1-year-old girl asks for water, mother accidentally gives acid stored in water bottle

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October 3, 2018

Bengaluru, Oct 3: A one-year-old girl is battling for life after her mother accidentally gave her toilet-cleaning acid stored in a water bottle to drink.

The incident took place at Chinnappanahalli in east Bengaluru a few days ago when the family was attending a puja at a friend’s newly-built house and the girl has been admitted in Rainbow Children’s Hospital in Marathahalli.

The victim, Payal, is the second child of a labourer couple from Bihar. Her mother Gemini Devi had given her a biscuit and, after eating it, the girl asked for water. When Devi found a half-filled bottle on a window shelf, she mistook it for water. Immediately after taking one or two sips, the child started screaming and fumes came out of her mouth, to the shock of her parents. She was soon breathless.

“The bottle was half empty and, as it looked like water, my wife gave it to her,” said Payal’s father Jairaj Mathur. “We realised the mistake only after she started crying. We took her to a nearby hospital, but were asked to shift her to a bigger centre. We then came to Rainbow Children’s Hospital where she was put on ventilator immediately. She is now under observation.”

Dr Sujatha T, consultant paediatric intensivist, Rainbow Children’s Hospital, said the child’s food pipe, stomach walls and windpipe were damaged. “Payal cannot even swallow saliva. After four weeks, she’ll undergo surgery to widen the food pipe when the upper part of the gut is healed,” she said.

The hospital has started a crowd-funding initiative to help the girl as her parents are poor.

Doctors said the parents of Payal had brought the bottle to the hospital. “The bottle was a typical water container and bore a label ‘toilet cleaning acid’. We don’t know exactly what chemical was in it but it was acid of some type. Parents have to be careful while administrating anything to children,” said Dr Sujatha.

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Ajith
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Wednesday, 3 Oct 2018

We wish the baby a Speedy Recovery. God Bless Her 

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February 25,2020

Bengaluru, Feb 25: Infosys is all set to announce a cyber defence centre in Indianapolis to complement its technology and innovation centre inaugurated early last year.

This will be Infosys' seventh global cyber defence centre. According to its recent cybersecurity report titled 'Assuring Digital Trust,' 83 per cent of executives view cybersecurity as critical, yet 67 per cent are still struggling to have security embedded.

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Client environment will be monitored round the clock, adopting a follow-the-sun model to deliver services like 24x7 security monitoring, management and remediation, threat hunting, security analytics, incident discovery and response, compliance reporting and malware analysis.

Vishal Salvi, Chief Information Security Officer and Head of Cyber Security Practice at Infosys, said the cyber defence centre is staffed with expert security analysts with niche skills around threat research and intelligence gathering to deliver best-in-class services to customers.

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January 6,2020

Hubballi, Jan 6: Elected representatives of the BJP, Congress and JD(S) on Sunday decided to sink their differences and fight unitedly for Karnataka’s rightful share in the Mahadayi and Kalasa-Banduri water dispute with Goa.

The meeting convened by JD(S) MLC Basavaraj Horatti here saw participation of BJP ministers Prahlad Joshi and Jagadish Shettar, Congress and JD(S) lawmakers, among others.

After a 70-minute closed door meeting, MLC Horatti told reporters that they discussed the water dispute in detail and decided to take steps based on inputs from legal and technical experts on the rightful apportioning of water. “Today, we took the first big step towards the overall development of the region, unencumbered by political divisions,” he said.

Though the air was filled with a sense of jubilation as the issue had united seemingly hostile political parties on one side, a few activists expressed disappointment that the meeting failed to set a timeline to resolve the dispute.

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July 4,2020

More than 500 flights are expected to be operated in the fourth phase of Vande Bharat Mission, the “paid evacuation” mission of the government of India during covid-19 crisis.

This includes both Air India and private carriers who are ramping up their operations in a big way. 

Air India will be operating 170 flights till 15th of July to and from 17 countries, including Australia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Canada, Germany, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Philippines.

Private airlines such as IndiGo and GoAir will have significant participation in the fourth phase of Vande Bharat Mission. 

The Civil Aviation Ministry said that among others, Indigo will operate 238 flights from Qatar and 219 flights from Kuwait. GoAir will operate 41 flights from Kuwait. Phase Four will particularly focus on countries where there still are a large number of Indians who have registered to return.

Meanwhile, a record five lakh stranded Indians have returned safely to India under the Mission till now. The operations commenced on 7th May and in less than two months, nearly five lakh four thousand stranded Indians from 137 countries have returned to their homes.

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