With the debate on the safety of antibiotics and its overuse raging around the world, the WHO has now made its biggest revision of the antibiotics section in the Essential Medicines List’s (EML) 40-ye...
Lucknow’s special CBI court, dealing with the Babri Masjid demolition case, said on June 7 that BJP leaders LK Advani, Uma Bharti and Murli Manohar Joshi need not make personal appearances.
The cou...
The Kerala High Court on June 7 refused to grant an interim stay on the Union environment ministry’s notification on the sale of cattle at cattle fairs for the purpose of slaughter.
The court, howe...
The election for the new President of India will be held on July 17. This announcement was made on June 7 by the Chief Election Commissioner Nasim Zaidi. The counting will be on July 20.
The term o...
The Allahabad High Court has issued a show-cause notice on Anil Kumar Jha, special judge of the CBI court in Ghaziabad, asking for an explanation as to why, despite having granted bail to Ms Kavita wh...
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The very objective of the EVM Challenge, organised with much fanfare by the Election Commission of India (ECI) on June 3 was defeated in the restricted atmosphere in which the EVMs w...
In a verdict in the US against a sitting judge of a city court in Rochester, New York, a bench on June 5 ordered Judge Leticia Astacio to be arrested and produced in court in handcuffs in a drunk driv...
The Supreme Court on June 7 extended the deadline for admissions to medical courses at Aligarh Muslim University, Banaras Hindu University and to government colleges till June 12.
The decision by t...
The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Regulation of Livestock Market) Rules, 2017 issued by the environment ministry is being challenged in the Supreme Court and comes up for hearing on June 15.
Th...
Reports emanating from Tehran early on June 7 say that four gunmen have entered the Parliament of Iran, shot and injured a guard and also have taken hostages. In a developing story, reports from the s...