NEW DELHI: Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday played down the tussle between Siddharamaiah and his deputy DK Shivakumar over the chief ministerial post, saying that the party will resolve the “confusion as soon as possible.“This comes a day after Karnataka home minister G Parameshwara’s said that everyone in the ruling Congress party will welcome,…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court of India on Thursday reserved its order on Congress leader Pawan Khera’s anticipatory bail plea, with Khera telling the court it was “not necessary to humiliate him by arrest” in the passport row case linked to Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s wife.During the hearing, Khera told the court that…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday pulled up Centre and asked it to consider amending the law to permit rape survivors to terminate unwanted pregnancies even beyond 20 weeks.While hearing a plea by AIIMS seeking to set aside its order allowing a 15-year-old girl to medically terminate her 30-week pregnancy, a bench of Chief…
NEW DELHI: India remains among the countries bearing the highest burden of hepatitis-related deaths even as global efforts show progress, according to the WHO’s Global Hepatitis Report 2026, which warns that the world is off track to meet the 2030 elimination targets.The report flags viral hepatitis as a major public health threat, with over 1.3…
NEW DELHI: In a move that resolves a long-standing regulatory impasse, the National Medical Commission has granted recognition to the Post Graduate Diploma in Clinical Cardiology (PGDCC), effectively validating the degrees of around 1,700 doctors who completed the course between 2006 and 2013. The programme, run by Indira Gandhi National Open University, was effectively shut…
NEW DELHI: As polling for the second phase in West Bengal wraps up, exit polls have taken centre stage, offering an early glimpse into what could lie ahead on May 4. If the projections hold, the results may throw up a mixed verdict, a change of guard in some states, and continuity in others.In West…
NEW DELHI: After the exodus of 7 Aam Aadmi Party’s Rajya Sabha MPs, Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann is scheduled to meet President Draupadi Murmu on May 5 to “safeguard the mandate of the people.“Man has sought time to meet the President along with party MLAs to press for the “recall” of seven Aam Aadmi…
New Delhi: The stand-off between AIIMS and a Delhi woman keen on medical termination of the 28-week pregnancy of her 15-year-old daughter has got embroiled in legal proceedings with Supreme Court dismissing the hospital’s review plea against its order allowing termination, the woman moving a contempt petition against the Union health secretary, and the Centre…
New Delhi: Supreme Court on Wednesday said that there is no legal vacuum that could justify its intervention to deal with the problem of hate speeches, with the existing framework of criminal law adequately addressing the issue.A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta, however, said that govt can take a call on amending…
New Delhi: Supreme Court on Wednesday said if a person’s fundamental right to freedom of religion is held to be superior to the identical right of a group or denomination, it could lead to dangerous consequences and the court was not going to be part of the process for annihilation of a religion.Bindu Ammini, a…
