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
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
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. ...
01:58 PM, Dec 05, 2012
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. ...
07:38 AM, Dec 05, 2012
The honeymoon period is just a myth and in fact couples are unhappiest in their first year of marriage, according to a new study. ...
02:57 PM, Dec 03, 2012
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. ...
12:38 PM, Dec 02, 2012
The National Human Rights Commission on Friday registered a case on the death of dentist Savita Halappanavar, who died last month in Ireland after doctors refused to terminate her miscarriage pregnancy on the ground that Ireland was a Catholic country. ...
09:31 PM, Nov 30, 2012
If you've been one of those who wished to try and be part of the reality game show, Kaun Banega Crorepati, it's time for you to head to Bihar. An expert at the show, Rs 1 crore winner Anil Kumar Sinha, is giving tuitions on how to ace the reality game show. ...
01:40 PM, Nov 27, 2012
A team of young professionals in Manipur is going out of its way to help the victims of continuing counter-insurgency operations to help overcome the trauma. And a dance therapy workshop is an innovative and a first-of-its-kind venture to help the victims. ...
08:32 AM, Nov 27, 2012
Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Gulam Nabi Azad on Saturday announced that a National Cancer Institute (NCI) would come up in the AIIMS-2 campus at Badhsa village in Haryana, which would be an even bigger facility than the Tata Cancer Institute, Mumbai. ...
12:49 AM, Nov 25, 2012
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Friday accused the central government of taking a negative approach towards Tamil Nadu's demands. Speaking at the wedding of Industries Minister P Thangamani's son here, Jayalalithaa said: "The Centre has been reducing the supply of kerosene to the state. It is also taking steps to curtail the state's powers." The CM said her letters to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh were acknowledged. But...
02:03 PM, Nov 23, 2012
New Delhi: Taking suo motu cognisance of the of Ponty Chadha incident, the Supreme Court on Wednesday sought explanation from the Centre about the norms for issuing gun licences to private security persons and how agencies engaging them are being regulated. Issuing notice to the Centre, a bench of justices DK Jain and JS Khehar said that the recent incident in which firearms were allegedly used by private security personnel...
09:33 PM, Nov 21, 2012
New Delhi: The Home Ministry has provided additional security forces to Maharashtra to assist local administration in maintaining law and order in the wake of critical health condition of Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray. Paramilitary personnel have been provided following a request by the Maharashtra government which has beefed up security after Shiv Sainiks damaged some media vehicles and equipment on Wednesday, official sources said. The forces, which were in...
10:39 PM, Nov 15, 2012
Chennai: Initial steps for the construction of another fast-breeder test reactor powered by metallic fuel at Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) complex at Kalpakkam has begun, a senior official said on Monday. "The government had initially sanctioned Rs 25 crore for the 120 MW metallic fuel test reactor (MFTR). Around Rs.6 crore is expected to be spent by the end of this fiscal on geo-technical investigations for the...
05:18 PM, Nov 12, 2012
Dehradun: A young man admitted to a de-addiction centre in Dehradun was found dead in mysterious circumstances. The dead youngsters identified as Rajesh was admitted to the de-addiction centre in Dehraduns Arya nagar just 5 days ago. Rajeshs family claims that the employees of the de-addiction centre had beaten him mercilessly following which he died. His family pointed to the injury marks on his body as a proof of their...
11:39 AM, Nov 06, 2012
Patna: Speaking at a massive rally here, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday said the Centre was discriminating against his state by denying the special status for which he had made repeated pleas and promised to fight till it was granted. Flanked by JD(U) national president Sharad Yadav, Kumar told the 'Adhikar' rally, at the culmination of months-long "Adhikar Yatras", at the historic Gandhi Maidan in Patna that the...
04:26 AM, Nov 05, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Convenor Bhartuhari Mahtab on Saturday alleged coal blocks were allocated to different companies without consulting the states concerned. "The Centre allocated coal blocks arbitrarily without consulting the coal-bearing states," Mahtab said after reviewing coal block allocations in Odisha. Mahtab, a BJD MP, claimed PAC came to know that while the state government recommended one coal block in favour of one company, the Centre allocated...
08:41 PM, Nov 03, 2012
Washington: The last of NASA's retired spacecraft Atlantis slowly covered its historic last journey to its final resting place after the US space agency ended its 30-year shuttle program in 2011. The shuttle made its 15.8 kilometres journey on Friday from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, permanently to a visitor centre where it will be put for public display in a $100 million hall due to open in July. Accompanied...
04:33 PM, Nov 03, 2012
New Delhi: For more than a decade, politics in Gujarat has been synonymous with Narendra Modi. With the Assembly elections due in a few weeks, the scenario seems to no different. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) strongman, who has ruled Gujarat with an iron hand since October 2001, has swatted all opposition with such ruthlessness that today there is no virtually no leader in the state capable of challenging him....
09:10 PM, Oct 30, 2012
New Delhi: Himachal Pradesh has traditionally seen a straight contest between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress and the 2012 Assembly election are going to be no different with the two involved in a bitter battle. The state will vote in a single phase on November 4, and the counting of the votes will take place weeks later, on December 20 along with Gujarat. Even though the final...
09:05 PM, Oct 29, 2012
