New Delhi: Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Wednesday called for building an equitable and sustainable global healthcare system and said India has taken upon itself to create a future where healthcare is service and not commerce. Addressing the ‘Advantage Healthcare-India 2023’ here, inaugurated virtually by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the minister also urged all…
Dantewada: Ten police personnel and a driver were killed after Naxals blew up the vehicle in which they were traveling in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district on Wednesday, police said. This was the biggest strike by the Maoists on the security forces in the state in the last two years. The blast, carried out using an Improvised…
Dantewada: Ten police personnel and a driver were killed in a blast carried out by Naxalites in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district on Wednesday, officials said. The incident took place under Aranpur police station limits when a team of the state police’s District Reserve Guard (DRG) was returning after an anti-Naxalite operation, a senior official said. The…
Jaipur: Members of the Mali community continued block the Jaipur-Agra National Highway in Bharatpur for the sixth consecutive day on Wednesday demanding separate reservation, even as the Rajasthan government “agreed” to look into their demands. A delegation of the community led by its leader Murari Lal Saini met Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot at his residence…
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s official residence was built in 1942 and the roof had collapsed thrice, the Aam Aadmi Party said on Wednesday and accused the BJP of diverting attention from key issues by raising the matter of Rs 45 crore spent on the house. Following the roof collapse incidents, the Public…
New Delhi: The Congress on Wednesday termed Home Minister Amit Shah’s remarks that Karnataka will be afflicted with riots if the grand old party comes to power as a “brazenly intimidatory statement”, and accused him of “issuing threats” during the election campaign. Addressing a public meeting on Tuesday in Karnataka’s Belagavi district, Shah said the…
New Delhi: Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Wednesday took a swipe at former Congress president Sonia Gandhi over her “enforced silence” remarks, and said the freedom of expression one enjoys in the country cannot be found anywhere else in the world. Addressing the inaugural session of the ‘Mann Ki Baat @ 100 Conclave’, Dhankhar also…
New Delhi: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not intervening to save lives of eight Navy veterans facing death penalty in Qatar. He noted that India and Qatar are celebrating the 50th year of their diplomatic ties this year and Indians are Qatar’s largest expatriate community. “Eight veterans of the…
Chandigarh: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday paid floral tributes to Parkash Singh Badal at the Shiromani Akali Dal office here as scores of people and political leaders assembled to pay homage to the five-time Punjab chief minister. Badal had not been keeping well and was admitted to the Fortis Hospital in Mohali near here on…
Somnath: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said India has the courage to do something new, even in the most difficult circumstances, as it faces hurdles on the way to its target for 2047 and forces that threaten to break it. Modi said that as the country completed 75 years of independence, it has invoked…
