Two former employees of a Delhi-based pharmaceutical firm have been booked for allegedly cheating, forging documents and impersonating to secure government tenders, including supplies to Army hospitals.
Terming the incident as 'horrific', the Aam Aadmi Party hit out at the Centre by drawing a comparison with the Jallianwallah Bagh massacre, whose centenary is being observed on Saturday.
Experts on Friday identified the material -- which led to a 'very powerful' radiation in an industrial area in Delhi -- as Cobalt-60, the exposure to which left five persons injured. Scientists from the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre and Narora Atomic Power Station also scanned Mayapuri industrial area on Friday morning to examine whether there was any other source of a similar emission in the vicinity. Panic was triggered in the locality on Thursday night after the news broke
The police are still groping in the dark about the origin of radio-active substance which landed in a west Delhi scrap market, leading to at least six persons falling critically ill and undergoing treatment in hospitals.
The home ministry noted that it took a number of steps to ensure adequate and uninterrupted supply of essential medical oxygen as well as life-saving drugs, including remdesivir.
Cmmuters faced hard time navigating through water-logged roads and faced traffic congestion.
Farmers gathered at several national highways, key roads and some railway tracks in Punjab and Haryana on Friday morning as part of their nationwide protest against the Centre's new agri laws.
Two more sources of radiation were detected in the Mayapuri scrap market in New Delhi on Tuesday, where Cobalt-60 was recovered recently, taking the total sources of radioactive substance found in the industrial area to ten. Eight sources of radioactive Cobalt-60 were detected last week while the two fresh cases of radiation were detected on Tuesday. Seven persons were injured after getting exposed to the radioactive substance.
Scientists have identified the material that led to a "very powerful" radiation in a west Delhi industrial area as Cobalt-60, the exposure to which left five people injured including a scrap dealer whose condition is serious.
Responding to a question on the issue of felling trees in Mumbai's Aarey forest, in which the Supreme Court has restrained authorities from cutting anymore trees, Javadekar told the reporters that he would not like to comment on a sub judice matter.
10 central trade unions have called a nationwide shutdown against 'anti-worker policies' of the central government. Apart from being successful in Bengal, Kerala and NE states, the bandh has also got support from Cong leader Rahul Gandhi and Shiv Sena in Maharashtra.
Trade union leaders claimed that the strike would be even bigger than the one last year as the number of striking workers is expected to swell to 18 crore
The biological weapons convention is a non-starter in spite of the efforts of many states in the world for the last five decades mainly because the US is not ready to accept the 'verification protocol' which could allow the formation of some official mechanism for inspections, says Ajay Lele.
