New Delhi: Vikram Pagaria, Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) Director, National Health Authority (NHA), informed that technology is essential to achieving Universal health coverage in India. He was speaking at the Regional Open Digital Health Summit 2025 in the national capital. The three-day event brought together leaders from government departments and experts from international organisations … Read more
Jack FenwickPolitical correspondent Family handout Hilary’s son Ben died from a heroin overdose in 2018, but his death was never included on official opioid death statistics More than 13,000 heroin and opioid deaths have been missed off official statistics in England and Wales, raising concerns about the impact on the government’s approach to tackling addiction. … Read more
Cliff House, the official residence of the Kerala Chief Minister (file image) | Photo Credit: S. GOPAKUMAR A bomb threat targeting the Cliff House, the official residence of the Kerala Chief Minister; and the Thiruvananthapuram District Court, has prompted a high-alert response in the Kerala capital on Monday (September 8, 2025). The Thiruvananthapuram City police … Read more
The Special Operations Group (SOG) of Rajasthan police has arrested a head constable deployed in the security of former Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot in connection with paper leak of the sub-inspector recruitment examination of 2021. More than 120 accused, including 54 trainee sub-inspectors, have so far been arrested in the case. The accused head constable … Read more
Smitha Mundasad Health reporter Getty Images More than half of the overall NHS waiting list for non urgent treatment in England is made up of people of working age (19 to 64), the first official deep dive into inequalities in waiting lists has found. The data shows, for those aged 18 to 64, waiting lists … Read more
The ADG directed BSF troops to be ‘extra vigilant’ given the present security situation along the zero-line and to thwart any attempt at trans-border crimes. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Additional Director General (ADG), Eastern Command, of the Border Security Force (BSF), Mahesh Kumar Aggarwal, reviewed the operational preparedness in the North Bengal frontier … Read more
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis. | Photo Credit: PTI Nearly five months after taking oath as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday (April 30, 2025) moved into ‘Varsha’, his official residence in south Mumbai. This is after a gap of nearly five-and-a-half years that Mr. Fadnavis will be residing at the same … Read more
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested two accused persons, including an Indian Revenue Service (IRS) official, on the allegation of attempting to sabotaging the faceless scheme of Income-Tax assessment. They have been identified by the agency as 2015-batch IRS official Vijayendra, who holds the police of Deputy Commissioner in the Income-Tax Department, and … Read more
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested a Senior Auditor in the Office of Principal Controller of Defence Accounts (PCDA) under the Defence Ministry and two private persons on graft charge. The accused persons have been identified as Deep Narayan Yadav, Senior Auditor in the PCDA Office; Akash Kapoor (defence supplier), owner of Akash … Read more
A day after creating a ruckus at the Sunday’s District Review Committee (DRC) Meeting, attended by three ministers, in Karimnagar, Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLA Padi Kaushik Reddy was arrested in Hyderabad on Monday by the Karimnagar police. He is being shifted to Karimnagar where he would be presented before the magistrate after questioning. He … Read more