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Nida Khan

Nida covers health, Department of Food and Drugs, IIT & IIM from Indore.

Articles by Nida Khan

Indore: Cop rushes woman to hospital for delivery

Sitting in a gynecology department at Hukum Chand Polyclinic in Indore watching his newborn boy sleep, Vicky Kerasiya narrates how his wife, Durga, was helped at 3am by the police officials patrolling in a PCR van.

Constable Yogesh Dabe with Durga Kerasiya and her newborn baby on Monday.(Shankar Mourya/ HT photo)
Published on Mar 15, 2016 06:32 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Indore

Indore: Children reach out to CM for Devguradia residents

“I can’t breathe properly,” said a Class 2 student in his letter to the Madhya Pradesh chief minister, urging him to act on the problem of large-scale burning of garbage at the Devguradia landfill.

A child cycles near the trenching ground with his face covered to protect him from the smoke.(Shankar Mourya/ HT file)
Published on Mar 14, 2016 09:16 PM IST
Hindustan Times | ByVinit and Nida Khan, Indore

Women’s day joke spirals into molestation charge on WhatsApp

What started as a joke on WhatsApp has led to a group of female students from MGM medical college filing a complaint of molestation against eight classmates. The police detained them on Thursday.

What started as a joke on WhatsApp has led to a group of female students from MGM medical college filing a complaint of molestation against eight classmates.(REUTERS)
Updated on Mar 11, 2016 12:26 PM IST
Hindustan Times | ByRitesh Mishra and Nida Khan, Indore

Indore: Visually impaired RJs give light to their dreams

Two visually impaired youngsters in Indore who double up as radio jockeys while holding regular jobs in banks have blended a perfect balance to realise their dream of making a difference in the lives of people like them

Shyaam Sharma and Gitesh Gehlot belong to a team of 19 visually-challenged radio jockeys associated with Udaan.(Shankar Mourya/ HT photo)
Published on Feb 28, 2016 05:42 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Indore

MP: For these children, punches and karate chops will do the talking

Karate black belt holder Diljeet Kaur (23) and another trainer Rani Kharodiya (17) take free classes on self-defence for hearing and speech impaired children. They have been taking classes for around 80 such students every day at an electronic complex in Pardeshipura area of the city for the past one year.

Hearing and speech impaired children being trained for self-defence at Pardeshipura complex in Indore on Thursday.(Shankar Mourya/HT photo)
Published on Feb 26, 2016 10:57 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Indore

Indore youth’s short film creates buzz online

An Indore-based filmmaker is making waves on social media after the United Nations shared his short film on acid attack victims via its official Twitter account.

A poster of ‘Doon Ke Na Doon’ short film.
Published on Feb 21, 2016 08:09 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Indore

MP launches mobile app to map infant, maternal mortality rates

The Madhya Pradesh health department has launched an Android-based application to map the infant mortality and maternal mortality rate in the state, an official said on Saturday.

The app will track the health of an expecting mother from the time she conceives a child until the delivery of the baby.(HT file photo)
Published on Feb 21, 2016 07:59 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Indore

Moms with gum disease linked to thin babies, pre-term delivery

An expecting mother suffering a gum disease not only requires an urgent visit to the dentist but the condition could also lead to a pre-term delivery or complicated pregnancy.

Published on Feb 14, 2016 07:59 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Indore

Low-budget toilets in MP village to set example

The measures adopted by residents of Simrol village in Madhya Pradesh to end the problem of defecating in the open could soon become a model for Maharashtra.

A woman in Indore’s Nayagaon village stands in front of a toilet built on Simrol model of low-budget toilets.(Shankar Mourya/ HT file)
Updated on Feb 11, 2016 07:25 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Indore

MP: Crops dry up near water sports site

The Madhya Pradesh government is developing a water sports destination in Khandwa, but nearby villagers reel under drought and drinking water.

A farmer at his dried-up wheat farm at Segwal village in Khandwa district of Madhya Pradesh.(Shankar Mourya/ HT photo)
Published on Feb 07, 2016 05:55 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Indore

Madhya Pradesh cabinet holds meet on cruise

The entire MP State Cabinet seemed to be on ‘cruise mode’ on Tuesday when it took some important decisions while enjoying a boat ride on Indira Sagar lake at the scenic island of Hanumantiya in Khandwa district.

In an unusual gesture to welcome the chief minister and his contingent, the houses of Hanumantiya village were painted with beautiful tribal art and graffiti by college students in Khandwa on Tuesday.(Shankar Mourya/ HT photo)
Updated on Feb 02, 2016 10:05 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Khandwa

Touring states, in a truck full of books, to promote reading

It’s not fiction-Indore residents have a truckload of books to read from.

Shatabdi Mishra and Akshay Routray in their customised truck in Indore.(Shankar Mourya/ HT photo)
Published on Jan 31, 2016 07:23 PM IST
Hindustan Times | ByNida Khan and Ritesh Mishra, Indore

Indore lakes to be developed as tourism spots

Three lakes of Indore will soon be developed as tourism spots including facilities like boating and other attractions.

Sirpur lake has been recognised as Important Bird Area.(Shankar Mourya/ HT File Photo)
Published on Jan 28, 2016 04:52 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Indore

Taking a leak in public? Activists to blow the whistle on offenders

Social activists in Indore have decided to blow the whistle on public urination, almost literally.

Members of Submission Welfare Society hold placards denouncing urination in public.(Shankar Mourya/HT Photo)
Updated on Jan 25, 2016 10:12 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Indore

Indore makes a mark in organ donation

Organ donations are on the rise in Indore, taking the city to the top league of donors.

Organs of a 59-year-old being carried to the ambulance for transplant at Bombay hospital.(Shankar Mourya/HT file photo)
Published on Jan 15, 2016 05:58 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Indore

No mean feat: MP’s youth on cover of UAE magazine

Twenty-six-year-old Yasir Khan from Bhopal has become the first Indian to feature on the cover of a fitness magazine from the United Arab Emirates.

Defeating more than 32 fitness trainers from around the world, Yasir Khan made it to the competition to feature on the magazine’s cover.(HT photo)
Updated on Jan 10, 2016 09:54 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Indore

60 lost sight because of contaminated operation theatre in MP hospital

A contaminated operation theatre at a state-run hospital in Madhya Pradesh’s Barwani district blinded 60 people in November, said a Kolkata

People who lost their eyesight at Barwani are treated at a hospital in Indore in December.
Updated on Jan 09, 2016 03:41 PM IST
Hidnustan Times | By, Indore

Barwani botched surgery: MP health dept to receive forensic report soon

At least 60 patients who had undergone a cataract surgery in an eye camp in Barwani in November last year had lost vision in one eye after the operation.(File photo)
Updated on Jan 06, 2016 10:03 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Indore

Indore eyes education hub tag in New Year

With an IIM, an IIT, a high-ranking university (Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya), several reputed colleges and coaching institutes, Indore has almost everything to be developed into an educational hub.

One of the main challenges for IIM Indore in the New Year will be to improve its quality of placement.(Arun Mondhe/HT file photo)
Published on Dec 30, 2015 06:35 PM IST
Hindustan Times | ByMilind R Lashkari and Nida Khan, Indore

MP health dept has its task cut out for new year

Madhya Pradesh has always been at the bottom of the heap in all the health indices. Things are marginally better in Indore district, but they are bleak in the remaining seven districts of Indore division, which has vast swathes of tribal population.

An inside view of the MY Hospital in Indore. Several government hospitals in Indore division are struggling to cope with a huge number of patients, limited doctors and poor infrastructure.(Amit K Jaiswal/HT file photo)
Published on Dec 29, 2015 07:04 PM IST
By, Indore

MP: New generation start-up big

A new breed of entrepreneurs in MP are tapping into the technology wave, showing how ideas can be incubated anywhere.

Published on Dec 27, 2015 07:48 PM IST
ByNida Khan and Purvi Jain, Bhopal/indore

Indore: No liquor after 11.30 pm for New Year party

New Year revellers in Indore are in for a disappointment as the excise department will not be relaxing its 11.30 pm deadline for serving alcoholic drinks in restaurants, hotels, pubs, lounges and bars during this year-end.

People welcome New Year at a pub in Indore.(HT file photo)
Updated on Dec 24, 2015 06:34 PM IST
By, Indore

Having frequent heartburns? You might be under bacteria attack!

Irritated about the recurring bouts of acidity, despite cautiously avoiding oily and sticky food? It’s time you quit popping in an antacid tablet and get checked for Helicobacter Pylori—a type of bacteria commonly found in the digestive tract.

Having too much oily food can trigger acidity.(Pic for representation)
Updated on Dec 13, 2015 07:12 PM IST
By, Indore

‘Barwani-like incident can repeat anywhere in Madhya Pradesh’

A Barwani-like incident can happen anytime anywhere, thanks to poor health infrastructure, ill-equipped hospitals, staff shortage and overworked doctors across Madhya Pradesh, health experts said on Thursday.

The victims of botched Barwani eye camp at MY Hospital in Indore.(Shankar Mourya/HT file photo)
Published on Dec 11, 2015 06:13 PM IST
ByAnimesh Jain and Nida Khan, Barwani/indore

19 ‘unsafe’ drugs banned in Madhya Pradesh

Days after the Barwani eye camp incident where 45 people lost their sight, the Madhya Pradesh health department banned on Tuesday 19 drugs that are unsafe and of sub-standard quality.

The banned drugs from different pharmaceuticals were being supplied to several government hospitals and primary health centres in the state.(Shutterstock)
Published on Dec 08, 2015 10:03 PM IST
By, Indore

MP: Victims of botched cataract surgery call hospital callous

Baitul Bi, 55, is afraid that she will lose her job as a cook’s assistant now that she has lost her eyesight after a botched cataract surgery at a Barwani eye surgery camp last month.

(L-R) Baitul Bi, Dabku Bai and Namdev Mali undergo treatment at MY Hospital after the botched cataract surgery at Barwani district hospital.(Shankar Mourya/HT photo)
Updated on Dec 08, 2015 09:04 PM IST
By, Indore

Barwani botched eye surgery: Eye wash caused infection, blindness

The eye wash manufactured by a Madhya Pradesh based company has caused fungal infection and blindness amongst the 45 patients in Barwani.

Dr NK Agrawal, deputy director general for National Programme for Control of Blindness, said that apart from the eye wash nothing could have caused such infection.(File photo)
Updated on Dec 08, 2015 08:14 PM IST
By, Indore

MP govt to launch mobile app on Dec 4 to track vaccine system

The MP health department will launch a mobile application that will enable healthcare workers to effectively manage vaccine logistics and have real-time information on availability of vaccines, an official said on Wednesday.

Chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan releases a poster during the launch of IPV vaccine in Bhopal.(File photo)
Published on Dec 03, 2015 01:18 PM IST

Indore varsity, IIT at loggerheads over non-payment of rent

The ongoing rent row between the Institute for Engineering and Technology and the Indian Institute of Technology -Indore reached boiling point on Tuesday after the vice-chancellor of Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya sought the intervention of the Ministry for Human Resource Development in the matter.

IIT-Indore campus at Simrol.(Arun Mondhe/HT file photo)
Published on Dec 01, 2015 08:55 PM IST
By, Indore

Indore: Signs say Geeta is now confident

Geeta appeared before journalists during Sushma Swaraj’s press conference in Indore in dark pink suit and matching accessories.

Geeta poses with the members of the IDBA and foreign minister Sushma Swaraj in Indore on Monday.(Shankar Mourya/HT Photo)
Updated on Nov 24, 2015 01:12 PM IST
By, Indore
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