NEW DELHI: India remains among the countries bearing the highest burden of hepatitis-related deaths even as global efforts show progress, according to the WHO’s Global Hepatitis Report 2026, which warns that the world is off track to meet the 2030 elimination targets.The report flags viral hepatitis as a major public health threat, with over 1.3…
NEW DELHI: The Patiala House court on Thursday granted bail to I-PAC director and co-founder Vinesh Chandela in a money laundering case, following his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate.The court’s decision came after the ED filed its response to Chandela’s bail plea and did not oppose his release. During the previous hearing, the court had…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday pulled up Centre and asked it to consider amending the law to permit rape survivors to terminate unwanted pregnancies even beyond 20 weeks.While hearing a plea by AIIMS seeking to set aside its order allowing a 15-year-old girl to medically terminate her 30-week pregnancy, a bench of Chief…
NEW DELHI: After the exodus of 7 Aam Aadmi Party’s Rajya Sabha MPs, Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann is scheduled to meet President Draupadi Murmu on May 5 to “safeguard the mandate of the people.“Man has sought time to meet the President along with party MLAs to press for the “recall” of seven Aam Aadmi…
New Delhi: Supreme Court on Wednesday said if a person’s fundamental right to freedom of religion is held to be superior to the identical right of a group or denomination, it could lead to dangerous consequences and the court was not going to be part of the process for annihilation of a religion.Bindu Ammini, a…
New Delhi: The stand-off between AIIMS and a Delhi woman keen on medical termination of the 28-week pregnancy of her 15-year-old daughter has got embroiled in legal proceedings with Supreme Court dismissing the hospital’s review plea against its order allowing termination, the woman moving a contempt petition against the Union health secretary, and the Centre…
New Delhi: Supreme Court on Wednesday said that there is no legal vacuum that could justify its intervention to deal with the problem of hate speeches, with the existing framework of criminal law adequately addressing the issue.A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta, however, said that govt can take a call on amending…
Chennai: A Tamil Nadu govt order restricting maternity leave for third pregnancy to 12 weeks is unjustifiable and against the law settled by the Supreme Court, Madras high court ruled on Wednesday.The division bench of Justice R Suresh Kumar and Justice N Senthilkumar set aside the orders of the principal district judge, Villupuram, dated March…
‘State bifurcation’, P 12 AmitAnand.ChoudharyNew Delhi: In a first, a criminal case has been quashed against a police officer on the grounds of delay in trial proceedings, which remained dormant for 35 years.“We are informed that in all, five accused came to be chargesheeted, including the present petitioner. Out of five, two co-accused passed away…
Hospital wall collapse in Bengaluru Seven people, including a girl who had gone shopping for her seventh birthday on May 3, were killed and nine injured after a wall of Bowring Hospital in Shivajinagar collapsed on them during thunderstorms here on Wednesday evening. This is the first major rain-related tragedy in the tech capital in…