The BJP may win more seats in the February 5 assembly election, but not enough to trump AAP, notes Ramesh Menon.
The SLP filed by AIIMS assailed the judgement on the ground that the High Court had committed a grave error by declaring that there was no upper age limit for the director.
Dutee Chand experienced the shock of her life when she was told by a doctor in November 2021 that level 1 cancer has attacked her body
Barring 2004 and 2009 when Navjot Singh Sidhu won the Amritsar seat as a BJP MP and 1998 when Daya Singh Sodhi from BJP was elected as the MP, it has essentially a Congress bastion.
List of govt hospitals authorised to treat swine flu
A total of 42,640 Covid infections were reported in a day, while the death toll climbed to 3,89,302 with 1,167 daily fatalities, the lowest in 68 days.
A probe by the Government Railway Police has found loopholes in the version given by athlete Arunima Sinha, who lost her leg after being thrown out of a train by robbers in Bareilly.Dismissing the investigations, the 23-year-old national level football and volleyball player said she was being "mentally harassed" by the police. "The investigations point out that Arunima was disturbed and she either attempted suicide or met with an accident," said an official.
The Delhi high court on Tuesday continued its stay on the dismissal of All India Institute of Medical Sciences director P Venugopal.
Security presence which has been bolstered by flying in more army troops and rapid action force and central police forces was clearly visible at all major areas and roads.
The family of 16-year-old twins Saba and Farah Shakeel is not willing to take them to the New Delhi-based All India Institute of Medical Sciences for examination.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said India has become the fifth largest economy in the world and this is not an ordinary achievement. "Every Indian is feeling proud of it. We need to maintain this enthusiasm," Modi said. He was virtually addressing beneficiaries of various government schemes and those present at a mega medical camp organised in Olpad area of Surat city in Gujarat, where the Assembly polls are due later this year.
A day after India opened up vaccination for those over 60 years and within the age bracket of 45 to 59 years with specified co-morbidities, more politicians took the vaccine jabs on Tuesday, including Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, who, along with his wife, took the first dose of indigenously developed Covaxin at the Delhi Heart and Lung Institute.
The Andhra CM charged the BJP and Centre with 'mud-slinging' and trying to 'damage his credibility'.
The campaign was started in the wake of government's decision to withhold the salaries of doctors who participated in the anti-reservation strike last month.
The Supreme Court has dismissed the Centre's petition seeking review of its order quashing the health ministry's move to fix 65 years as the upper age limit for the All India Institute of Medical Sciences director -- which led to the premature retirement of P Venugopal last year.
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The Rashtriya Janata Dal leader had asked for an extension of three months on his bail for his medical treatment.
"Lalu Prasad is having trouble breathing for the last two days. On Friday, he was found to be having pneumonia. Considering his age, we have decided to shift him to AIIMS-Delhi on the advice of doctors for better treatment," RIMS Director Dr Kameshwar Prasad said. "He is likely to be shifted to AIIMS today. We have already spoken to the experts at AIIMS," he added.
The Delhi Police has identified nearly 100 vital installations and markets in the national capital, including the All India Institute of Medical Sciences and the Delhi University, as "high risk" and has drawn up measures to guard them from terror attacks.
The resident doctors will hold a meeting on Friday evening to decide the future course of action.
Sisodia had sought bail to attend to his ailing wife.
Union ministers Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Thaawarchand Gehlot, Ravi Shankar Prasad and Santosh Gangwar, Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal, BJP national general-secretary Arun Singh and party MP Maneka Gandhi also visited the hospital to know about his wellbeing.
The Rajasthan government has given a letter of intent to Keshav Vidyapeeth, which runs a college at Jamdoli near Jaipur, to start a self-financing private university, a spokesman of the institute said.
The Ministry of Science and Technology has approached about a dozen well-known scientists from across the world in an effort to bring them back to various departments under the ministry, said Jitendra Singh, minister of state (independent charge) for science and technology.
Human rights activist Irom Chanu Sharmila, who has been charged with the offence of attempt to commit suicide by fasting, was on Monday released from judicial custody.
The Scientific Advisory Council briefed the PM about the state of science in the country.
The court has also made it clear that it will also consider the contentions of the petitioner whether the caste-based policy of reservation shall not divide this great country along caste lines.
As relatives continue to search for their loved ones among the bodies of the victims of the Odisha train tragedy, the Bhubaneswar municipal corporation has said that it will send 30 DNA samples collected from visitors to All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi.
The government has undertaken a study to find out toxicity levels in soft toys after some non-government organisations reported the presence of cadmium and lead in them.
Earlier in August, the Centre was directed by the Delhi High Court to file a reply on a public interest litigation challenging Venugopal's appointment as Director.
A day after ending his hunger strike, Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu was on Saturday discharged from Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences in Hyderabad. The former chief minister ended his fast, launched to demand higher compensation for the farmers affected by natural calamities in the state, on Friday evening after eight days. Naidu was shifted to NIMS amidst high drama on early December 20, the fourth day of his hunger strike.
Both were rescued from the Shalimar-Chennai Central Coromandel Express that derailed near Bahanaga Bazar Station on June 2 that had claimed 275 lives and left around 1,200 injured.
"The 750-bed modern facility will be set up at Thoppur near Madurai at an estimated cost of Rs 1,500 crore," Palaniswami said.
One of the hot discussion at the meeting will be the alleged irregular appointment and subsequent promotion of 164 faculty members.
Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss, who was to leave for Bhutan this morning to attend a WHO meeting, cancelled his trip apparently due to the crisis.
BJP president J P Nadda on Sunday promised Uniform Civil Code (UCC) and 33 per cent reservation for women in government jobs in Himachal Pradesh while releasing the party's manifesto for the state assembly polls.
Bharatiya Janata Party has sought the resignation of Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss in the wake of a Supreme Court judgment striking down the law that enabled All India Institute of Medical Sciences director P Venugopal's removal from office. BJP Vice President Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said, "It is a judicial treatment for the unhealthy attitude of the Health Minister."
The Bench directed the Government to delete the prayer seeking removal of the judge.
She claimed that officials haven't given her any deadline when she will get the body.
