The Supreme Court of Nepal Monday issued an interim order telling agitating doctors to immediately resume medical services across the country. A single-judge bench of Justice Prakash Wosti ordered the agitating doctors not to halt the medical services in line with the Essential Services Act. The apex court order comes at a time when the […]
The BJP Monday criticized the Delhi government’s protest against Delhi Police, saying activism cannot substitute governance. It also accused the Congress of being “mute spectators to … chaos on the streets”. Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman tweeted that “governance is about making systems work. Activism can’t be substituted for governance”. Hitting out at the […]
DMDK party leader A. Vijayakant Monday announced the sale of application forms for people aspiring to contest the Lok Sabha election in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. He said the forms can be bought from the party headquarters from Jan 23. Each form for a general constituency costs Rs.20,000, and Rs.10,000 for a reserved seat. Vijayakant […]
At least 14 people were killed and 55 wounded in a series of bomb attacks in Iraq’s capital Baghdad Monday, a police source said. Two car bombs went off in Doura district in the southern part of Baghdad Monday afternoon, killing six people and wounding 15 others, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. […]
A senior Communist Party school official in northwest China’s Shaanxi province has been dismissed from his post and expelled from the party over a sex scandal, a local anti-graft agency said Monday. The punishment came after an official investigation into Qin Guogang, vice-president of the party school of the Shaanxi committee of the Communist Party […]
Sitting undeterred under the open winter sky, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Monday said the protest would not hamper the functioning of the Delhi government in any way. Speaking exclusively to IANS, Kejriwal said: “The work and functioning of the Delhi government will not be affected due to this protest.” “We will be functioning the way […]
The 26/11 Mumbai terror attack grabbed global headlines and the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) succeeded in everything it wanted to do, said an author who has written on the savagery. Asked why the terrorists chose to kill people instead of kidnapping them in Mumbai, Adrian Levy, co-author of “The Siege: Three Days of Terror Inside the Taj”, […]
Do daily walk and regular exercise have an impact on prostate cancer prognosis? Yes, say researchers. Men who engage in higher levels of physical activity have been reported to have a lower risk of prostate cancer recurrence and mortality compared with men who participate in little or no physical activity. “Research has shown that men […]
Rameshwar Dudi, Congress legislator from Nokha constituency in Bikaner district of Rajasthan, has been named leader of his party in the state assembly. Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee spokesperson Archana Sharma said: “Dudi has been named leader of opposition in the state assembly after the party high command cleared his name today.” Political analysts feel that […]
It would be a serious error to view decline in the number of terrorist strikes in India over the past two years as evidence of terrorism being under check, West Bengal Governor M.K. Nayaranan said Monday. The governor also noted that there was a possibility of both the intensity and the number of attacks being […]