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New Delhi, Sep 5: A year-long analysis of cases referred to AIIMS has led to a shocking revelation — private hospitals often send dead patients to the institute after fleecing their families in a bid to escape blame for botching up cases. In some cases, the patients were so ill that they died while being transported or during admission in the casualty section. AIIMS director Dr M C Misra said the

Amethi, Sep 4: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Thursday took a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying he was playing the drums in Japan while people in the country were battling power cuts, price rise and lack of roads and water supply. "The prime minister is playing the drums in Japan while there is no electricity here. There are no roads and there is no water," said Gandhi, who is

Chennai, Sep 4: Aimed at enhancing the Navy's coastal surveillance, its largest offshore patrol vessel INS Sumitra was formally commissioned by Chief of Naval Staff Admiral R K Dhowan here today. The vessel is the fourth in its class and built on in-house design of state-owned Goa Shipyard Ltd. INS Sumitra, which was commissioned at the Chennai Port Trust, would be based at Chennai under the

Hyderabad, Sep 4: Putting an end to months of suspense, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday announced that the new capital of the state would be located “around Vijayawada”. Making a statement in the Legislative Assembly amid a din caused by opposition YSR Congress, Mr. Naidu said, “The Cabinet met on September 1 and resolved to locate the capital city in a central place

Kolkata, Sep 4: As punishment for his failure to pay the rent for a tractor, a kangaroo court ordered the gang-rape and murder of a farmer’s 17-year-old daughter, who had tried to save her father from being beaten up by locals. The naked body of the girl was found on Wednesday near railways tracks at Dhupguri in the Jalpaiguri district of North Bengal, a day after she had gone missing. The

New Delhi, Sep 4: CBI Director Ranjit Sinha appears to be in trouble as he may have a tough time in the Supreme Court on Thursday while explaining the “frequent visits to his residence” by top corporate honchos and businessmen accused in 2G and coal scam cases. Sinha flatly denied any wrongdoing and termed fake the visitors’ register submitted in the Supreme Court by lawyer Prashant Bhushan, who

New Delhi, Sep 03: The Narendra Modi government's ambitious poll promise to depollute River Ganga came under severe scrutiny on Wednesday in the Supreme Court which said it seems that steps taken so far will not lead to cleaning of the country's holiest river even after 200 years. The apex court directed the Centre to come out in three weeks with a "stage-wise plan" to clean the river for

New Delhi, Sept 03: A Delhi BJP MLA was called out of his home and thrice shot at Wednesday. The bullets whizzed past him and he escaped unhurt, the police said. Jitender Singh Shunty was shot at three times here, police said. The incident took place outside Shunty's home in Shahdara in east Delhi around 6 a.m. Shunty was elected to the Delhi assembly from the Shahdara assembly segment. Police

New Delhi, Sep 2: CBI Director Ranjit Sinha was today at the centre of a controversy with an NGO telling the Supreme Court that entry register of his residence portrays a "very disturbing" and "explosive material" coming in the way of administration of justice in 2G spectrum allocation scam. The issue was raised by the NGO, Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL), one of the PIL petitioners

Kochi, Sept 2: Slamming the move to appoint Justice P Sathasivam as Kerala Governor, Congress on Tuesday wondered whether there was anything in the former CJI's "persona, functioning or decisions" that "pleased" Prime Minister Narendra Modi or BJP President Amit Shah. Noting that Sathasivam was the first former Chief Justice set to be appointed as Governor, Congress wanted to know from the