Chandigarh, Dec 20 (IANS) Following a spurt in swine flu cases this month, the Chandigarh health authorities have declared the contagion as ‘community spread’, officials here said Sunday.
Consequently, physicians would not need to wait for results of swab tests for swine flu to prescribe the tamiflu drug to patients, the technical committee of the health [...]
Jammu, Dec 6 (IANS) Traders in Kashmir, who had paid less than Rs.1.9 crore as income-tax in 2008-2009, have already coughed up more than 10 times this fiscal, according to a senior state government official.
Traders have paid more than Rs.21 crore so far this financial year as tax, according to income tax commissioner (J&K circle) [...]
Ludhiana, Dec 5 (IANS) Curfew was imposed in most parts of Ludhiana late Saturday evening following the continuous violence since Thursday in this industrial city of Punjab, officials said.
Curfew was imposed in nine areas of Ludhiana – divisions 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 7, Simlapuri, Focal point and Sahnewal – following the widespread violence [...]
New Delhi, Nov 29 (IANS) The Supreme Court has acquitted a man, serving a life term for murder, by reversing the concurrent rulings of an Andhra Pradesh trial court and the state high court and terming his conviction a ‘miscarriage of justice’.
A bench of Justice B. Sudershan Reddy and Justice J.M. Panchal set aside the [...]
Patna, Nov 2 (IANS) The Indian Medical Association (IMA) Monday threatened to paralyse medical services in Bihar if the two doctors who were allegedly abducted nearly forty-eight hours ago in the state’s Samastipur district were not found soon.
The association also protested against the ‘police’s failure’ in recovering the abducted doctors.
A.K. Sahay and Santosh Kumar, doctors [...]
Patna, Nov 1 (IANS) Two doctors have allegedly been abducted in Bihar’s Samastipur district, police said Sunday.
A.K. Sahay and Santosh Kumar, doctors who work at a nursing home located in a rural area, went missing late Saturday evening from Sahpur Patauri in Samastipur. Both are residents of the neighbouring Vaishali district and they were abducted [...]
Ludhiana, Oct 4 (IANS) A bid to smuggle contraband and intoxicants into the central jail in Punjab’s Ludhiana district was foiled and one man was arrested, officials said Sunday.
According to police, a man was arrested late Saturday evening while he was trying to smuggle hashish in tins of desi ghee (clarified butter) and around 5,000 [...]
Lucknow, Oct 4 (IANS) A 10-year-old boy, who was kidnapped from New Delhi Saturday afternoon, was rescued by the police at the Kanpur railway station in Uttar Pradesh early Sunday morning, officials said.
The Government Railway Police (GRP) also arrested the kidnapper Devendra, a rickshaw puller who used to live near the boy’s house in the [...]
Mumbai, Sep.12 (ANI): The impasse between the Jet Airways management and pilots continued on Friday evening, as the second round of talks held between the two factions here could not reach a final decision.
The Jet Airlines has reportedly given an offer letter containing some [...]
