New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) The body of baby Falak was Friday handed over her mother Munni by the AIIMS for the last rites of the battered two-year-old who died of cardiac arrest Thursday night after a grim battle with life for nearly 60 days, doctors said. “We had received a letter from the child welfare [...]
Bhopal, Feb 24 (IANS) Bhopal Singh, a bachelor from Madhya Pradesh’s Mandsaur district, got forcibly sterilized after getting lured for the Indira Awas Yojana, officials said Friday. “A few days ago, my cousin was told by some health staff that he would be eligible for the Indira Awas Yojana and would get money too if he [...]
New Delhi, April 30 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has imposed costs of Rs.10,000 on the AIIMS for failing to respond on a plea of a private security firm challenging the terms of a tender for providing security guards at the hospital. The division bench of Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice Rajiv Shakdher, while expressing [...]
Jodhpur, Feb 20 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is likely to file a report in the Rajasthan High Court Tuesday sttating that missing nurse Bhanwari Devi is dead, sources in the probe agency said here Monday. The report is in connection with a habeas corpus petition filed by Bhanwari Devi’s husband Amarchand before he [...]
Jodhpur, April 16 (IANS) A court here Monday declared a Congress legislator’s sister Indra Bishnoi a proclaimed offender for remaining an absconder for over five months in the case of nurse Bhanwari Devi’s murder and kidnap, a lawyer said. Indira Bishnoi, sister of Luni legislator Malkhan Singh Bishnoi who has also been arrested in the case, [...]
New Delhi, Feb 22 (IANS) Battling for survival at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) for over a month, two-year-old battered baby Falak is coping well after the fifth life-saving surgery, a doctor treating her said Wednesday. “Two days after the shunt surgery, Falak is coping well. The water which collected in the brain, [...]
Jodhpur, March 27 (IANS) Seven accused in the case of missing nurse Bhanwari Devi, including sacked Rajasthan minister Mahipal Maderna and Congress legislator Malkhan Singh Bishnoi, were produced in a court here Tuesday after the case was committed to trial, a CBI lawyer said. The court will hold regular hearings in the matter from April 2. [...]
New Delhi, Feb 15 (IANS) Delhi Metro conducted a drill Wednesday morning in six busy Metro stations to check the response time in the event of an earthquake and to check if its staff is ready to deal with disasters, but the nearly half-an-hour-long mock exercise hit thousands of commuters hard. While many commuters admitted they [...]
Bhopal/New Delhi, March 2 (IANS) The CBI Friday arrested a woman friend of Zahida Parvez, an interior designer arrested for the murder of RTI activist Shehla Masood. According to the Central Bureau of Investigation, Saba Farooqui was aware of the murder and is believed to have assisted Parvez in the conspiracy. The CBI had Feb 28 [...]
New Delhi, Feb 28 (IANS) Making headway in the Shehla Masood case, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested a woman architect and a contract killer she hired to kill the activist in Bhopal last August, said an official Tuesday. The accused identified as Zahida Pervez hired a contract killer whose name the agency refused [...]