CHANDIGARH: Injuries suffered due to slipping in the bathroom of army barracks do not qualify a soldier for disability pension, Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT) has ruled, underscoring that wounds or death must be directly linked to armed forces services rather than being accidental occurrences common to people. An AFT division bench, comprising Justice (retd) Anil…
PATNA: A 28-year-old woman died during a botched-up sterilisation surgery, allegedly conducted by the compounder of a private clinic in Bihar’s Samastipur district in the absence of doctors Saturday.Family members of the deceased, Babita Devi, protested against the medical negligence at the clinic. The compounder managed to flee. A search is on to nab him,…
JAMMU: In two successful counter-terrorism operations in J&K on Sunday, police arrested a govt teacher and recovered arms and ammunition from his house in Poonch, and busted a terrorist hideout in Rajouri’s Thanamandi.Acting on a tip-off, a joint team of army, police, and special operation group raided the house of Qamar-ud-Din, the headmaster, in Poonch’s…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that if the Congress came back to power, it would give wealth of people to Muslims citing former PM Manmohan Singh‘s statement about the minority community having the ‘first claim’ on the nation’s resources. He was addressing a rally in Rajasthan’s Banswara.“Earlier, when their (Congress) government…
NEW DELHI: Amid the ongoing row, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday presented a letter in which the Director General of Tihar jail requested AIIMS hospital for a diabetologist the previous day, contradicting Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) claims of adequate medical provisions being available inside the jail for Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal.Party spokesperson and…
MUMBAI: Observing that right to a speedy trial is a fundamental right of an undertrial prisoner, and no one should be detained without trial for an indefinite period, in a 70-page detailed order granting bail to Yes Bank founder Rana Kapoor (66) in the last of eight cases against him, the special judge said further…
BENGALURU: Congress in Karnataka finds itself on the back foot, with opposition BJP ratcheting up law and order as an election issue amidst claims of “love jihad” following the fatal stabbing of 24-year-old MCA student Neha Hiremath in Hubballi this Thursday and the killing of four members of the Bakale family in Gadag early Friday.Of…
The Maldives will vote Sunday in the country’s 4th multi-party Parliamentary elections that will also put to the test for the first time President Mohamed Muizzu’s hostile India policy, especially the decision to throw out Indian military personnel from the Indian Ocean archipelago.The Indian government is hoping that the main opposition and pro-India party –…
NEW DELHI: Four people, including a child, died when the walls of a crematorium collapsed on them in Arjun Nagar, Gurugram today. Their postmortem is being done. The police investigation is underway and further action will be taken.More details awaited. Source link
NEW DELHI: PM Modi slammed the Congress government in Karnataka for mismanaging Bengaluru’s water crisis. He said the grand old party has “changed tech city into tanker city, and has left it to the water mafia”. He highlighted the severe water crisis in parts of the city, leading to water rationing and penalties for excessive…
