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Bengaluru woman requests doctor to prescribe pills to kill her mother-in-law, gets police notice instead
February 21, 2025 2:11 am
The doctor told the woman that their job was to save lives and not to take them.
I was told to ‘go back to Portugal’. Is this Indian modernity now?
November 17, 2024 6:04 am
If my story is unique to me then it need not go any further. But I believe it is symptomatic of the mindsets that have grown not just across the country but also in families and neighbourhoods
Why Kerala has banned oleander flowers in temple offerings
May 12, 2024 3:07 pm
A 24-year old woman died after accidentally chewing leaves of the oleander plant, locally known as ‘arali’. Here is what you need to know about the pretty but poisonous plants
You may be consuming these 5 'white poisons' unknowingly
June 01, 2023 9:53 am
While it is not necessary to avoid these foods completely, it is important to be mindful of the form and amount that is consumed, Dr Pankaj Verma, senior consultant, internal medicine at Narayana Superspeciality Hospital Gurugram
Delhi: Woman accused of serving poisoned coffee to mother-in-law, court orders FIR
October 20, 2021 8:15 am
Metropolitan Magistrate Ajay Singh Parihar Monday observed that “on the face of it, the cognizable offence committed is made out”. The court will hear the matter on October 28.
Man held for trying to lace employer’s food with rat poison: Police
September 03, 2018 1:49 am
A police officer said only Mandal used to stay with the complainant, whose children are settled abroad. The woman runs a business out of her Colaba residence. In August, after the woman returned home from Singapore, where her son stays, she often started feeling drowsy.
Study conducted by AIIMS centre: Over 16,000 poisoning calls in 10 years, kids most vulnerable
August 05, 2018 2:04 am
The study analysed 16,420 calls received by the NPIC between April 2006 and March 2016. NPIC was established in 1995 at AIIMS to combat acute poisoning, which doctors said was among the most common medical emergency in the world.
Mumbai: Man commits suicide months after brother set himself ablaze
January 23, 2018 2:17 am
In November last year, Virar resident Vikas Jha (23) had set himself on fire inside the office of Vishwas Walvi, sub-divisional police officer, Vasai. He died hours later, after sustaining 80-90 per cent burns.
Driven by poverty, man in Kapurthala poisons self, four siblings
June 21, 2017 4:43 pm
While Anu, Archna and Arshu died in local civil hospital Abhimanyu and Anurag, who was physically challenged, died in a hospital at Jalandhar, according to civil hospital SMO Dr Anup Megh.
Police: 52 goats stolen, owners poisoned in Narela village
June 13, 2015 3:38 am
Police said a 72-year-old woman was also poisoned by the same group, which made off with 22 of her goats.
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