JALANDHAR/CHANDIGARH: Three senior doctors at Punjab’s largest civil hospital in Jalandhar have been suspended and a house surgeon dismissed after three ventilated patients died following an oxygen supply failure on Sunday evening. State health minister Dr Balbir Singh called the failure “unpardonable” and said the suspended doctors could lose service benefits. Despite four backup sources,…
NEW DELHI: Apply emergency brakes or trail a moving vehicle too closely at your own risk as Supreme Court has said that using brakes all of a sudden in the middle of a road or not maintaining sufficient distance from a running vehicle make a person liable for an accident if it occurs.While adjudicating a…
LONDON: A British parliamentary panel on Wednesday warned that foreign govts are being increasingly bold in attempts to silence and intimidate individuals and communities in the UK.The ‘Transnational Repression in the UK’ report by the joint committee on human rights names India among 12 countries against which it had received evidence. There was no immediate…
NEW DELHI: In a significant assertion by India of its “cultural diplomacy”, the sacred Piprahwa relics of Buddha – taken away during the colonial period – have been brought back after 127 years through an outreach that started with the govt stepping in to stop their auction by Sotheby’s Hong Kong in May.PM Narendra Modi…
BENGALURU: Investigation of the Rs 379 crore cryptocurrency theft reported by CoinDCX has led to Bengaluru City police arresting a software engineer of the company after hackers allegedly succeeded in compromising confidential financial processes using his login credentials.The arrested employee is Rahul Agarwal (30), a resident of Carmelaram area, and he is from Haridwar, Uttarakhand….
MUMBAI: The Centre has finally appointed a full-time vice-chancellor for Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) after nearly two years of interim leadership. Badri Narayan Tiwari, a social historian with interests in culture and marginality, will helm the institute as its first official appointee since the Centre brought TISS under its administrative fold. His five-year…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its verdict on Justice Yashwant Varma’s petition challenging both an in-house inquiry committee report recording his alleged complicity in the case regarding discovery of sacks of cash from his official residence and the then CJI Sanjiv Khanna’s recommendation for his removal from judgeship.Rejecting his plea for a week’s…
NEW DELHI: In the wake of the US announcing a 25% tariff on India, Congress on Wednesday said PM Narendra Modi tolerated US President Donald Trump’s “repeated insults” to India in the hope of a special treatment for the country, and should now stand up to the US like Indira Gandhi did.Congress spokesperson Jairam Ramesh…
NEW DELHI: Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday urged Centre to waive loans for the flood and landslide victims from her parliamentary constituency, Wayanad, and lamented the lack of central assistance for helping the affected people.Raising the issue during zero hour in Lok Sabha, Vadra said it has been a year since the disaster,…
NEW DELHI: The Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed a resolution approving the extension of President’s Rule in Manipur by another six months beyond Aug 13, with the govt asserting that peace is prevailing in the northeastern state.Replying to a brief discussion on the statutory resolution to extend President’s Rule in Manipur, junior home minister Nityanand…