The Samajwadi Party government in Uttar Pradesh will launch the first train carrying Hindus on an officially sponsored free pilgrimage to Haridwar and Rishilesh on March 14.
The family of Delhi gang-rape victim has taken a strong exception to making public of their daughter's name in the BBC documentary and has warned of taking legal action in this connection.
Ban Ki-moon's spokesperson stressed the need for men to get involved in halting violence against women.
The US became the first country in the world to have more than one million cases of coronavirus. It accounts for nearly one-third of the 3.1 million cases globally.
'The rate of transmission of COVID-19 in Hong Kong was 0.7 -- anything below 1 suggests the epidemic is receding.' 'The city-State achieved this without the de facto police-State curfew that India has resorted to,' says Rahul Jacob.
A 3-judge bench headed by Justice R Banumathi said there are no grounds to review the verdict
Jnanpith awardee and renowned Kannada writer U R Ananthamurthy, hospitalised for infection and fever, is in a critical condition and undergoing treatment on multi-support system, a senior doctor said on Friday.
The Friday morning encounter of all the four accused in the brutal rape-and-murder case of a 25-year-old woman veterinarian last month in Hyderabad triggered a nationwide debate on justice delivery, with one side supporting it as speedy justice and the other raising concerns over 'extra-judicial' measures. Here is a look at the legal status of some rape cases which shook the country.
A doctor and a paramedic have been arrested after an eight-month pregnant woman was allegedly wrongly administered medicine for abortion at a prominent private hospital here, leading to the death of her unborn child.
It is necessary to have a dramatic increase in the number of rapid tests for COVID-19 conducted on a large number of people and that should become the basis for estimating the morbidity and mortality due to COVID-19, not relying only on hospital reports, says Professor K Srinivasan.
'I have seen the tears in their eyes.' 'I want to thank God for giving me an opportunity to help these guys.'
Chelsea's French defender Kurt Zouma will be out for six months after surgery on a knee injury suffered at the weekend, the Premier League champions said on Monday.
"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."
The apex court said the death row convicts failed to point out 'error apparent on the face of record' in the judgment.
'Flypasts, bands, helicopters dropping flowers over hospitals treating coronavirus patients are cute ideas for an Akshay Kumar film.' 'But when lakhs of workers at the lowest rung of the employment ladder would still be walking back home, this is the true 2020 equivalent of 'let them eat cake,' notes Shekhar Gupta.
Ayushman Bharat aims at providing a cover of Rs 5 lakh per family annually and is aimed at benefitting more than 10 crore poor families across the country.
It was a freak accident that set the claycourt major abuzz.
United States Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday flew back home from Geneva with his orthopaedic surgeon on board, after breaking his right leg in a cycling accident in the French Alps.
'This is a long haul, god knows where it will end.' 'So it is best to conserve all the funds right now for fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.'
Pharmaceutical companies, which are sending across medical aid for flood affected people in Jammu and Kashmir, claim to be facing difficulties in distribution of drugs.
An entirely preventable disease claimed the life of 173 children -- thanks to state apathy.
Here's the full text of President Ram Nath Kovind's address to the nation on the eve of 72nd Republic Day.
The software patch will provide facility similar to panic button which at the press of '9' or '5' will generate a call to single emergency telephone number '112', the order said.
Two passenger ships with Indians and foreign nationals evacuated from conflict-hit Yemen are expected to reach the port on Saturday afternoon.
The chief minister, who reached the hospital amid protest by Democratic Youth Federation of India activists alleging lapses in the probe, consoled the mother of the victim and said steps would be taken to provide a government job to the victim's sister to support her family.
Fourteen senior IAS officers were found "absent" during a surprise check conducted by Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal at the state government's Mini Secretariat in Chandigarh on Monday.
Calling for availability of all necessary equipment for medical professionals, she said the onus lies on the government to ensure that the spread of infection and casualties are not caused owing to lack of infrastructure or preparedness.
Two women doctors were injured in Indore when a five-member team of health officials was pelted with stones in Taatpatti Bakhal area on Wednesday while they were trying to trace a person who had come into contact with a COVID-19 patient, police said.
The Centre said that there was no legal provision to declare a disaster as a national calamity, amid demands for declaring the floods as a national disaster.
As Delhi grapples with the worst outbreak of dengue in five years, hospitals are groaning under shortage of beds and doctors complaining of being overworked.
On July 16, 1991, the world's first hospital on a train chugged out of Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus on its maiden journey. Twenty-six years later, the Lifeline Express (also called Jeevan Rekha Express) continues to take a multitude of medical services, from major surgeries to dedicated cancer treatment, to the people of India.
Even though the Health Ministry and Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) have been insisting that there is 'no solid evidence' of community transmission so far, the government has started scaling up health infrastructure to deal with any situation.
The plane's left engine burst into flames on the runway at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas on Tuesday afternoon while it was about to depart for London's Gatwick Airport with 159 passengers and 13 crew members on board.
The prime minister thanked the people but said it was the start of a long battle, as he urged them to follow social distancing to stop the chain of transmission of Coronavirus which has infected 360 people and claimed seven lives in India.
Doctors decided to discharge her after all her latest biochemical tests were found normal including kidney function.
The Supreme Court today directed the Delhi police to place before it the dying declaration of the December 16 gang rape victim along with other trial court records of the case in which four convicts were awarded death sentence.
For a few minutes, Nanjappa was on the road pleading for help while passersby looked on in horror. Some filmed his severed body, while others quickly informed the police, who dispatched an ambulance to the scene.
Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Jammu reported one case each, officials said.
IIT Kharagpur set to be a one-stop-shop for all your parents' 'doctor-engineer' dreams! :-)
Britain fell silent on Thursday as a minute's silence was held across the country to remember the 22 victims of Monday's concert bombing. The silence, which fell at 11 am, also marked the nation's solidarity with the 119 who were injured in the blast at the Manchester Arena following a concert, as well as others affected by the atrocity. Crowds gathered at well-known sites in the UK, including London's Parliament and Trafalgar Square. Here are some touching glimpses...
