Hospital deaths: Bombay HC seeks health budget details
Mumbai: In a significant development, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday took suo motu cognisance of the unusually high number of deaths in government-run hospitals in Nanded and Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar districts of Maharashtra. A division bench comprising Chief Justice D.K. Upadhyay...
ED arrests AAP’s Sanjay Singh in excise case
The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday arrested Aam Aadmi Party Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh in connection with the Delhi excise policy case, officials said. This comes after the agency conducted searches at his residence earlier in the day in connection...
ED summons Ranbir Kapoor in betting case
Actor Ranbir Kapoor summoned by Enforcement Directorate on 6th October, in connection with Mahadev betting app case. The ED has frozen and seized assets worth Rs 417 crore in connection with the Mahadev online betting case. The company promoted by Sourabh Chandrakar...
Shiv Sena MP booked for forcing Nanded Hospital Dean clean toilet
Nanded: The Nanded Rural Police in Maharashtra registered a First Information Report (FIR) against Shiv Sena MP Hemant Patil on Wednesday morning after he allegedly forced Dr Shyamrao Wakode, the Acting Dean of the Dr Shankarrao Chavan Government Medical College...
NewsClick chief, HR head sent to police custody
NewsClick founder Prabir Purakayastha and HR head Amit Chakravarty, arrested in a case filed under the anti-terror law UAPA following allegations the portal received money for pro-China propaganda, were sent to seven days of police remand, officials said on Wednesday....
ED raid underway at AAP MP Sanjay Singh’s home
A Directorate Enforcement (ED) raid is underway at the residence of Aam Aadmi Party Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh in connection with excise policy case. Earlier in May this year, MP Sanjay Singh in a letter to Finance Secretary T V...
NewsClick editor Prabir Purkayastha arrested
The Delhi police on Tuesday arrested two persons including NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha in connection with a probe in the portal's foreign funding, officials said. This comes after the Delhi police searched 30 locations connected with the online news portal...
Tremors jolt Delhi-NCR after 6.2 magnitude earthquake in Nepal
New Delhi: Massive tremors were felt in Delhi on Tuesday after two earthquakes in Nepal -- one of magnitude 4.6 and the other of 6.2 -- at a depth of 5 km. The first earthquake hit Nepal at 2:25 pm...
SC rejects plea on Ram Sethu as national monument
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to entertain a plea seeking directions to declare the 'Ram Sethu' as a national monument and construction of a wall at the site, saying these are administrative matters for the government. 'Ram Sethu',...
Raid on NewsClick office: Congress says…
Delhi Police is conducting raids at different premises linked to NewsClick under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and other sections, sources said. Delhi Police Special Cell Assistant Commissioner of Police Lalit Mohan Negi reached the NewsClick office in the...
Journalists linked to NewsClick raided by cops in Delhi, Noida, Ghaziabad
The Delhi Police’s special cell was on Tuesday raiding the homes of at least six journalists in connection with the probe into the alleged foreign funding of news portal NewsClick. A police officer confirmed the raids were being carried out but...
Vande Bharat escapes major accident at Bhilwara
A North Western Railway (NWR) official said unidentified miscreants attempted to obstruct the rail route and an FIR was registered at the Gangrar police station of Chittorgarh in connection with the incident. "Today, the loco pilot of the Udaipur-Jaipur Vande Bharat...
China’s next lunar mission to carry payload from Pak
China's next lunar mission scheduled for 2024 will also carry a payload from Pakistan, the country's space agency has said, as the two all-weather friends step up their cooperation in the space sector. The Chang'e-6 lunar mission is currently undergoing research...
IndiGo flyer held for trying to open emergency exit
A passenger was arrested for allegedly attempting to open the emergency exit door of an IndiGo flight from Nagpur to Bengaluru prior to take-off, police said on Monday. The man identified as Swapnil Holey had boarded Bengaluru-bound IndiGo flight 6E 6803...
Medicine Nobel for research that enabled Covid vax
The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to Katalin Karik and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. 'Through their groundbreaking findings, which have fundamentally changed our...
2 farmers killed in UP as speeding car hits them
Two farmers were run over and killed by a speeding car in the Sirauli area in Bareilly while they were resting near a field, the police said on Monday. The incident took place Sunday night when Purshottam Das, 35, and...
NIA raids 60 places in Andhra, T’gana in Maoist case
The National Investigation Agency on Monday carried out searches at more than 60 locations in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in a case linked to Maoists. The raids are still underway at the premises and hideouts of suspects in both...
Terrorist wanted in Pune ISIS case held in Delhi
The special cell of the Delhi police arrested National Investigation Agency's most wanted terrorist Shahnawaz alias Shafi Uzzama, said the police on Monday. The NIA had placed a reward of Rs 3 lakhs on the arrested terrorist Shahnawaz, he was...
Shivaji’s ‘Tiger Claws’ set for return to India from UK
The Victoria and Albert ( V and A) Museum is all set to sign a memorandum of understanding with the Maharashtra government next week, which will see 17th century Tiger Claws' weapon believed to have belonged to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj...
Bomb threat: Akasa flight makes emergency landing
Tension erupted at Varanasi Airport after a flight of Akasha Airlines from Mumbai to Varanasi received a bomb threat through a tweet on social media. The Air Traffic Control informed the captain of the plane about the bomb threat...
