With one in two children in India experiencing alarming levels of lead poisoning, the government and civil society representatives held consultations with international experts to consider a comprehensive national response to the issue.
Amid the alleged gang-rape and murder of a Dalit girl in North Dinajpur district's Kaliagunj, SP North Dinajpur Sana Akhtar on Saturday said that the victim's post-mortem report given by doctors reveals that death was due to a poisonous substance.
According to the reports received by VOA and videos posted on social media, at least five schools in different provinces of Iran were attacked with chemical gases. The serial poisonings of mostly female students began on November 30, 2022, in the city of Qom and have continued to spread acro
Twenty-two girl students suffered food poisoning allegedly after consuming contaminated food in the girls' hostel canteen of a private university in Madhya Pradesh's Indore district, a hospital official said on Monday.
Four people died after they inhaled poisonous gas while cleaning a septic tank in Jakhoda village in Jhajjar, Deputy Commissioner Captain Shakti Singh informed.
Iran has seen a wave of suspected poisonings, carried out almost entirely at girls' schools, in recent months. The first known incident of schoolgirl poisoning occurred on November 30 in the city of Qom, when about 50 students fell ill and were taken to the hospital.
Iranian media reported that the schoolgirl poisoning in Qom was followed by at least 58 schools in eight provinces and in the capital city of Tehran, and the cities of Borujerd and Ardebi. Dozens of girls were hospitalized as well as some boys and teachers who were also affected by the to
In recent months, hundreds of episodes of respiratory distress in schoolgirls have been reported around the nation, primarily in the holy city of Qom, south of Tehran, with some requiring hospitalisation.
About 25 Central Reserve Police Force personnel were admitted to a hospital in Bacheli in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada due to food poisoning, an official said on Sunday.
Five members of a family were found dead allegedly due to suffocation in their rented accommodation in the Kupwara district, the officials informed on Wednesday.
Police have filed a First Information Report (FIR) following a complaint after at least 137 nursing and paramedical students fell ill due to suspected food poisoning at a private hostel in Mangaluru's Shaktinagar on Monday.