Hours after he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party, ousted Bahujan Samaj Party minister and former Mayawati confidante Babu Singh Kushwaha was raided by the Central Bureau of Investigation early on Wednesday morning.
After taking on Mayawati on National Rural Health Mission irregularities, the Bharatiya Janata Party in a surprise move on Tuesday, inducted into the party Uttar Pradesh chief minister's former confidant Babu Singh Kushwaha, who is facing Central Bureau Investigations inquiry in the scam.
The government, they said, will launch a mega drive, Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra, across all 2.7 lakh panchayats in the country to reach out to beneficiaries and enrol them.
As many as 22 doctors were suspended on Sunday by the Uttar Pradesh government for their alleged involvement in the Rs 9000 crore National Rural Health Mission scam.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Saturday carried out searches at the premises of former UP minister Anant Mishra in Lucknow and in Kanpur in connection with its probe in the National Rural Health Mission scam.
The Comptroller and Auditor General has found gross financial mismanagement and irregularities in the implementation of the National Rural Health Mission at almost every level in Uttar Pradesh.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested a former director of an Uttar Pradesh PSU and an alleged middleman in connection with its probe in National Rural Health Mission scam in which the then minister Babu Singh Kushwaha is the main accused.
'Today onwards, the onboard thrusters will be fired and Chandryaan-3 will be taken away from Earth for an eventful landing on Moon's surface on August 23'
A special Central Bureau of Investigation court in Ghaziabad on Tuesday remanded former Uttar Pradesh minister Babu Singh Kushwaha and former Bahujan Samaj Party Member of Legislative Assembly Ram Pratap Jaiswal in judicial custody for 14 days in the multi-crore National Rural Health Mission scam.
The UN Security Council has declared the Ebola outbreak in West Africa a threat to peace and security, with UN chief Ban Ki-moon deciding to deploy an "unprecedented" emergency health mission to combat the outbreak that has impacted the lives of millions.
Expelled Bahujan Samaj Party minister Babu Singh Kushwaha, currently facing a Central Bureau of Investigation probe for his alleged involvement in the Rs 8000 crore National Rural Health Mission scam, finally came out in the open against his one-time mentor Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Thursday.
The Central Bureau of Investigation arrested two more officials and a businessman on Friday morning in connection with the Rs 8000-crore National Rural Health Mission scam. The three arrests were made at the CBI headquarters, where the accused were brought a day earlier for interrogation. P K Jain, former general manager of Uttar Pradesh Jal Nigam Construction and Design, was arrested on Thursday shortly after he was questioned by CBI sleuths in New Delhi.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday summoned some officials of Uttar Pradesh for questioning in connection with alleged irregularities in utilising Rs 10,000 crore funds allocated under the National Rural Health Mission. It was likely to place some of them under arrest.
Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday took the Uttar Pradesh government by surprise when he appeared at the National Rural Health Mission office in Lucknow, seeking information under the Right to Information act.
Those in the dock include director general (family welfare) who was responsible for procurement of medicines and equipments besides information, education and communication, director general (medical health) and director (training), state health society, State Innovation in Family Planning and Project Agency, King George Medical University and Chief Medical Officers of 72 districts of the state.
A special Central Bureau of Investigation court on Tuesday extended till June 26 the judicial custody of former Uttar Pradesh minister Babu Singh Kushwaha and nine others in a case related to the multi-crore National Rural Health Mission scam in the state.
'India has gone digital. They talk about the success of India's Chandrayaan mission but they cannot evacuate our people trapped for around a week'
Union Minister Kapil Sibal on Friday questioned Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's silence on the mysterious death of yet another man connected with the National Rural Health Mission scam and demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into all related cases to bring out the truth.
'Make sure your public hospitals work.' 'Don't allow people to go shopping for expensive services; provide them yourself as the government and then charge them very little or nothing at all.'
The pandemic has changed the way people see the government. It has eroded trust in the administration's ability to tackle a crisis, any crisis, observes Devangshu Datta.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Monday sought a report from the Lucknow police on the alleged suicide by Sunil Verma, a key accused in National Rural Health Mission case who is believed to have carried "vital information" even as it continued questioning of senior officials as part of its probe into the scam.
Sunil Verma, an accused in the multi-crore National Rural Health Mission scam, allegedly committed suicide on Monday at his Vikas Nagar residence in Lucknow by shooting himself with his licenced revolver, police said.
The bold decisions are part of the Congress 'Nav Sankalp' declaration that was adopted at the end of the three-day 'Chintan Shivir in Udaipur, indicating that the party has chosen to put its weight behind the young leadership after a prolonged old-versus-new tussle.
'The prime minister took a meeting recently and he asked for suggestions and ideas for a plan till 2047.'
Six days after he dared to sound the bugle of revolt against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati, former UP minister for family welfare and mines, Babu Singh Kushwaha, was served a notice of eviction from the ministerial bungalow he has been occupying in Lucknow.
Shukla had been in jail for almost a month for his alleged role in the murder of two CMOs Dr Vinod Arya and Dr B P Singh who were gunned down allegedly in connection with the NRHM bungling.
The government on Monday ruled out amending abortion laws in consideration of cases like that of Niketa Mehta, who wanted to terminate her 26-week pregnancy as the child would be born with a congenital heart defect."As it is today, going by just one case, I do not think the law can be amended," Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss said."We sympathise with her case and would discuss all other avenues," he said.
It is incorrect to say that India was complacent and did not do adequate amount of work for containment of the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic as no country was prepared for it, National Health Authority (NHA) CEO R S Sharma said on Thursday.
Slammed by the high court, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Wednesday ordered a CBI probe into the murder of two chief medical officers of Lucknow.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will hold a pre-Budget discussion with state governments on January 13.
As India gears up to vaccinate people above 60 years of age and those over 45 years with comorbidities against COVID-19 from March 1, the Union health ministry on Friday said the facility of on-site registrations will be available so that eligible beneficiaries can walk into identified vaccination centres, get themselves registered and get inoculated.
Last year, the minister had proposed the compulsory rural postings for all MBBS students. The announcement met with stiff resistance.
President Ram Nath Kovind addressed the nation on the eve of India's 75th Independence Day. Here's the text of what he said:
ISRO on Friday said it has made efforts to establish communication with its lunar mission Chandrayaan-3's lander Vikram and rover Pragyan to ascertain their 'wake-up condition' after they had been put into sleep mode early this month -- but no signals have been received from them as of now.
Over 2,000 couples sign up, with the first payments expected on August 15. We ask readers what they think of the initiative.
The PM targeted the Opposition after launching the National Sickle Cell Anemia Eradication Mission 2047 by unveiling a portal and releasing a guideline for the management of the disease and different modules at Shahdol in Madhya Pradesh.
Wielding the broom, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday launched the country's biggest-ever cleanliness drive that is expected to cost over Rs 62,000 crore, asserting that the "Swachh Bharat" mission is "beyond politics" and inspired by patriotism.
The number of centrally sponsored schemes have increased to 35 in FY22 from 30 in FY21 and central sector schemes have increased to 704 from 685 in the previous year, reports Dilasha Seth.
'Leela Devi, aged 65, has been shown to have sired eight girls in 14 months and for every so-called childbirth Rs 1,400 were transferred into her purported account'
The Bharatiya Janata Party has released its manifesto for the upcoming Nagaland assembly elections, promising a special package for the eastern part of the state and establishment of a board for the holistic development of the region if the party returns to power for the second time in a row.
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