NEW DELHI: The Consortium of National Law Universities (NLUs) has delayed the release of first admission list for Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2025, originally scheduled for Dec 26, 2024. The decision follows Delhi HC’s directive to revise the merit list after discrepancies were identified in the final answer key for the undergraduate examination.Candidates were … Read more
MEERUT: A Dalit post office employee in Bulandshahr allegedly ended his life by jumping in front of a train early Sunday morning, a day after CBI questioned him in connection with a Rs 2.5 crore embezzlement case.Rahul Kumar (28), a sub-postmaster at Lakhaothi block post office and a resident of Bulandshahr city area, was found … Read more
KOLKATA: Friends and family of a married woman staying at the house of her husband against his will for a long period can amount to cruelty, Calcutta high court said on Dec 19 while granting divorce to a man on grounds of cruelty.“Such imposition of friend and family by the woman on her husband at … Read more
BENGALURU: Karnataka high court has directed Karnataka State Law University to conduct examination for repeater-students who had Indian Penal Code (IPC) as subject, and not insist on taking up Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). Justice Suraj Govindaraj gave this direction recently while quashing the Dec 6 notification issued by the university.Two students – one from Shivamogga … Read more
JAIPUR: The special investigation team (SIT) of Rajasthan police is working to piece together events leading up to Friday’s accident on Jaipur-Ajmer highway that claimed 13 lives and left over 30 injured. Police sources said they have requested detailed information regarding rules and regulations governing the transport of petroleum, oil, and gas products on roads … Read more
JAIPUR: All eight persons who succumbed to burn injuries sustained in the fire that followed the accident at Bhankrota on Jaipur-Ajmer highway on Friday were under 40 years of age – all in their prime, either planning their careers, or had recently started families. Those currently on ventilator support at SMS Hospital here are under … Read more
KOLKATA: A Pakistan-trained terrorist from the banned Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen (TuM), wanted by J&K police in connection with the murder of an Islamic cleric in 2011, was arrested late Saturday from Canning in Bengal’s South 24 Parganas.Weapons handler and IED expert Jawed Munshi had reached Canning, about 60km from Kolkata, two days ago, posing as a shawl … Read more
CHANDIGARH: A fractured mandate in elections to three of five municipal corporations in Punjab – Ludhiana, Jalandhar and Phagwara – has had Congress worried about the prospect of horse-trading by governing party AAP, its INDIA bloc ally. Such is the desperation that there is talk of Congress even tying up with BJP in Ludhiana to … Read more
NEW DELHI: A new research has revealed that a person with TB in India spends, on average, close to Rs 32,000 during treatment. While some of the costs incurred out of the patient’s pocket are direct, such as those spent on diagnosis or hospitalisation, the rest are indirect, for example, costs incurred due to loss … Read more
NEW DELHI: Odds of timely initiation of treatment of cancer patients in India have gone up by nearly 36% in the past six years, a new study claimed. It credited Ayushman Bharat-PM Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) for this change. Treatment initiation is considered timely if it starts within 30 days of diagnosis of the disease.According … Read more