KOLKATA: A team of CISF officers, led by the IG and DIG, conducted a recce of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital (RGKMCH) and held multiple meetings with hospital officials and the city’s top cops as they prepared to join duty with Kolkata Police to manage security on the hospital premises. The force’s visit came…
KOLKATA: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) had flagged financial irregularities at R G Kar Medical College way back in 2021, the year Sandip Ghosh took charge as principal of the institute. Ghosh had reportedly refused to respond to multiple CAG reminders, raising suspicion that he wanted to hide something.As CAG started looking into procurement…
BAREILY: A local court has acquitted two men accused under the Anti-religious Conversion Act for solely keeping a Bible at home and ordered legal action against the complainant and the police officers responsible for filing what it deemed a baseless chargesheet and misuse of legal processes. Additional district and sessions Judge Gyanendra Tripathi described the…
The Gujarat assembly on Wednesday unanimously passed the “Gujarat Prevention and Eradication of Human Sacrifice and other Inhuman, Evil and Aghori Practices and Black Magic Bill, 2024, which is aimed at protecting people against criminal practices of fraudsters, who claim to have supernatural powers.The state govt said the act will ban criminal practices propagated in…
PM Modi arrived in Warsaw Wednesday, on his three-day tour to Poland and Ukraine, hoping as a “friend and partner” for early return of peace in the region. He will also share his views on ending the Ukraine war.Modi said he was travelling to Ukraine at the invitation of President Volodymyr Zelensky for what will…
KOLKATA: Hushed talk of medical college principals in Bengal being bullied and threatened if they don’t toe the line of an influential lobby in the health department came out in the open at a meeting to seek inputs on improving healthcare and addressing the safety concerns of doctors and students, the Indian Medical Association (IMA)…
ISLAMABAD: At least 28 Pakistani Shia pilgrims have been killed and 23 injured after their bus, on its way to Iraq, overturned on Tuesday night in central Iran, Pakistan’s ambassador to Iran, Muddasir Tipu, said on Wednesday.They were on their way to Karbala in Iraq to take part in the ‘Arbaeen’ pilgrimage, which is held…
The Assam cabinet gave its approval Wednesday to a proposed law that aims to make it mandatory for Muslims to register marriages and divorces with the government. This legislation, once implemented, will terminate the role of “qazis” who register Muslim marriages and divorces. The Assam Compulsory Registration of Muslim Marriage and Divorce Bill, 2024, will…
LUCKNOW: A 21-year-old gang-rape survivor in UP‘s Ambedkar Nagar hanged herself after a police sub-inspector allegedly refused to register a case against three men for the crime and instead coerced her father into writing a complaint that omitted details. The case has sparked outrage over police inaction.Police said late Wednesday the autopsy report ruled out…
NEW DELHI: Just ahead of the National Space Day on Friday to mark the first anniversary of India’s Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft’s successful landing on the south pole of the Moon on August 23, 2023, a new discovery from data sent by the Pragyan rover has added a feather to the mission’s cap. A team of Indian…
