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SEHWAN, Pakistan —  The emergency ward at the main government hospital in Sehwan, a small town in southern Pakistan, is overwhelmed. On a recent visit, Reuters witnessed hundreds of people crammed into rooms and corridors, desperately seeking treatment for malaria and other illnesses that are spreading fast after the ...

NEW DELHI, Nov 8: India has honoured Indian American Narinder Singh Kapany with Padma Vibhushan, the 2nd highest award of the country. Known as the ”father of fibre optics”, he coined the term fibre optics. Calling him a “pioneering Indian-American Scientist popularly known as the Father of Fibre Optics”, ...

With life-saving oxygen in short supply, family members in India are left on their own to ferry coronavirus patients from hospital to hospital in search of treatment as the country is engulfed in a devastating new surge of infections. Too often their efforts end in mourning.For the latest headlines, ...

NEW DELHI — With life-saving oxygen in short supply, family members in India are left on their own to ferry coronavirus patients from hospital to hospital in search of treatment as the country is engulfed in a devastating new surge of infections. Too often their efforts end in mourning. ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s crematoriums and burial grounds are being overwhelmed by the devastating new surge of infections tearing through the populous country with terrifying speed, depleting the supply of life-saving oxygen to critical levels and leaving patients to die while waiting in line to see doctors. For ...

Fri, 2021-04-23 18:57 NEW DELHI: On a day when intensive care patients died when a fire broke out at a coronavirus hospital on the outskirts of Mumbai, dozens of others choked to death as India’s health care system was overwhelmed, facing a critical shortage of oxygen amid a devastating ...

Former Australia cricketer and renowned commentator Dean Jones’ death shocked the cricketing world. 59-year-old Jones passed away on Thursday following a cardiac arrest in Mumbai. He was in India as part of the commentary team working on the Indian Premier League with host broadcaster Star Sports.“It is with great ...

It trembled after the tremor. But the cricket community soon got its act together. It had to, to remember, savour, cherish and exhaust its stock of superlatives of all manner to adorn Mahendra Singh Dhoni after the eternal enigma quietly walked into international sunset. ...

Video Editor: Vishal KumarVideo Producer: Hera Khan(This story was first published on 10 November 2019 and is being reposted from The Quint's archives to mark the first anniversary of India and Pakistan's agreement on the Kartarpur Corridor.)Inaugurated a day earlier, the much-awaited Kartarpur Corridor thrown open to the public ...