With nearly 7 lakh Indians working in Qatar, mostly in the construction sector, rumours are floating around saying that their safety has been compromised in the wake of the GCC’s decision to impose ec...
The Supreme Court bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan and Deepak Gupta on June 8 ordered that there should be a 50 percent reservation of seats to PG Diploma courses for government doctors who have worked...
The Supreme Court’s vacation bench of Justices AK Sikri and Deepak Gupta on June 8 allowed the Confederation of Indian Alcoholic Beverage Companies to export their stock held out of Bihar which has im...
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has left the repo rate unchanged for the fourth time in a row at 6.25%, while also keeping the reverse repo rate at 6% and the marginal standing facility rate and the b...
India’s most popular “pain-killer” with the brand name Combiflam, is under fire for being “substandard” and that many batches of the medicine failed to pass a critical test of the Central Drugs Standa...
A new Chinese welcome for India to join – belatedly – the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), has come with a caveat and a note that it (China) does not need to “beg” India (and Japan) to join th...
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...