Gurgaon: Real-time bus tracking, route contingency plans and swift evacuation protocols during heavy rainfall. These are among the measures all schools, traffic police, transport authorities and civic bodies have been asked to implement in the wake of Monday mayhem.Deputy commissioner Uttam Singh, who is also DDMA chairman, has invoked Disaster Management Act, ordering an immediate…
Kolkata: Doctor organisations have protested against the health department order that bars govt doctors from private practice for 72 hours of their ‘admission day’ in the govt health facility they are attached to.‘Admission day’ is when a faculty member or a doctor attends OPD, admits patients and checks those patients in the ward post their…
Ahmedabad: In a first, the admission process for ayurveda and homeopathy courses in Gujarat has been delinked from the centralized medical and dental admissions. Following a separate schedule issued by the central govt this year, the state’s admission committee initiated an independent registration drive for these undergraduate courses on Tuesday.Eligible students can buy the online…
Sunish Bindlish from Yamunanagar Yamunanagar: Senior advocate Sunish Bindlish, who has roots in Yamunanagar, has been appointed an additional judge of the Punjab and Haryana high court. The Union govt issued the notification for his appointment on Aug 20. The Bindlish family has had a longstanding presence in Yamunanagar’s social and business circles.Continuing the family’s…
PMRDA Metro Line 3 coaches are carrying out trials Pune: Ready for operations for over a month, the much-awaited first phase of the Hinjewadi-Shivajinagar Metro Line 3 covering 12 stations may finally be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually before Sept 26, with state govt working to finalise the schedule.The Metro Rail Safety Commissioner…
Guwahati: An 18-year-old woman died after 25 days of battling complications following an alleged routine surgery in which her entire abdomen was slit open, prompting a magisterial probe.Jusmita Bora of Kachupathar allegedly underwent surgery at HGM Hospital (Nursing Home) in Golaghat on July 25 to remove a stone from her pancreatic duct. Her family alleged…
A video shows Shahjahanpur Municipal Corporation councillors taking an oath to share civic funds. SHAHJAHANPUR: A video purportedly showing several Shahjahanpur Municipal Corporation councillors taking an oath to “honestly” share alleged bribe proceeds among themselves has gone viral on social media, prompting the civic body to order an inquiry, officials said on Tuesday, according to…
Jaipur: The roof of a dilapidated classroom at Upper Primary School in Dovda block, Dungarpur district, collapsed Monday during school hours. The room had been locked since last year after being declared unsafe. Officials said that over 100 students were present in the school when the incident occurred.“Around 10 am Monday, roof of the unused,…
For each suicide or unnatural death, colleges have to report the student’s course/year, date and place of occurrence, police intimation, FIR status, institutional inquiry and corrective measures. NEW DELHI: The National Medical Commission (NMC) has directed medical colleges to maintain updated records of student suicides and unnatural deaths and submit a certified Action Taken Report…
Khalistani terrorist Gurpatwant Pannun Khalistani terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a dual US-Canadian citizen, claimed on Tuesday (local time) that he had been warned by both the FBI and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) of a “new credible threat” to his life.Pannun, the general counsel of Sikhs For Justice (SFJ), said FBI agents visited him…
