Infant Deaths

The Delhi High Court has recently granted a lump sum compensation of Rs. 2.5 lakh to a mother whose five-month-old infant was bitten to death by a stray dog in 2008.

Constructing toilets under the Swachh Bharat Mission - India's national cleanliness programme - may have helped avert roughly 60,000-70,000 infant deaths every year, according to a study.

The outbreak is part of a global resurgence of the disease, which has seen cases and deaths in countries like China, the Philippines, the Czech Republic, and the Netherlands.

The death toll in a fire in an east Delhi neonatal hospital rose to seven on Friday after a 50-day-old infant who was rescued from the incident site succumbed during treatment, police said.

A man allegedly strangled his three-month-old daughter to death in Sathedi village in UP's Muzaffarnagar because he did not want any more children, police said today.

A pregnant woman and a one-and-a-half-year-old child, stranded due to floods in Tamil Nadu, were among four people rescued by Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopters today and taken to safety in Madurai.

The grandmother has a simple wish for her twin baby granddaughters, Alma and Salma: they should be in a clean, safe room where they can be bathed.

A 23-year-old woman was arrested for allegedly throwing her newborn girl into a dustbin in a civic-run hospital in Mumbai, leading to her death, a police official said on Monday.

Four teams have been constituted to investigate the case of electrocution of a woman and her nine-month-old daughter at Whitefield on the city's outskirts, Karnataka Energy Minister K J George said on Tuesday.

Supreme Court set aside the conviction of a man facing death penalty for alleged rape and murder of a 3-month-old girl and remitted the matter for a new trial", observing that the trial was conducted in a "hurried manner".

More than 60 infants were admitted to the government hospital in Maharashtra's Nanded city where 31 patients died in a span of 48 hours a few days ago, but there were only three nurses to take care of the babies, Congress leader Ashok Chavan said.

A total of 65 patients were being treated at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of the Maharashtra government's facility in Nanded against the sanctioned strength of 24 beds when 11 infants died at the NICU between Sep 30 and October 1, doctor said.

Two women and a four-month-old baby were crushed to death after being hit by a massive landslide in Chamba in Uttarakhand's Tehri district on Monday, police said.

An FIR has been registered against a man for torturing and killing an infant monkey in the Faizganj Baheta area of this Uttar Pradesh district, police said on Thursday.

An infant and a three-year-old boy were mauled to death by a lioness and a leopard in separate incidents in Gujarat's Amreli district, forest department officials said today.

The Delhi High Court has recently granted a lump sum compensation of Rs. 2.5 lakh to a mother whose five-month-old infant was bitten to death by a stray dog in 2008.

Constructing toilets under the Swachh Bharat Mission - India's national cleanliness programme - may have helped avert roughly 60,000-70,000 infant deaths every year, according to a study.

The outbreak is part of a global resurgence of the disease, which has seen cases and deaths in countries like China, the Philippines, the Czech Republic, and the Netherlands.

The death toll in a fire in an east Delhi neonatal hospital rose to seven on Friday after a 50-day-old infant who was rescued from the incident site succumbed during treatment, police said.

A man allegedly strangled his three-month-old daughter to death in Sathedi village in UP's Muzaffarnagar because he did not want any more children, police said today.

A pregnant woman and a one-and-a-half-year-old child, stranded due to floods in Tamil Nadu, were among four people rescued by Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopters today and taken to safety in Madurai.

The grandmother has a simple wish for her twin baby granddaughters, Alma and Salma: they should be in a clean, safe room where they can be bathed.

A 23-year-old woman was arrested for allegedly throwing her newborn girl into a dustbin in a civic-run hospital in Mumbai, leading to her death, a police official said on Monday.

Four teams have been constituted to investigate the case of electrocution of a woman and her nine-month-old daughter at Whitefield on the city's outskirts, Karnataka Energy Minister K J George said on Tuesday.

Supreme Court set aside the conviction of a man facing death penalty for alleged rape and murder of a 3-month-old girl and remitted the matter for a new trial", observing that the trial was conducted in a "hurried manner".

More than 60 infants were admitted to the government hospital in Maharashtra's Nanded city where 31 patients died in a span of 48 hours a few days ago, but there were only three nurses to take care of the babies, Congress leader Ashok Chavan said.

A total of 65 patients were being treated at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of the Maharashtra government's facility in Nanded against the sanctioned strength of 24 beds when 11 infants died at the NICU between Sep 30 and October 1, doctor said.

Two women and a four-month-old baby were crushed to death after being hit by a massive landslide in Chamba in Uttarakhand's Tehri district on Monday, police said.

An FIR has been registered against a man for torturing and killing an infant monkey in the Faizganj Baheta area of this Uttar Pradesh district, police said on Thursday.

An infant and a three-year-old boy were mauled to death by a lioness and a leopard in separate incidents in Gujarat's Amreli district, forest department officials said today.