A baby girl born weighing just 245 grams, believed to be the tiniest on record to survive premature birth, has been discharged from a hospital in the US.


World's 'tiniest baby' released from US hospital


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A Pakistani school teacher has been booked for forcing a primary school student to eat grass as punishment for not learning his lesson.


Pakistani teacher booked for forcing student to eat grass


In a rare gesture, a kidney swap was successfully conducted between a Hindu family from Bihar and a Muslim family from Kashmir at a private hospital near here.


Kidney swap unites Hindu, Muslim families


Milk and vegetable supplies in Madhya Pradesh are likely to be affected with farmers in the state holding a three-day protest to press the Kamal Nath government to fulfill its loan waiver promise.


Madhya Pradesh farmers begin 3-day stir, supplies affected


In an alarming trend, gymnasiums and health clubs across the country are providing youngsters with steroids and banned drugs in the name of food supplements that aid bodybuilding.


Gyms supplying steroids in name of food supplements


In a shocking incident, a woman was forced to carry the body of her son, Afroz, in her arms because no ambulance was provided to her. The incident took place here in Uttar Pradesh on Monday night.


Mother denied ambulance, carries son's body in arms


In a bid to ease traffic on Gurugram roads, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has approved Detailed Project Report (DPR) for a 31.11-kilometre metro line between HUDA City Centre and Cyber City Rapid Metro.


Khattar okays DPR for extention of Gurugram Metro


Walter J. Lindner, the newly-appointed German envoy to India, made heads turn last week, when he arrived at the Rashtrapati Bhawan in a red Ambassador car. Meeting 'sadhus' in Varanasi, touring Delhi's spice market Khari Baoli in a rickshaw, and visiting the Beatles Ashram -- the diplomat has announced his arrival in style.


New German envoy connects with India's heart and culture


Katni district Collector in Madhya Pradesh, Pankaj Jain, an IAS officer, sends his daughter to an 'anganwadi' - a rural child care centre - for her pre-school learning, saying it was better than many private play schools in the area.


MP Collector's daughter studies in 'anganwadi'


From the summer of 2015 to March 2015, US Navy pilots had reported about seeing strange objects in the sky, one of them like a spinning top moving against the wind, which appeared almost daily over the East Coast, a media reports said.


US Navy pilots report unidentified flying objects


A Dubai-based Indian expat has named his newborn son Narendra Damodardas Modi, as an honour to the Indian Prime Minister's resounding victory in the recently concluded general elections, the media reported on Monday.


Dubai-based Indian names newborn son 'Narendra Modi'


Amidst the chaos on the top floor and especially the room where children were confined in a burning building in Gujarat's Surat, a class 10 girl student showed presence of mind in calmly following her teacher to safety, while helping another student.


Didn't panic, says girl student saved from burning Surat building


Two Indians died on Mount Everest due to hours-long "traffic jam", just days after expedition leaders and the Nepal government claimed overcrowding on the world's tallest mountain was not a worry.


Indian climbers killed in the Everest 'traffic jam'


What's cricket got to do with helping leaders overcome the mental and other blocks they  often face? Plenty, it would seem. Then, also examine the work of an award-winning poet that mediates on our follies in the world as humans. And finally, ponder over how caste still thrives in post-liberalisation India.


Of cricket and leader's block; poems that remind us of the follies of the human race; the complex place of caste in human society (IANS Books This Weekend)


Two Indians and a Pakistani national became the latest winners in Dubai Duty Free's Finest Surprise promotion, the media reported.


Two Indians, Pakistani win Dubai Duty free raffle


Prayer meetings were held amid tight security here on Wednesday to mark the first anniversary of the Thoothukudi police firing in which 13 people were killed. The protesters were demanding closure of Vedanta's Sterlite copper smelter plant for causing environmental pollution.


Thoothukudi 2018 police firing victims remembered


As many as 21,000 US women ordered abortion pills online in the past six months (between October 2018 and March 2019), according to figures revealed by Aid Access, a charity.


21K US women ordered abortion pills online in 6 months


A day after a technical snag hit the Delhi Metro Yellow Line that left thousands of commuters stranded for over two hours, authorities on Wednesday said that such glitches cannot be ruled out completely even though high priority is given to the maintenance of the tracks and the electric cables.


Technical snags cannot be ruled out completely: DMRC


A US judge has ruled in favour of the parents of a 21-year-old dead cadet saying they can use his frozen sperm to produce a child.


Parents of US cadet can use his sperm for surrogate birth


Hindu scholar and author Nithin Sridhar says menstruation should not be considered shameful but should be celebrated as a basic requirement of womanhood, as an integral dimension of feminineness.


'Menstruation should be celebrated as basic requirement'


Thousands of commuters faced immense inconvenience during the morning rush hours on Tuesday and many had to be evacuated from stuck trains as the Delhi Metro services on the Yellow Line between Haryana's Huda City and Samaypur Badli in Delhi were stalled for over two hours due to a major technical snag.

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