National Medical Commission (TNN) NEW DELHI: The National Medical Commission (NMC) has sought a detailed report on allegations that a private medical college in Bihar made payment of a ₹3.75 lakh hostel fee mandatory for MBBS graduates to start their compulsory internship, with a July complaint alleging that interns feared they would be denied internship…
The development comes as the government continues to engage with social media platforms over harmful content and compliance with Indian laws NEW DELHI: Social media giant Meta on Tuesday agreed to report cases related to child sexual abuse to appropriate law enforcement agencies in India, government sources told ANI.The development comes as the government continues…
NEW DELHI: Jammu and Kashmir Police on Monday busted an Over Ground Worker network allegedly linked with terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba and arrested three persons.According to officials, the accused were involved in providing logistical support, safe transit and other ground-level assistance to terrorists. They allegedly acted as guides and facilitated the movement of terrorist groups towards…
NEW DELHI: The southwest (summer) monsoon, which has so far reported a cumulative (June 1-Sept 14) rainfall deficit of over 14% this season, is likely to start withdrawing from west Rajasthan this weekend. IMD predicted Monday that conditions are becoming favourable for monsoon’s withdrawal around Sept 19.Monsoon normally starts withdrawing from Sept 17 and its…
NEW DELHI: A day after Union home minister Amit Shah expressed confidence that 21 NDA-governed states would implement Uniform Civil Code by 2029, three BJP allies struck a circumspect note.Lavu Sri Krishna Devarayalu, parliamentary party leader of Telugu Desam Party which is in office in Andhra Pradesh, told TOI, “As of now, there is no…
Disha Salian was late actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s manager NEW DELHI: CBI has filed an FIR and formed a special team to probe the death of Disha Salian, two weeks after Bombay HC ordered it to take over the case. The FIR has been filed under IPC sections covering offences such as gang rape, murder…
Pune: NCP-SP working president Supriya Sule Monday said the possibility of vendetta politics cannot be denied after CBI named Sena UBT MLA Aadtiya Thackeray in the FIR registered in connection with the Disha Salian death case.“The same govt had closed the case. I fail to understand what development prompted the probe agency to reopen the…
Ex Tehelka founder-editor Tarun Tejpal Panaji: Former Tehelka founder-editor Tarun Tejpal, sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment by the Bombay HC last month for raping a junior colleague in 2013, surrendered Monday before a court in Mapusa, Goa.Tejpal had appealed against the order in the SC, which directed him to surrender within two weeks.The high court…
Panaji: The brother duo and co-owners of the Goa club, where a blaze in Dec last year had left 25 people dead, surrendered before a local court along with a third accused Monday.Birch by Romeo Lane co-owners Gaurav and Saurabh Luthra and Ajay Gupta surrendered before the Mapusa court two weeks after the Supreme Court…
NEW DELHI: Flagging the issue of prosecuting agencies filing voluminous evidence and naming large number of witnesses in corruption cases, Supreme Court disapproved of the practice, saying it leads to protracted hearing and long pendency.While acquitting a person in a 33-year-old corruption case on the ground that CBI failed to prove that he received pecuniary…