Rahul Gandhi asks Congress to track leaders’ social media push on social justice issues NEW DELHI: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi is learnt to have asked the party to monitor social media of functionaries if they are amplifying the party line on social justice issues.The direction came after Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge at CWC meeting Wednesday…
Shah targets Congress over Vande Mataram stance, vows BJP campaign in Parliament and states New Delhi: Upping the ante against Congress’s decision to stick to singing only two stanzas of Vande Mataram, home minister Amit Shah on Thursday exhorted people to rally against the opposition party’s stand and said BJP will take its campaign to…
Panel pitches cross-subsidy: Corporate hospitals urged to use rich-patient revenue to fund poorer patients’ care NEW DELHI: Revenue earned from foreign patients and affluent Indians should help fund the treatment of poorer patients, the parliamentary standing committee on health and family welfare has recommended, proposing that corporate hospitals adopt a cross-subsidisation model to make advanced…
Imran Khan’s transfer follows months of health concerns, including a dispute over worsening vision in his right eye Imprisoned former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was shifted from Adiala prison to a private hospital in Islamabad after midnight Thursday for a medical examination, news agency AP reported citing Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party’s statement.Khan was taken…
NEW DELHI: A personalised cancer vaccine has shown encouraging results in a large Phase-3 trial of patients with high-risk melanoma – a potentially aggressive form of skin cancer – helping keep the cancer from returning or spreading when given along with Merck’s immunotherapy Keytruda, pharma major Moderna said in a statement. Keytruda helps the body’s…
Congress’s post on BJP president Nitin Nabin ‘fabricated’ NEW DELHI: A day after Chhattisgarh Congress posted on social media pictures of BJP president Nitin Nabin having a meal with other party members in Andhra Pradesh and claimed he was consuming meat, BJP accused the party of putting out “fabricated and misleading” content due to its…
Encroachment removed outside the Pakistan high commission in Delhi (Credit: Rajesh Mehta) NEW DELHI: Indian authorities removed queue liners outside the Pakistan high commission visa section along with other encroachment on a lane outside the boundary of the compound. The action Wednesday followed removal of parking poles and security barricades outside the Indian high commission…
UK asylum guide spells out laws on consent, child sex, domestic abuse and harassment LONDON: The UK home office has published a series of posters and a booklet for asylum-seekers informing them that the “laws and customs here may be different from your home country”, that “sex without consent is rape”, sex with a child…
One of CARA’s key focus areas is stepping up adoption of children with special needs NEW DELHI: Central Adoption Resource Authority announced Thursday that it was undertaking a review of the adoption regulations notified in 2022 in order to strengthen the regulatory framework and address “emerging legal, procedural and implementation-related issues”.The 2022 regulations had marked…
In August 1990, Utah wildlife officials carried out one of the largest chemical fish-removal projects in fisheries history, wiping out almost every fish in Utah’s Strawberry Reservoir to save its collapsing ecosystem. The operation, led by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (UDWR) and described in publications from the American Fisheries Society and UDWR research…