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Rejected as Voter, also denied a Passport? Here is how ‘New India’ deals with exclusion complaints under SIR: Former editor, Telegraph, R Rajagopal
The pithy, non-indulgant factual ‘note’ by the former editor of Telehraph, Kolkatta who is revered for his unique headlines for the newspaper, generated heat and waves over the week-end even as an utterly compromised and non-responsive administration watched on. R. Rajagopal penned this even as he informed the Prem Bhatia Journalism award that he was resigning from the Jury due to his acute disenchantment with the media profession.
Maharashtra: HPC directs re-release of prisoners amid Covid-19
There are 12,571 interim bail pleas pending before courts, that need to be decided within the next one week
Covid-19: Shortage of vaccines begins to pinch
Meanwhile, Union Health minister Dr Harsh Vardhan says Central Government is extending all possible support to the companies making the vaccines
Death due to lack of timely medical aid is a violation of right to life: Patna HC
The court has sought more information about rural Bihar and response from DCs about the bodies floating in Ganga
Around 140 bodies found in river Ganga, officials yet to confirm them as Covid deaths
Residents of Purvanchal and Ghazipur districts were shocked to find more than a hundred bodies along the bank of River Ganga
Cow dung, urine don’t prevent Covid-19, can cause infections: Doctors
A dangerous myth has taken root in Gujarat where many are going to a gaushala to smear themselves with cow excreta mix to ‘protect’ themselves from Coronavirus
Breaking: SC dismisses Gautam Navlakha’s bail plea
The top court has upheld the Bombay HC judgment, holding that Default bail period commences only from remand date
EC, courts and Government failed to see risk of polls during Covid-19: Allahabad HC
It remarked that the virus has now reached the villages, and that the State lacks preparation and resources to deal with the same
Hanay Babu could lose vision in an eye due to administrative apathy!
Earlier, the professor who is an accused in the Bhima Koregaon case contracted a severe eye infection that required immediate attention, but officials are yet to arrange for proper medical assistance
26 deaths in Goa hospital, Health Minister says CM ‘misguided’
Health Minister Vishwajit Rane called for a High Court probe into the deaths at Goa Medical College and Hospital (GMCH)
Rs. 1 cr compensation should be given to families of polling officials who died of Covid: Allahabad HC
The court deemed the amount decided by the government to be very low, and directed that the same be revised
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