India

Mumbai, Jul 9: Mumbai is in the throes of a leptospirosis scare after 12 people have succumbed to the disease in the past week. According to reports, doctors have said that the disease is easily curable with antibiotics, but most victims came so late for treatment that they died soon after hospitalisation. The casualties were mostly among people from the western suburbs of the city, under the age

New Delhi/Bhopal, Jul 9: As the mysterious Vyapam scam is getting murkier with each passing day, the Supreme Court on Thursday will hear a plea of Congress leader Digvijay Singh and three whistle-blower's seeking an apex court-monitored CBI probe into the matter. A bench headed by chief justice HL Dattu had agreed to give an urgent hearing over the said scam and had posted all petitions to be

Ujjain, Jul 8: Police have ordered review of the suspicious death of MBBS student Namrata Damor, whose body was found near railway tracks in Ujjain district in 2012 after her name figured in the infamous Vyapam scam of Madhya Pradesh. Namrata's case has come back in focus after the sudden death of TV journalist Akshay Singh in Jhabua district's Meghnagar town recently after he interviewed Namrata

Kanpur, Jul 8: The local GSVM Medical College is on the radar of Madhya Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) for the alleged involvement of its students in Vyapam medical entrance examination scam of 2013 and eight of its students are missing from the campus. The medical college management does not know about the current status of these students. According to the administration, either these students

Bhopal, Jul 7: After resolutely rejecting calls for a CBI probe, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan today decided to seek an investigation into the murky Vyapam scam by the central agency on a day the Supreme Court agreed to hear petitions in this regard. Following Chouhan's announcement at a press conference, the state government moved the Madhya Pradesh High Court seeking its

Mumbai, Jul 7: Parag Sawant, who was injured in the 7/11 serial train blasts, died at PD Hinduja Hospital, Mahim on Tuesday morning. Doctors at the hospital said that he was in a vegitative state for all these years. In 2013, Sawant, doctors said had shown signs of improvement but his condition deteriorated later. Then aged 27, Sawant was travelling in a Churchgate-Virar train to his home when a

New Delhi, Jul 7: The Vyapam cloud darkened over the BJP government in MP on Monday with two more deaths in the state getting linked to the admission and recruitment racket and Union water resources minister Uma Bharati saying she was scared by the spate of mysterious deaths. "There is panic in MP due to the deaths. I am scared for the lives of people connected to me. I am a minister but still I

Bhopal/New Delhi, Jul 7: Even as a police trainee recruited through Vyapam was found dead, the third death in three days, the central government on Monday rejected calls for a CBI probe into the scam to have hit the Madhya Pradesh government, saying that only courts could take a decision on the matter. The BJP rallied behind MP CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan saying the state government need not order it

Jhabua (MP), Jul 6: Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said the SIT probe into Vyapam scam was being monitored by the Madhya Pradesh High Court and the government cannot direct the court to hand it over to CBI. "SIT probe into the scam is on, and the government cannot direct the High Court or the Supreme Court on the issue," Singh said, speaking to reporters here. Asked why the state

New Delhi, Jul 6: An unwed mother can be the legal guardian of a child without the consent of the father, the Supreme Court today ruled. A woman had challenged the need to involve the father of her child in a guardianship petition even though she had never married him. The woman, a government officer, had also asserted her right to keep the father's name secret, arguing that he had nothing to do