Politics

Up to 2 years waiting for cardiac and neurosurgery at AIIMS Delhi NEW DELHI: AIIMS Delhi has two months waiting for general surgery while in gynaecology the waiting period is up to three months for malignancies, the govt told parliament on Tuesday.In gastro-intestinal surgeries, while critical cases are prioritized, the maximum waiting period can be…

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 state…

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has stayed a Uttarakhand HC order ticking off an additional district magistrate for communicating in Hindi and inability to speak in English during hearing of a case on preparation of electoral roll for the three-tier panchayat elections in the state, reports Dhananjay Mahapatra.Uttarakhand deputy advocate general Jatinder Kumar Sethi, appearing for…

Pawan Khera and PM Modi (R) NEW DELHI: Congress leader Pawan Khera on Wednesday launched a fresh attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, invoking US President Donald Trump’s repeated claims — including the latest one — that he mediated a peaceful agreement between India and Pakistan after India’s retaliatory strikes after the Pahalgam terror attack.Targeting…

NEW DELHI: At a time when it is seized of the Presidential Reference for the Supreme Court’s opinion SC’s power to fix timelines for the constitutional heads on Bills passed by Assemblies, the apex court on Tuesday sought the Centre’s response to a petition by Punjab govt alleging presidential inaction on its two Bills relating…

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 the…

NEW DELHI: In the process of framing guidelines to bar probe agencies from summoning lawyers for rendering opinion to clients, the Supreme Court on Tuesday said the privilege of immunity from prosecution is available to a lawyer as long as he or she acts as a legal practitioner for a client.During a proceeding initiated suo…

NEW DELHI: In a dramatic development, a junior woman judicial officer has resigned, protesting the appointment of a district judge as an HC judge despite her serious allegations of misconduct against him. In her resignation letter, she lamented that the constitutional courts rewarded a judge who had severely harassed and tormented her.The judicial officer, reinstated…

KOCHI: Confusion prevails over revocation of death sentence of Nimisha Priya, the Kerala nurse on death row in Yemen for 2017 murder of a Yemeni citizen, with the victim’s brother contesting claims by an eminent cleric that an “agreement” has been reached.Victim Talal Abdo Mahdi’s brother, Abdul Fattah Mahdi, rejected the claims by Kerala Sunni…

NEW DELHI: Charges of lack of “govt accountability” for repeated terror attacks, ceasefire under pressure and govt’s refusal to “name” China echoed in LS as Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav and DMK’s Kanimozhi led the charge in targeting BJP over the Pahalgam attack and the conflict with Pakistan.Priyanka mocked that Pulwama,…