A junior doctor was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly raping an 11-year-old patient admitted to the paediatric department of Sarojini Naidu Medical College (SNMC) in Agra on Tuesday night. The principal of the college suspended Dilshad Hussain, 28, the first-year resident doctor, and set up three committees – disciplinary, departmental and internal – to probe…
NEW DELHI: Shruti, a 24-year-old woman from Kerala‘s Wayanad, has faced a series of personal tragedies recently, with recent being the landslide that killed her entire family on July 30.In the disaster that struck Chooralmala and Mundakkai villages in Meppadi panchayat, her family of nine, including her parents and younger sister, were killed, according to…
CHANDIGARH: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union home minister Amit Shah, BJP president J P Nadda, defence minister Rajnath Singh and Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath are among the party’s 40 star campaigners for the Haryana Assembly polls. Union ministers Nitin Gadkari, M L Khattar, Arjun Ram Meghwal, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Dharmendra Pradhan, Ravneet Singh…
NEW DELHI: Grappling with just 30 fighter squadrons when at least 42 are needed to tackle China and Pakistan, the IAF has called for majorly ramping up the production rate of indigenous Tejas fighter jets, even using the public-private partnership route.The good news is that US company General Electric is now likely to begin from…
NEW DELHI: Union road transport secretary Anurag Jain on Thursday said govt is not in favour of increasing the maximum speed limit on highways from the current 100 kmph to 120 kmph on National Highways until there is significant improvement in discipline among road users, including drivers. On the need to focus more on reducing…
NEW DELHI: The eviction drive in Assam turned violent on Thursday as a mob clashed with the police, which to push back the protestors, resorted to lathi charge and opened fire — leading to the death of two people. Assam Police was carrying out the drive to evict alleged encroachers in the Kamrup (Metropolitan) district…
NEW DELHI: Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed a separate bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of BRICS Summit in Russia next month.During a one-on-one meeting with National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval, Putin conveyed his proposal and extended warm regards to PM Modi, referring to him as “a great friend…
NEW DELHI: India has moved to establish more effective oversight over wet/damp leased aircraft — where an Indian operator hires planes with operating crew from a foreign operator — as global supply chain constraints have led to an increase in the number of such aircraft here. While all operational aspects are under the foreign operator,…
NEW DELHI: Baramulla MP Engineer Rashid called Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti‘s comment calling him a “BJP proxy” shameful, adding that if it would have been the case, why “would I be in jail.”Calling himself a “victim” of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Sheikh Abdul Rashid said on Thursday, “I have been dying in Tihar Jail…
NEW DELHI: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has started conducting special safety audits of all the 33 flying training organisations (FTO) in the country in a bid to enhance their safety standards by ensuring compliance with all requirements. The last such exercise was conducted two years ago and is being repeated due to…
