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Udhayanidhi challenges Vijay over corruption claims NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu leader of opposition Udhayanidhi Stalin on Friday challenged chief minister C Joseph Vijay to make public the alleged corruption files linked to the previous DMK government and take action if there was evidence of wrongdoing.Speaking during a debate in the assembly, Udhayanidhi responded to Vijay’s … Read more

Telangana CM Revanth Reddy (File photo) NEW DELHI: Telangana chief minister Revanth Reddy has been forced to cancel his planned visit to the United States after the Centre denied permission, the Telangana Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) said on Friday.In a statement, the CMO alleged that the ministry of external affairs’ (MEA) cited a “political angle” … Read more

Sajjan Kumar was sevring life imprisonment in Delhi’s Tihar Jail NEW DELHI: The BJP on Friday hit back at the Congress after several of its leaders paid tribute to former party leader Sajjan Kumar, a convict in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, who died at 80.Congress MP Deepender Hooda described the death of Kumar, a … Read more

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 … Read more

SC flags ‘serious flaws’ in UP Gangsters Act, warns of misuse against innocents NEW DELHI: Pointing out various flaws in Uttar Pradesh Gangsters and Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act, Supreme Court on Thursday said the law is prone to misuse as there is no safeguard against vindictive and malicious action against innocents.A bench of Justices J … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

SC asks CBSE to consider one-year reprieve on 3-language policy; bench debates whether English is ‘indigenous’ NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Thursday asked Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to consider a reprieve to Class VI students by deferring implementation of the three-language policy to next year, by which time it should shore up infrastructure and … Read more