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Govt. Medical College Surat Surat: A day after four resident doctors of Government Medical College (GMC), Surat, were suspended, Khatodara police registered an FIR on a complaint filed by the college authorities in connection with the suicide of first-year PG microbiology student Dr Harsh Pandya.Police invoked BNS Sections 127(2) (wrongful confinement), 352 (intentional insult intended to provoke breach of peace) and 54 (abetment) against four second-year PG students — Dr Dikshita Gevariya, Dr Niral Vasave, Dr Anuj Maheshwari and Dr Hina Bhut.The FIR states that the four allegedly confined Dr Pandya and nine other first-year microbiology students and subjected them…

Vadodara: Torrential rain lashed Lunawada, Kothamba and Balasinor talukas of Mahisagar district on Tuesday, leaving many villages flooded. Around 25 people were rescued by fire brigade personnel from Suva village and taken to safety.District authorities said around 100 people, who were visiting an ayurveda practitioner in Suva village, got marooned in floodwaters. All of them are safe, the authorities added. The local administration is monitoring the situation and carrying out relief measures.Panchmahal district also got heavy rain on Tuesday, leaving villages in some talukas inundated. Shehra taluka received around two-and-half-inches of rain in two hours. The authorities said all the…

Varanasi: A 25-year-old man, allegedly linked to nearly a dozen cases registered in different districts, including under the Gangsters Act, cow slaughter laws and gang rape charges, was arrested after he sustained a bullet injury in his right leg during an encounter with Gambhirpur police in Azamgarh district on Monday night.Acting on a tip-off, police reached the spot and came across armed miscreants, leading to an exchange of fire in which accused Vishal Yadav, a resident of Kishanpur Kashinath under the Gambhirpur police station area, sustained a bullet injury in his right leg. He was arrested and taken to a…

T’puram: The Nedumangad SC-ST special court has found seven accused guilty in the 2016 Kannammoola Vishnu murder case. The court will pronounce the sentence on Thursday. There were 12 accused in the case.The murder took place on Oct 7, 2016, when Vishnu, 18, was attacked by a group in front of his parents at Kannammoola. The assailants allegedly attacked Vishnu with deadly weapons, including axes, machetes, swords and iron rods.Vishnu sustained grievous injuries. Though he was rushed to MCH, he succumbed to his injuries.Vishnu’s father Anilkumar, mother Bindukumari and his paternal aunt Laila were also grievously injured in the attack.…

Kolkata: In the wake of the state health depart finding irregularities in some private blood banks, health officials on Tuesday held a meeting with 73 private blood banks, including 11 that are under the scanner. While cautioning action against blood centres that violate blood safety norms, health officials suggested ways of rectifying the standard shortfall by some of these units.Of the 11 blood centres raided by the health officials recently, one was ordered complete closure a couple of days ago, the rest were barred from holding voluntary blood donation camps the rest while allowing them to take blood from donors…

Capitalism is often praised as the engine of modern prosperity. It is credited with innovation, efficiency, competition, and growth. It has built industries, created wealth, expanded consumer choice, and transformed the scale at which human ambition can operate. But capitalism, like all economic systems, is not merely a machine for generating output. It is also a system for distributing power, opportunity, and risk. And that is where its deepest contradictions become visible.In theory, capitalism rewards hard work, imagination, and enterprise. In practice, it often rewards those who already possess capital, connections, and access. It promises mobility, but too often reproduces…

The storms brought torrential rain and extreme winds, with a 99 mph (159 kph) gust recorded Chicago and parts of the wider Midwest were hit by severe storms on Tuesday, leaving more than 500,000 customers without power, grounding flights and causing widespread damage across Illinois and north-western Indiana.Power outages affected more than 600,000 customers across Illinois and Indiana at the peak of the storm, according to PowerOutage.us, with Lake and Porter counties in Indiana and Will County south of Chicago among the hardest-hit areas. The storms also disrupted air travel, with all flights temporarily halted at Chicago’s two major airports…

A government press release stated the interest rate will be 1% higher than the interest rate at which the Reserve Bank of India provides loans to commercial banks. Mumbai: In a major decision, the state cabinet on Tuesday approved a proposal to pay an additional 1% interest if there is a delay in payment of compensation for land acquired by the government.A government press release stated the interest rate will be 1% higher than the interest rate at which the Reserve Bank of India provides loans to commercial banks.An official said often considering the urgency of a project, it becomes…

New Delhi: Delhi Assembly Tuesday approved a bill to repeal the nearly two-decade-old law governing bed-and-breakfast (B&B) establishments in the capital, with govt planning to replace it with a new policy framework aimed at making regulations more flexible and suited to the changing hospitality sector.The move follows the June fire at a B&B in Malviya Nagar that claimed 23 lives. The incident had prompted authorities to intensify inspections of B&Bs and other hospitality establishments, with a focus on compliance with fire safety requirements, building norms and other regulations.More than 750 B&B properties are registered with the Delhi tourism department under…

Over 50 projects were submitted Bengaluru: From a laser that can kill weeds to a low-cost, portable vaccine storage system, 10 projects by postgraduate students of Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) have been selected for financial assistance by Karnataka Innovation and Technology Society (KITS) and Visvesvaraya Research and Innovation Foundation (VRIF).This is under the New Age Innovation Network (NAIN) initiative launched by KITS to encourage student innovation. KITS decided to provide Rs 40.7 lakh to help students transform their prototype ideas into full-fledged projects. Over 50 projects were submitted and a team of professors from the Indian Institute of Information Technology…