NEW DELHI: Some of the most common infections – urinary tract, pneumonia, sepsis and diarrhoeal illnesses – are becoming increasingly harder to treat in India as widely used antibiotics continue to fail at alarming rates.ICMR’s annual report 2024 ‘Antimicrobial Resistance Research & Surveillance Network (AMRSN)’, showed that routine drugs like fluoroquinolones, third-generation cephalosporins, carbapenems and…
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi with Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav during the ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’ (PTI) NEW DELHI: Disproportionate focus on SIR/vote chori at the cost of crucial local issues of cost of living, migration and corruption was cited by some senior functionaries as a reason for the decimation of Congress in…
P K Mishra, principal secretary to PM Modi (File photo) NEW DELHI: To make civil services future ready and to achieve the goal of a developed India, the principal secretary to PM, P K Mishra, Thursday suggested three guiding principles — “reorienting the purpose of civil services to developmental state, re-imagining selection to identify deeply…
NEW DELHI: ED Thursday conducted searches at 15 locations across 10 states in an alleged bribery-related probe against officials of NMC and promoters of private medical colleges for manipulation of regulatory frameworks. Medical colleges and their promoters covered under the latest ED action are based in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra, MP, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Bihar,…
NEW DELHI/CHANDIGARH: In a breakthrough for Panjab University’s long-stalled governance process, Vice-President C P Radhakrishnan – in his capacity as the university’s chancellor – has approved the schedule for the senate elections, setting the stage for a full restoration of the institution’s decades-old democratic structure. The communication, issued by the VP’s Secretariat to PU vice-chancellor…
NEW DELHI: Congress on Thursday lashed out at the governing BJP over Rajya Sabha Secretariat’s directive to MPs not to use slogans like ‘Vande Mataram‘ and ‘Jai Hind’ in Parliament in order to maintain decorum. In a veiled reference to RSS, the party alleged that the people who did not join the freedom movement and…
NEW DELHI: Amid indications of regime-opponents looking to enlist them for their challenge to the govt, PM Narendra Modi on Thursday sought to co-opt India’s Gen Z in his scheme of a developed India by praising them for driving entrepreneurship and technological innovations in a host of sectors, and saying they can serve as a…
NEW DELHI: In another major action against online gaming and betting companies, ED arrested WinZO founders Saumya Singh Rathore and Paavan Nanda late on Wednesday and produced them before a special court in Bengaluru, which remanded them to 10 days of ED custody. The agency has already frozen Rs 500 crore of assets of the…
Security forces in Pakistan have killed at least 22 militants linked to the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) during a major intelligence-based operation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the military said on Thursday. The raid was launched in Dera Ismail Khan after reports emerged about the presence of members of the group referred to by authorities as “Fitna Al-Khawarij”….
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has ordered an unprecedented nationwide audit of all private and deemed universities, transforming a student grievance into a deep scrutiny of India’s sprawling higher education sector. In a sweeping directive, apex court has asked Centre, all states and UTs, and University Grants Commission (UGC) to submit personally sworn affidavits disclosing how…
