GRANT A WISH: (From left) Piramal Foundation’s Shraddha Mishra with MNREGA worker Suman, her daughter Ronak and batchmate Kajal (in school uniform) That cold morning on December 6, there was a quiet buzz at Hameeri Kalan Senior Secondary School in Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan. For the students, teachers, and parents gathered there, it wasn’t an ordinary day….
Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar (File photo) NEW DELHI: Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar was admitted to AIIMS Delhi early Sunday after experiencing uneasiness and chest pain, sources said. The 73-year-old was taken to the hospital around 2am and admitted to the Critical Care Unit (CCU) under the supervision of Dr Rajiv Narang, Head of Cardiology at…
The trucks that carry about $300 million worth of auto parts each day over the bridge from Windsor, Ontario, to Detroit are still rolling as usual. But in the aftermath of President Trump’s decision to impose 25 percent tariffs on most categories of Canadian exports, the mood in Windsor, like all of Canada, was transformed….
KOTTAYAM: A day after five third-year students of Govt College of Nursing in Kerala’s Kottayam were arrested for brutally ragging their juniors, a video surfaced on Thursday, showing the seniors laughing as a junior writhes in pain when poked with a geometry divider. They counted the number of times they poked him with the sharp…
As President Trump was locked in a war of words with the leader of Colombia over the military deportation of migrants, China’s ambassador to Colombia declared that relations between Beijing and Bogotá were at their “best moment” in decades. Zhu Jingyang, the ambassador, later said that it was a coincidence that he posted his comment…
The Food and Drug Administration approved a new medication Thursday to treat pain from an injury or surgery. It is expensive, with a list price of $15.50 per pill. But unlike opioid pain medicines, it cannot become addictive. That is because the drug, suzetrigine, made by Vertex Pharmaceuticals and to be sold as Journavx, works…
MUMBAI: Private banks continue to feel the pain of defaults in the microfinance segment. Kotak Bank and RBL Bank which declared their earnings on Saturday, both reported higher defaults in the microfinance segment.Kotak’s consolidated net profit for the quarter ended Dec 2024 was up 10% at Rs 4,701 crore from Rs 4,265 crore in the…
Canadian MP Jagmeet Singh, leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP), has called Donald Trump a “threat to Canada” and proposed halting the export of critical minerals to the United States in response to the US President-elect tariff threats. Singh’s comments, made at a press briefing Monday, come as tensions between the two nations rise….
Most of us don’t think about pain until we have it. And when we do, it’s typically something we get over after a few days or weeks. That was my own experience, until the summer of 2023. One day I woke to find that my arms hurt. There was no obvious explanation, nothing I’d done….
“In the beginning, everyone thought they were going to find this one breakthrough pain drug that would replace opioids,” Gereau said. Increasingly, though, it’s looking like chronic pain, like cancer, could end up having a range of genetic and cellular drivers that vary both by condition and by the particular makeup of the person experiencing…