A medical board will investigate how Jayant Patel was allowed to practice freely in Australia despite a 20 year history of negligence and botched operations in two US states.
Dr Manmohan Singh's government has 47 crorepati ministers in it. Nationalist Congress Party leader Praful Patel is the richest of the lot with assets worth Rs 89.9 crore.
'Trust your new governor,' Omkar Goswami advises RBI Deputy Governor Viral Acharya. 'Just because he is from the IAS and doesn't carry a PhD from a US university does not make him unsuitable for the task.' 'If anything, Das will pour oil on troubled waters, and save the RBI's reputation.'
'There were any number of Congress leaders who disliked Sonia Gandhi, but they were very close to Ahmed Bhai and he would listen, and give a shoulder to cry upon.'
Patel fled Australia in 2005 when allegations of serious misconduct surfaced. Health Inquiry Commisioner Geoff Davies recommended charges of manslaughter, assault and fraud against him.
"We want a judicial inquiry... into this whole affair to fully and fairly investigate the whole compensation process and the way it's been handled," Bundaberg Burnett Patient Support Group president Ian Fleming said after patients' meeting with Attorney-General Kerry Shine. Terming the compensation process as "flawed", he alleged that the claims could have been based on medical records Patel falsified.
The Congress also claimed that the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP was the "B-team" of the BJP in Gujarat.
The king and his wife, Camilla, the queen consort, travelled from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey -- a distance of 2.2-km -- at a stately pace in the Diamond Jubilee State Coach bearing a gilded crown, which was commissioned for Queen Elizabeth II in 2012.
'Only time will tell how difficult it would be for the BJP when Mr Modi may not be in a position to actively run affairs of the party and be its biggest vote catcher.'
'Then the BJP could even split.'
Dr Mitra called the Pandara Road crowd a 'cheerful collective of young dreamers,' united in its 'love and pride for the newly Independent India,' despite 'sharp disparities in background, temperament and attitude.' Dr Shreekant Sambrani recalls his encounters with the legendary economist who passed into the ages.
Heavy overnight rains in Uttar Pradesh on Friday led to the deaths of at least 22 people, including nine labourers who were buried alive under the debris when an under-construction wall in the state capital collapsed on their huts.
On hearing that Patel, 58, was being extradited by US authorities, Vijay Mehta said he "cringed because I was afraid of this moment and... I hope that my fear for him getting lynched in Australia somehow or other does not happen. I am just praying for him."
The BJP has changed five chief ministers since 2019, including in Gujarat and Karnataka.
A court hearing the manslaughter case against Jayant Patel was told on Tueday that the Indian-American doctor was a "rotten surgeon" who did not have the skills to perform major operations
But, the opposition Congress and some social activists hailed Twitter's decision to remove the cartoon, and claimed the BJP was trying to gain political mileage out of the court's judgment.
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The delay will now force Patel to spend a week in the high-security detention centre in Portland before pleading his case to District Court Judge Dennis J Hubel. Patel, 57, was arrested on Tuesday by the FBI from his home in the US state of Oregon. He has been charged in Australia with 16 offences, including three counts of manslaughter related to alleged botched operations.
Indian-born American doctor Jayant Patel, facing accusations of botching operations and causing death of three patients, pleaded not guilty to manslaughter charges at a court in Brisbane in Australia on Monday.
It has been more than two years since the alleged fraud and negligence of Patel were exposed, and 18 months since a Royal Commission-style inquiry linked him to 17 deaths during his two years as director of surgery at Bundaberg Hospital.
"This is something to be proud of," said Raj Panjabi, who is currently serving as Senior Director for Global Health Security and Biodefence on the White House National Security Council.
Urjit Patel's reappointment will raise market hopes that Rajan, will also be offered an extension when his tenure ends in September.
The overall female strength has rised to 11 which is one of the highest.
The second wave of the pandemic has not only crippled medical infrastructure in terms of hospital beds, but has also led to bottlenecks in invasive ventilators and medical oxygen capacities and supplies.
He was banned on technical grounds, not medical grounds, because he had failed to notify them about his\ndecision to move to Australia.
The new appointment from the Pentagon comes a day after Trump fired Defence Secretary Mark Esper and designated the National Counter Terrorism Center Director, Chris Miller, as the Acting Secretary of Defence.
Seven years after Modi took office, merchandise exports were lower in 2020-2021 than when he had taken over from Manmohan Singh, points out Aakar Patel.
The average age of the new Union council of ministers has reduced to 58 years from 61 years previously following Wednesday's reshuffle.
With the fashion world blurring the lines between innovation, technology and reality, shopping is all set to be revolutionised.
Besides vice president N A Harris, treasurer Ajay Kipa, all other newly elected executive committee members, and the six eminent footballers co-opted in the committee, except Bhutia, were present in the meeting.
Economist Abhijit Sen, a former Planning Commission member and one of the country's foremost experts on rural economy, died on Monday night. He was 72.
In a move which could speed up the extradition of India-born surgeon Jayant Patel from the US to face manslaughter charges in Australia, one of the 14 charges against him has been dropped.
Defending the liquor ban in Bihar, he said that the state's prohibition policy has benefitted several people and a large number of people have given up drinking alcohol due to his measures.
Patel's lawyer, Marc Blackman, asked the US judge on Thursday to push back the doctor's April 18 extradition hearing in Portland, Oregon, for at least three weeks so that the doctor could 'evaluate his options'. The India-born doctor had previously indicated he will vigorously fight extradition to Australia where he faces a lengthy prison term if convicted of the 16 charges, including manslaughter, grievous bodily harm and fraud.
Taking exception to Health Minister Harsh Vardhan not mentioning the death of healthcare workers due to Covid-19 in his statement in Parliament, the Indian Medical Association has published a list of 382 doctors who died due to the viral disease and demanded that they be treated as "martyrs".
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The infant was born with the infection on April 1, as her mother had also contracted the disease, said Dinesh Navadiya, the trustee of Diamond Hospital said.
This government's approval for use of the antiviral drug comes at a time when India's daily COVID tally is crossing the 3-lakh mark.
For the post of deputy chief minister, the names of Swatantra Dev Singh, Baby Rani Maurya, Brijesh Pathak and Keshav Prasad Maurya are in talks.
One priority for Delhi (for the new foreign secretary in particular) is to have an in-depth discussion with Dharamsala as soon as possible, suggests Claude Arpi.
After Islamic evangelist and preacher Zakir Naik showed the inability to go to the Indian embassy in Malaysia for authentication of his credentials for vakalatnama, the UAPA tribunal said, "He is bound to file a vakalatnama in proper format with proper authentication or he may remain physically present on the next date of hearing."
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