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GENEVA: The MSF charity demanded Wednesday the opening of an international fact-finding investigation into a deadly US air strike on a hospital it was running in the Afghan city of Kunduz. "We cannot rely on an internal military investigation," Doctors without Borders chief Joanne Liu told reporters, insisting that an "international humanitarian fact-finding commission" should probe the attack.

After PM Modi announced the launch of the Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) on Sunday, AIIMS has become the first hospital in Delhi to sign on for the scheme. On Tuesday, AIIMS signed a MoU with the National Health Agency that is responsible for the scheme's implementation.

The vice chief of Indian Air Force (IAF), Air Marshal S B Deo, is understood to have accidentally shot himself in his thigh. He was rushed to a military hospital in Delhi where he underwent a surgery. His condition is stable. However, there was no official comment on the incident from the IAF.

A man, desperate for a son, allegedly threw his 18-month daughter from the terrace of his home in a Uttar Pradesh village after his wife gave birth to another girl, police said today. The toddler, Kavya, was seriously injured after the incident in Pardhauli village and has been admitted to hospital.

As Diwali celebrations came to an end, the flow of people who suffered injuries due to crackers in different parts of the city, began at Sarojini Devi Eye Hospital.

OKARA: A schoolteacher in Okara lost his temper and brutally tortured a student for coming late to school, Samaa reported. According to parents of the student, the teacher has broken an arm of their son. The student has been admitted to District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital . -Samaa

MUMBAI: Bollywood's most regarded, veteran actor Dilip Kumar, as per the latest reports, has been admitted to ICU at Mumbai's Lilavati Hospital in suburban

One of US pop singer Michael Jackson's lawyers was in hospital today after being taken ill in court in California at the singer's child sex trial. Lawyer Brian

FAISALABAD: Police captured an alleged terrorist near Allied Hospital in Faisalabad and transferred him to some undisclosed place, sources said. The arrested

MUMBAI: Taking time off from her busy schedule in Mumbai, Congress President Sonia Gandhi visited ailing Bollywood veteran Dilip Kumar at Lilavati Hospital

Michael Jackson, 50, one of pop music's biggest stars, was rushed to a Los Angeles-area hospital by paramedics who found him not breathing when they arrived at

Michael Jackson reportedly died Thursday at 50 after paramedics rushed the erstwhile King of Pop to a Los Angeles hospital. In recent years, his prodigious

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KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Rashid Godil, who is slowly recovering from gunshot wounds to the face after barely surviving a deadly armed attack two months back, has came forward to deny he was severing ties with his party, Samaa reported. "While I was hospitalized after being shot, a number of rumors were tied to me.

A Bangladeshi father dubbed "Tree Man" for massive bark-like warts on his hands and feet will finally have surgery to remove the growths that first began appearing 10 years ago, a hospital said Sunday.

KARACHI: Pakistan People's Party (PPP) leader Makhdoom Amin Fahim passed away at the age of 76 at a local hospital in Karachi, SAMAA reported on Saturday. A leader of Sarwari Jamaat Bachal Mughal confirmed his death. The Chairman of Pakistan People's Party Parliamentarians was suffering from blood cancer.

In Uttar Pradesh, a 'mystery fever' killed as many as 84 people in the last six weeks, following which the Yogi Adityanath government has issued a high alert across the state. Bareilly recorded the highest number of deaths, 24, and in nearby Badaun district, 23 casualties were reported.

Natalie Suleman knows better than anyone what it means to have a houseful. If you don't recognize the name, you may know her as "Octomom," the nickname media gave her after she gave birth to octuplets. The octuplets - two girls and six boys - were born on January 26, 2009, at the Kaiser Permanente hospital in Bellflower, California. Miraculously, all of them survived. Their mom gave them biblical names: Noah, Maliyah, Isaiah, Nariyah, Jonah, Makai, Josiah, and Jeremiah. When she gave birth to eight kids at a time, Natalie already had six children, which made her a mom of 14! All of her children were conceived though IVF.