Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday launched a fresh attack on the Centre, saying the country was in the grip of pessimism because of "policy paralysis, intellectual bankruptcy and lack of leadership". He said the Centre's policies "lack urgency or seriousness" in tackling economic crises and thus the "sense of pessimism" in the 12th Five Year Plan. ...
02:40 PM, Dec 27, 2012
The doctors said their foremost concern is the survival of the victim and that she comes out of trauma. ...
04:39 PM, Dec 20, 2012
A team of doctors attending the 23-year-old said that she withstood the operation on Wednesday night "very well". ...
04:27 PM, Dec 20, 2012
New Delhi: Calling the Delhi gangrape victim a "brave girl", a team of doctors attending the 23-year-old said that she withstood the operation on Wednesday night "very well". "She is fighting it out. We are hopeful that she would come out of it," said Dr Mishra of AIIMS Trauma Centre. Dr Mishra is working on the trauma management plan for the victim with doctors of Safdarjung hospital - where the...
12:34 PM, Dec 20, 2012
New Delhi: State-run BSNL plans to set up video-conferencing centres at 200 locations in the next year with a view to generating additional revenues by utilising its excess capacity. "We are looking at setting up public video-conferencing centres at 200 locations in the country based on revenue share model. As per our plan, it should be done by the first half of 2013," BSNL Chairman and Managing Director R K...
01:41 PM, Dec 16, 2012
Kolkata: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday reiterated his demand for granting special status to the state, saying other financially backward states also had "valid right" to seek additional aid from the Centre. "Bihar will continue to ask the Centre to grant special status," Kumar told reporters on the sidelines of an event in Kolkata. Like Bihar, there were other financially backward states which also had the valid right...
03:37 AM, Dec 15, 2012
Indian classical musician and Pandit Ravi Shankar's disciple Pandit Barun Kumar Pal joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the impact of Pandit Ravi Shankar on Indian classical music. Q. When did you last speak to him? And if not very personal, could you share some of the things you talked about? Asked by: Kunjram A. It was last Tuesday, he was eager to know about the health situation of...
01:36 PM, Dec 14, 2012
Ahmedabad: Election Commission has geared up to conduct postal ballot at various facilitation centres in Gujarat where about three lakh polling staff including policemen are expected to cast their votes, officials said. Around 9,000 policemen engaged in poll duty have already cast their votes through postal ballots at the facilitation centres set up across the state, they said. "An estimated three lakh people engaged in poll duty including policemen are...
06:15 PM, Dec 11, 2012
New Delhi: Microsoft Corporation (India) Pvt Ltd has launched the first of a planned 100 Microsoft Innovation Centers (MICs) that will impact the technology expertise of some 500,000 students. The Indian centres, which will be at full strength in two years, "will impact over 500,000 students, certifying 100,000 students on Microsoft technologies", a Microsoft statement said. "The program will also drive innovation and help build a product-based software economy by...
04:41 AM, Dec 11, 2012
Rajkot: Accusing the Congress-led UPA government at Centre and Narendra Modi government in Gujarat of coming to power on the "financial muscle power" of corporates, BSP chief Mayawati on Sunday attributed the surge in corruption to "anti-poor and anti-Dalit" policies. "Congress at Centre and BJP in Gujarat came to power with the financial help of a few industrialists and their policies are tilted in favour of corporates," the former Uttar...
03:54 AM, Dec 10, 2012
New Delhi: Mahendra Sahu is just 17 but he now knows he has to take care of his three siblings and father. His mother Rajkumari who was the only earning member of this family of six died on Tuesday morning at the Sushruta Trauma Centre after the oxygen supply was cut off. She was among the five patients who died that fateful day. Mahender says, "My mother died because of...
09:06 AM, Dec 07, 2012
It's been three days since five people died at government-run Shushruta Trauma Centre after their oxygen supply was allegedly cut off during maintenance work but the special committee formed by the state health department is yet to submit its detailed incident report. The hospital has shifted the blame entirely on the private contractor handling oxygen supply but for those who lost their loved ones in the incident a speedy trial ...
10:08 PM, Dec 06, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi government on Thursday dismissed two doctors after five patients died at government-run Shushruta Trauma Centre after their oxygen supply was allegedly cut off during maintenance work. The doctors - Dr Teena Khurana and Dr Richa Gupta - who have been dismissed were incharge of repair and maintenance. Meanwhile, a Delhi court rejected the bail plea of the two people, who arrested in connection with the case,...
08:41 PM, Dec 06, 2012
New Delhi: The police on Wednesday arrested a Delhi government hospital's technician and the supervisor in a medical negligence case after five ICU patients died after their oxygen supply was cut off during maintenance work. Sushruta Trauma Centre authorities said that the hospital had nothing to do with the oxygen supply cut, that killed five people on Tuesday. In fact, washing their hands off the incident, the authorities are now...
10:18 AM, Dec 06, 2012
Five patients at the Intensive Care Unit of Sushruta Trauma Centre in Delhi died after the oxygen supply to their ventilator was allegedly stopped. ...
11:59 PM, Dec 05, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi Police arrested two people in connection with the horrific deaths of patients caused due to negligence at the Sushruta Trauma Centre, a government hospital, in the capital on Tuesday evening. The two have been identified as Amit Katoch and Mohan Sharma. While Katoch is the technician who was on duty in the ICU ward on the fateful night, Sharma works as a supervisor at the hospital....
10:17 PM, Dec 05, 2012
New Delhi: The death toll has risen to five after another patient died on Wednesday in a Delhi government hospital due to medical negligence after the oxygen supply was cut off while carrying out repair work. All the five patients at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Sushruta Trauma Centre died after the oxygen supply to their ventilator was allegedly stopped. An FIR has been filed in the case. The...
01:58 PM, Dec 05, 2012
New Delhi: In a shocking case of medical negligence in a Delhi government hospital, four people died after their oxygen supply was cut off while carrying out repair work. The four patients at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) died in Sushruta Trauma Centre after the oxygen supply to their ventilator was allegedly stopped. The police have filed an FIR. The Delhi government has set up a special panel to probe...
07:38 AM, Dec 05, 2012
Melbourne: The honeymoon period is just a myth and in fact couples are unhappiest in their first year of marriage, according to a new study. Australian researchers have found that the happiest husbands and wives are those who have notched up more than 40 years of wedded bliss. The study by Deakin University's Australian Centre on Quality of Life, measured the happiness of 2000 people on a scale of 0-100,...
02:57 PM, Dec 03, 2012
New Delhi: The government should act as a model employer and ensure that its employees are treated fairly in appointment and promotion, the Supreme Court has said. A bench of justices KS Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra said the concept of good governance can be concretised only when government employees are sure they will be treated fairly and their trust shall not be betrayed. "We are compelled to reiterate the oft-stated...
12:38 PM, Dec 02, 2012
