Arvind Kejriwal Arrest Live Updates: AAP leader and Delhi Minister Gopal Rai on Sunday announced that they will organise a mega rally to protest against the arrest of Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal at Ramila Maidan on March 31. “None of our ministers and MLAs were allowed to meet Kejriwal during his arrest, and yesterday it …
At 31, Laxmi Asrani has battled drug-resistant tuberculosis, the kind that’s compounding India’s disease burden, twice. Once when she lost her father to it and the other when she herself contracted it. Now, after two years of therapy and persistence, this young fashion designer from Mumbai has recovered and has a double purpose — that …
Instead of waiting in a years-long queue, could a person in need of a kidney transplant get it from a farm pig instead? Backed by gene-editing tools like CRISPR-Cas9, scientists have renewed their effort to make this a reality over the last couple of years. That happened a week ago with the 62-year-old Richard Slayman …
What does the US FDA approval of the injectable weight-loss drug Semaglutide (Wegovy) to prevent heart attacks and stroke mean? This means that the drug authorities have extended the use of Wegovy to non-diabetics who may be grossly overweight as a primary prevention therapy against cardiac disease. This followed trials that proved weight reduction with …
THE SUPREME Court on Monday told the State Bank of India (SBI) to “disclose all details” on electoral bonds purchased or redeemed after its April 12, 2019 interim order, including their unique alphanumeric codes, to the Election Commission of India (ECI), and to file an affidavit on compliance by March 21, 5 pm. Expressing its …
Hours after a five-storey under-construction building collapsed in the congested Garden Reach area of Kolkata, killing at least five people, rescuers on Monday used gas cutters to reach out to at least six others still trapped under the rubble. According to officials, disaster management group personnel also gave water and oxygen to those stuck under …
Nearly a decade after they first shared the stage on April 30, 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief N Chandrababu Naidu and JanaSena Party (JSP) chief K Pawan Kalyan came together for a public meeting at Chilakal-uripeta, in Palnadu district of Andhra Pradesh, on Sunday. The NDA rally, “Prajagalam”, turned into …
President Vladimir Putin won a record post-Soviet landslide in Russia’s election on Sunday, cementing his grip on power though thousands of opponents staged a noon protest at polling stations and the United States said the vote was neither free nor fair. For Putin, a former KGB lieutenant colonel who first rose to power in 1999, …
Paradoxically, Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra ended the same day as the Election Commission announced the Lok Sabha polls for 2024, though the Yatra’s final rally is to take place in Mumbai on Sunday at the historic Shivaji Park. It will now get converted into the first election meeting by the Opposition INDIA bloc in Maharashtra, which …
Air India has laid off more than 180 non-flying staff in recent weeks, sources said while the airline maintained that the affected people were not able to utilise the voluntary retirement schemes and reskilling opportunities. The loss-making Air India was taken over by the Tata Group in January 2022 and since then, efforts are being …