Union minister and founder of the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) Ram Vilas Paswan passed away at the age of 74 at a hospital in New Delhi on Thursday. Ram Vilas Paswan had been suffering from a heart ailment for a long time and was last operated on Saturday. Being a veteran politician from Bihar, his … Read more
Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan died in a Delhi hospital on Thursday evening. He was 74. The senior Dalit leader from Bihar had been unwell for a few weeks. His son and LJP leader, Chirag Paswan, tweeted, “Papa is no more in this world, but I know wherever you are, you are always with me. … Read more
In a complaint to Hyderabad police, Varshini’s parents alleged negligence on the part of organisers of the go-kart zone in Gurram Gurda led to their daughter’s death. File photo of the girl who died in this tragic go-karting accident (Photo Credits: Ashish Pandey/India Today) A B-Tech student in Hyderabad died while go-karting on Thursday after … Read more
While outrage over the gang rape-murder case of a Dalit woman in Hathras continues, a six-year-old girl from the same district Hathras, who was allegedly raped by her relative, died during treatment at a Delhi hospital. After her death, the victim’s family sat with her body on the main road in Hathras in protest against … Read more
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Timothy Ray Brown, also known as the Berlin patient, pictured in 2012 The first person cured of HIV – Timothy Ray Brown – has died from cancer. Mr Brown, who was also known as “the Berlin patient”, was given a bone marrow transplant from a donor who was naturally … Read more
Kuwait’s ruler Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, a veteran diplomat who positioned the small Arab Gulf state as a regional peacemaker and forged a U.S. alliance that deepened after the country was invaded by Iraq in 1990, has died. He was 91 years old. Sheikh Sabah, who suffered a debilitating stroke in 2019, had traveled … Read more
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Studies have found that eating too much liquorice can cause a dangerous drop in potassium levels A construction worker in the US state of Massachusetts was killed by his liquorice habit, doctors say. The man, who has not been named but was 54 years old, ate about one-and-a-half bags … Read more
Sept. 18, 2020 — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a trailblazing jurist and the second woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, died Friday. She was 87. The cause of death was metastatic pancreatic cancer, according to a statement from the court. “Our nation has lost a jurist of historic stature,” Chief Justice … Read more
Sept. 11, 2020 — The parents of a 13-year-old boy in Florida who died from brain-eating amoeba want to warn others about the risk of the waterborne infection. Tanner Lake Wall, 13, became ill after a family vacation last month at a North Florida campground that has a lake and water park. He was … Read more
August 29, 2020 — Chadwick Boseman, the star of the 2018 Marvel Comics megahit Black Panther, died of colon cancer Friday. Boseman, first diagnosed 4 years ago, had kept his diagnosis a secret. He filmed his recent movies ”during and between countless surgeries and chemotherapy,” according to a statement issued on his Twitter account. When the … Read more