Sources said that Abdullah has now been detained under the stringent Public Safety Act
Intensifying their stir over the delay in NEET-PG 2021 counselling, a large number of resident doctors on Tuesday protested on the premises of Centre-run Safdarjung Hospital while the Centre urged them to call off the agitation.
Top Lashkar-e-Tayiba bomb expert Abdul Karim Tunda, who has been admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences for special cardiac care, was on Saturday sent to 14 days' judicial custody by a Delhi court.
The government's efforts to contain the spread of dengue appears to have less impact as 94 fresh cases of the viral were reported in Delhi on Wednesday.
The doctors have also demanded enhanced security outside and within the hospitals where the Markaz evacuees have been admitted. A doctor said some patients evacuated from Nizamuddin Markaz, the headquarters of Tabligh-e-Jamaat in south Delhi, don't follow instructions from doctors and are reluctant to take medicines.
They stressed that classification of cases into mild, moderate and severe categories based just on respiratory symptoms should be relooked to include other organ involvement.
Thirty four people, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's son-in-law Vijay Tankha, have been discharged in the past 24 hours, officials said.
Sister Nisha Sharma, the nurse who administered the second dose of COVID-19 vaccine to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, said it was a memorable moment for her to meet the PM and vaccinate him.
The health sector has been allocated Rs 89,155 crore in the Union Budget 2023-24, a hike of around 13 per cent over Rs 79,145 crore allocated in 2022-23, with the government also announcing a mission to eliminate sickle cell anaemia by 2047.
The body of Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Union Minister Shashi Tharoor, was on Saturday shifted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences for post-mortem as police continued to probe various angles including suicide in the case.
A senior Delhi Police official posted with the elite Special Cell was severely assaulted on Thursday allegedly by three persons including a woman and a juvenile in a case of road-rage in South Delhi's posh Lodhi Estate area.
Officials from the Centre say there is no community transmission of COVID-19 in Delhi, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia asserted on Tuesday, and estimated that there might be 5.5 lakh coronavirus cases in the city by July 31. Delhi will need 80,000 beds by July end, he told reporters after a meeting of the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA). The meeting was chaired by Lt Governor Anil Baijal who is also chairperson of the Delhi Disaster Management Authority.
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra asked the Bharatiya Janata Party why are they preventing peasants from coming to Delhi to raise their demands.
More boys than girls with cancer in India are being diagnosed with the disease and the probable cause for this is gender bias in society, according to a study published in The Lancet Oncology.
India achieved a major milestone in its vaccination programme against COVID-19 as the cumulative vaccine doses administered in the country surpassed the 100-crore mark on Thursday.
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Delhi Police has served a notice to Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, asking him to join the investigation into the mysterious death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked the nurses administering the COVID-19 vaccine to him on Monday whether they were planning to use some special thick needle as politicians are known to be 'very thick-skinned', drawing laughter from the medical staff who immediately felt at ease.
It asked the board to determine whether the pregnancy if terminated could risk the life of the woman or not.
A Special Investigation Team has been formed by Delhi Police to probe the mysterious death of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar after registering a murder case based on a medical report.
Two unidentified bike-borne assailants threw acid on a 30-year-old woman doctor in New Delhi in Tuesday morning in West Delhi's Rajouri Garden area.
The Delhi police on Monday claimed it is close to cracking the case of a two-year-old battered baby admitted in All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi as it questioned a woman who got the child from her biological mother.
The Delhi police on Monday claimed it is close to cracking the case of a two-year-old battered baby admitted in All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi as it questioned a woman who got the child from her biological mother.
Twenty-five tenders were rushed to the spot to douse the fire.
After the alteration of the boundaries, the BJP assessed the wards afresh to see what changes in strategy were needed
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday arrested Central Excise Commissioner Anup Kumar Srivastava after a court in New Delhi dismissed his anticipatory bail plea in connection with his alleged role in a graft case.
Kamat is the second minister in Nitish Kumar's cabinet to succumb to the infection this week.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday met the 13-year-old girl, who was brutally raped and has been admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Science, and raised the issue of granting full statehood to Delhi in order to curb such incidents which "occur repeatedly".
A Central Pollution Control Board official said the AQI entered the "severe plus" or "emergency" category late on Thursday night, the first time since January this year.
"We are confined to health issue. It is in the interest of the state also that the accused gets better treatment," the bench comprising Justices Surya Kant and A S Bopanna observed.
The Delhi high court on Wednesday suspended the two-year jail term of Aam Aadmi Party MLA Somnath Bharti in a case of assault on All India Institute of Medical Sciences security staff.
A bench headed by Justice U U Lalit issued notice and sought responses, including from the Delhi government, on Hussain's plea and posted it for hearing in the third week of September.
Amid a spurt in cases, the cabinet secretary held a meeting chief secretaries, health and urban development secretaries of all states through a video link and they were asked to also pay special attention to the emerging epicentres of COVID-19 cases and undertake stringent containment measures to check the contagion, the ministry said.
'The government should immediately enact an Act to make caste discrimination a criminal offence and lay down a procedure similar to that of the Anti-Ragging Act.' 'Ragging has nearly been eliminated because it is treated as a criminal offence.' 'Similar procedure should be used in case of caste discrimination.'
On a day of flip-flop by Delhi Police on the issue of the role of second person, the arrested accused Manoj Kumar was produced before a court and agreed for a test identification parade. The duty magistrate sent him to judicial custody till May 4
Neetu Dabodia carried a cash reward of Rs 1 lakh and was wanted in over 50 cases of murder, extortion and kidnapping.
The details of the FBI report that has virtually ruled out 'polonium poisoning' as the cause of Sunanda Pushkar's death cannot be made public before its submission in court, Delhi Delhi Police said on Thursday.
The final medical report by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in the mysterious death of Sunanda Pushkar says that she died of poisoning, administered either through oral route or injection and the injuries on her barring one were a result of a "scuffle", according to the police FIR lodged in this case.
"When I sought answers from the principal, she asked me to stay put, claiming that it is for our own good. When I insisted, I was yelled at."
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