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Deadly listeria outbreak in deli meats, which was first reported in July and, as of Tuesday, has been linked to several hospitalisations across many US states, could bring more illness, according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. The outbreak has led to at least 57 hospitalisations and nine deaths in 18 states since the CDC initially reported it on July 19. Those cases now include nine deaths across South Carolina, Illinois, New Jersey, Virginia, Florida, Tennessee, New Mexico, and New York. The national public health agency of the United States has confirmed that this is the largest listeriosis outbreak since the 2011 outbreak linked to cantaloupe. The agency has urged citizens to exercise… Read More »Listeria Outbreak Claims 9 Lives In US, Health Authorities Advise Checking Refrigerated Food

Bollywood star Kareena Kapoor Khan on Tuesday said she is happy she got the opportunity to work with Hansal Mehta on her upcoming film “The Buckingham Murders” as she praised the filmmaker for making her feel comfortable on the set. The UK-set murder mystery, which also marks Kareena’s production debut, will see the actor play Jasmeet Bhamra aka Jass, a cop grieving the death of her child who is tasked with the investigation of a missing child. Kareena praised Hansal for staying true to the authenticity of the story. “This film wouldn’t have been what it is without the man himself, the captain of the ship, Hansal Mehta. The way he has shot it, the… Read More »No One Better Than Hansal Mehta To Direct The Buckingham Murders: Kareena Kapoor

Union Coal Minister G Kishan Reddy on Tuesday indicated that the floods in Telangana cannot be declared as “national calamity” as sought by the state government even as he said the Centre would extend all possible help to the state. The Telangana government should use the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) to help the flood-hit people and that the Union government would provide more funds after Central teams visit the state and ascertain the losses, he said. “It’s (national calamity) not there anywhere… We are helping. Whatever is the name (of calamity). We have to provide relief to people and help them,” he told reporters here. “The SDRF is with the state government. They should… Read More »Will Give Funds After Central Teams Visit Rain-hit Telangana: Union Minister

Doctors at the King George Hospital in Andhra Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam successfully removed the calcified remains of a 24-week-old fetus from a patient’s abdominal cavity. The condition known as a ‘stone baby’ or “lithopedion”, is a rare phenomenon which occurs most commonly when a fetus dies during an abdominal pregnancy, is too large to be reabsorbed by the body, and subsequently becomes calcified. Lithopedia may occur from 14 weeks gestation to full term. It is not unusual for a stone baby to remain undiagnosed for decades and to be found well after natural menopause; diagnosis often happens when the patient is examined for other conditions that require being subjected to an X-ray study. The 27-year-old patient… Read More »Andhra Doctors Remove 24-Week-Old ‘Stone Baby’ From Woman’s Body

Chinar has stood testimony to the ever-changing history in Jammu Kashmir for so many decades. But over the years their numbers have been drastically decreasing. And now to keep the numbers from further decreasing, the Jammu and Kashmir administration has started geo-tagging them. One just has to follow Google to locate chinar trees in Kashmir. NDTV tracked an old chinar tree to Nishat Bagh where it has been standing tall for the last 380 years. “It’s the oldest chinar here but now its trunk is shrinking due to soil not being put around its roots methodically,” one of the gardeners told NDTV. A 380-year-old Chinar tree in Nishat Bagh. According to him, as many as… Read More »Now, Locate The Tallest Chinar Tree In Kashmir Using QR Code