendent of Police Anand Prakash said.

Jalpaiguri (WB), Sep 10 (PTI) A man was arrested with snake venom worth Rs 13 crore in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district, a forest officer said on Friday.

The accused, hailing from Dakshin Dinajpur district, was nabbed with three jars of snake venom in Gorumara National Park, he said, adding those were being smuggled to China.

The accused was produced before a court which sent him to six days in the custody of the Forest Department.

New Delhi, Sep 11 (PTI) India and Australia on Saturday began a high-level foreign and defence ministerial dialogue aimed at further ramping up their overall defence and strategic cooperation including in the Indo-Pacific amid China's increasing military assertiveness in the region.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh held the inaugural 'two-plus-two' talks here with their Australian counterparts Marise Payne and Peter Dutton.

NEW DELHI, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) -- The local government in the northern Indian state of Punjab announced Friday that it would send its employees on compulsory leave if they have not taken at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.

The decision was announced by Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh during the COVID-19 review meeting with the state's top officers.

The order would come into force from Sept. 15.

Jamshedpur(Jharkhand), Sep 9 (PTI) A local Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader was shot at by miscreants near the railway running room under Bagbera police station near here on Thursday, police said.

East Singhbhum, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Dr M Tamil Varnan said a person named Bablu Kumar Singh was shot at by two persons.

VHP Secretary of Jamshedpur Mahanagar Committee, Deepak Verma said that Singh is the VHP Bagbera committee president.

Bareilly (UP), Sep 9 (PTI) A six-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a teenager in a village in Nawabganj area here, police said on Thursday.

The incident took place on Wednesday when the girl was playing outside her house and the boy (14) took her on his cycle to a secluded place and raped her, ASP (Rural) Raj Kumar Agarwal said.

The accused fled the spot when screams of the girl attracted villagers' attention, he said.

Kanpur: In the female ward of the district hospital on Wednesday, the women noticed someone in a burqa and salwar-kurta that caused an uproar.

The person's body language raised suspicion that made the patients raise an alarm, according to the news.

A look at the toes revealed the person was a man! When the patient raised an alarm, he ran to the emergency ward.

When he was trying to scale the boundary wall, the hospital staff caught him. He was later handed over to the police to save him from the wrath of angry patients.

Lakhimpur Kheri (UP), Sep 9 (PTI) Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Ajay Kumar Lallu on Thursday alleged that the Centre and the state government "misled" farmers by false promises of doubling their income and prompt payment of sugarcane dues.

Addressing a Kisan Panchayat at Gola town here, while Lallu claimed that his party is committed to the cause of farmers, he accused the governments of serving interests of a few businessmen.