MUMBAI: Tata Group, India’s largest conglomerate, is set to expand its presence in healthcare through a Rs 500-crore contribution to Breach Candy Hospital, a move that will bring the elite 275-bed multi-speciality SoBo hospital within its ambit of influence.The funding will position the $165-bn Tata Group as the hospital’s largest financial backer, enabling it to…
CHENNAI: A man accused of smuggling ganja recently walked free after a city court threw out the case as Chennai police had borrowed a fruit vendor’s weighing scales to measure the narcotic seized instead of using their own equipment as mandated by law.Sub-Inspector Palani, who led the raid, initially reported to his superiors that his…
Russia on Tuesday demanded Nato to scrap its 2008 commitment to eventually grant Ukraine membership in the US-led military alliance. They also rejected the notion of Nato forces serving as peace-keepers under any ceasefire arrangement.Following meetings in Saudi Arabia with secretary of State Marco Rubio, US national security adviser Mike Waltz and Middle East envoy…
BHOPAL/JABALPUR: Madhya Pradesh high court (HC) Tuesday agreed to state govt’s proposal for a retrial of Union Carbide waste disposal at a Pithampur facility so that Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) can decide what amount of the waste should be incinerated and when.State govt presented a status report in court on compliance with the HC…
MUMBAI: Bombay HC on Tuesday rejected a petition by Mirza Himayat Baig, who was convicted in the 2010 Pune German Bakery blast case, to shift him to a general barrack from solitary confinement.“At this stage, there is no concern about any psychological trauma on account of any indefinite solitary confinement,” said Justices Revati Mohite Dere…
NEW DELHI: Amid a raging controversy over alleged funding by USAID for raising voter turnout in India, Congress on Tuesday said the official govt website showed BJP neta Smriti Irani as a former “goodwill ambassador” of the US agency. Congress functionaries accused Irani of being the “real agent” of billionaire investor George Soros, a charge…
KOLKATA: “I will resign as the chief minister if you can prove that I have links with terror outfits or am associated with Muslim League,” West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said in the assembly on Tuesday, countering BJP’s allegations.“I was accused of disrespecting Hinduism and supporting Muslim League. After all my struggles, I have to…
GANDHINAGAR: Matching its unparalleled victory in the 2022 Gujarat assembly elections, BJP Tuesday notched up yet another spectacular performance by sweeping local body polls for Junagadh Municipal Corporation (JMC), 68 municipalities, three taluka panchayats and by-polls to several vacant local body seats.Although Congress improved its tally from 1 to 11, BJP won the JMC election…
NEW DELHI: Seeking a hold on the appointment of the CEC till the Supreme Court is seized of the law on its selection, leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi told the top collegium that Ambedkar had in the Constituent Assembly warned against executive interference in the affairs of the Election Commission, adding that…
NEW DELHI: A day after Gyanesh Kumar was appointed as the Chief Election Commissioner, Supreme Court on Tuesday said it would endeavour to conduct the final hearing on a bunch of petitions challenging the validity of a Parliament-enacted law that altered the composition of the SC-devised panel for the selection of the CEC and ECs….
