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NEW DELHI: The Resistance Front (TRF), which carried out the Pahalgam attack in Jammu and Kashmir, was mentioned in a Monitoring Team’s report under the UN Security Council 1267 Sanctions Committee.According to government sources, the report explicitly recorded the involvement of The Resistance Front (TRF), a proxy outfit of LeT, in the Pahalgam terror attack…

NEW DELHI: The National Medical Commission (NMC) has issued show cause notice to 71 medical colleges, both govt and private, in West Bengal after finding them to be deficient with respect to faculty, infrastructure and other clinical parameters, the govt told Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.In a written reply to a parliament question, minister of state…

Up to 2 years waiting for cardiac and neurosurgery at AIIMS Delhi NEW DELHI: AIIMS Delhi has two months waiting for general surgery while in gynaecology the waiting period is up to three months for malignancies, the govt told parliament on Tuesday.In gastro-intestinal surgeries, while critical cases are prioritized, the maximum waiting period can be…

NEW DELHI: India’s top drug advisory body, the Drug Technical Advisory Body (DTAB), is reviewing whether doorstep delivery of medicines which was allowed by the govt during the Covid-19 pandemic should be continued or not. Minister of state in the health ministry Anupriya Patel said this in a written reply to a parliament question on…

NEW DELHI: At a time when it is seized of the Presidential Reference for the Supreme Court’s opinion SC’s power to fix timelines for the constitutional heads on Bills passed by Assemblies, the apex court on Tuesday sought the Centre’s response to a petition by Punjab govt alleging presidential inaction on its two Bills relating…

NEW DELHI: A five-judge constitution bench of the SC led by CJI B R Gavai on Tuesday fixed a nine-day schedule to deliberate on a Presidential Reference that has questioned the SC’s power to fix timelines for the President and Governors on granting, refusing and withholding assent to Bills passed by Assemblies.The bench of CJI…

Nineteen years after winning the Man Booker, Kiran Desai, 53, has returned to the award longlist with a novel about two Indians navigating life in the US. The Indian American author, who became the prize’s youngest-ever winner in 2006 with her second novel ‘The Inheritance of Loss’, is now among 13 writers vying for the…

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Tuesday slammed Tamil Nadu govt for clubbing all cash-for-job scam cases, which now has over 2,000 accused, including those who gave bribe to then minister V Senthil Balaji for jobs in state transport corporation, and said this appeared to be a tactic to make the trial never-ending.“The state should be keen…

A sharp sob broke the silence at the mass gravesite. A woman collapsed beside the twin graves of Panakkadan Shajahan and his daughter Faiza as the cleric ended their death anniversary prayers. “Poovi has fainted… It was too much for her,” said an elderly relative as others rushed to help.Nearby lies the scattered grave of…

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has stayed a Uttarakhand HC order ticking off an additional district magistrate for communicating in Hindi and inability to speak in English during hearing of a case on preparation of electoral roll for the three-tier panchayat elections in the state, reports Dhananjay Mahapatra.Uttarakhand deputy advocate general Jatinder Kumar Sethi, appearing for…