A brief debate was held on the Bill amid protests. Several Opposition MPs who stood up to participate in the debate on the Bill, demanded a discussion on SIR. | Photo Credit: Sansad TV via ANI Parliament on Wednesday (August 6, 2025) passed The Carriage of Goods by Sea Bill 2025, amid Opposition protests and … Read more
MANX SCENES A set of safeguards have been agreed by the island’s politicians Proposed laws to give terminally ill adults on the Isle of Man the right to choose to end their own lives have been agreed by the Manx parliament. It means the bill can now be sent for Royal Assent, making it the … Read more
Michelle Roberts Digital health editor, BBC News Getty Images An annual injection designed to guard against Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) has completed an important early safety trial, researchers report in The Lancet medical journal. Lenacapavir stops the virus from replicating inside cells. If future trials go well – now it has passed the first, Phase … Read more
The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam’s executive committee meeting, chaired by party president and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin, on Sunday passed 12 resolutions. The first resolution condemned Home Minister Amit Shah over his recent remarks on BR Ambedkar in Parliament. The resolution alleged that senior BJP leader insulted Ambedkar. “It is a shame that the … Read more
The Maharashtra Assembly on Friday (December 20, 2024) passed a Bill seeking to reform the prison system in the State. Also read: Comment |The long fight for accessibility, dignity in Indian prisons The Maharashtra Prisons and Correctional Services Act, 2024, is based on the Model Prisons Bill, 2023, sent by the Centre to the States, … Read more
Sivapatham Vittal was a recipient of the Dr. B. C. Roy award and the Padma Shri. Sivapatham Vittal, regarded as the father of endocrine surgery in India, passed away on Tuesday. He was 83. The last rites were performed on Wednesday at the Besant Nagar crematorium. He is survived by his wife Rajakumari Vittal and … Read more
Former Delhi University professor Prof. Gokarakonda Naga Saibaba passed away at the Nizam’s Institute of Medical Science in Hyderabad on October 12, 2024. He was 57. He was declared dead by the doctors at 8.36 p.m. on Saturday (October 12, 2024). He was wheeled into the ICU on Friday evening (October 11, 2024) due to … Read more
D. Srinivas | Photo Credit: The Hindu Senior Congress leader and former Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee president Dharmapuri Srinivas passed away in the early hours of Saturday, June 29, 2024. following a heart attack. He was 76 and ailing for sometime. He is survived by wife and two sons – Dharmapuri Sanjay, former Nizamabad Mayor … Read more
GUWAHATI An Indian Police Service (IPS) officer in Assam died by suicide in Guwahati on Tuesday after receiving the news of his wife’s death due to cancer. Shiladitya Chetia, a 2009-batch IPS officer, was serving as Secretary in the State’s Home and Political Department but was on leave for four months. He was believed to … Read more
Former Odisha Governor Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare. File. | Photo Credit: Ashoke Chakrabarty Former Odisha Governor Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare passed away on June 15. He was 95. Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi and former CM Naveen Patnaik have expressed their deep sorrow over the demise of the veteran politician. Bhandare was a senior Congress leader from … Read more