NEW DELHI: For many elderly people, a typical day begins with a handful of pills – for blood pressure, diabetes, cholesterol and heart disease. But a new global review suggests that in very frail older adults, continuing all long-term medicines may not always be necessary – and in many cases, carefully stopping some of them…
NEW DELHI: Criminal proceedings cannot be initiated merely based on vague and unsupported allegations, ruled SC, quashing a dowry harassment and cruelty case filed against a Kanpur-based couple in their seventies by their daughter-in-law.A bench comprising Justices B V Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan noted that the case was lodged almost seven years after the alleged…
NEW DELHI: India has begun the process to make the leap from 5G to 6G, communication minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said on Thursday.“The process is being rolled out today with regard to global standards of technology, interoperability. That is being done at the International Telecommunications Union and 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project), both standard-setting bodies for…
Private fuel retailer Nayara Energy on Thursday raised petrol prices by Rs 5 per litre and diesel by Rs 3 per litre, in line with a surge in global oil prices due to the war in West Asia.Nayara, majority-owned by Russia’s Rosneft, operates nearly 7,000 of the more than 1 lakh filling stations, mainly on…
NEW DELHI: Acknowledging widespread concerns over the adverse impact of social media on children, IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Thursday that it has become a major issue everywhere and time has come for all stakeholders to come together to build a consensus on how to deal with the challenge.At Times Now Summit, Vaishnaw, who…
NEW DELHI: Taking a swipe at Modi govt after its broker nation reference to Pakistan, Congress Thursday said “the self-styled Vishwaguru’s” diplomacy of bombast and narrative failures have turned a “broken country into a broker country”.Congress spokesman Jairam Ramesh said the EAM is doing his best to cover up India’s “extreme embarrassment” and the setback…
SRINAGAR: J&K Police’s investigative wing, Counter Intelligence Kashmir (CIK), Thursday raided 10 locations in three districts of Kashmir Valley and busted a “terrorist recruitment module” allegedly linked to handlers across the Line of Control (LoC) and a network based in Bangladesh, a CIK statement claimed.The raids were carried out in Srinagar, Ganderbal and Shopian districts…
SRINAGAR: J&K police’s economic offences wing (EOW) raided three locations in Srinagar and Budgam districts on Thursday in connection with an alleged fraud involving two men who allegedly issued fake medical procurement orders to siphon off govt funds during Covid-19 pandemic.Delhi-based M/s Sanjay Trading Company’s proprietor, Sanjay Kumar Sahu, filed a written complaint with police,…
TOI correspondent from London: The judges who ruled against fugitive jeweller Nirav Modi’s attempt to reopen his appeal against extradition said their judgment “presents a worrying picture of the use of proscribed treatment to obtain confessions, which was characterised as ‘commonplace and endemic’”.Lord Justice Stuart-Smith and Justice Jay said in their order: “Were it not…
SRINAGAR: Ulfat Bano collects around 25 letters from the district post office in south Kashmir’s Shopian every morning and sets out on foot. There is no postal van to hop onto or a bicycle she can use if weariness strikes.The 55-year-old trudges through her native village of Hirapora, past stone walls and wooden barns with…
