No Supreme Court relief for Pawan Khera over Modi remark

January 05, 2024 at 01:59AM

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Hospitals can't charge for blood, says DCGI

DCGI has also asked the drug controller cum licensing authorities to direct all blood centres to adhere to the revised guidelines for recovery of processing charges. When a person donates blood, it is not transfused into a patient directly. The donated blood, referred to as whole blood, is processed in centrifuges to separate it into transfusable components. This includes red cells, platelets and plasma. The exercise is referred to as blood processing and a cost is incurred on this.

January 05, 2024 at 01:18AM

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Passenger bookings on rlys still 18% below pre-Covid levels

January 04, 2024 at 01:18AM

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Google's former highest-paid exec is now billionaire Silicon Valley CEO

Nikesh Arora, the highest-paid executive at Google, became a billionaire after joining Palo Alto Networks. His net worth is now $1.5 billion. As the CEO of Palo Alto Networks, a cybersecurity software company, Arora received $125 million in stocks. The company's share price surged, making Arora's stake worth $830 million. He sold $300 million worth of shares in 2023. Arora's 2023 compensation includes up to 750,000 stocks, worth over $220 million. The company justified the award based on his strong performance and vested ownership.

January 03, 2024 at 07:20PM

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CJI assures help as trans woman denied teacher's job moves SC

January 03, 2024 at 02:03AM

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CAA rules ready, set to be notified before Lok Sabha elections

An online system for application, processing & grant of citizenship under CAA is being explored by home ministry, a senior government functionary said. CAA was enacted in December 2019 and came into force on January 10, 2020. However, CAA rules are yet to be notified, which is why the Act hasn't been implemented or process started for grant of citizenship to nationals from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan belonging to Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Christian, Buddhist & Parsi communities, who had migrated to India before December 31, 2014.

January 03, 2024 at 01:16AM

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Harvard prez resigns after rows over plagiarism, anti-Semitism

The president of Harvard University resigned Tuesday after coming under ferocious attack for her handling of anti-Semitism during protests over Gaza, as well as allegations that she had plagiarized in her academic work. In the United States, the anti-Semitism on campus controversy came amid a rise in attacks and violent rhetoric targeting Jews and Muslims, including at universities, since the Israel-Hamas war erupted.

January 03, 2024 at 01:18AM

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Space PSU NSIL to launch GSAT-20 on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 this year

India’s Space PSU NewSpace India Limited (NSIL), the commercial arm of the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), will launch a high-throughput satellite on Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket — the Falcon 9 — later this year. NSIL plans to launch its second demand-driven communications satellite, the GSAT-20 (renamed GSAT-N2), in the second quarter of 2024. The satellite will be a high-throughput Ka-band satellite primarily aimed at meeting India’s growing broadband connectivity needs.

January 03, 2024 at 12:41AM

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UK media focus on 'cows, curry and caste’ Brit Indians experience prejudice

A survey of the British Indian and Hindu community has found that many are experiencing prejudice owing to their misrepresentation in the UK media deriving from a "colonial" focus on “cows, curry and caste”. Fifty-nine per cent of survey participants said they had personally witnessed or experienced prejudice as a result of the British media reporting on Hindus and Hinduism and 79% said media reports on Hinduism had resulted in negative perceptions of British Indians. The nation wide survey was carried out among 2,061 respondents, by Insight UK, an organisation that represents British Hindu and Indian communities.

January 02, 2024 at 12:54AM

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Following, abusing a woman not offence of outraging modesty: HC

Following, abusing and pushing a woman might be "annoying" acts, but did not constitute the offence of outraging the modesty under IPC Section 354, the Nagpur bench of Bombay HC ruled, and granted relief to a man convicted by the judicial magistrate first class court at Wardha. Justice Anil Pansare acquitted the appellant, a 36-year-old labourer, saying the prosecution failed to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt. A college student had filed a police complaint against the man alleging that he had followed her a couple of times and abused her.

January 02, 2024 at 01:17AM

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