Two doctors were suspended on Monday for denying an ambulance to ferry the dead body of a man in Jharkhand's Chatra district.


Two doctors suspended for denying ambulance to carry dead man


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The poor medical services in Jharkhand were again highlighted when a man and his sister-in-law carried the dead body of his brother after being denied an ambulance in the state's Chatra district.


Man carries body of dead brother denied an ambulance


A wharf in Rio de Janeiro where nearly a million African slaves are estimated to have landed through history has been declared a Unesco World Heritage site, the media reported on Monday.


Rio de Janeiro's slave wharf becomes Unesco heritage site


Tragedy struck this widow twice in the Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest. First, she watched her husband die of snakebite. Then, her young son was mauled to death by a Royal Bengal tiger.


Rebuilding lives of Sundarbans' 'tiger widows' (Societal Feature)


A sacred island in south-west Japan that bans women and where male visitors must strip naked before going ashore has been declared a Unesco world heritage site, the media reported on Monday.


'Men only' Japanese island gets Unesco world heritage listing


About 140,000 households were left without power for over 10 hours in  Los Angeles amid a record heat wave in the US city.


Massive power outage in Los Angeles amid record heat wave


Geeta Phogat, Indias first Commonwealth Games wrestling gold medallist, will on Monday take an oath to have not more than two children as part of a campaign for the two-child policy in the country.


Geeta Phogat to take only two-child oath


US publishing giant Marvel will work together with a Beijing-based company to create its first-ever Chinese comic superhero.


Marvel to create first Chinese superhero comic book


Aiming to provide better connectivity, the Haryana government has decided to link HUDA City Centre metro station and Gurugram railway station, officials said on Saturday.


Gurugram railway station to be connected with metro


One of the prime accused in the sensational lynching of 16-year-old Junaid Khan in a train last month has been arrested in Dhule, northern Maharashtra, Government Railway Police said here on Saturday.


Prime accused in Junaid lynching caught in Maharashtra


Study of the skulls of victims of Aztec human sacrifices has cast doubt on the idea that the empire toppled nearly 500 years ago by the Spanish sacrificed only young warriors captured in battle, Mexican archaeologists said.


Victims' skulls raise questions about Aztec human sacrifices


Minister for Development of North East Region (DoNER) Jitendra Singh on Friday proposed tele-education for the civil services aspirants of northeast region, saying it will bring them at par with others in metro cities.


Tele-education for northeast civil service aspirants suggested


India extracts more groundwater than the United States and China together, a Water Resource Ministry official said here on Friday, adding that some states are extracting more groundwater than there is recharge.


'India darws more groundwater than US, China combined'


Taking suo-moto cognizance of "objectionable" videos and pictures of the protected Jarawa and other tribal communities of Andaman Islands on YouTube, the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) on Friday said that it has initiated action on it.


ST commission to take action on Jarawa videos


The Delhi High Court on Thursday directed the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to re-evaluate Class 12 answer-sheets of all students who approach it.


HC knocks off all CBSE conditions for re-evaluation


A local court has held two taxi drivers  guilty of gang-rape and murder of a woman in Delhi, and sentenced them to rigorous imprisonment for life. Their act was brutal and diabolic, creating a sense of insecurity among the women seeking to hire taxi at late hours, the court said.


Two Delhi taxi drivers get life term for gang-rape, murder of woman


Police in Kerala are probing a bizarre incident where a dead man's body was not buried for three months by his family in the belief he would come back to life.


Kerala family keeps dead man's body in house for 3 months


Moshe Holtzberg, the boy whose Jewish parents were killed during the Mumbai terror attacks of 2008, on Wednesday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi who said he would be granted a long-term visa to stay and visit in India as he liked.


Modi meets little Moshe, says he can stay, visit India as he likes


As Prime Minister Narendra Modi is to meet Baby Moshe, the little boy who was orphaned in the 26/11 terror attack on the Chabad House here, the current Rabbi hopes the Prime Minister's historic visit to Israel will help create awareness of the slain Rabbi's vision for a better and peaceful world.


Chabad House in Mumbai remembers slain Rabbi as Modi to meet Baby Moshe in Israel


Nearly 80,000 pilgrims have performed the Amarnath Yatra over the last six days, an official said on Wednesday as another  batch of 3,389 pilgrims left here for the cave shrine in the Kashmir Valley amid heightened security.


Around 80,000 pilgrims perform Amarnath Yatra in 6 days


Medical representatives around the world are not fully equipped to meet the changing needs of doctors on upgraded medicine, revealed a study on Tuesday.

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