RAIPUR: A teacher at a govt-funded school in Surguja district of Chhattisgarh allegedly forced an eight-year-old girl to do 100 sit-ups and also beat her with a stick, resulting in serious muscle damage in her legs.The girl, a Class II student of the Pratapgarh school, is currently undergoing treatment at a private hospital under medical…
NEW DELHI: With the BJP planning a nationwide outreach programme to apprise people, including traders, of the latest GST reforms brought in by the Modi govt, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday shared key features of the reforms with party’s media department and other senior functionaries from the organisation.While Sitharaman spoke about the reforms to…
NEW DELHI: The National Medical Commission (NMC) has asked all medical colleges across the country to deploy post-graduate medical students in flood-affected areas. The deployment would be a part of the district residency programme, according to its recent directive.The directive states: “In view of recent floods/disaster-like situations in northern states/UTs, there is an urgent requirement…
A Delhi court Saturday permitted Baramulla MP Engineer Rashid to visit Parliament in custody on Sept 9 to cast his vote in the vice-president’s election, scheduled on Sept 9.Rashid, who has been lodged in Tihar since 2019 after NIA arrested him under UAPA in a terror-funding case, was previously granted parole between July 24 and…
NEW DELHI: Enforcement Directorate has started gathering information related to a petition pending before Allahabad high court on the alleged UK citizenship of Congress functionary Rahul Gandhi.The agency has summoned petitioner Vignesh Shishir, a BJP member, who had approached the court demanding cancellation of Gandhi’s Indian citizenship on the alleged ground that the Lok Sabha…
NEW DELHI: In a sharp reminder to SC Collegium and Centre about gender diversity in constitutional courts, former CJI N V Ramana on Saturday said making a noise about gender without giving proper representation to women in constitutional courts would amount to nothing but tokenism.Speaking at a symposium at SRM School of Law, Justice Ramana…
SHIMLA: Three persons were killed and two severely injured when an ambulance transporting a patient from Jassur in Himachal Pradesh’s Kangra district to Dayanand Medical College and Hospital in Punjab’s Ludhiana plunged into a deep gorge in Manghuwal near Gagret in Una district in the early hours of Saturday.The accident occurred halfway into the 200km…
NEW DELHI: The government has fixed the retail price of 42 common drug formulations, including broad-spectrum antibiotic Meropenem & Sulbactam injection by Zydus Healthcare and Mycophenolate Mofetil tablets by Ipca Laboratories, used to prevent organ rejection in transplant cases.The retail price of Meropenem & Sulbactam injection is Rs 1,938.59 per vial, and Mycophenolate Mofetil is…
“NEW DELHI: Senior White House adviser Peter Navarro on Saturday alleged that India did not purchase Russian oil before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, while reiterating his claim that New Delhi buys it solely to profiteer. In a post on X, Navarro wrote, “Wow. @elonmusk is letting propaganda into people’s posts. That crap note below is…
Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha (@diprjk X/ANI Photo) SRINAGAR: J&K lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha announced Saturday a fresh investigation into the 2000 Chittisinghpora massacre, when Pakistan-backed terrorists killed 35 Sikhs in Anantnag district during US president Bill Clinton’s India visit.Sinha made the announcement after meeting a delegation from Shaheed Singhs Welfare Organisation led…
