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Amid the rising cases of Black Fungus or Mucormycosis infection in various states of India, a case of Yellow Fungus infection has been reported from Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad city, reported DNA. As per the report, the infected patient is undergoing treatment at a Ghaziabad hospital currently. Yellow Fungus is considered more dangerous than both Black Fungus and White Fungus. The symptoms of Yellow Fungus are laziness, weight loss and loss of appetite, or no appetite at all. Yellow Fungus can also cause leakage of pus, slow healing of the open wound or slow healing of all wounds, malnutrition, organ failure and sunken eyes due to eventual necrosis in serious cases, reads the report.

Jitan Ram Manjhi, former chief minister of Bihar and the Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) president, raised questions over the photographs of PM Modi on the vaccination certificates. Manjhi happens to be an alliance partner with the NDA in Bihar. On Monday, Manjhi took to Twitter to criticize the PM and wrote, “Prime Minister is taking credit for corona vaccination in the country, his photograph should also be printed on death certificates of those patients who died due to corona in the country. It will be the real justification." Manjhi had stated on Sunday that the photographs of the President or the respective CMs of the states should be printed on the vaccination certificates. Manjhi is a close ally of CM Nitish Kumar. He had fought the 2020 Bihar Assembly election on the seats alloc...

Subina Rahman a 29-year-old Commerce graduate with having a husband and an eight-year-old son, now doing a job that most people will shy away from. She is working as a cremator in a Hindu crematorium in Iringalakkuda, Thrissur district, Kerala. Subina was on the lookout for a job and came to know that there was a clerical one at crematorium controlled by the local Hindu Ezhava community, SNBS Samajam at Iringalakkuda, and applied. She got the job and was keeping a register for day-to-day activities including the number of cremations that have taken place and the names and details of the dead. However, she got bored and tried her hands at cremating the bodies, maybe the first Muslim woman to do so in Kerala. However, Hindu customs don’t allow women entry to crematoriums even during...

Visuals of an incident where a man who was going to buy medicines was slapped by a district official and thrashed by policemen amid the Covid-19 lockdown have gone viral on social media. The incident occurred in Chattisgarh's Surajpur. The man, Sahil Gupta, has been booked for speeding, the police said. It can be seen in the video that the person is taking out his identity papers as the district collector, Ranbir Sharma, walks to him. The collector asks the person to give his mobile phone, and the district collector can be seen smashing the phone on the road, and suddenly, he slaps the person. The official then asks some policemen to thrash the person and scolds him for recording the incident in the video. The police have said that an FIR has been filed against the person in the vide...

Eight Dimasa National Liberation Army (DNLA) militants were killed in an encounter with security forces in Assam''s West Karbi Anglong district, along the Nagaland border, a senior police officer said. Earlier, he had claimed six died in the exchange of fire, as the bodies of two others were yet to be recovered. Acting on a tip-off, a team of police officers and Assam Rifles personnel launched an operation, led by West Karbi Anglong Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Prakash Sonowal. An exchange of fire ensued between the security personnel and the militants in the Michibailung area, following which eight members of the outlawed outfit were gunned down, the officer said. Six bodies were initially recovered, and two others, suspected to be that of the outfit's top leaders...

Earlier this week, on May 17, the Police shot dead 3 unarmed Adivasi protesters in the Chattisgarh's Sukma district's Silger village. 18 other villagers were left injured as a result of the firing. An independent journalist, Ashutosh Bhardwaj had tweeted twenty-eight-second-long video footage of the incident, which showed the protestors running for their lives as the police fired shots. "They were protesting against the police camp coming up in the jungle. I was at this spot in January. The jungle was being uprooted, a big road and police camps being constructed. Adivasis were against it. The protests intensified today -- and met with the police's bullets," Bhardwaj wrote in one of his tweets regarding the incident. As per the news reports that have emerged, the villagers were ...

On Friday, the UP police beat a 17 year old vegetable vendor to death. The vendor had violated Covid-19 restrictions, apparently. The incident took place in UP's Bangarmau town. Given the surge in the devastation caused by Covid-19, the state of Uttar Pradesh has imposed a partial curfew. The incident has triggered protests and also an official probe. The victim, Mohammad Faisal's father has said that his son was selling vegetables at the local market, after the deadline of 3 p.m., and the accused policeman Vijay Chowdhary and home guard Satya Pradesh started beating him for violating the Covid norms. “We got a telephone call from a vendor who told us about the assault. I reached the kotwali but by that time, he was taken to the hospital. On getting there, I learnt he was dead,” h...

A Hindu woman doctor has been receiving appreciation and blessings from across the world for setting an example of humanity and kindness. Dr Rekha Krishna recited the Islamic prayer, La Ilaha Illalla, Muhammadur Rasululla, in the ears of a dying Muslim patient at a private hospital in Pattambi, in Palakkad city of Kerala. ”I felt that she was having some problems in leaving the earthly abode. Then, I slowly recited Kalima (La Ilaha Illalla, Muhammadur Rasululla) in her ears. I could see her taking a few deep breaths and then she flatlined,” said Dr Rekha. Dr Rekha says she was born and brought up in Dubai. Hence, she was aware of customs followed by Muslims. “It happened at the spur of the moment — and maybe, because of my upbringing in Dubai,” she said. The doctor said she onl...

White fungus, also known as ‘candidiasis’ has been found in 4 patients in Patna; it is considered deadlier than black fungus Four cases of ‘white fungus’ or ‘candidiasis’ have been detected at the government-run Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH) May 19, 2021 in Bihar, health officials said. White fungus is considered to be more dangerous than black fungus or mucormycosis. Bihar is already reeling under the second wave of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and subsequently, black fungus. Health experts said white fungus affected the lungs as well as other parts of the body including the nails, skin, stomach, kidney, brain, private parts and mouth. They pointed that white fungus also caused an infection similar to COVID-19 in the lungs that was detected when high-resolu...