NEW DELHI: Congress MP Sukhdeo Bhagat on Tuesday criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent address in Parliament on the ongoing Middle East conflict, alleging that the speech lacked scope for discussion and was a “one-way communication”. Speaking to ANI, Bhagat said, “Yesterday’s speech came right after Rahul Gandhi’s program in Gujarat. We wanted healthy discussions…
NEW DELHI: The Drugs Controller of India is intensifying its regulatory surveillance against the illegal sale and promotion of weight loss drugs (GLP-1), the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Tuesday.According to the ministry, the move aims to ensure ethical pharmaceutical practices across the drug supply chain.“With the recent introduction of multiple generic…
NEW DELHI: In a major public health alert, India’s top drug regulator has flagged around 90 medicines—ranging from painkillers and antibiotics to cough syrups and vitamin supplements—being sold without approval, raising concerns over patient safety and gaps in enforcement.In a communication to all state drug controllers, the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) said multiple…
NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar spoke to his US counterpart Marco Rubio late on Monday about the situation in the West Asia region, amid renewed hopes of an early end to the conflict.Jaishankar said he had a detailed conversation with Rubio on the West Asia conflict and its impact on the international economy….
– Speaking on the sidelines of the Indiaspora Forum 2026 in Bengaluru on Monday, Harvard economics professor and former IMF first deputy managing director Gita Gopinath warned that geopolitics is now a permanent, transformative force in global policy. Gopinath noted that the world is shifting away from the post-Cold War era toward a landscape defined…
NEW DELHI: Days after the Tamil Nadu government issued an order to regulate aesthetic, cosmetology and hair transplant clinics, mandating their registration under the Tamil Nadu Clinical Establishments Act and bringing them under formal rules, doctors have called for similar regulations to be implemented across the country amid a surge in procedures driven by social…
Amid the ongoing conflict in West Asia, PM Modi on Monday warned of possible attempts by “certain elements” to exploit the situation to endanger India’s internal security. He, however, assured that security and law-and-order agencies were in a state of high alert to detect and avert such designs. Drawing attention of Lok Sabha to the…
NEW DELHI: Adopting a tough stand against fraudsters, the Supreme Court Monday directed Ayushi Mittal, in custody since 2017 along with husband Anubhav Mittal in a Rs 3,700 crore ponzi fraud cases in Noida, to give asset details of close relatives from her and in-law’s side prior to entertaining her bail plea.Petitioner’s counsel told a…
Nepal has always been more than a neighbour to India. It has been a shoulder along our northern edge — one where no threat was perceived, whose people mingled freely with ours, whose temples we prayed at with fervour, whose Gurkhas came to define valour itself. A long-running narrative of Roti-Beti — sharing bread and…
NEW DELHI: Disapproving a family court’s decision to involve police in a couple’s custody battle of a minor child, Supreme Court Monday said that it is atrocious to engage police in such cases.A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta termed the family court of Bhopal’s directions unconstitutional as it asked the Gurgaon police…
