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Bitten twice while ‘playing with cobra’ for stunt, man dies in Muzaffarnagar

September 23, 2025 4:14 am

He returned home around 9 pm, had dinner and went to bed. By 11 pm, his condition deteriorated

No need to panic after snakebite, free treatment available at govt hospitals: Civil surgeon

September 07, 2025 10:01 pm

Expert warns against turning to faith healers, quacks, or self-styled godmen, stressing that they cannot provide medical treatment.

Snakebite cases spike in Chandigarh, Panchkula, and Mohali during monsoon

August 10, 2025 11:43 pm

At Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), Sector 32, doctors treat an average of five–eight snakebite cases daily during the rains

Over 400 doctors trained to reduce snakebite fatalities in tribal regions of Nashik, Nandurbar districts

July 30, 2025 12:32 pm

Experts have said that the proposal should be expedited to enhance surveillance, enable timely intervention, and ensure an effective public health response.

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Why Madhya Pradesh CM's wish to count snakes and rear king cobras is unfeasible

June 21, 2025 11:14 am

Chief Minister Mohan Yadav is keen on “reintroducing” king cobras in Madhya Pradesh as an antidote to spiralling snakebite deaths. He also wants snakes in the state counted in order to assess numbers of the venomous ones.

Chandigarh: Days after woman’s body found in forest, police arrest friend for ‘abandoning’ her following snakebite

June 17, 2025 10:39 pm

Believing she had died, Suraj panicked and instead of continuing to the hospital, drove to the Dhanas forest, where he abandoned her body in the bushes and fled the scene, police claimed

SC seeks replies from Centre, others on plea over snakebite treatment

December 13, 2024 8:50 pm

The plea has sought directions to conduct snakebite prevention health mission and snakebite public awareness campaigns to reduce mortality, especially in rural India.

Snakebites are an issue of public health concern and in certain cases, they cause mortality, morbidity and disability, Union Health Secretary Punya Salila Srivastava said in a letter. (Representational Image)

Centre declares snakebites a 'notifiable disease' in India

November 29, 2024 8:49 pm

One of the key objectives under the NAPSE is to strengthen the surveillance of snakebite cases and deaths in India.

Visit govt hospitals for snakebite treatment, says Mohali health dept

August 02, 2023 8:10 pm

Free anti-venom injections available in government hospitals of Mohali, Kharar and Dera Bassi.

In India, over 64,000 people die of snake bites each year—the highest globally

November 10, 2022 9:38 pm

India accounts for almost 80% of global snakebite deaths yet it is not categorised as a notifiable disease. Though the government has now agreed to include snakebite prevention under a national programme, doctors and experts in West Bengal say a lot more needs to be done at the ground level.

PM Modi releases special coin, stamp to mark 100 years of RSS

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh [RSS] had suffered at the hands of British and Nizams for its belief of ‘nation first’. He also said RSS members, including founder KB Hedgewar, had been jailed during the freedom struggle. Modi released a special commemorative postage stamp and a coin to mark the centenary of the RSS.

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