NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Friday warned two Ghaziabad private hospitals and a doctor that if they failed to voluntarily pay compensation to parents of a grievously injured sexually assaulted girl, who died due to refusal of treatment, it will impose costs that would have a chilling impact.When a doctor, accused of refusing admission to…
NEW DELHI: Pained by the unfortunate demise of a cancer patient awaiting Kerala HC’s order on her plea questioning exorbitant cost of life-saving medicines, the Supreme Court Friday took suo motu cognisance of both issues impacting right to life – plight of patients who cannot afford essential life-saving drugs and the judicial expediency in such…
NEW DELHI: After 75 years of being a Republic and a decade of Swachh Bharat Mission, absence of toilets in courts hauntingly impedes women lawyers from practicing, lamented Supreme Court Friday and drew a six-week deadline for states to construct washrooms for women advocates in all court complexes.A bench of CJI Surya Kant and Justices…
NEW DELHI: Signals from DMK and NCP (SP) on the Constitution amendment bill, which will increase seats in Lok Sabha and implement women’s reservation law from 2029, suggest that political momentum is building up in govt’s favour. This comes on the back of the disintegration of Trinamool Congress after BJP trounced it in Bengal elections,…
SRINAGAR: Politics is heating up in J&K ahead of NC’s proposed protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on July 20 over restoration of statehood, with Congress Friday announcing it would join the sit-in.BJP has planned a gherao of the secretariat in Srinagar on the same day to protest the NC govt’s “corruption, arbitrary governance,…
JAMMU: The J&K administration Friday suspended mobile internet services in Doda district till further orders and deployed a large security contingent in Bhaderwah town, where tensions flared up after a 30-year-old man was shot dead around Thursday midnight following a run-in with the state police’s Special Operations Group (SOG) in a cattle smuggling stakeout.Three SOG…
Rohit Sharma (BCCI Photo) NEW DELHI: The final ODI against England at Lord’s on Sunday will not be Rohit Sharma‘s last match for India. BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia dismissed all retirement rumours and confirmed that the senior batter remains an important part of India’s ODI plans.There had been speculation that the 39-year-old had been told…
Donald Trump’s social media company has discussed charging traders and investors as much as $100,000 a month for faster access to the US president’s posts on his Truth Social platform, according to a report by the Financial Times.Trump Media & Technology Group has allegedly quoted the six-figure monthly sum in talks with prospective buyers of…
Rahul Gandhi addresses the gathering during the ‘Chhatron Ki Goonj’ programme, in Dehradun, Uttarakhand. (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said India’s education system has reached a stage where paper leaks have become “the norm”, alleging that the issue affects millions of students and requires a political consensus to resolve.Addressing a…
Virat Kohli with legendary West Indies cricketer Garfield Sobers and his wife. (PTI Photo) The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) led tributes to Sir Garfield Sobers after the legendary West Indies all-rounder died on Friday at the age of 89, remembering him as “a true icon of the game” whose influence will…
At least eight people are dead and 34 remain missing after a rain-triggered landslide buried residential buildings in southwest China’s Chongqing municipality on Friday.The landslide struck at around 9.08 am in Pengshui Miao and Tujia Autonomous County, after local officials reported sporadic rockfalls about an hour earlier and began evacuating residents. Despite the early warning,…
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has reaffirmed its “zero-tolerance” stance on corruption after former India Under-19 World Cup winner and Jaffna Kings co-owner Manjot Kalra was arrested over allegations of attempting to induce a player into corrupt practice during the Lanka Premier League (LPL).In a statement issued hours after Kalra’s arrest on Friday, the island nation’s…
