NEW DELHI: The first meeting of the parliamentary panel on ‘One Nation, One Election’ is all set to take place on January 8, PTI news agency reported citing sources. Last week, the Parliament passed the motion on forming the panel which will now have 39 members to ensure representation of maximum states and the joint…
NEW DELHI: Indian Embassy in Germany on Monday said that they are in “close contact” with all the 7 Indians who sustained injuries in the Christmas market car attack in Germany, and their families.The Embassy also added that 3 of the 7 injured Indians in the Magdeburg Christmas Market attack have been discharged and the…
NEW DELHI: V Ramasubramanian, former Supreme Court judge, was appointed ninth chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission of India (NHRC) on Monday. The NHRC chairperson post was lying vacant since former Supreme Court judge Justice (retd) Arun Kumar Mishra completed his tenure on June 1.Ramasubramanian, who served as top court judge from 2019 to…
BJP MP Ravi Shankar Prasad (ANI photo) NEW DELHI: Former Union minister and BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad on Monday targeted the Congress party for what he termed as hypocrisy in its treatment of BR Ambedkar, the architect of the Constitution, and its failure to adequately protect Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (SC/ST) communities.Addressing a…
NEW DELHI: BJP MP Anurag Thakur, joined by Delhi BJP chief Virendra Sachdeva and other party leaders, on Monday released a “Charge Sheet” or “Aarop Patra” against the Arvind Kejriwal government. The event featured banners and slogans such as “10 Saal Delhi Behaal” and “Delhi ka AQI hua 500 paar” and “Yamuna mein hai pollution…
MEERUT: A Dalit post office employee in Bulandshahr allegedly ended his life by jumping in front of a train early Sunday morning, a day after CBI questioned him in connection with a Rs 2.5 crore embezzlement case.Rahul Kumar (28), a sub-postmaster at Lakhaothi block post office and a resident of Bulandshahr city area, was found…
KOLKATA: Friends and family of a married woman staying at the house of her husband against his will for a long period can amount to cruelty, Calcutta high court said on Dec 19 while granting divorce to a man on grounds of cruelty.“Such imposition of friend and family by the woman on her husband at…
JAIPUR: All eight persons who succumbed to burn injuries sustained in the fire that followed the accident at Bhankrota on Jaipur-Ajmer highway on Friday were under 40 years of age – all in their prime, either planning their careers, or had recently started families. Those currently on ventilator support at SMS Hospital here are under…
NEW DELHI: A new research has revealed that a person with TB in India spends, on average, close to Rs 32,000 during treatment. While some of the costs incurred out of the patient’s pocket are direct, such as those spent on diagnosis or hospitalisation, the rest are indirect, for example, costs incurred due to loss…
NEW DELHI: Odds of timely initiation of treatment of cancer patients in India have gone up by nearly 36% in the past six years, a new study claimed. It credited Ayushman Bharat-PM Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) for this change. Treatment initiation is considered timely if it starts within 30 days of diagnosis of the disease.According…
