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Bhopal, June 27 (IANS) A day after the bodies of an elderly couple were found inside their locked house in Bhopal’s Sudama Nagar locality, police on Saturday said they were investigating the possibility of murder after recovering three empty cartridge cases from the scene.The deceased, identified as 64-year-old Hemant Barik, a retired railway employee, and his 62-year-old wife, Shakuntala Barik, a retired nurse from Kasturba Hospital, were found dead inside their residence under the Aishbagh pol…

Mumbai, May 29 (IANS) The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has proactively put Mumbai’s healthcare system on high alert following the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) declaration of an Ebola outbreak in parts of Africa (specifically the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda) as a public health emergency. While health officials emphasise that there is currently no Ebola outbreak or community transmission in India, the BMC has initiated strict precautionary and surveillance measures t…