The owner of a Delhi hospital where seven babies were killed in a fire has been arrested, the Delhi Police said. Another doctor who was on duty when the fire broke out has also been arrested. Dr Naveen Khichi, the owner of New Born Baby Care Hospital in East Delhi’s Vivek Vihar, had been on...
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has petitioned the Supreme Court for a seven-day extension on his interim bail in connection with the Delhi liquor policy case. Citing serious health concerns, Mr Kejriwal highlighted the need for medical tests, including a PET-CT scan, following a weight loss of 7 kg and elevated ketone levels. Mr Kejriwal...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday, May 22, refused to entertain former Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren’s petition challenging the Enforcement Directorate’s arrest in a money laundering case related to an alleged land scam in the state and seeking interim bail for campaigning in the Lok Sabha elections 2024. A vacation bench comprising Justices Dipankar Datta...
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called a national election on Wednesday for July 4, saying Britons would be able to choose their future in a vote his Conservatives are widely expected to lose to the opposition Labour Party after 14 years in power. Ending months of speculation as to when he would call a new...
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday said he felt things are moving in a “positive direction”when it comes to India’s bid for a permanent seat in the UN Security Council, and asserted that ‘Viksit Bharat’will have many faces and expressions and the UNSC will be “one of them”. In his opening address at an...
Temperatures in several parts of Delhi again breached the 47 degrees Celsius mark on Monday, with the weather office issuing a ‘red alert’ for the next five days due to heatwave to severe heatwave conditions in the national capital. The searing heat pushed the city’s peak power demand to its highest for May, while the...
Questioning the silence of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal over the matter, Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena on Tuesday said proceedings related to the alleged assault on Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal would reach their logical conclusion soon. The ruling AAP reacted to the development saying that it proved that Maliwal...
Pune Porsche accident: On Tuesday, Excise Department Officials in Maharashtra said that on the order of the Pune District Collector, the district’s Excise Department had sealed Cosie Bar and Black Bar. These were the bars allegedly visited by the juvenile, who was also served alcohol. The father of a 17-year-old boy, whose speeding luxury car...
Electricity demand in the national capital touched 7572 megawatt (Mw) on Monday afternoon, highest-ever for the month of May, even as the sun and hot winds scorched Delhi and neighbouring areas nudging IMD to issue a red alert. According to the data on the state load dispatch centre (SLDC), Delhi, the maximum load was touched...
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister died when their helicopter crashed as it was crossing mountain terrain in heavy fog, an Iranian official told news agency Reuters. The servant of Iranian nation, Ayatollah Ebrahim Raisi has achieved the highest level of martyrdom whilst serving the people,” state television said today. The incident occurred...