Day: February 9, 2019

FDA questions Juul, Altria commitment to combat teen vaping

WASHINGTON  — The head of the Food and Drug Administration is questioning whether electronic cigarette maker Juul and its new partner Altria are following through on pledges to help reverse the boom in underage vaping. FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb on Friday posted letters he sent to Juul and […]

Reckoning time: Trump checks in for another medical checkup

BETHESDA, Md. — It’s reckoning time: President Donald Trump had his annual medical exam Friday, a year after his doctor advised him to up the exercise and cut the calories. Trump spent more than four hours at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for a checkup supervised by […]

Arizona health facility rape spurs video surveillance push

PHOENIX — Arizona is trying to catch up to 10 states with laws allowing electronic monitoring and other technology aimed at deterring abuse of vulnerable people at long-term care facilities, following the rape of an incapacitated Phoenix woman who later gave birth. Cameras are most commonly used, but […]

Pb: Two communities clash in Phagwara , 3 injured

Phagwara :  Tension prevailed in Phagwara in Punjab’s Kapurthala district on Friday night following a violent clash between members of two communities, resulting in injuries to three youths, police said. Those injured in the clash included two cousins belonging to one community and another youth belonging to other community, […]

Waterways will be developed in Saryu river: Gadkari

Faizabad (UP) : Union minister Nitin Gadkari said Friday that waterways would be developed in the Saryu river that would facilitate smooth travel to Bangladesh via Varanasi. The Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Shipping and Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation laid the foundations of several […]

Arizona wants care unit where patient was raped to stay open

PHOENIX  — The embattled operators of an Arizona long-term care facility agreed Friday to be regulated by the state, effectively nixing a plan to close down the unit where an incapacitated woman gave birth after being raped. The state received written confirmation that Hacienda HealthCare would enter into […]

During IPL, women’s T20 event with maximum 3 teams

New Delhi :  From one exhibition match last year, the women’s participation in the IPL is set to become a three-team affair spread over seven to 10 days with the Committee of Administrators (CoA) mulling an expansion this year. However, the full fledged women’s IPL is still a […]

NZ win toss, elect to bat against India in 2nd T20

Auckland : New Zealand captain Kane Williamson won the toss and elected to bat against India in the second T20 International here Friday. Both India and New Zealand are unchanged for the match. Teams: India: Rohit Sharma (c), Shikhar Dhawan, Rishabh Pant, Vijay Shankar, Dinesh Karthik, MS Dhoni (wk), […]

Scandals drive calls for top Virginia leadership to resign

RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia’s state government seemed to come unglued Friday as an embattled Gov. Ralph Northam made it clear he won’t resign and the man in line to succeed him was hit with another sexual assault accusation and barraged with demands that he step down, too. Top […]

Fed Cup: Kazakhstan blank India 3-0

Astana (Kazakhstan) :  India’s aspirations of qualifying for the Fed Cup World Group were dashed after hosts Kazakhstan thrashed them 3-0 in a Pool A tie here Friday. Neither Ankita Raina nor Karman Kaur Thandi could win their singles rubbers losing to their respective opponents in straight sets and […]

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