[ad_1] NEW DELHI: The National Medical Commission (NMC) has issued show cause notice to 71 medical colleges, both govt and private, in West Bengal after finding them to be deficient with respect to faculty, infrastructure and other clinical parameters, the govt told Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.In a written reply to a parliament question, minister of…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday announced an increment in the honorarium of Asha and Mamata workers for playing “a key enhancing healthcare services in rural areas” of the state.In a social media post on X, Nitish said that the incentive for Asha workers will be increased from Rs 1,000 to…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: An encounter between security forces and two ‘individuals’ broke out in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch on Wednesday.According to Army officials, the forces intercepted a group of terrorists trying to infiltrate into the Indian side from across the border leading to an encounter.They said two terrorists fell down after being hit during the…
[ad_1] Nineteen years after winning the Man Booker, Kiran Desai, 53, has returned to the award longlist with a novel about two Indians navigating life in the US. The Indian American author, who became the prize’s youngest-ever winner in 2006 with her second novel ‘The Inheritance of Loss’, is now among 13 writers vying for…
[ad_1] A sharp sob broke the silence at the mass gravesite. A woman collapsed beside the twin graves of Panakkadan Shajahan and his daughter Faiza as the cleric ended their death anniversary prayers. “Poovi has fainted… It was too much for her,” said an elderly relative as others rushed to help.Nearby lies the scattered grave…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Questioning the restrictions under surrogacy laws, including age limit on intended parents and surrogate mothers, Supreme Court Tuesday said laws shouldn’t frustrate the wish of childless couples, widows and divorcees to become parents through surrogacy. Instead, the laws should frustrate commercial surrogacy. A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and K V…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Tuesday gave the go-ahead to Election Commission (EC) to publish the Bihar draft voter list on August 1 after completing its special intensive revision (SIR).The apex court said, “We are overseeing the process. The Jan 2025 voter list forms the base. If there is mass exclusion (from it), we…
[ad_1] BJP MP Nishikant Dubey was speaking in Hindi in Lok Sabha on Tuesday when there was a technical glitch in the translator system. Following this, DMK MPs requested him to speak in English. Dubey refused to do so, saying English is a foreign language.“…It would have been better if you had asked me to…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Home ministry Tuesday told Lok Sabha that the govt has not taken any decision on updating the National Population Register (NPR).As per the original Census 2021 plan, NPR updation was to be conducted alongside the first or house-listing phase of the census. Replying to a question, junior home minister Nityanand Rai said,…
[ad_1] NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi on Tuesday hit out at the decision to sign the Indus Waters Treaty with Pakistan, disclosing that the water-sharing pact signed by first PM Jawaharlal Nehru had a clause which required India not to carry out desilting of dams, with the gates of one of them welded to prevent…