Getty Images As many as 140,000 bereaved parents, children and siblings of infected blood scandal victims may claim compensation under new laws laid before Parliament. It is thought 30,000 people contracted HIV and hepatitis from contaminated blood products in the 1970s and 80s. The new laws will allow the relatives of those infected to claim … Read more
Vijay Mallya puts up post on social media saying this amount was more than twice the debt adjudicated by courts. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters Taking a swipe at Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for her statement in Parliament that banks recovered Vijay Mallya’s assets worth ₹14,131.6 crore and returned to public sector banks, the fugitive … Read more
New details about last week’s encounter in Chhattisgarh’s Abujhmad have emerged with the police claiming on Tuesday that the Naxals had used villagers, including minors, in an unsuccessful bid to save the life of their senior cadre, Karthik. Karthik was among seven Naxals killed in the encounter on December 12 and at least four civilians … Read more
BRS leaders visiting a tribal welfare residential school student undergoing treatment in NIMS Hospital in Hyderabad on Saturday, following her illness due to food poisoning on December 10. HYDERABAD Senior leader of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) T. Harish Rao has stated that the State government has not been paying rents of Anganwadi Centres, wherever they … Read more
New Delhi: Can artificial intelligence (AI) tell whether you’re happy, sad, angry or frustrated? According to technology companies that offer AI-enabled emotion recognition software, the answer to this question is yes. But this claim does not stack up against mounting scientific evidence. What’s more, emotion recognition technology poses a range of legal and societal risks … Read more
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman hits out at Congress leader Jairam Ramesh, who said that NITI Aayog’s “treatment of the West Bengal CM today, although typical of the NITI Aayog, is unacceptable” and said that Mamata Banerjee’s claim is “baseless”, adding that she is making an effort to keep the leaders of the INDIA bloc … Read more
Villagers travel in a boat through a flooded area following heavy rainfall, at Khandhakhati village in Morigaon. File | Photo Credit: ANI GUWAHATI The second wave of floods in Assam claimed the lives of eight people — the most in a 24-hour phase — on Wednesday, taking the death toll since May to 46. The … Read more
While the preliminary investigation by the police has confirmed a mix-up in the surgery involving a four-year-old at the Government Medical College Hospital (MCH), Kozhikode, the report of the Departmental Inquiry Committee formed under the Directorate of Medical Education on the issue is awaited. The Medical College police investigating the case have come up with … Read more
The local council says it is aware of concerns over “experimental procedures” on autistic children. Source link
A file photo of Delhi Education Minister and AAP leader Atishi. | Photo Credit: PTI The BJP’s Delhi unit has sent a defamation notice to senior AAP leader Atishi and demanded a public apology for her claim that the saffron party approached her through a “very close” person to join it. The Delhi minister had … Read more